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  • Research Summary

corporate strategy, international strategy, strategy process

David Collis' research is primarily concerned with how companies create value across markets, whether those markets are different businesses (corporate strategy), or different countries (international strategy). Additionally, he is interested in how... View Details

    Gunnar Trumbull

    Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on climate change. His current research and teaching focuses on... View Details

    Keywords: agribusiness; consumer products; credit card; financial services; food; food processing; grocery; microfinance; retail financial services; retailing
    • 24 Mar 2022
    • Video

    Women in Sports: Gender and Equity in the Olympics and Beyond

      John D. Macomber

      John Macomber is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School. His professional background includes leadership of real estate, construction, and information technology businesses. At HBS, Mr. Macomber's work focuses on climate adaptation and the... View Details

      Keywords: building materials; construction; energy; green technology; infrastructure industry; real estate; transportation; utilities; waste management; insurance industry
      • 2009
      • Report

      Breakthroughs in Shared Measurement

      By: Mark R. Kramer, Marcie Parkhurst and Lalitha Vaidyanathan
      The traditional approach to measuring each individual grant and nonprofit initiative separately prevents learning and improvement, because no 2 efforts can be compared on a consistent basis. This research highlights 20 social enterprises that developed innovative... View Details
      Keywords: Impact Evaluation; Impact Measurement; Social Enterprise; Organizations; Performance Effectiveness; Measurement and Metrics
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        Michael W. Toffel

        Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply... View Details

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        Multivariate Unsupervised Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in Enterprise Applications

        By: Daniel Elsner, Pouya Aleatrati Khosroshahi, Alan MacCormack and Robert Lagerström
        Existing application performance management (APM) solutions lack robust anomaly detection capabilities and root cause analysis techniques that do not require manual efforts and domain knowledge. In this paper, we develop a density-based unsupervised machine learning... View Details
        Keywords: Big Data; Data Science And Analytics Management; Governance And Compliance; Organizational Systems And Technology; Anomaly Detection; Application Performance Management; Machine Learning; Enterprise Architecture; Analytics and Data Science
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        • May 2006 (Revised November 2006)
        • Case

        China: To Float or Not To Float? (F)- Alcatel and Strong Chinese Competition

        By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
        The Chinese operations of Alcatel, a global communications solution provider based in France, were faced with strong local competition and a difficult market. It remained unclear how Alcatel would be able to recover growth in the Chinese market. Initiatives were... View Details
        Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; International Relations; Growth and Development Strategy; Research and Development; Competitive Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Communications Industry; China; France; United States
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        • 2021
        • White Paper

        Working to Learn: Despite a Growing Set of Innovators, America Struggles to Connect Education and Career

        By: Joseph B. Fuller, Rachel Lipson, Jorge Encinas, Tessa Forshaw, Alexis Gable and J.B. Schramm
        In the wake of COVID-19 and growing inequality, America needs more pathways that bridge education and career. New research from the Project on Workforce at Harvard draws on data from New Profit's Postsecondary Initiative for Equity to identify opportunities for the... View Details
        Keywords: COVID-19; Education; Training; Employment; Personal Development and Career; Health Pandemics
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        • 19 Nov 2014
        • HBS Seminar

        Duane Varan, MediaScience and Murdoch University

        • 20 Nov 2017
        • Research & Ideas

        How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com

        line of research “technology reemergence.” It began with his study of the Swiss watch industry, which collectively reinvented itself (and thus survived) in the wake of digital watches. Five years ago, he set out to discover how... View Details
        Keywords: by Carmen Nobel (with video by Amelia Kunhardt); Retail

          Marco Iansiti

          Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration,is a codirector of the Laboratory for Information Science at Harvard and of the Digital Initiative at HBS.

          Prof. Iansiti's research examines the digital transformation of companies and... View Details

          Keywords: automotive; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; fiber optics; high technology; information; information technology industry; internet; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; venture capital industry
          • June 2013
          • Article

          Dysfunction in the Boardroom: Understanding the Persistent Gender Gap at the Highest Levels

          By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell
          The article examines the gender gap that is present in boardrooms in U.S. corporations and internationally in 2013 as more women attempt to reach executive-level positions. Countries in the European Union are attempting to institute laws regarding the minimum... View Details
          Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Governing and Advisory Boards; Gender; United States; European Union
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          Divergent change in organizations

          By: Julie Battilana

          The first stream of research in Professor Battilana’s work aims to identify the conditions that enable individual actors to initiate divergent change within organizations as well as the conditions enabling successful implementation of such change. It combines... View Details

          • October 1995 (Revised June 1996)
          • Case

          ABN-AMRO Holding N.V. and Smit Transformatoren N.V. (A)

          By: Peter Tufano
          ABN-AMRO, the largest bank in the Netherlands, must decide whether to take any action in regard to the poor performance of Smit Transformatoren, a Dutch transformer manufacturer. ABN-AMRO acted as lead underwriter for the IPO of Smit, and also released a favorable... View Details
          Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Capital Markets; Investment Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Netherlands
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          Customer Management in Business-to-Business Markets

          By: Das Narayandas

          Das Narayandas is engaged in ongoing research on vendor firms' management of long-term customer relationships. The initial phase of his research involved identifying vendors that stood to benefit from long-term relationships with select sets of customers and... View Details

          • 20 Mar 2000
          • Research & Ideas

          No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

          for eleven years at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and was director of research at MIT's Center for Real Estate Development. "Housing in any form is relatively more expensive for municipalities than most other uses of... View Details
          Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

            Dorothy A. Leonard

            Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

            Keywords: computer; consulting; education industry; electronics; federal government; high technology; information technology industry; software; venture capital industry
            • 06 Nov 2023
            • Research & Ideas

            Did You Hear What I Said? How to Listen Better

            are more able to voice their concerns.” Is anyone listening to me? In an initial experiment to study whether people talking can tell whether the other person is listening, the researchers paired 200... View Details
            Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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            Mallika Sarabhai

            Mallika Sarabhai, co-Director of Darpana Academy of Performing Arts based in Gujarat, India, talks about her initiatives Darpana for Development and Janavak. While Darpana for Development explores how arts can contribute to social change, the department Janavak (The... View Details