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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Oct 2010
- HBS Case
Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market
Fresh & Easy experiment no doubt prompted the recent announcement that Fresh & Easy would be given a two-year reprieve until 2013. Tesco has the resources to continue, and the US market's size remains a juicy target if Tesco can... View Details
- 26 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener
skills in executive searches reflects specific firm needs, in particular the need to coordinate more—and more complex—activities within firms,” the paper says. Managers at all levels need social skills Sadun and Fuller, along with... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
doubled its size by acquiring a large European company and was about to do it again by buying an Australian global company. Zambrano viewed clear core values and standards as an important element of success, particularly as Cemex expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
expand the size and revenues of Lehman Brothers. The firm bought Neuberger Berman in 2003 and H. A. Schupf in 2007, assuming its place in the wealth and asset management business and offering advice to... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
the firms they regulate, but not exclusively via dyadic exchanges as is traditionally argued in the regulatory capture and business-government literatures. Instead, regulatory decisions are indirectly shaped via third-party actors who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
The U.S. Job Search for International Students
truly a random lottery, the size or type of company has no bearing on a student’s likelihood of receiving the visa. What is more important is that the job closely aligns with the student’s unique skill set. While a large company may have... View Details
- 18 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions
that Uber was charging people in poor neighborhoods systematically higher prices than those in richer areas. Whether it's purposeful or not, we don't know for every company, obviously, but we believe that it’s likely not intended. That said, the problem for the View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate goods sector, entrepreneurs must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
took place around the same time as #MeToo and, of course, any industry-level impact of #MeToo.” “Producers were also not merely hiring a ‘token’ woman writer,” Zhang stresses. The change is not because of an expansion of the size of the... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
neoclassical business cycle model with heterogeneous firms and risky debt. To generate the size of spread increases observed during 2008-9, the model requires only disappointment of overoptimistic beliefs... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-006.pdf Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We examine the effect of U.S. branch banking... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate
meetings and Teams chats. The researchers were not given access to the contents of the emails, meetings, and chats, only their frequency rates within organizations and the communication patterns they revealed. The sheer size and scope of... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
professor Mary Tripsas introduces conceptual models to help students launch and creatively manage new businesses, including both stand-alone start-ups and ventures operating within an established organization. "Whenever a firm... View Details
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
amount for which they are eligible decreases by $10,000 USD. See "Awards" section below for detailed explanation. Application deadline: April 25 at 12:00pm (noon) ET Apply to GO:AFRICA Demand for the program (i.e., the size of the... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
Social Enterprise Social Enterprise April 2013 Article Who Is Governing Whom? Executives, Governance, and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.S. Firms By: Christopher Marquis and Matthew Lee We examine how organizational structure... View Details
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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online
uses data to recognize trends and inform business decisions in the movie industry. Show Hide Details Modules Describing and Summarizing Data Sampling and Estimation Hypothesis Testing Single Variable Linear Regression Multiple Regression Featured Exercises Determine... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
client and project context. Leading firms recognize this is not effective and so insist on greater staff continuity. While expensive in the near term, the long-term payoff is deemed worthwhile. Leading firms... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
Hershey also has a firm anti-retaliation policy, which is intended to make whistleblowers feel secure about reporting illegal or unethical activities. Nelson says the ethics at corporations like Costco and Hershey start with the creation... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert