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  • 01 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 1

opportunistic low-ball offers.   Working Papers The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination By: Bormann, Sara, Jan Bouwens, and Christian Hofmann Abstract—This study examines how control elements of a firm affect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53512 Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, David Simchi-Levi, and He Wang Abstract—We consider a price-based network revenue View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

The Imposter Among Us

better when I am getting enough sleep and allowing myself to explore and find excitement and mastery outside the workplace. —Samantha Trotman Burman (MBA 1993) Bitte? When the subsidiary north of Toronto was divested, the incumbent HQ invited me to work in Switzerland... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Company, 1968–Present Michael Ilitch Little Caesar's Enterprises, 1959–Present Martha R. Ingram Ingram Industries, 1995–1999 Samuel Insull Middle West Utilities Company, 1912–1932 William Irrgang Lincoln Electric Company, 1954–1986 F.... View Details
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Negotiating the Path of Abraham

By: Kimberlyn Leary, James K. Sebenius and Joshua Weiss
In the face of daunting barriers, the Abraham Path Initiative envisions uncovering and revitalizing a route of cultural tourism that follows the path of Abraham and his family some 4,000 years ago across the Middle East. It begins in the ancient ruins of Harran, in... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Social Entrepreneurship; Negotiation; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Religion; Environmental Sustainability; Tourism Industry; Middle East
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Help - Alumni

Global Leadership (PGL) Program for Management Development (PMD) Programs for Health System Management (PHSM) Senior Executive Program China plus completion of China Senior Executive Renewal Program (SEPCA)... View Details
  • 03 Apr 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

leaders on work, "it is extremely naive to expect that stereotypical ideas about what women in general are like will have any meaning for the behavior of women in senior management positions. Women who arrive in such positions will... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Marketing - Faculty & Research

Marketing helps a firm in creating value by better understanding the needs of its customers and providing them with innovative products and services. This value is communicated through a variety of channels as well as through the firm's branding strategy. Effective... View Details
  • April 1998
  • Case

Jim Lyons and GenRad

Lyons, currently CEO of Harry Gray Associates, a consulting and investment firm, had just been approached by an executive recruiter representing GenRad, a 78-year-old electronics company headquartered in Concord, MA. The company, which manufactured integrated software... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Management Succession; Personal Development and Career; Consulting Industry; Massachusetts
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Podcast - Business & Environment

2025 | Climate Rising Alexia Kelly, Managing Director of the Carbon Policy and Markets Initiative (CPMI) at theHigh Tide Foundation, joins host Mike Toffel for the fifth episode in our series on voluntarycarbon markets. Alexia has worked... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2010
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

in the middle of disputes that hurt their future prospects. And poor countries will fail to benefit from what investors can bring them. Absent strong protections, managers must ask themselves a series of... View Details
  • Video

Naguib Sawiris

Naguib Sawiris, Chairman of Orascom TMT Investments, outlines the management strategies he undertook in high-risk markets, providing examples from his divergent experiences in Iraq and Algeria. View Details
  • 10 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

argues that managers who adopt a value-creating mindset hold the key to becoming truly successful leaders. "Business is a team sport. It's soccer, not golf. Nobody plays by themselves and wins in business," Hall said during a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Strategy - Faculty & Research

Working Paper Management and Firm Dynamism By: Nicholas Bloom, Jonathan S. Hartley, Raffaella Sadun , Rachel Schuh and John Van Reenen We show better-managed firms are more dynamic in plant acquisitions, disposals, openings and closings... View Details
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MBA Experience - Global

cases equip students to apply what they learn to multiple contexts, in meaningful ways. Faculty bring important business issues and management problems from around the world into the classroom. Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership... View Details
  • July 2021
  • Teaching Note

Digital Transformation 2.0: CEO Elie Girard at Atos

By: Tsedal Neeley
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 421-024. Elie Girard has taken the helm as CEO of multinational IT giant Atos to lead the company into the next era of digital transformation. Noticing that customers’ digital needs were evolving to become even more specialized and global... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Leading Change; Mergers and Acquisitions; Environmental Sustainability; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Transformation; Information Technology Industry
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  • 26 Jun 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Leave a Lasting Impression on Customers? Don't Forget the (Proverbial) Fireworks

“That’s important because if customer experience managers are limited in resources, they can really focus on certain types of features that will pay off the most.” De Freitas cowrote the paper with Tomer Ullman, an assistant professor in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation
  • September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
  • Case

Careem: Base Camp or Mountain Peak? Designing an OS for Scaling

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Gamze Yucaoglu and Alpana Thapar
This case focuses on designing a fast growing organization. It is part of a two-case set that is taught together to cover the scaling journey.
Careem, a Dubai-based ride-hailing service aimed to ‘simplify and improve the lives of people, and build an awesome... View Details
Keywords: Scale; Values; Rights; Operating Systems; Business Startup; Transportation; Organizational Design; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Organizational Culture; Values and Beliefs; Decision Making; Managerial Roles; Dubai; United Arab Emirates; Middle East
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The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Furnace. View from Middle Platform over West Track of #1 Ore Bridge, April 30, 1913. Calumet Regional Archives, Indiana University Northwest. The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion: Body “Conservative businessmen in... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research

skills complement each other, and who work well together: a) to produce a broad range of finance-related research that is published in top-tier scientific and practitioner journals, and that addresses issues of present and future importance to View Details