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  • January 2009 (Revised February 2011)
  • Case

Solvay Group: International Mobility and Managing Expatriates

By: Boris Groysberg, Nitin Nohria and Kerry Herman
Marcel Lorent, head of International Mobility at Brussels-based Solvay Group, faces decisions on the expatriation status of four of his firm's talented executives. Each decision will impact the candidate's professional and personal life and will have implications for... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Globalized Firms and Management; Work-Life Balance; Talent and Talent Management; Residency; Employees; Brussels
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  • December 1998 (Revised January 2001)
  • Case

Acer, Inc.: Taiwan's Rampaging Dragon

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Anthony St. George
Describes the strategic, organizational, and management changes that led Acer from its 1976 startup to become the world's second-largest computer manufacturer. Outlines the birth of the company, the painful "professionalization" of its management, the plunge into... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Competitive Advantage; Global Strategy; Transformation; Computer Industry; Taiwan
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The Promise and Peril of Russia's Resurgent State

By: Rawi Abdelal
The article discusses the effect of the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 on the outlook for Russia's economic growth. The discussion focuses on the status of capitalism in Russia and the government's central role in business. A brief history of Russia's economic... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Financial Crisis; Investment; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Russia
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  • 08 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 8, 2015

a detailed financial model that will help students analyze the impact of hiring additional sales people and the consequent impact on sales and profits. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/813114-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-049... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Explore Our Programs

Whether you seek development opportunities for yourself or a colleague, explore our many offerings—from multi-week comprehensive leadership programs to short, topic-focused learning experiences. Each offers a challenging curriculum, a View Details
  • 16 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

Staying Under the 1.5°C Threshold: The Role of Government, Business, and Society

Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, about how governments, businesses, and society must act together—now—to cut global emissions in half by 2030 to keep temperature rises under 1.5°C and avoid the disastrous effects of... View Details
  • 23 Nov 2021
  • Book

What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

another. It is a culture geared to the long-term success of an increasingly rapidly changing panoply of strategies in an accelerating competitive environment based on a stream of new ideas and constant change. At no time has the importance of this been driven home more... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 01 Oct 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat

Keywords: by Paul Novosad & Eric Werker
  • 24 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

member, "depressing." Such pessimism seems more than a little counterintuitive. In a global economy, corporations have a seemingly insatiable need for good managers, one that will only grow in the years to come. To meet that... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education
  • July 2020
  • Article

Intra-firm Geographic Mobility: Value Creation Mechanisms and Future Research Directions

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
This paper argues that intra-firm geographic mobility is an understudied mechanism that can help mitigate coordination failures in a geographically distributed organization. The paper presents an organizing framework on how intra-firm geographic mobility creates value... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Employees; Geographic Location; Value Creation
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  • November 2008 (Revised March 2018)
  • Case

Transformation of COFCO in a Changing Environment

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Kefei Yang
China's COFCO, the country's leading edible oil and food importer and exporter and its largest food manufacturer, had in its 50-plus years of operation undergone four stages of transformation and was about to embark on a fifth. The global agriculture system was... View Details
Keywords: Food; Leadership; Change Management; Transformation; Globalization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Food and Beverage Industry; China
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Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

By: Andy Wu
In the fight for market leadership, your company must be able to build a winning strategy—and execute it seamlessly across multiple business lines. This program prepares you to identify and exploit sources of competitive advantage and implement game-changing... View Details
  • TeachingInterests

Exec Ed: Real Estate Executive Seminar: Capital, Partnerships, and Portfolios

By: John D. Macomber
With both a quest for yield and new opportunities emerging across the real estate supply chain, business leaders must have the financial capabilities, analytical tools, and strategic skills to ensure the long-term profitability of their development projects and... View Details
  • August 18, 2017
  • Other Article

How the U.S. Navy Is Responding to Climate Change

By: Forest Reinhardt and Michael W. Toffel
We talk about how a giant, global enterprise that operates and owns assets at sea level is fighting climate change—and adapting to it. We discuss what the private sector can learn from the U.S. Navy’s scientific and sober view of the world. We are also the authors of... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Leadership; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Operations; Logistics
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  • 28 Nov 2006
  • Other Presentation

Singapore Competitiveness: A Nation in Transition

By: Michael E. Porter
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Prosperity," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2006-07(World Economic Forum, 2006); "Clusters and the New Competitive Agenda for... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Singapore
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  • 23 Jun 2009
  • News

How Boomers Can Change the World (Again)

  • 14 Dec 2012
  • News

Getting down to business

  • 09 Apr 2020
  • News

Managing Through Crisis: Who Needs Capitalism Anyway?

  • 11 Nov 2016
  • News

The Fortune 500 Can’t Go Along with a Rollback on Climate Policy

  • 02 May 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?

In March, Google President of Global Affairs Kent Walker said that AI “is too important not to regulate.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was quoted recently as saying, “I try to be upfront Am I doing something good? Or really bad?” Meanwhile,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Technology