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Alumnae Circles - Alumni
current year closed on September 30, 2024 and will reopen for the 2026 cycle in Late Summer/Early Fall 2025. To ensure receipt of Circles communications, alumnae living in a Circles region are strongly encouraged to: Update their Alumni... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
Tigers, elephants, rabbits, and monkeys—even dragons—all play a part in Harvard Business School professor Rohit Deshpandé's search for success factors among high-performing Asian firms. But in the end, it's the tigers and rabbits that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2016
- News
Immigration To Canada Should Be Massively Boosted, Liberals Told
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
in the United States, but US companies gave it all up.” HBS Professor of Management Practice Willy C. Shih served as president of Kodak's Digital & Applied Imaging business through the turn of the 21st century. Shortly after starting... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
by Attractive Men By: Alison Wood Brooks , Laura Huang, Sarah Kearney and Fiona Murray Entrepreneurship is a central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
controlled for industry and stage in the business cycle.” Bob Vanourek, citing results of a study by the McKinsey Global Institute, said that long-term oriented firms in its sample “outperformed the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Frameworks & Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Strategy Frameworks & Key Concepts Michael Porter & Competitiveness In 1990, Michael Porter published The Competitive Advantage of Nations , an examination of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. The... View Details
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
approaches in developing nations can impact global health. Recent Publications Revenue Collapses and the Consumption of Small Business Owners in the COVID-19 Pandemic By: Olivia S. Kim , Jonathan A. Parker... View Details
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Donor Societies - Alumni
and friends who make planned gifts of any amount to HBS are invited to join this Society, named in honor of John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947), a visionary business leader, government official, and philanthropist. If you have already included... View Details
- February 2011 (Revised January 2017)
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Countrywide plc
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
One of the world's leading investors in distressed companies, Oaktree Capital Management, is contemplating a "loan to own" investment in the debt of Countrywide plc, a financially troubled residential real estate agent based in the U.K. Only sixteen months earlier,... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Management; Investment; Real Estate Industry; United Kingdom
Gilson, Stuart C., and Sarah L. Abbott. "Countrywide plc." Harvard Business School Case 211-026, February 2011. (Revised January 2017.)
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Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Sustaining Competitive Advantage Eric J. Van den Steen Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 Driving Profitable Growth (also listed under Technology & Operations Management) Juan Alcacer , Raffaella Sadun Fall 2025 Q2 1.5 Global Climate Change (also listed... View Details
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Merve Ciplak
the U.N., “I figured out I really liked interacting with client teams, especially in nonprofits within a global development context.” Pursuing law and business to unite the public and the private The... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
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To Invest, or Not, as China Shifts
- October 2000 (Revised March 2001)
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eLance.com: Building a Professional Services Marketplace
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Kristin Kohler
Launched as an eBay for services, eLance promises to leverage the capabilities of the Internet to not only change the way services are bought and sold, but change the fundamental dynamics of the global economy. Building on theories posited in the HBR article by Tim... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Job Search; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Web Sites; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Kristin Kohler. "eLance.com: Building a Professional Services Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 801-224, October 2000. (Revised March 2001.)
- 2024
- Case
Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations (A)
By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
This three-part, stop action case study, structured for classroom discussion, centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Regulation; International Relations; Leadership
Sebenius, James K., Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro, and Mina Subramanian. "Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations (A)." Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School Case, 2024.
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Media Coverage - Managing the Future of Work
think on your feet' Re: Joseph Fuller 16 Jan 2025 Harvard Gazette Is Small Thinking the New American Way? Re: William Kerr 06 Jan 2025 Future of Decisions Now Reshaping the Future of Work with Decision Intelligence Re: Joseph Fuller Play 06 Jan 2025 View Details
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
Yangzi region and Manchuria. Growth was slowed significantly in the 1930s by the global depression and by the financial policies of the Nationalist government, and it would be stopped altogether by the onset of the Sino-Japanese and then... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
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Tools & Training - Alumni
their global perspective and lead at a higher level. HBS Online Online courses, led by award-winning faculty, to help you master essential business concepts. Lifelong Learning: Career Management As you... View Details
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details