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  • 04 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 4

Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. AbbottHarvard Business School Case 210-001 Hit with an industry recession and the global financial crisis of 2008, in January 2009 LyondellBasell Industries AF S.C.A., one of the world's largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 1999 (Revised March 2001)
  • Background Note

Offshore Corporations: A Brief Introduction

Examines activities of offshore financial centers. The text documents the growth and uses of offshore corporations. View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Business Headquarters
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  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

case:http://hbr.org/search/813077-PDF-ENG Developing the Materiality Matrix at Telefónica Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, and Asun Cano EscoriazaHarvard Business School Case 413-088 Telefónica, one of the largest telecommunication... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

http://publications.iadb.org/bitstream/handle/11319/6820/Socios%20o%20acreedores%20ENG%202-25-15%20web.pdf?sequence=1 March 2015 The Routledge Handbook of Responsible Investment Reliable Sustainability Ratings: The Influence of Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

Strategic Talent Management Initiatives Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. AbbottHarvard Business School Case 412-147 In 2012, Bill Allen and Maria Pejter, of Maersk Group's Human Resources Department, sat down to consider some key aspects of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives, and the firms they controlled as driving actors in national economies and international growth. Alongside an original... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

 

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm performance have largely centered on economies of scope achieved by sharing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

monetary rewards are at stake (Study 3). The tendency to infer dislike from dissimilarity is driven by a belief that others have a narrow and homogeneous range of preferences (Study 5). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50152 December... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • News

Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?

Harvard Business School in 1997, Bezos has invested in a handful of local companies—and bought others, sometimes pulling their leaders out to Seattle to work with him directly. He has overseen the growth of local Amazon offices, which now... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
  • March 2018
  • Supplement

Amazon's HQ2 (B): Utah

By: Karen Mills, Manjari Raman and Jan W. Rivkin
This supplement describes how leaders in the Salt Lake City region of Utah organized themselves across sectors to prepare a proposal to host Amazon’s second headquarters. View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Business and Government Relations; Development Economics; Utah
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  • March 2007
  • Teaching Note

Lobbying for Love? Southwest Airlines and the Wright Amendment (TN)

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Teaching note to 707470. View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Competition; Opportunities; Law; Business and Government Relations; Air Transportation Industry; Texas
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  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

influential, and industry less influential, than we commonly assume. How Early Adoption Has Increased Wealth—Until Now Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract Societies that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

One-on-One with Tom Oreck

Katrina knocked out operations at the New Orleans headquarters and the Long Beach plant, pushing the business to the brink. Advanced planning saved vital data and operations, but Oreck credits employees with... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

We Have Liftoff

HBS entrepreneurs who want to remain plugged into the Harvard network after graduation have a new home on campus. The Launch Lab—located directly across from the i-lab on Western Avenue—is now open to startups with recent alumni from any Harvard school, offering teams... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Rental and Leasing Services; Real Estate
  • Article

Estimating the Effects of Large Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument

Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically presents a challenge due to the endogeneity of ownership structures. We develop and test an empirical framework, which allows us to separate selection from... View Details
Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Performance; Policy; Ownership; Selection and Staffing; Business Headquarters; Geography; Framework
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  • 10 Jan 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Miguel McKelvey Build the ‘Culture Operating System’ at WeWork?

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey F. Rayport
  • November 2017
  • Teaching Note

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-473. In January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in November 2016 had triggered a national storm of protests, and... View Details
Keywords: Facebook; Fake News; Mark Zuckerberg; Donald Trump; Algorithms; Social Networking; Social Networks; Partisanship; Social Media; App Development; Instagram; WhatsApp; Smartphone; Silicon Valley; Office Space; Digital Strategy; Democracy; Entry Barriers; Online Platforms; Controversy; Tencent; Agility; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Computer Games; Mobile Gaming; Messaging; Monetization Strategy; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Headquarters; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Trends; Advertising Industry; Communications Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; California; Sunnyvale; Russia
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  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Just Doing His Job

industry in a varied portfolio of investments (Thoroughbred horse racing and breeding are a special interest) for a man who has made a reputation based on “his philanthropy, a keen intellect, and a tough business manner.” View Details
Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • February 2021
  • Case

Enterprise Agility at Komerční Banka

By: Euvin Naidoo, Suraj Srinivasan and Sarah Gulick
In 2017, Jan Juchelka, the new CEO of Komerční Banka, identified the need for the bank to start an enterprise wide agile transformation. He started by working to create a sense of urgency to kick-start a process to enable the level of service delivery to customers he... View Details
Keywords: Agile; Agility; Transformation; Organizational Structure; Business Headquarters; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Systems; Banking Industry; Czech Republic
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