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  • spring 2007
  • Article

Corporate Legitimacy and Advertising: British Companies and the Rhetoric of Development in West Africa, 1950-1970

Around 1960, the first independent African nations emerged, marking the beginning of the momentous political event that, among other things, would change the visual representations and the copy of advertisements. Development, modernity, and industrialization became... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Developing Countries and Economies; Africa; Great Britain
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  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals

As the Harvard Business School confronts the challenges of the 21st century, the support and guidance of its graduates are more critical than ever. Three advisory boards, staffed by volunteer alumni and other distinguished View Details
Keywords: Elena N. Berg; boards; alumni; planning; leadership; advice; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Web

Kristin W. Mugford | About

Kristin W. Mugford Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community Unit Finance Contact Phone Bio Kristin Mugford is the Melvin Tukman Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at the Harvard View Details
  • 25 Jan 2024
  • News

Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest

Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of Nigeria hosted a hybrid program on December 14 featuring Taiwo... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

Business School Case 313-096 Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (B) Supplements the (A) case 308-058. With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2001
  • News

Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

diversity of businesses and products that were virtually unimaginable before the advent of full-service financial institutions. Named president of the firm in 1984 and chairman in 1991, Fisher is widely recognized for his role in both... View Details
Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 24 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

an HBS initiative on Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Values. Professor Palepu has a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an Honorary Doctorate from the Helsinki School of Economics and View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
  • 08 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 8, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48334 Harvard Business School Case 815-071 The National Football League and Brain Injuries The National Football League (NFL) was both the most popular spectator sport in the U.S. and a major... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Full Court Press

matched in ambition by its goals, which include nothing less than creating an economic growth engine that can support the world’s youngest and fastest-growing continental population, says Mark Tatum (MBA 1998), the NBA’s deputy... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 14 Jun 2023
  • News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia

2003), president of the HBS Club of Japan, ended the program. During his remarks, Dean Datar talked about several innovative initiatives that he anticipates will have lasting value for the School and that place the School at the cutting edge of addressing the... View Details
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

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 from companies of all sizes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 4

activities, as well as supporting economic data. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512017-PDF-ENG Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (A) Lena G. Goldberg and Chad M. CarrHarvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness

By: Frank Nagle
This study seeks to better understand the impact that government technology procurement regulations have on social value and national competitiveness. To do this, it examines the impact of a change in France’s technology procurement policy that required government... View Details
Keywords: Social Value; Competitiveness; Government Administration; Information Technology; Acquisition; Policy; Value
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  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla Abstract—This paper shows that the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

Kerry blasted "Benedict Arnold CEOs" for using tax advantages to do exactly that. We asked Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai, an expert on international and corporate finance, to guide us through the complicated U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Politics at Work

By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Valdemar Pinho Neto and Edoardo Teso
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the presence of political... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Employees; Prejudice and Bias; Brazil
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  • 04 Jun 2001
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?

Summing Up The Subscription Model: Down but Not Out Just as manufacturing organizations are once again adopting a subscription model as a means of pricing product-service packages marketed as solutions, it appears that Internet-based View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Jan 2013
  • News

Thai Lee, MBA 1985

& Young's New Jersey Entrepreneur Of The Year, Technology 2013 SHI International reaches $5 billion in revenue Thai Lee has an extraordinary ability to take the long view. After earning a degree in economics and biology from Amherst... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • July 2011 (Revised August 2011)
  • Supplement

Renewing GE: The Africa Project (B)

By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary
This case continues the story of the evolution of GE's business initiatives Africa. Between November 2010 and March 2011 several significant structural changes and leadership appointments were announced at GE, which reflected the company's commitment to global growth... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Restructuring; Multinational Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Consumer Products Industry; Hong Kong; Africa; Republic of Ireland
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  • 26 Sep 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta in New York City, was merely a supporting act in a reunion tour of the erstwhile-boy band, New Kids on the Block. "When you tell that to people now they look at you like you must have your dates mixed up," says Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music