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August 2008
Case

The Chubb Corporation in China

By: Li Jin, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Aldo Sesia

The Chubb Corporation, headquartered in the U.S., was the holding company for a number of property and casualty insurance companies which operated in 29 countries. In 1979, the Chinese government, as part of its "reform and open" policy invited a delegation of Chubb... View Details

Keywords: Insurance; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Business and Government Relations; Insurance Industry; China; United States

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January 2017 (Revised April 2019)
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The Olmos Project: Value Creation and Value Capture

By: John Macomber, Fernanda Miguel, Laura Urdapilleta and Valeria Moy

Private investment in public infrastructure can be encouraged when there are multiple avenues to capture and to share the value created by such a project. Gains in the market value of land adjacent to projects are not customarily channeled back into defraying the... View Details

Keywords: Value Capture; Infrastructure; Decision Making; Agribusiness; Value Creation; South America; Peru

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17 Apr 2019
News

Two Alumnae Among Time’s Most Influential of 2019

Aileen Lee (photo by Carlos Chavarría) Lee is the founder of All Raise, a nonprofit that is “dedicated to diversity in founders and funders.” Her entry is written by Kirsten Green, founding partner View Details

01 Feb 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

"welcome officer"; generate a list of alumni working at top search firms and distribute the list to clubs to enhance their career resources; and include all club officers in... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

12 Sep 2023
What Do You Think?

Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

profitability than those in the bottom quartile. A 2016 study of 21,980 firms in 91 countries found that companies with mixed gender boards outperformed those with all-male... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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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14 Aug 1996
Keynote Speech

Business Ethics: From Principles to Practice - Closing the Ethics Gap." Seminar leader. "Executive Seminar sponsored by Universidad de San Andres, Department of Management

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Theory; Practice; Ethics

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23 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Break the Expert’s Curse

Unfortunately, though, experts frequently make lousy teachers. Experts are sometimes so steeped in expertise that they don't remember what it was like to be a newbie—in terms of both how much they knew and how they felt back then. View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

09 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

2010) and Karen Dillon, the book uses meaningful corporate and personal anecdotes to extoll the value of theory in finding and creating... View Details

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McKim, Mead & White - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

selection, George F. Baker, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, HBS Dean Wallace B. Donham, and several architects unanimously voted for the plan created by the New York-based McKim, Mead & White, one... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Clearing the Air

this race. Jim Matheson is a senior lecturer at HBS, a special partner at Engine, a venture firm focused on tough tech, and a senior advisor and venture partner at Breakthrough Energy. He has spent the last... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

Research Summary

Credit Supply Shocks, Network Effects, and the Real Economy

By: Laura Alfaro

We consider the real effects of bank lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset with information on the universe of corporate loans for... View Details

30 May 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Ambidexterity as a Dynamic Capability: Resolving the Innovator’s Dilemma

Keywords: by Charles A. O’Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

30 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Deal

a reasonable request and deliver it with a smile, hopefully you can keep the other person in the room and see what happens next." Mohan—former managing director and now senior advisor View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

January 2002 (Revised April 2004)
Case

Chapter Enrichment Program Teams at the American Red Cross (A)

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Anita Williams Woolley

The American Red Cross has a system for structuring, staffing, and leading teams to review its local chapters. Mirroring professional services firms that use teams to serve clients, this system provides detailed guidelines to increase individual team member's... View Details

Keywords: Planning; Groups and Teams; Management Teams; Leadership; Organizational Structure

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January 2020
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SK Group: Social Progress Credits

By: George Serafeim, Ethan Rouen and David Freiberg

SK Group was one of the largest companies South Korea. A family-run conglomerate consisting of around 120 subsidiaries and employing more than 100,000, SK was tightly knit into the fabric of Korean society. SK viewed their future success as contingent upon the strength... View Details

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2013
Article

Multinational Corporations, Global Justice and Corporate Responsibility: A Question of Purpose

By: Nien-he Hsieh

Do multinational corporations (MNCs) have a responsibility to address unjust conditions—not simply by refraining from contributing to injustice, but also by actively working to bring about a just state of affairs? This paper examines whether this question can be... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Corporations; Global Justice; Corporate Purpose; Corporate Responsibility; Human Needs; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

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01 Dec 2003
News

Business Answers the Call

Bezos. Now a lecturer at HBS, Leschly is researching the applicability and adaptability of private-sector management practices and theory to educational reform. In addition to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

27 Jul 2020
Book

Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

Gerdeman is a senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: PeopleImages] Does reflection help you? Share your insights below. Book Excerpt Mosaic Reflection By Joseph Badaracco The founder and CEO View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

March 2020 (Revised January 2023)
Case

Nadine Vogel: Transforming the Marketplace, Workplace, and Workforce for People with Disabilities

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Hannah Riley-Bowles and Michael Norris

In 2019, Nadine Vogel, founder and CEO of Springboard Consulting, a firm that worked with Fortune 500 companies on issues related to disability and their workforce, faced the decision of the best path forward to grow her small company. Should she build more and better... View Details