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7 Courses Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business (CLIMB) CLIMB enables new and experienced leaders to ignite their careers with a combination of vital and forward-looking business skills, self-reflection, and an immersive cohort-based learning... View Details
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Leadership, Innovation, and Talent Management
By: Linda A. Hill
Hill is working on various research projects. The first, Leadership as Collective Genius, explores the relationships among leadership, creativity and diversity, more specifically the kind of collaborative work necessary for innovation in today's global enterprise. The... View Details
- 29 Sep 2014
- Other Presentation
Reshaping Regional Economic Development: Clusters and Regional Strategy
Professor Michael Porter delivered a keynote speech at Mapping the Midwest's Future, a conference held in Minneapolis and hosted by the University of Minnesota that officially launched the new U.S. Cluster Mapping tool. His presentation focused on U.S. competitiveness... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Reshaping Regional Economic Development: Clusters and Regional Strategy." Mapping the Midwest's Future, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and University of Minnesota, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Minneapolis, MN, September 29, 2014.
- May 2003
- Other Presentation
Asia Competitiveness Institute Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
2003This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations(The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2002, (World... View Details
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Asia Competitiveness Institute Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy." Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Bangkok, Thailand, May 2003.
- November 2012 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
Naina Lal Kidwai: Investing in Her Country
By: Boris Groysberg and Anjali Raina
This case showcases the 30-year career of Naina Lal Kidwai, Chairman of HSBC India, a leading woman business leader globally. It demonstrates how Kidwai spent a lifetime overcoming barriers as a woman in a male-dominated profession and as an Indian in the global... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, and Anjali Raina. "Naina Lal Kidwai: Investing in Her Country." Harvard Business School Case 413-003, November 2012. (Revised May 2013.)
- July 2012
- Case
Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. - The Belle of the Ball
By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
In November of 2011 Transatlantic Holdings, Inc., a global property and casualty reinsurance company, announced it had agreed to sell itself to Alleghany Corporation, ending "the most frenzied takeover battle" of 2011, which involved competitors, Warren Buffett's... View Details
Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Finance; Insurance And Reinsurance; Governance; Insurance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Strategy; Valuation; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; United States; Bermuda; Switzerland
Rose, Clayton S., and Aldo Sesia. "Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. - The Belle of the Ball." Harvard Business School Case 313-017, July 2012.
- February 1994 (Revised April 1995)
- Case
Asahi Glass Co.: Diversification Strategy
By: David J. Collis
Describes the history and diversification strategy of the Japanese manufacturer Asahi Glass Co. The company has diversified through internal growth, acquisition, and joint ventures from its origin in flat glass to a broad glass-materials, chemical, and electronics... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Joint Ventures; Diversification; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
Collis, David J. "Asahi Glass Co.: Diversification Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 794-113, February 1994. (Revised April 1995.)
- 10 Jun 2015
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Is Culture of Overwork Behind Women's Stalled Advancement?
- 25 Jul 2009
- News
Some Inconvenient Truths About Medicare and the New 'Public Plan'
- 01 Aug 2022
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As the World Shifts, So Should Leaders
- 25 Mar 2022
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Leading an Exhausted Workforce
- 09 Jan 2012
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Fresh experiences in the field
- 15 Feb 2012
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Welcome to the American Competitiveness Insight Center
- 16 Oct 2024
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A fireside chat with Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO at Harvard University
New nuclear power must pass the ‘Chindia test’ — this energy source should be built like modern aviation or shipping
Synopsis
"We should try to change radiophobia now — if we build new nuclear power plants at the scale required to fulfill global energy needs, there will be occasional failures, just as there are... 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
- March 2022 (Revised August 2022)
- Case
Swvl: Smart Mobility for the Masses
By: Krishna Palepu, Esel Çekin and Menna Hassan
The case focuses on strategy and governance issues at Swvl, a tech-enabled mass mobility marketplace. It describes the journey of CEO and Chairman Mostafa Kandil on his journey from founding the company to its listing on Nasdaq. Since its founding in Egypt in 2017,... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Growth and Development Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; North Africa
Palepu, Krishna, Esel Çekin, and Menna Hassan. "Swvl: Smart Mobility for the Masses." Harvard Business School Case 122-097, March 2022. (Revised August 2022.)
- 2012
- Case
ChemChina
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion... View Details
McFarlan, F. Warren, Donghong Li, Lei Li, and Hong Zhang. "ChemChina." Tsinghua University Case, 2012.
- March–April 2012
- Article
The Rise and Fall of Small Worlds: Exploring the Dynamics of Social Structure
By: Ranjay Gulati, Maxim Sytch and Adam Tatarynowicz
This paper explores the interplay between social structure and economic action by examining some of the evolutionary dynamics of an emergent network that coalesces into a small-world system. The study highlights the small-world system's evolutionary dynamics at both... View Details
Keywords: Culture; System; Relationships; Globalization; Industry Clusters; Information; Networks; Competitive Strategy; Computer Industry
Gulati, Ranjay, Maxim Sytch, and Adam Tatarynowicz. "The Rise and Fall of Small Worlds: Exploring the Dynamics of Social Structure." Organization Science 23, no. 2 (March–April 2012): 449–471.