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- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Authors:Bo Becker, Guhan Subramanian, and Daniel B. Bergstresser Publication:Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We use the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
jet engines, and for years made its home in leafy Connecticut will officially open its new corporate headquarters in downtown Boston, smack in the middle of the city’s burgeoning innovation district. According to the Boston Globe, after... View Details
- April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
- Supplement
Fleet Oil Company: An Exercise
The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Non-Renewable Energy; Cost; Production; Performance Productivity; Research and Development; Energy Industry; Atlanta; Houston
Gavetti, Giovanni. "Fleet Oil Company: An Exercise." Harvard Business School Supplement 711-512, April 2011. (Revised April 2011.)
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
entrepreneur Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) concerning her qualitative research on the American electorate. In late September, the HBS Association of Boston hosted a fireside chat with General Electric’s Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) and HBS professor emeritus Ben Shapiro. Immelt,... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
research and development centers fostered more patents than those who had not crossed borders. Since then, the geography of work and innovation has been the focus of his research. These days, Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Oct 2024
- News
On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)
After nearly nine years in a series of marketing and strategy roles at Samsung—where he logged approximately 2.5 million air miles and earned status as a “permanent resident” of Korea—Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008) made the leap to Electrolux Group Chief Marketing... View Details
- 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
- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
always in business development, sales, and closing deals,” says Mittal, who eventually moved to Bombay, where “in a six-hour day you could finish what would take a month in Ludhiana.” With the resources of a big city now available, Mittal... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Apr 2024
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
examinations, and business operations for five states: Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama. Along with SEC headquarters in Washington, D.C., and 10 other regional offices, they... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 2013
- Working Paper
Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing
By: Kristina McElheran
Recent contributions to a growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Business Headquarters; Decision Choices and Conditions; Operations; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Power and Influence; Adaptation; Cooperation
McElheran, Kristina. "Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-101, April 2011. (Revised April 2012, July 2012, January 2013.)
- Web
Forest L. Reinhardt | About
an agribusiness firm headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota. Professor Reinhardt received his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University in 1990. He holds an MBA from Harvard View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
A Miller's Tale
thriving catalog business that sends King Arthur flour, recipes, and baking items to far-flung devotees, Sands and his wife, Brinna, have initiated baking programs in schools. They also operate a Baking Center (a bakery, store, and... View Details
- 10 Jan 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Miguel McKelvey Build the ‘Culture Operating System’ at WeWork?
Keywords: Re: Jeffrey F. Rayport
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
She’s Got Your Back
Corbin’s business and relocated its headquarters to Indianapolis. “Our first member in Columbus was a woman named Patty Bowman,” Hicks recalls. “She gave us the entire list of contractors she’d ever used.”... View Details
- Profile
Fereshteh Zeineddin
headquarters in New York, I was excited to be offered an opportunity to join the company in Toronto after graduation. What are you most looking forward to in your career? I am looking forward to infusing my own creativity and personality... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 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
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
Fostering Great Leadership
Ken Olivier (MBA 1979) and Angela Nomellini While an undergraduate at Stanford, Ken Olivier met a Ford Motor Company executive he admired. “I asked his advice on how I could get to his position,” he says. “That’s how I ended up earning both View Details
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
Editor's Note. Given a veritable flood over the last year of corporate "inversions"—US companies that reincoporate in other countries to take advantage of favorable tax rates and business regulations—lawmakers in Washington D.C.... View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Wayfair
OrganizationKate Gulliver, Vice President Talent Operations, Wayfair; HBS '09 Describe your organization in three to five sentences.Wayfair is one of the world's largest online destinations for all things home. Through our e-commerce View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
When he took some skeptical conservationists to a meeting at agribusiness giant Monsanto’s headquarters not long ago, Richard Crespin (TGMP 4, 1999) says it seemed the only thing missing was ominous John Williams theme music playing in... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli