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- 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
- April 1992 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Otis South Africa (A)
By: Michael Beer
Otis Worldwide CEO, George David, was frustrated with the slow pace of nonwhite advancement within Otis South Africa. After a few years of trying to elicit action from South African management, he decided to send a 28-year old U.S. employee to take over as the human... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Race; Operations; Business Headquarters; Performance Improvement; Human Resources; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Industrial Products Industry; South Africa; United States
Beer, Michael. "Otis South Africa (A)." Harvard Business School Case 492-049, April 1992. (Revised June 1993.)
- December 2010 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
Back to the Future: Redeveloping Unilever House
By: A. Eugene Kohn, Arthur I Segel and Andrew Pierson Terris
Steve Williams, General Counsel of Unilever PIc, has two key decisions to make prior to commencing construction on the redevelopment of Unilever House - the company's London corporate headquarters. The purpose of the redevelopment is to reinvigorate the corporate... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Leasing; Sales; Restructuring; Leading Change; Financing and Loans; Decisions; Business Headquarters; Design; Projects; London
Kohn, A. Eugene, Arthur I Segel, and Andrew Pierson Terris. "Back to the Future: Redeveloping Unilever House." Harvard Business School Case 211-038, December 2010. (Revised June 2011.)
- 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.)
- 01 May 2013
- News
Dhruv Agarwala, MBA 2002
Dhruv Agarwala, who grew up in Calcutta, credits HBS for being instrumental in shaping his career. From his first job in the United States—as a business development associate at General Electric—to his latest entrepreneurial endeavor in... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online
your overall global strategy, says Professor Pankaj Ghemawat. One key: recognizing that regions don’t stop at national borders. An excerpt from the December 2005 Harvard Business Review. The Geography of Corporate Giving Where a company... 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 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
- Web
Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog
settings, from a narrow (Zoom) versus a broad (Microsoft) Scope or large global organizations (Cadbury) to startups (Foodology). 4. Organization and the Role of Corporate Headquarters To justify ownership of any View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- News
David Perry’s Green Revolution
working on at an oil refinery for Exxon to startup CEO. (Perry exhibited his entrepreneurial vision while at HBS, telling the Bulletin in 2001 that he wrote four business plans while earning his MBA.) After running and selling two... View Details
- 10 Jan 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Miguel McKelvey Build the ‘Culture Operating System’ at WeWork?
Keywords: Re: Jeffrey F. Rayport
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
It's a case of competition and strategy on a global scale, and the stakes could hardly be higher. The prize? Leadership in the realm of life sciences, a field that experts say will shape and dominate 21st-century enterprise. What city or region will become the... View Details
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to local plant managers in almost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- Profile
Kenny Salas
Kenny Salas, MBA 2015, came to HBS with a clear goal: "To work for a big company and gain operational experience." Then a combination of unexpected events changed his mind. After a summer internship at General Mills' View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- Profile
Fred Smith
freshman," Fred says, "I aspired to business school. I wanted to blend technology and business roles together and explore different industries. In sum, I wanted something in general management –... View Details