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    Global Accountabilities

    Accountability is seen as an essential feature of governments, businesses and NGOs. This volume treats it as a socially constructed means of control that can be used by the weak as well as the powerful. It contributes analytical depth to the diverse debates on... View Details

    • June 2020
    • Article

    How Scheduling Can Bias Quality Assessment: Evidence from Food Safety Inspections

    By: Maria Ibanez and Michael W. Toffel
    Accuracy and consistency are critical for inspections to be an effective, fair, and useful tool for assessing risks, quality, and suppliers—and for making decisions based on those assessments. We examine how inspector schedules could introduce bias that erodes... View Details
    Keywords: Assessment; Bias; Inspection; Scheduling; Econometric Analysis; Empirical Research; Regulation; Health; Food; Safety; Quality; Performance Consistency; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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    • March 2003 (Revised March 2004)
    • Case

    P&G Japan: The SK-II Globalization Project

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett
    Traces changes in P&G's international strategy and structure, culminating in Organization 2005, a reorganization that places strategic emphasis on product innovation rather than geographic expansion and shifts power from local subsidiary to global business management.... View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Trade; Globalization; Global Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Business or Company Management; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Hong Kong; Japan; Taiwan; Europe
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    The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society

    imperative for business video Play Video duration: 2:40 DEI: A strategic imperative for business Case studies Participants at the BiGS 2024 Global Leadership Roundtable in... View Details
    • 25 Oct 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Developing the Global Leader

    be intelligent. But they'll also need to have a high level of cultural and emotional intelligence." According to George, additional characteristics of a successful global... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 21 Mar 2016
    • Blog Post

    MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business

    honing different and yet comparably important skills for business and policy global leaders.  Born and raised in Kampala, Uganda, I was probably predisposed to develop passions contiguous to the phenomenon... View Details
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    Health as a Way of Doing Business

    By: Howard Koh, Sara J. Singer and Amy C. Edmondson
    For too long, the worlds of business and health have been mired in a checkered, sometimes contentious, history. Millions of deaths worldwide can be attributed to risk factors including tobacco use, alcohol and drug misuse, and suboptimal dietary intake linked to... View Details
    Keywords: Health; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Public Opinion
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    • July 2003 (Revised August 2003)
    • Case

    Global Healthcare Exchange

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Jamie Ladge
    Founded in March 2000 at the height of the dot-com bubble, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) was one of 90 online marketplaces in the health care industry. The company's founders were among the largest suppliers in the industry, including Johnson & Johnson, GE Medical,... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Price; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply and Industry; Organizational Design; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Valuation; Health Industry
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    • December 2019 (Revised February 2024)
    • Teaching Note

    Ripple: The Business of Crypto and Ripple 2023

    By: David B. Yoffie
    The case explores Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse’s mission to disrupt the global payments industry by leveraging the cryptocurrency XRP. Students will learn about Bitcoin and the blockchain industry, as well as Ripple’s unique crypto business model. The case provides an... View Details
    Keywords: Payment Systems; Cryptocurrency; Bitcoin; Blockchain; Fintech; Business Startups; Business Model; Disruption; Strategy
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    Europe - Global

    Edmondson examines the 2019 Notre-Dame Cathedral fire as a powerful example of complex failure. The case explores how a cascade of small oversights led to catastrophe—and what leaders must do to build... View Details
    • 28 Oct 2024
    • Blog Post

    It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School

    may be dizzying for anyone, but for Mitkevicius it’s all part of the job. Mitkevicius is part of the Harvard Business School team that organizes and oversees field courses for... View Details
    • 20 Aug 2015
    • Blog Post

    AVICII: REFLECTIONS ON MANAGING THE BRAND OF A GLOBAL SUPERSTAR

    goals, and values related to our lives and careers post business school. One of my ten photos was of a young Swedish DJ named Avicii and his manager Ash Pournouri. For me this... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
    • 23 May 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    What Could Bring Globalization Down?

    We tend to think of the forces of globalization as a permanent part of the landscape—but then perhaps they were thinking that way too in 1914,... View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
    • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 06 Nov 2018
    • Webinars: Trending@HBS

    China in the Age of Xi Jinping: Domestic Changes and Global Ambitions

    China's outward push will remake the global economic and political environment, and business leaders need an understanding of China's leadership to navigate this new world. Join Associate Professor Rithmire to discuss the evolution of the business landscape in China. View Details
    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Business Groups Exist in Developed Markets Also: Britain Since 1850

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    Diversified business groups are well-known phenomena in emerging markets, both today and historically. This is often explained by the prevalence of institutional voids or the nature of government-business relations. It is typically assumed that such groups were much... View Details
    Keywords: Business Groups; Business History; Economic History; Conglomerates; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Management; Organizations; United Kingdom
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    Global Reach | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    Skip to Main Content Exhibition Home Exhibition Business Education & The Case Method The General Shoe Company, 1921 Case Writing & Industry Expansion of the Case Method The Case Method Classroom Teaching &... View Details
    • 25 Aug 2022
    • News

    Reinventing the Future of Business

    will position HBS and the University overall as global leaders in reshaping the landscape of the digital-first world and the role of business in... View Details
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Big History, Global Corporations, Virtual Capitalism

    By: Richard L. Nolan
    Homo sapiens has mastered its environment so thoroughly that, for the first time in history, a small minority of the population is capable of creating enough food and fuels to support not only itself, but also a growing majority of the 6 billion people now living on... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Systems; Internet and the Web; Innovation and Invention; United States
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    • 26 Jun 2017
    • News

    How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

    • 11 Feb 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    The Business of Saving the Planet

    "The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Green Technology