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Rafaella Sadun | About

Italiana, " the highest-ranking order of the Republic awarded for “merit acquired by the nation” in 2021. In 2022 she was awarded the Prize “Fondazione de Sanctis per le Scienze Economiche.” Sadun received her PhD in Economics from the View Details
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

L.E. Simmons

HBS, Simmons, who also attended the University of Utah and the London School of Economics, spent two years at First Chicago establishing a corporate finance department that focused on the offshore oil and gas industry. He subsequently... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 27 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

School; Tiona Zuzul, assistant professor at London Business School; and HBS Professors Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna—came to their conclusions after reviewing the transcripts of interviews with 69 business and NGO leaders from a variety... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)

growth, Nneka felt she could make a significant impact at home. After obtaining her degree in chemical engineering in London and studying French at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, Nneka moved to the United States to begin her career as a... View Details
  • 14 Jun 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia

providing new scholarship support to more students from middle-income backgrounds. Following the Dean's visit to East Asia, he is looking forward to a Boston event in the fall held in conjunction with the HBS Club of Boston. The Dean began this series of alumni... View Details
  • 04 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology
  • March 2020
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Thingtesting: Launching a Brand Discovery and Testing Digital Community

By: Ayelet Israeli and Jill Avery
Thingtesting, a brand discovery and testing digital community devoted to uncovering and exploring direct-to-consumer brands, had just received seed funding and was contemplating a second year of growth. The new year brought many challenges, as founder Jenny Gyllander... View Details
Keywords: Influencer Marketing; Monetization; Female Ceo; Female Entrepreneur; Female Protagonist; Influencers; Influencer; Direct-to-consumer; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Marketing Communications; Consumer Products Industry; Financial Services Industry; Advertising Industry; London; United Kingdom; United States; Europe; North America
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  • January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
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Generation Investment Management

By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Michael Norris and David Allen
In September 2021, the sustainable investment firm Generation Investment Management (Generation) considered whether to add Schneider Electric to the focus list of companies in which it was prepared to invest. Dedicated to promoting a sustainable world through its... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Investing; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Governance; Private Equity; Public Equity; Financial Markets; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; England; London
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  • 01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

spent four years in London as cohead of the firm's European operations before resigning in 1996 to found Compass Partners International, a privately held investment banking advisory and investment firm that manages a large European... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Study of Management from London Business School. Kris Johnson Ferreira : Finalist for the 2018 and 2019 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) Best Paper Award with Bin Hong Alex Lee and David Simchi-Levi for "Analytics for... View Details
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

2004), presented by the American Risk and Insurance Association for the book considered to be the most influential text published on the economics of risk management and insurance. Max H. Bazerman : Received an honorary doctorate from the University of View Details
  • 17 Dec 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

Patients with resources can easily go where care is provided. "Historically doctors moved from Africa and India to London and New York to provide care. Now we are basically flipping it around and saying, 'Why don't the patients move?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
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Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Wind Sculpture (SG) V 2019 | About

Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection, Harvard Business School , 2021.1 . © Yinka Shonibare CBE RA. All Rights Reserved, DACS/ARS, NY 2023 . Born in London in 1962, Yinka Shonibare moved to Lagos, Nigeria, at age three. He returned to the... View Details
  • January 2021
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Egon Zehnder: Beyond Search?

By: Ashish Nanda and Margaret Cross
In 2019, Egon Zehnder chair Jill Ader and CEO Edilson Camara faced a critical question: how should the global executive search firm approach its burgeoning advisory service offering? Since 2003, the firm’s advisory practice had grown as a conglomeration of grassroots... View Details
Keywords: Professional Services Firms; Executive Search Firms; Professionalism; Partnership; Executive Coaching; Leadership Development; Expansion; Decision Making; Strategy; Switzerland; London
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Winner of the 2019 Sumantra Ghoshal Award for Rigour and Relevance in the Study of Management from London Business School. 2018 Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2018 Crowell Memorial Prize For the Best Paper on Quantitative Investing from... View Details
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Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting
  • October 2020
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Michael Phelps: 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'

By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Michael Norris
In 2020, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in various swimming events, was now retired. As he looked back on his 20+ year athletic career, he considered what had gone into making him the greatest of all time—the highs and lows,... View Details
Keywords: Mental Health; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Health; Success; Performance Improvement; Personal Development and Career; Family and Family Relationships; Sports; Competition; Sports Industry; United States; Baltimore; Arizona; Sydney; Athens; Beijing; London
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

the Study of Management from London Business School. Tsedal Neeley : Awarded the 2012 Marvin Bower Fellowship by Harvard Business School to support research by outstanding scholars. Leslie A. Perlow : Recipient of the 2012 Work Life... View Details
  • March 2016 (Revised May 2018)
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ASOS PLC

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Launched in 2000, ASOS was one of the world’s largest online fashion specialists in 2018. Focusing on young consumers aged 16–25 years, the company offered over 85,000 items on its websites, many times more than the largest fashion stores, and added several thousand... View Details
Keywords: ASOS; AsSeenOnScreen; Online Fashion; Online Apparel; Nick Beighton; Nick Robertson; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Social Media; Marketplaces; Shipping; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Age; Gender; Currency Exchange Rate; Profit; Revenue; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business History; Selection and Staffing; Journals and Magazines; Human Capital; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Succession; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Social Marketing; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; United Kingdom; England; London
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  • 30 Mar 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

opted for only minimal control in order to create larger personal networks. Further, there was little governmental regulation of social networking companies protecting those users. In the past two weeks, Facebook’s world had changed with New York Times and View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology