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- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
Competition can bring out the best in salespeople, athletes, and participants in hot dog eating contests—but can it make employees more creative? A recent working paper by Daniel P. Gross finds that competition can motivate creative types... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sumit Malik
The shards of my family scattered in a sea of refugees. When I was thirteen, my grandfather brought me to rural Punjab, to the remnants of a home splintered by religious intolerance. I gazed across a quiet pasture from the life he and so... View Details
- Web
Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Supply Chain Management from Rotterdam School of Management for his thesis “Towards Better Warehouse Efficiency Distinction through Cross-Efficiency Measurement.“ Himabindu Lakkaraju : Winner of the 2017 INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Leading at State
cases as “The 2010 Chilean Mining Rescue” and “SOFWERX: Innovation at US Special Operations Command,” as well as Karim Lakhani’s work on data analytics and AI. For Carol Perez,... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
and marketing director to head of innovation. After years at Covanta, a waste-to-energy business, she now runs Fueled for Growth, an energy consulting company, while devoting her personal energies to helping women View Details
- Research Summary
Supply Chain Inventory Planning
My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
receiving illegally mined diamonds in exchange. RUF rebels took U.N. peacekeepers hostage in Sierra Leone, and the United States threatened to impose sanctions over Taylor's relationship with the RUF.... View Details
- April 1993 (Revised October 1995)
- Case
American Barrick Resources Corporation: Managing Gold Price Risk
By: Peter Tufano
Managing the risk of changing prices of gold is central to the business strategy of American Barrick Resources Corp., one of North America's largest and most successful gold-mining firms. The case contrasts this firm's hedging policies with those of its rivals that do... View Details
Tufano, Peter. "American Barrick Resources Corporation: Managing Gold Price Risk." Harvard Business School Case 293-128, April 1993. (Revised October 1995.)
- 26 Sep 2014
- News
Here’s the Young Wheeler-Dealer with a Wildcatter’s Heart
- Profile
Ken Zeng
Coming to HBS is like... A dream of adventure. I grew up in a humble family in China and was the first one in my family to attend college. “I never even dared to dream that children from ordinary families like ours could ever attend... View Details
- Portrait Project
T.J. Root
I wonder if I’ll rediscover a sense of purpose. Or feel brave again. Is this life of mine still just as wild and precious, here at the end of my fourth decade? I once worried that I came to HBS too late.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Leadership for Executive Education
executives charged with spearheading the company’s executive development efforts, including a global diversity and inclusion transformation. At BP, she created a comprehensive leadership development program, expanded existing emerging... View Details
- March 2015
- Case
Statoil: Transparency on Payments to Governments
By: George Serafeim
The Statoil case describes the challenge of increasing transparency, in extractive industries, around host county government payments. The case describes Statoil's reasoning behind voluntarily disclosing host country government payments, and the events that led to this... View Details
Keywords: Corruption; Disclosure; Disclosure Strategy; Regulation; Industry Self-regulation; Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Bribery; Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility; Government Legislation; Cost vs Benefits; Corporate Disclosure; Mining; Mining Industry; United States
Serafeim, George, Paul M. Healy, and Jérôme Lenhardt. "Statoil: Transparency on Payments to Governments." Harvard Business School Case 115-049, March 2015.
- Portrait Project
Phil Black
compassionate family is no small accomplishment. HBS's mission is to train business leaders who "contribute to society's well-being," but mine will start at home, where Accounting, Negotiations, Leadership, View Details
- Profile
Konstantin Chebotar
Growing up in a mining town in the Far East of Russia, Konstantin Chebotar naturally gravitated to geoscience and the oil and View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- Web
Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Diversity in Organizations Division of the Academy of Management. Alexandra C. Feldberg : Recipient of the 2015 John R. Marquand Award for Exceptional Advising and Counseling from Harvard University. Linda... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
race and gender relations decides to study workers on an oil rig, an isolated setting with low gender diversity? In our research on gender, my colleague from Stanford, Debra Meyer-son, View Details
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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. 2023 Nien-he Hsieh : Winner of the 2023 Case Centre Award in the Ethics and Social Responsibility category for “Global Sourcing at Nike” (HBS Case 619-008) with Michael Toffel View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
consultant,” helping people in distress, defeating villains, and restoring ill-gotten gains to their rightful owners. He’s a man’s man and a magnet for the ladies, with whom he is chivalrous View Details