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May 2021
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Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 621-018. For decades, Gera Developments (Gera) was a boutique family-owned real estate development firm in Pune, India. But since 2000, managing director Rohit Gera had turned the company into a dynamic innovator in housing solutions for... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Construction; Geographic Location; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Housing; Leadership Style; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Urban Development; Customization and Personalization; Real Estate Industry; Maharashtra; India; San Francisco

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19 Oct 2022
News

If I Were You

society is, and how I can bring my authentic self to the world, how I don’t have to be anyone else, how I don’t have to try to fit in, and so that would be my advice. Like, look inwards, be yourself, bring your authentic self, don’t be... View Details

01 Nov 2011
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Lessons From a Kenyan Slum

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-065 Responsibilities to Society This module note for students outlines an approach to help managers deliver on their responsibilities in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

people more prone to invest more frequently than they should is an open question. Even if this is the case, I think that for society this is a small price to pay for the enormous advantages that they have brought to all of us. The pension... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

Tobin’s Q. Collectively, the evidence suggest that current efforts to increase transparency around organizations’ impact on society are effective at improving disclosure quantity and quality as well as corporate value. Effects of an... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

Uncovering Bad Factories All three studies were made possible by a social auditing company providing Toffel with data on more than 40,000 inspections in 66 countries that its auditors had conducted over several years. The first study, titled Codes in Context: How... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational business regulation is increasingly implemented through private... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

PublicationsEngineers and the State in Modern China Author:William C. Kirby Publication:In Prospects for the Professions in China, edited by William P. Alford, William C. Kirby, and Kenneth Winston, 283-314. Routledge Studies in Civil View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

still true in our society that women are much more likely to take the primary responsibility for what's going on in their children's lives. We do have some wonderful examples of men who are the primary care givers, but there are not that... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1999
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A Class Act

6/'48) is the "Pioneer Class Secretary"; a Society of Class Secretaries proposed. Autumn 1950 Fourteen MBA classes and seven AMP groups have elected "permanent class secretaries." February 1958 New policy announced: each class will have... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 2012
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The Accidental Pioneers

accepted the girls." And in an early affirmation of what we now know as work-life balance: "I feel the traits that Western society has traditionally attributed to women can be combined with a challenging vocation rather than dominated by... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

25 Feb 2013
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Among millions, a blank slate

Keywords: Professors Tarun Khanna, John D. Macomber; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance; Information; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

July 2020 (Revised November 2020)
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Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads

By: Christina R. Wing and John Masko

For decades, Gera Developments (Gera) was a boutique family-owned real estate development firm in Pune, India. But since 2000, managing director Rohit Gera had turned the company into a dynamic innovator in housing solutions for urban Indian families. Over the 2010s,... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Construction; Geographic Location; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Housing; Leadership Style; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Urban Development; Customization and Personalization; Real Estate Industry; Maharashtra; India; United States

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January 2023
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Natura: Weathering the Pandemic at Brazil's Cosmetic Giant

By: Brian Trelstad, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira

Brazil's Natura, a multi-brand cosmetics group, has taken several measures to safeguard the livelihoods of its thousands of employees and millions of sales representatives during the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. The company has also made strides in its efforts... View Details

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April 2000 (Revised December 2005)
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Garanti Bank: Transformation in Turkey

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Maximilian Martin and Daniel Galvin

Discusses the complete transformation and turnover in every division of Garanti Bank. Describes the multiple change projects managed and cross-cultural issues confronted during the 1990s and the organizational challenge of transforming Garanti Bank into one of Turkey's... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Private Ownership; Restructuring; Business Divisions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Culture; Change Management; Expansion; Corporate Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Projects; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Turkey

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October 2019 (Revised December 2019)
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Extend Fertility: Conceiving the Market for Egg Preservation (B)

By: Debora L. Spar and Olivia Hull

Keywords: Strategy; Information Technology; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Science-Based Business; Marketing Strategy; Business Plan; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Mission and Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Integration; Health; Health Industry

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January 2015 (Revised July 2019)
Case

CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence

By: Leslie John, John Quelch and Robert Huckman

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The case describes a program that CVS Health recently implemented to improve medication adherence, an important problem from a societal, public policy, and firm... View Details