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01 Feb 2002
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Driven

the result of conscious choices that are influenced by four fundamental drives: the drive to acquire objects and experiences that improve our status relative to others; the drive to bond with others in long-term relationships of mutual... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Ximena Garcia-Rada

As an undergraduate in business administration at the Universidad de Lima in her native Peru, Ximena Garcia-Rada (she/her) hadn’t yet considered the idea of doctoral studies. Even when professors from her MBA program at INCAE View Details

June 13, 2021
Guest Column

Big Oil Gets Clean and the World Stays Dirty: Public Pressure on Fossil Fuel Companies Can Only Do So Much

By: John Mulliken

Keywords: Climate Change; Business and Shareholder Relations; Public Opinion; Investment Activism; Energy Industry

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2014
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Advanced Leadership Pathways: Raymond Jetson's MetroMorphosis and the Effort to Transform Baton Rouge

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Rakesh Khurana and Daniel Penrice

Raymond Jetson, an inner-city pastor, former Louisiana state legislator, and 2010 Harvard University Advanced Leadership Fellow, has embarked on a new career as a social entrepreneur. The case charts Jetson's career in public life and the ministry, his experience as an... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Business and Community Relations; Problems and Challenges; Leadership; Louisiana; Baton Rouge

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June 2019
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Fraud Allegations and Government Contracting

By: Jonas Heese and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos

This paper examines whether fraud allegations affect firms’ contracting with the government. Using a dataset of whistleblower allegations brought under the False Claims Act against firms accused of defrauding the government, we find that federal agencies do not reduce... View Details

Keywords: Whistleblower; Fraud Allegations; False Claims Act; Government Contracting; Risk Allocation; Government and Politics; Contracts; Crime and Corruption; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations

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08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

media and the public. Q: Historians continue to debate the relationships between institutional strength and business performance, but the Argentina/Chile stories would seem able to provide some insights,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices

their aspiration. Over dinner, Seth spoke passionately to the group about capitalism and the responsibilities of business leaders. His words resonated with many and I am delighted to share them here, for all the School’s alumni, with his... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

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How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 21 Nov 2024 How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters Jess Hopper Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies If you’re a Harvard Business School alumnus, you’ve... View Details

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Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Globalization and Emerging Markets Course Number 1151 Associate Professor Reshmaan Hussam Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Final Exam Career Focus Globalization and Emerging Markets is designed for students who will be investing, managing a... View Details

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Peggy Yin | MBA

contexts fraught with warring economic priorities while blossoming in communities using digital platforms to express true, untold stories. Learning from these narratives at the intersection of technology and business showed me how we can... View Details

29 May 2001
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Race Does Matter in Mentoring

to become a major product family. His success in that position propelled him to a series of other assignments, including a temporary one in strategic planning, that eventually landed him a promotion to vice president and general manager, with profit-and-loss... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

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Kevin Nazemi

Kevin Nazemi chose Microsoft after graduation from MIT for the chance to turn a small market presence into something much bigger. “When I arrived, our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) product had almost no traction in the U.S.,”... View Details

20 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

Do gender-diverse companies make more money than businesses run primarily by men? If research says they perform better, that could bolster the argument that women should have more access to top positions in organizations. But previous... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2015
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Advice and Credibility Go Hand-in-Hand for Managers

Keywords: management skills; leadership; authenticity; communication skills

November 2009 (Revised June 2012)
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Crisis and Reform in Japan's Banking System (B)

By: Thierry Porte, Rawi E. Abdelal, Laura Alfaro and Jonathan Schlefer

In 1997, amidst Japan's ongoing financial problems, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto sought to restructure the financial sector to make it more transparent and globally competitive. He hoped that this effort, dubbed the "Big Bang" after the British financial... View Details

Keywords: History; Adaptation; Policy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Macroeconomics; Restructuring; Global Strategy; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Japan

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May 2009 (Revised January 2011)
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Enel: Power, Russia, and Global Markets

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Richard H.K. Vietor and Sogomon Tarontsi

Although the global trend toward liberalization of electric utilities forced Enel, the largest power company in Italy, to give up some of its assets in its home base, it also opened up many opportunities abroad, including in Russia, one of the largest electricity... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Energy Generation; Foreign Direct Investment; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Utilities Industry; Russia; Italy

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September 2010
Teaching Note

A Chinese Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Teaching Note for 309060. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Business or Company Management; Business Model; Internet and the Web; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Social and Collaborative Networks; Video Game Industry; China

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March 2023
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Deepa Bachu (B): Insights and Experiments at Pensaar Design

By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal

In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details

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01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

Professor of Business Administration and cochair, Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship One such example is CellScope, which manufactures a device that fits easily over a smartphone's camera so a parent or school nurse can take a photo... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services