Skip to Main Content
HBS Home
  • About
  • Academic Programs
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Research
  • Baker Library
  • Giving
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Initiatives
  • News
  • Recruit
  • Map / Directions
Faculty & Research
  • Faculty
  • Research
  • Featured Topics
  • Academic Units
  • …→
  • Harvard Business School→
  • Faculty & Research→
  • Research
    • Research
    • Publications
    • Global Research Centers
    • Case Development
    • Initiatives & Projects
    • Research Services
    • Seminars & Conferences
    →
  • Publications→

Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (199) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (199) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (199)
    • News  (75)
    • Research  (112)
    • Multimedia  (1)
  • Faculty Publications  (21)

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (199)
    • News  (75)
    • Research  (112)
    • Multimedia  (1)
  • Faculty Publications  (21)
← Page 2 of 199 Results →
  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

Business School Case 307-077 Describes the opportunities and strategy facing one of the most innovative global supply-chain companies, and the strategy it has chosen to deal with the expanding demand for its services. Li & Fung links thousands of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Jorge Tamayo
Professor Tamayo’s research focuses on theoretical modeling and structural estimation of firm decision-making and productivity.

Professor Tamayo studies dynamic competition for customer membership. Generally, firms that implement a membership model charge a... View Details
  • June 2021
  • Case

One Family Textiles: Stepping Back to Move Forward?

By: V.G. Narayanan, Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais
This case explores how a family business builds a board that includes independent directors that helps to professionalize and strengthen governance in the company. The case relates to One Family Textiles, an Abu Dhabi-headquartered manufacturer of garments. The company... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business History; Decision Making; Accounting
Citation
Educators
Purchase
Related
Narayanan, V.G., Alpana Thapar, and Fares Khrais. "One Family Textiles: Stepping Back to Move Forward?" Harvard Business School Case 121-045, June 2021.
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

customer needs both today and tomorrow, and the other that is focused on crazy innovation." Leaders who strike the balance well, note O'Reilly and Tushman, do so by mitigating the effects of separation with a structure that... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Ethan S. Bernstein
I have spent my career studying novel talent management practices and their effect on collaboration and performance. My core research focuses on two interrelated organizational trends that have become salient in the 21st century: workplace transparency (who gets to... View Details
Keywords: Privacy; Transparency; Productivity; Field Experiments; Communication; Design; Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance; Groups and Teams; Networks; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Satisfaction; North America; Europe; Asia; China; Japan; Latin America
  • Web

Business & Environment

What is the Business & Environment Initiative? What is the Business & Environment Initiative? Inspiring innovation and action at the intersection of business and environment Climate Rising Podcast Forecasting Climate Risk with Geospatial AI: Sarah Russell of X , the... View Details
  • 22 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Humans vs. Machines: Untangling the Tasks AI Can (and Can't) Handle

nuances of its limits. Since ChatGPT debuted a year ago, automation hopes and fears—previously limited to factory floors and supermarket checkout lines—have shaken the ranks of highly-educated knowledge workers and provided new avenues... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology
  • Web

Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

attention from other social domains whose performance suffers. We test this theory by examining tradeoffs global supply chain factories make when responding to local worker activism, evidenced by varying compliance with multinational... View Details
  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

Addict TuneIn Pandora Audacy Deezer JioSaavn 02 Jul 2025 Climate Rising Forecasting Climate Risk with Geospatial AI: Sarah Russell of X , the Moonshot Factory at Alphabet This episode, part of the Climate Rising series on climate... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

Peterson (A).” The case discusses the problems that a recent MBA graduate faces when he joins a new company and has a difficult time managing people. A lot of us are trained to be individual contributors from a young age. Prior to coming to HBS I View Details
  • 26 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

the face of a crippled economy. “Many Japanese companies are not that popular with Wall Street types because they are not as focused on gaining superior profitability and maximizing shareholder value,” he says. “They talk consistently... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

boardrooms, consistently ranking at the bottom of some two dozen possible priorities. Many years ago labor conditions in Asian contract factories prompted Nike board member Jill Ker Conway to lobby for a board-level corporate... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

should managers know most about self-regulation? Michael Toffel: A growing number of firms are expressing concern about the societal aspects of industrial activities. In the 1990s, most were focused on the activities within their own... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

before it went public. He then led Open Market's expansion into business-to-business applications. In 1999, he founded and ran PurchasingCenter.com, a "My Yahoo" portal for industrial purchasing agents who purchase $2-$10 million of View Details
  • 31 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

chains work and the performance of the factories that comprise them. The area is also a primary supplier of lithium battery chemicals, flash memory, and anisotropic conductive film used in LCD flat panel displays. "In the race to... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics
  • 25 Apr 2024
  • News

Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
  • 19 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

reviewed every paper that was focused on that success metric and that was published in a top academic journal in the last 15 years. Analyzing the results, they didn’t always find that nudges were the most effective ways of moving the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

priorities. Many years ago labor conditions in Asian contract factories prompted Nike board member Jill Ker Conway to lobby for a board-level corporate responsibility committee, which the company created in 2001. In the years since, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

like computers in financial models. Behavioral finance replaces these idealized decision makers with real and imperfect people who have social, cognitive, and emotional biases. My work focuses on how the resulting inefficiencies in the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • ←
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 9
  • 10
  • →
ǁ
Campus Map
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
→Map & Directions
→More Contact Information
  • Make a Gift
  • Site Map
  • Jobs
  • Harvard University
  • Trademarks
  • Policies
  • Accessibility
  • Digital Accessibility
Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College.