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Screening: Multinational Companies

How do I screen for companies headquartered in one country or region with revenue or offices in another country or region? Capital IQ Hover over the Screening tab menu and select Companies. Under Company... View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

We Have Liftoff

HBS entrepreneurs who want to remain plugged into the Harvard network after graduation have a new home on campus. The Launch Lab—located directly across from the i-lab on Western Avenue—is now open to startups with recent alumni from any Harvard school, offering teams... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Rental and Leasing Services; Real Estate

17 Feb 2016
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The Power of Art

The New York Times checked in with for-profit art broker Artlifting. The young company, which represents homeless and disabled artists, now has seven employees and works with more than 70 artists in eight cities. It has sold artwork for the Staples View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Dean Clark Visits Alumni in Europe

Dean Clark Visits Alumni in Europe In January, Dean Kim B. Clark traveled to Paris, London, and Frankfurt to update HBS alumni on the School’s European Research Initiative as well as on key activities back at Soldiers Field. His stop in Paris included a visit to... View Details

Keywords: Alumni outreach; European Research Initiative; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Subsidiaries in another country

How can I find subsidiaries of companies headquartered in a different country, for example, Chinese subsidiaries of UK based companies? Subsidiaries of companies can be found using the following databases: Orbis: Select Location and... View Details

February 2021
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Enterprise Agility at Komerční Banka

By: Euvin Naidoo, Suraj Srinivasan and Sarah Gulick

In 2017, Jan Juchelka, the new CEO of Komerční Banka, identified the need for the bank to start an enterprise wide agile transformation. He started by working to create a sense of urgency to kick-start a process to enable the level of service delivery to customers he... View Details

Keywords: Agile; Agility; Transformation; Organizational Structure; Business Headquarters; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Systems; Banking Industry; Czech Republic

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01 Sep 2011
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Just Doing His Job

Malaysia’s Petronas Towers may be among the tallest structures in the world, but the man chiefly responsible for building them prefers to keep a low profile. Describing Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan (MBA ’64) as an individual who “guards his privacy more jealously than... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 2000
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Help in the Vicinity

Emerick Woods (MBA '81) is CEO of Vicinity Corp., a provider of Internet-based marketing infrastructure services, headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Vicinity's "clicks-and-mortar" solutions enable its clients to direct consumers... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Uncorked

an advertisement for perfume.” In 1972, E. & J. Gallo Winery called out of the blue and invited McClelland to its Modesto headquarters to manage its network television purchases. Eventually becoming the family company’s first female vice... View Details

Keywords: sanitary napkins; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2017
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@Soldiers Field

entrepreneur Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) concerning her qualitative research on the American electorate. In late September, the HBS Association of Boston hosted a fireside chat with General Electric’s Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) and HBS professor emeritus Ben Shapiro. Immelt,... View Details

01 Mar 2006
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Faculty Research Online

your overall global strategy, says Professor Pankaj Ghemawat. One key: recognizing that regions don’t stop at national borders. An excerpt from the December 2005 Harvard Business Review. The Geography of Corporate Giving Where a company is View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Goldman Sachs

substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. We commit people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, the firm... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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The Weather Channel Forecast: Challenges Ahead

Channel each day. And its weather.com site draws one of the largest audiences on the Web. The network is so popular that it opted not to hang its corporate logo on its Atlanta headquarters for fear of being overrun by tourists. But... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

10 Jan 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Miguel McKelvey Build the ‘Culture Operating System’ at WeWork?

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey F. Rayport

01 Sep 2020
News

Elevator Pitch: First Byte

working with difficult-to-handle items, including hard-to-scoop ice cream, gloopy guacamole, and prepped fruits and vegetables of various sizes (the Dexai name is a portmanteau of dexterous and AI). Stats: Headquartered in Somerville,... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; restaurants; food prep; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Dec 1997
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Peter Wendell (MBA '76)

infrastructure of capital and advisory talent. "You have this magic chemist's brew of people, ideas, capital, and hard work that you stir in a beaker and presto," he says, gesturing toward the consolidation of firms that surround Sierra's View Details

01 Sep 2003
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Christian Bjelland

As president and fourth-generation owner of Chr. Bjelland & Company, an industrial holding company headquartered in Oslo, Christian Bjelland has more than enough challenges to fill any given workday. But over the last decade, Bjelland has... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

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Estimating the Effects of Large Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument

Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically presents a challenge due to the endogeneity of ownership structures. We develop and test an empirical framework, which allows us to separate selection from... View Details

Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Performance; Policy; Ownership; Selection and Staffing; Business Headquarters; Geography; Framework