Multinational Firms and Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

later stages. Network Effects Managers often think about innovation in terms of exploring new markets. But Cook said it's often wiser for firms to innovate within their well-established existing businesses.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

25 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

regulation looks at diversity at firms is from an HR perspective: How are they promoting and hiring minorities to make sure it’s an equal opportunity workplace?” Koning says. “But we need to do more than... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

vulnerable to superior service alternatives. Along the way, we also show that firms trade off price and service quality and that when the incumbent offers relatively low... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

financing requirements—typically north of $500 million. Why study large projects? Because they offer clear examples into the process used by managers to make important financing and structuring decisions, he... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

retailers rely on temporary workers during the holiday season, so training and managing frontline staff becomes essential. Finally, retail executives should be highly focused on customer service. Consumers... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

06 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

Staffing, risks, benefits, and regulatory compliance are all increasingly externalized, most often to parts of the world where need routinely trumps prudence. Rather than manage their own corporate assets,... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

and more companies have adopted a service management view of the world, which means being locally responsive to customers. As a result, firms have to decentralize View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

16 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’

easy to separate from the day-to-day management of a firm. All a leader would have to do is figure it out once, or hire a consulting firm to figure it out, and make sure it's... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery

05 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis

HBS faculty this fall after earning her doctorate from the London School of Economics. “If that credit stops, it can have a huge effect. We wanted to understand how firms deal with that, and what View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

and Tommy Pan Fang of Rice University—looked at communication patterns among more than 12,000 employees working for a large multinational corporation across all major time zones. The team studied their Skype... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

imprint, such as a strong corporate culture, should help individuals better evaluate future employers and recognize the ways in which that first career experience may shape not simply the skills they acquire, but also their assumptions... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

of the hacker style of programming with the need to be more predictable and coordinated in managing software releases. Projects that are more closely coupled with commercial View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

significant advances in technology and productivity, was the pottery firm founded by Josiah Wedgwood in 1760—"the first example I can find," said Koehn, "of a company using a brand as a... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

to capture fares and tariffs more completely. Firms like MasterCard and M-Pesa are starting to make this happen today in Africa, from Nigeria to Kenya View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

06 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

the face of a new competitive threat. HBR published comments from four management gurus on what DataClear should do. (See Close Up.) Now it's your turn. We have included an excerpt of the case and a summary... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

countries with limited resources, implies that project finance should continue to loom large in the years ahead. Despite the magnitude of annual investment and recent growth, however, there has been relatively little academic work in this... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

in Japan is abysmal—most firms are run in spite of, rather than for, their shareholders. And a world in which the managers are making investment decisions for the shareholders... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology

November 1993 (Revised November 1994)
Supplement

OfficePro (B)

By: John A. Quelch

Supplements OfficePro (A). View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Globalized Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Supply Chain Management; Retail Industry; France

Citation

Purchase

01 Aug 2012
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

management of all resources that surround that particular scale of operation." Questions raised by Salli's and other of the comments include the following: Can leaders sense successfully when an entity... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

share of jobs provided by small businesses. Again, this is due in part to the lower productivity of such jobs. They conclude, as have some others, that a better strategy for job creation would be to attract large multinational... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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