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Business History - Faculty & Research

; Business History ; Compensation and Benefits ; Recruitment ; Leadership Style ; Growth Management ; Management Succession ; Organizational Culture ; Performance Evaluation ; Networks ; Partners and Partnerships ; Business Strategy ;... View Details
  • 13 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308052 Monitor's Opportunities in India (B): Grail Research Harvard Business School Supplement 708-483 Supplements the (A) case. Describes the decision by leaders of a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Disagreement about the Team's Status Hierarchy: An Insidious Obstacle to Coordination and Performance

By: Heidi K. Gardner

Hierarchies are pervasive in groups, generally providing clear guidelines for the dominance and deference behaviors that members are expected to show based on their relative ranks. But what happens when team members disagree about where each member ranks on the... View Details

Keywords: Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Conflict and Resolution; Perception; Status and Position; Cooperation
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  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

that will deliver corporate performance. Finally, I conclude that the field will ultimately require a framework that puts firms at its center. Benefiting from Location: Knowledge Retrieval Authors:Juan Alcácer and Wilbur Chung Publication:Global View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

Taliban and founded a consultancy in 2004. The case positions Sediqi's experiences against the background of Afghanistan's turbulent history, with a focus on the contested role of women in Afghani society. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

require a grand organizational makeover or buy-in from the CEO. All it takes is collaboration between you and your team-working together and making small, doable changes. What started as an experiment with a six-person team at The Boston View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jun 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • January 2024 (Revised October 2024)
  • Case

DO & CO: Crafting Luxury in the Fast Lane (A)

By: Juan Alcácer, Esel Cekin, Michael Lee and Noah Roberson
In July 2023, Attila Dogudan, the chairman of DO & CO, a renowned international catering firm, found himself in a deep conversation with his two sons about a potential new venture: catering for the Las Vegas Grand Prix, a significant step beyond their 31-year history... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Pandemics; Opportunities; Corporate Strategy; Luxury; Food and Beverage Industry; Las Vegas
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Academics - Health Care

of the lifecycle. Course Catalog Listing Transforming Health Care Delivery: Field Course This course is appropriate for students interested in understanding the fundamental improvement challenges facing the health care sector and developing 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
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  • 27 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

Administration in the Strategy unit. “Originally it was like a bet—can we quantify management?” Conventional management strategy would say no, emphasizing that practices a company puts in place are... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results

summer, and in the fall she will be working in Boston as a strategy consultant for IBM Strategy and Change. “I think I will always be involved in economic development in some... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; development; leadership; social issues; management; technology; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
  • January 2019 (Revised December 2019)
  • Case

CrossBoundary Energy

By: John Macomber
Almost 500 million people are without electricity in sub-Saharan Africa. Governments and public utilities are challenged to bring generation and distribution to most of them. Considerable promise exists in “off-grid” or “mini-grid” technologies, notably using renewable... View Details
Keywords: Energy Investing; Economic Development; Renewable Energy; Business Growth and Maturation; Developing Countries and Economies; Project Finance; Emerging Markets; Industry Structures; Infrastructure; Segmentation; Private Equity; Decision Choices and Conditions; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Africa; Tanzania; Ghana
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  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

facilitated by Enron's bankers and advisors and largely missed by its board of directors and other watchdogs. Here are some "high level" details: Jeffrey Skilling had begun working with Enron in 1986 as a consultant with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 18 Aug 2022
  • Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

plan. Consulting firms and media outlets have conducted surveys and interviews about return-to-office policies and future work. Leaders should leverage easily accessible data to understand their employees better. Second, employees want... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
  • 30 Sep 2019
  • Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

typically adopt the strategy of remaining silent about race and inequality to avoid being labeled “agitators.” In a 2017 study by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and colleagues, 78 percent of black professionals said they have experienced... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

consultancy now called Monitor-Deloitte. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School and a director of PVH Corporation, Aera Technology and Helios Consulting, a trustee of Western Governors University and a Senior... View Details
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

modeling financial returns of customer DERs, such as behind-the-meter batteries and smart thermostats. Dennis' role prior to HBS was a Strategy Manger, Global Operations at Google. Nabig Chaudhry (MBA 2024, Section J), Summer Internship:... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

exposed me to so many fascinating, smart, kind, humble, incredible people with so many different diverse backgrounds.” It was also at HBS that Leahy learned she could utilize her skillset in strategy View Details