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Executive Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Programs Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) Summer Institute JUL 7-11, 2025 | HBS Campus Intended for teams of eight participants, including district office personnel, school principals, and regional... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

mess up and what you learned. “It’s a great opportunity to show your honesty and vulnerability,” Brooks says. The master of the public failure strategy might be Princeton... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Oct 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Robots in the Boardroom

Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership StyleResearchers turn to machine-learning technology to look for links between a CEO's communications style and company performance. Use Artificial Intelligence to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2009 (Revised May 2011)
  • Supplement

Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (B)

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
As Acumen Fund, a global venture philanthropy firm, moves forward with an investment portfolio exceeding $22 million, it runs into two critical measurement problems. First, how should it track the performance of each investment when its interest is not just the bottom... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment Portfolio; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Social Enterprise; Competition; Financial Services Industry; Kenya
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Profiles - MBA

building my own startup in satellite communication and control systems. Find Grace on LinkedIn . BIOENGINEERING (SB), SECONDARY IN GLOBAL HEALTH & HEALTH POLICY KIRKLAND 2022 Cohort 3 Esther Koh "Bridging... View Details
  • 2007
  • Report

The Role of Clusters in the Chemical Industry

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The European Chemical Industry, still in the leading position globally, is under intense competitive pressure from emerging locations in Asia and the Middle East. After first reacting by efficiency upgrading within companies and then pursuing outsourcing and aggressive... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Industry Clusters; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Chemical Industry; Asia; Europe; Middle East
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  • 31 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

daily diary entries from employees working on creative projects—everything from making a new high-strength fabric to developing a database for a global hotel chain—they were able to chart how and why team... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

firms do not have a succession plan. Maintaining best practices around physical and mental health is not a luxury or a frill, but an essential aspect of risk management. CEOs and top management need to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations

cheap quartz watches, SMH and other Swiss watchmakers used the success as an opportunity to reintroduce mechanical watches to the market. This time they were advertised not simply as precision timepieces, but as carefully crafted luxury... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Apparel & Accessories; Technology; Consumer Products
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

press An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://ceo.usc.edu/book/doing_research_that_is_useful.html Business Network Transformation in Action Authors: Marco Iansiti and Ross Sullivan Publication: In Business Network... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2024 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Bets on Clean Hydrogen

By: Gunnar Trumbull, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI), an engineering manufacturer headquartered in Japan, was aiming to scale up its hydrogen production and establish a global hydrogen supply chain. The initiative was in line with Japan's energy strategy, as the country seeks to transition... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Demand and Consumers; Competition; Growth and Development Strategy; Infrastructure; Supply Chain; Manufacturing Industry; Energy Industry
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  • 24 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

Arabia's development strategy unfolds in the past six years, it is contrasted to social and political pressures within the country, volatility in global oil markets, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Nov 2022
  • HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

emerged: how to preserve the firm’s growth strategy and shift firm ownership while also rewarding its diverse workforce for its investment in the team’s culture, write Harvard Business School Senior... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 05 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: January 5

scientific innovation are increasingly costly, and the company in effect purchases real options for its R&D strategy by allowing a measured level of concurrent investment in competing alternatives.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jan 2023
  • Op-Ed

Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?

Great Leaders A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/rezendeluan View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • Article

Vungle Inc. Improves Monetization Using Big-Data Analytics

By: Bert De Reyck, Ioannis Fragkos, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Casey Lichtendahl, Hammond Guerin and Andrew Kritzer
The advent of big data has created opportunities for firms to customize their products and services to unprecedented levels of granularity. Using big data to personalize an offering in real time, however, remains a major challenge. In the mobile advertising industry,... View Details
Keywords: Big Data; Monetization; Data and Data Sets; Advertising; Mobile Technology; Customization and Personalization; Performance Improvement
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  • 12 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 12

Publications Impacto Histórico de la Globalización en Argentina y Chile: Empresas y Empresarios (The Historical Impact of Globalization in Argentina and Chile: Enterprises and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2011
  • What Do You Think?

So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

that evidence "implies that effective planning is rare in the modern economy," that "whether we like it or not, trial and error is a tremendously powerful process for solving problems in a complex world, while expert View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment

By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries -- close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Foreign Direct Investment; Geographic Location; Supply and Industry; Vertical Integration
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  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

from the 1920s onward, including geographic, product, and matrix architectures. Market development organizations, global business units, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne