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Reverse Innovation
VG and Chris Trimble reveal a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press; April 10, 2012;... View Details
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Entrepreneurship
The Rock Center The Rock Center is the hub for entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School (HBS). It’s where HBS students who are founders, joiners or investors activate their ideas and build their ventures to drive global impact. At the... View Details
- 21 Mar 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Speaking of Corporate Social Responsibility
- 04 May 2023
- Blog Post
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
person or virtually, but on the same schedule—especially as work-from-home policies increase and the global workforce scatters. “If you’re living in San Francisco, and your colleague is living in Vancouver, and you both speak excellent... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 05 Jan 2021
- Video
Antonio Celia
Antonio Celia, President of Colombia-based Promigas, describes the company’s diversification policy as they expanded beyond natural gas services. This included entering the fuel distribution business in the 1980s after purchasing Terpel from Ecopetrol and creating... View Details
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Family Office Wealth Management—Virtual
mid-career professionals who face new investments or major life decisions. In this virtual program, you will gain an in-depth understanding of best practices in family wealth management; explore the governance, structure, and investment... View Details
- 06 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams
understand what makes high-performing global teams tick. Working with a high-tech company headquartered in the US, the researchers studied two pairs of teams considered stars within the company. Both View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- April 2003 (Revised October 2003)
- Background Note
Diasporas: Causes and Effects
By: Tarun Khanna and Paula Campbell
Articulates a simple supply-demand framework to understand why people immigrate and focuses attention on the specialized cross-border intermediaries that facilitate such movement. Analyzes a series of important effects, primarily economic, of the diaspora communities... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Diasporas; Economics; Framework; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Business or Company Management
Khanna, Tarun, and Paula Campbell. "Diasporas: Causes and Effects." Harvard Business School Background Note 703-510, April 2003. (Revised October 2003.)
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
perspectives might the wealthy businessman draw on as he transitions from CEO to commander in chief? To get a better sense of the months ahead, The Gazette asked Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty members how Trump’s nearly 50 years of experience in building a View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- Program
Managing Health Care Delivery
organization Enhance coordination of services Stimulate and improve innovation over time Become a more capable health care leader Build skills to design and lead a competitive health care delivery organization Understand how effective... View Details
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Private and Civil Society Governors of Mercury Pollution from Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining: A Network Analytic Approach
By: Kristin Sippl
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is both a subsistence livelihood for millions of people and the leading source of mercury pollution globally. The United Nation’s 2013 Minamata Convention on Mercury aims to address this challenge, but such public regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Artisanal And Small-scale Mining (ASM); Private Governance; Gold; Mercury; Mining; Governance; Networks; Pollutants; Research
Sippl, Kristin. "Private and Civil Society Governors of Mercury Pollution from Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining: A Network Analytic Approach." Extractive Industries and Society 2, no. 2 (April 2015): 198–208.
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What Managers Need to Know About Social Tools: Avoid the Common Pitfalls So That Your Organization Can Collaborate, Learn, and Innovate
By: Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neeley
Workplaces have adopted internal social tools—think stand-alone technologies such as Slack, Yammer, and Chatter, or embedded applications such as Microsoft Teams and JIRA—at a staggering rate. In an ambitious study of 4,200 companies, conducted by the McKinsey Global... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Social Tools; Social and Collaborative Networks; Knowledge Sharing; Performance Improvement; Management
Leonardi, Paul, and Tsedal Neeley. "What Managers Need to Know About Social Tools: Avoid the Common Pitfalls So That Your Organization Can Collaborate, Learn, and Innovate." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 6 (November–December 2017): 118–126.
- 2019
- Chapter
Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
N.S.B. Gras, the father of business history in the United States, argued that the era of mercantile capitalism was defined by the figure of the “sedentary merchant,” who managed his business from home, using correspondence and intermediaries, in contrast to the earlier... View Details
Reinert, Sophus A., and Robert Fredona. "Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism." Chap. 11 in The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business, edited by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Christina Lubinski, and Heidi J.S. Tworek. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
general managers for global businesses," he says. "They are going to make decisions based on reports from countries where they've never set foot. FIELD helps them understand the limitations to this... View Details
- February 2015
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Location Choices under Strategic Interactions
By: Juan Alcacer, Cristian Dezso and Minyuan Zhao
The literature on location choices has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics. However, most industries with a significant presence of multi-location firms are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that strategic interaction among firms... View Details
Keywords: Location Strategies; Multinational Strategy; Oligopolistic Competition; Firm Heterogeneity; Geographic Location; Multinational Firms and Management; Balance and Stability; Decision Choices and Conditions; Game Theory
Alcacer, Juan, Cristian Dezso, and Minyuan Zhao. "Location Choices under Strategic Interactions." Strategic Management Journal 36, no. 2 (February 2015): 197–215.
- 05 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding
Python “will be knowing how to learn these things.” Interpersonal skills will become even more important in a collaborative environment, Zhang predicts. “It's impossible to know everything as a manager,” he says. “So, as a manager, your role is to View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 20 Dec 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Zooming In: A Practical Manual for Identifying Geographic Clusters
Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Minyuan Zhao
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
To Invest, or Not, as China Shifts
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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 Carbon Credit Ratings and Market Integrity: A Conversation on the Calyx... View Details
- 2017
- Working Paper
Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
N.S.B. Gras, the father of Business History in the United States, argued that the era of mercantile capitalism was defined by the figure of the “sedentary merchant,” who managed his business from home, using correspondence and intermediaries, in contrast to the earlier... View Details
Reinert, Sophus A., and Robert Fredona. "Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-021, September 2017. (Forthcoming in Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business. Edited by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Christina Lubinski, Heidi Tworek (2018).)