Managing Global Expansion - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1999
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The View from the Pit

global management from the general manager's perspective. Hightower credits his career in the Army, where he attained the rank of major at age 27, with teaching him the nuances of leadership. "As MBAs, we... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

course in corporate finance and the tools to apply the field’s proven, time-tested principles in the context of the family’s financial situation, including the key principles of wealth creation and management and methods for making one’s... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals

A wave of mergers is sweeping the country, activity that recalls the 1980s, the 1960s, and even, some say, the empire-building of a century ago. In the following article, nine HBS professors comment on the current M&As; phenomenon and how M&As; in general affect View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

01 Sep 2005
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Finishing Touches

On a steamy day last July, workers replacing books in the restored Stamps Reading Room of Baker Library experienced an unfamiliar sensation: air-conditioning. Climate control is just one improvement to come out of a comprehensive renovation and View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Dec 2016
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Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

that seeming progress, the nonpartisan, nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) notes that wind and solar still only accounted for 2.9 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively, of total global power generation in 2014. How can we hasten the... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

downturn, if and when it does come, will be cyclical. “The growth we’ve seen is a self-sustaining proposition based on a global competitive advantage in particular industries,” says Ramnath of ICICI, while citing the ever-present... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2007
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Lighten Up

Mead Treadwell (MBA ’82) sees global warming as both a threat to the environment and an opportunity for commerce in the melting North, where conflicting sovereignty and resource claims are heating up, too. The Wise Men For half a century,... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

Given success of this magnitude, why aren’t for-profit managed charter schools like Sabis in high demand? The authors rebut the charge that for-profits running charter schools are in it for the money, not the kids, and they explore the... View Details

01 Aug 2014
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Cross-Class Connection

resonated deeply with our class members.” “I think there’s a real opportunity to share lessons learned with other classes,” says Jones, a managing director and head of Global Private Equity at Morgan... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he holds a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units.... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way

Each day the global economy becomes more and more like an African weaving - dozens of different, colorful, and previously isolated threads woven together, gradually becoming more tightly intertwined. Africa, newly rising from years of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

01 Jun 1998
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New Releases

Franchise Organizations by Jeffrey L. Bradach (Harvard Business School Press) How much impact do chains such as Pizza Hut and McDonald's have on today's economy? Here are some telling numbers: a new franchise opens in the United States every eight minutes; by the year... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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Recognizing Volunteers and Donors

G members Carlo Sant Albano, Jackie Donnelly Russell, and Loraine von Moltke. Reaching out to sectionmates near and far, the trio proved that in today's global society, geography does not hinder the strong bonds forged at HBS. Alice Au... View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective

that make achieving the agreement’s goals so difficult. “I wrote the case to better understand how so many of us view climate change as both a global threat and one of the most important issues facing business in the 21st century, and yet... View Details

01 Jun 2020
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All Hands on Deck

been upended by the global pandemic. We wanted to provide flexibility to those whose employment, health, visa, or financial situation may have changed significantly since they applied,” says Chad Losee (MBA 2013), View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

24 Apr 2014
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Optimizing search technology

Olivier Dumon (MBA 1998) is managing director of academic and government markets for global publishing giant Elsevier, where he’s working on optimizing online search protocols. He believes that the more the... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’

1992 and hasn’t looked back since. Named last year by Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers, as “the most influential business thinker on earth,” Christensen has profoundly altered... View Details

Keywords: awards

01 Oct 2001
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HBS Press Books in Brief

are first to sense and capture new knowledge all over the world; they mobilize this globally dispersed knowledge to become more innovative than their competitors; and they turn this innovation into value by effectively View Details

Keywords: Management; Management; Management; Management

01 Apr 2001
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Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments

difficult to manage and prone to conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. An inherent lack of flexibility compounds these challenges, because most projects involve binary “go/no-go” decisions. Esty uses the forthcoming... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

different from the one we learned about in the MBA Program," reiterates Chris Bartlett. "In today's far more complex, globalized economy, that outmoded, hard-edged analytic model of organization and View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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