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- November 2015 (Revised January 2016)
- Teaching Note
McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain—From Amazon Soya to Cage Free Eggs
This case provides an opportunity for students to consider how large, multinational corporations should respond when targeted by activists regarding environmental and social concerns in their supply chains. Greenpeace targeted McDonald's because its chicken supplier... View Details
- October 2017 (Revised September 2022)
- Teaching Note
Fuyao Glass America: Sourcing Decision
By: Willy Shih
This case is about globalization: a Chinese company has decided to locate a production facility close to its customers in the U.S., but a recent contract bid means it will lose money, at least initially, by supplying product from that factory. The purpose of this case... View Details
- 30 Oct 2020
- Video
Talking Across Divides
- April 2014
- Case
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A)
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Bethany S. Gerstein and Melissa Valentine
In 2006, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals was a fast-growing biotechnology company. Its leadership team was divided over whether to keep R&D organized in functional departments or transition to interdisciplinary teams. As a small company, Merrimack's R&D organization had... View Details
Keywords: Teamwork; Interdisciplinary Collaboration; R＆D; Biotechnology; Complexity; Innovation Management; Organizational Design; Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
Edmondson, Amy C., Bethany S. Gerstein, and Melissa Valentine. "Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 614-063, April 2014.
- 05 Nov 2021
- News
The ‘Empathy Advantage’ of Great Women Leaders
Randolph B. Cohen
Randolph B. (Randy) Cohen is the MBA Class of 1975 Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. Cohen’s main research focus has been the identification of top investment managers and the prediction of manager... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
and practices out of the network of those that have been found to be associated with professions. We use these traits and practices both to set forth our own notion of the essence of professionalism and to enable us to compare management... View Details
Benjamin C. Esty
Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details
- 15 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS
Environment Initiative to highlight six things prospective and current students should know about sustainability on campus. Interested students can become Sustainability View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
HBS Lingo 101
understanding of engineering. SA: The HBS Student Association represents and advocates for the student body and serves as the main interface between View Details
- September 1992 (Revised September 2010)
- Background Note
Executive Stock Options
By: Henry B. Reiling
After a brief comment on the practical problems associated with taxing options and the possible occasions on which taxation might occur, the note describes the current policy imbedded in the Internal Revenue Code and gives examples of this policy in operation. The... View Details
Reiling, Henry B. "Executive Stock Options." Harvard Business School Background Note 293-054, September 1992. (Revised September 2010.)
Joshua D. Margolis
Joshua Margolis is James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration and the Unit Head for the Organizational Behavior unit. He is also Faculty Chair of the Program for Leadership Development. His research and teaching revolve around leadership... View Details
- 21 Dec 2015
- News
When the ‘sharing economy’ doesn’t
- Teaching Interest
Strategy
By: Jan W. Rivkin
The objective of this course is to help students develop the skills for formulating strategy, and provides an understanding of:
- A firm's operative environment and how to sustain competitive advantage.
- How to generate superior value for... View Details
Ting Zhang
Ting Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the Required Curriculum.
Professor Zhang’s research... View Details
Professor Zhang’s research... View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; and Marco Piovesan, an associate economics professor at the University of Copenhagen and a former research fellow at HBS. “It suggests that having breaks prior to testing is... View Details
- Teaching Interest
MBA Required Curriculum-- Strategy Course
The objective of this course is to help students develop the skills for formulating strategy. It provides an understanding of:
- A firm's operative environment and how to sustain competitive advantage.
- How to generate superior value for customers... View Details