Headquarters - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jan 2012
News

Charter Supporter

headquartered in Waterloo, Wisconsin. While there, she set up Trek’s sales and distribution companies across Europe and worked in forecasting and planning. Since 2007, she has devoted her energy and skills full time to the nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

14 May 2013
Blog Post

MBAxAmerica Update: Week 6, New Orleans

headquartered in somewhere like New Orleans instead of in San Francisco. All in all it was an amazing week (and yes, we went to Café du Monde). Cheers from the road, Amaris + the MBAxAmerica Team, MBA 2014 View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

the end, phase 3 included only four companies—but all four were major multinationals, headquartered in the United States, Europe, and Japan. In the course of research, the team inadvertently discovered some cultural truths. "I... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Electric Mobility in India

insight into India’s efforts to electrify 2-wheelers and advancements in battery technology. Ather Energy Visit Ather Energy, headquartered in Karnataka, India, is an electric two-wheeler manufacturer founded by Tarun Mehta and Swapnil... View Details

22 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Balancing the Ideal with the Real: Conveying Corporate Culture to Candidates

to assert their most attractive qualities to discriminating job seekers. At Samsung, the manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Korea, “Results speak for everything,” says Phoebe Hung (HBS MBA 2011), the company’s Senior Manager of... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Oct 1998
News

Playing to Win

I think CEOs should not stay too long at any company." Louis-Dreyfus believes that successful global enterprises must be decentralized. While Adidas's corporate headquarters maintains authority over the company's mission, vision, and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2000
News

Taiwan Club President Thrives on Region's Entrepreneurial Energy

"Taiwan today is an exciting place to be in business," said Benjamin P.L. Feng (MBA 1975), managing director of All Asia Partners, a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei. At HBS this fall to attend his 25th Reunion, Feng took time... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Cutting Edge

"We're reemerging as a high-margin, health-and-wellness company," says Silk, speaking from Smith Brothers headquarters in Chicago. "We'll continue to make our traditional cough drops, but we've also introduced a variety of... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

2009
Working Paper

Estimating the Effects of Large Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument

By: Bo Becker, Henrik Cronqvist and Rudiger Fahlenbrach

Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically presents a challenge due to the endogeneity of ownership structures. We develop and test an empirical framework which allows us to separate selection from... View Details

Keywords: Business Headquarters; Geographic Location; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Performance Effectiveness; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods

Citation

Read Now

21 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design

largest pump manufacturer in the world, headquartered in Bjerringbro, Denmark. Grundfos shared the same ecosystem of energy, material, and waste flows with other companies we visited. For example, Grundfos pumps installed in Denmark are... View Details

12 Dec 2017
News

Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley

embarked on a path that would lead him to become a pioneer in database marketing and customer engagement. While working as a research assistant at HBS after graduation, Brierley agreed to help the headquarters of his undergraduate... View Details

10 Mar 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vika Wasyliw

Engineer on the Radio Frequency team. Starry is a start-up internet service provider headquartered in downtown Boston that uses fixed wireless broadband technology. When I worked there, Starry was in a phase of massive growth following... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation

mobility. To explore possible solutions, in another recent study Choudhury evaluated how policy changes around worker location in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) improved productivity. The USPTO employs about 8,000 patent examiners at its View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2014
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2014

working at his desk Nelson with two of his three daughters Nelson with two of his three daughters Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987 Chairman and CEO, Corning Incorporated Weeks at Corning headquarters in Corning, NY “Our past gives us the... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Surveying Students’ Summer Plans

be part of GE just as it’s relocating its headquarters to Boston.” Graham Fairbairn (MBA 2018) Hometown: Sydney, Australia Destination: General Mills, Minneapolis “I come from a consumer packaged goods background and have had the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

about them” What my co-author Stephen Turban and I were ultimately able to produce is the first work I know of that looks empirically at how interactions between individuals in headquarters change when employees move from cubicles to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

Profile

Kenny Salas

Kenny Salas, MBA 2015, came to HBS with a clear goal: "To work for a big company and gain operational experience." Then a combination of unexpected events changed his mind. After a summer internship at General Mills' View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

Web

Day in IFC: Chuchu Ajukwu (MBA 2017); United Kingdom - MBA

second year at HBS. I was on an IFC trip with HBS in which we were exploring investing, private equity and real estate within London. We kicked off the day by visiting Unilever House, the recently renovated headquarters of Unilever, in... View Details

01 Feb 2000
News

HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues

Nonprofit Management and Governing for Nonprofit Excellence: Critical Issues for Board Leadership. The two entities that issued Beyond Grey Pinstripes, the World Resources Institute, headquartered in Washington, D.C., and the Initiative... View Details

05 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit

optimism and nerves clearly felt among our group regarding the current state of climate change and corporations’ importance in preventing and mitigating the urgent, omnipresent challenge. Our morning started with a sneak preview of our later visit to the Godrej Group’s... View Details

Publications