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23 Oct 2019
News

A Bid for the Future

When Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) first read of Amazon’s search for a second headquarters in the Wall Street Journal, he was certain the newspaper had made a typo. The online retailer couldn’t be talking about creating 50,000 jobs. Moret’s... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

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Naiyya Saggi

strong systems of support and learning for me. The Social Enterprise Fellowship supported me in my internship with the UNICEF Headquarters in New York over the summer. Organizing the Harvard India Conference helped me establish contact... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Consulting

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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

17 Apr 2017
News

Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE

jet engines, and for years made its home in leafy Connecticut will officially open its new corporate headquarters in downtown Boston, smack in the middle of the city’s burgeoning innovation district. According to the Boston Globe, after... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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

02 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Uncovering the Virtual Advantage at Humana

previous two months began receiving phone calls about internship cancellations. Difficult choices were made all around as organizations and students scrambled to pivot in a landscape that remained uncertain. Yet, for Humana, a Fortune 500 health insurance company View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health-Related Services

02 May 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Samsung Global Strategy Group

focus on filling a role called Global Strategist. Interns spend two months living and working in our headquarters in downtown Seoul. Global Strategists work as internal consultants for our various business units for 1.5 to 2 years, after... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Nathalie du Preez

Paris. In a welcome addition to her financial background, she will be involved in strategic management and marketing, conducting competitive analyses of 18 luxury brands, including Mont Blanc, Cartier, and Van Cleef & Arpels. Founded by a South African and View Details

April 1992 (Revised June 1993)
Case

Otis South Africa (A)

By: Michael Beer

Otis Worldwide CEO, George David, was frustrated with the slow pace of nonwhite advancement within Otis South Africa. After a few years of trying to elicit action from South African management, he decided to send a 28-year old U.S. employee to take over as the human... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Race; Operations; Business Headquarters; Performance Improvement; Human Resources; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Industrial Products Industry; South Africa; United States

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The Reinvention of Kodak | Information Technology

find sustained market growth amidst digital advancements. The focus is on CEO Jeff Clarke's decision on whether to continue film production or close the factory permanently. Professor Ryan Raffaelli on location at Kodak headquarters in... View Details

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

07 Oct 2024
News

On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)

the Electrolux Group’s headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. How did you get into marketing? At HBS, the courses I excelled at were in marketing—Consumer Marketing with Professors Gail McGovern and Youngme Moon, and Strategic Marketing in... View Details

24 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Why Brexit is a Big Deal

multinationals may relocate their headquarters to stay within the EU. The global attractiveness of British higher education will take a hit. But the city of London will remain an important global financial center; Frankfurt will try again... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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Angela R. Hicks Bowman

company’s name to Angie’s List. She and Oesterle decided to buy Unified Neighbors, which had 5000 members, and move the new merged company’s headquarters to Indianapolis. They steadily built what Hicks called a “homeowners... View Details

11 Oct 2022
News

Righting the Ship

First, there was no standard to evaluate the CIP managers at the division level, so a 60 percent execution rate, for instance, might conceivably seem “good enough.” Second, the way the money was being distributed at the headquarters... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

December 2010 (Revised June 2011)
Case

Back to the Future: Redeveloping Unilever House

By: A. Eugene Kohn, Arthur I Segel and Andrew Pierson Terris

Steve Williams, General Counsel of Unilever PIc, has two key decisions to make prior to commencing construction on the redevelopment of Unilever House - the company's London corporate headquarters. The purpose of the redevelopment is to reinvigorate the corporate... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Leasing; Sales; Restructuring; Leading Change; Financing and Loans; Decisions; Business Headquarters; Design; Projects; London

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24 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 24

country-level factors that, by intensifying scrutiny on firms and diffusing global norms to their headquarters countries, limit firms' use of selective disclosure. We test our hypotheses using a novel panel dataset of 4,750 public... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2012
News

She’s Got Your Back

Corbin’s business and relocated its headquarters to Indianapolis. “Our first member in Columbus was a woman named Patty Bowman,” Hicks recalls. “She gave us the entire list of contractors she’d ever used.” From there, Hicks built the list... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; online reviews; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate

01 Sep 2013
News

The New Rules of E-Commerce

One day in 2010 the CEO of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced that thousands of employees would soon conduct business in a tongue most of them knew nothing about: English. Within days all the signs at the Tokyo headquarters were... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; e-commerce; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Apr 1997
News

Managing a Master

manages a number of other jazz musicians, including Wynton's father, pianist Ellis Marsalis. Arrendell's company, The Management Ark, Inc., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is his headquarters for negotiating clients' contracts, record and... View Details

Keywords: Jeff Lazar

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