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- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
"globalness." Consumers all over the world associate global brands with three characteristics. Global Myth. Consumers look to global brands as symbols of cultural ideals. They use brands to create an imagined global identity... View Details
Business of Emerging Markets
of the palm oil cluster in Malaysia and Indonesia and its global implications for corporations, governments, and individual actors, especially in emerging economies. I’ve also reframed key ideas and theoretical contributions underlying my... View Details
- 01 May 2012
- News
Best in Show
Parrish: To counter a down economy, laughter was the best medicine. Long an occasion for high jinks and good laughs, the HBS Show was born in dark times. Oil shocks, inflation, and high unemployment were the order of the day when Joe... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
Politics we observe firms working more closely with NGOs and other special interest groups to preempt unfavorable policy choices, react swiftly to crises, and proactively develop socially responsible strategies. In Public Politics, firms have become increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Vivian Scalfi
participated in exchange programs that took her to Canada and France. "I’ve always been interested in languages –I’ve learned to speak Spanish, French, and English, in addition to the Portuguese – and I want to use these to be in... View Details
Keywords: CPG
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
workload? The job market confronted us with a reality check during our second year - factors that weighed in were income, location, personal satisfaction, and professional growth, to name a few. Having grappled with these decisions, we... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
“Every time there’s a shift in politics, everything gets reversed.” In the US wind sector that meant decades of stop-and-start innovation, a lack of institutional structures, and speculative investing. This stood in contrast to Denmark.... View Details
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
cost-cutting; in fact, cutting infrastructure, supply chain costs, and excess expenses should be done all the time, in good times and bad. This is the approach used by ExxonMobil as it has been one of the greatest value creators in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
from used vegetable oil and sugars. The polymer can be used to replace plastic, is fully home compostable, and doesn’t create microplastics when it breaks down. Goodwin is... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
change from two bloody civil wars between 1989 and 2003 that left the country torn apart by warlords notorious for using child soldiers and quarter of a million people dead. (UN peacekeepers plan to stay in place until 2017.) Werker says... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Browne caused a stir about five years ago when he broke ranks with the rest of the oil companies in a public statement at Stanford University. "He said, 'We actually think global climate change is a very serious problem, and we're... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
Working PapersA Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra, and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
confirmed the fears of many in the West that the wounded Russian bear, smarting from its diminished role in the post-Soviet era, could be a cruel and dangerous troublemaker. With about one-quarter of the world’s reserves of natural gas, Russia was judged to be View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Carry It On
these two areas, and that gives me a very good feeling.” With John Plukas (MBA ’68), with whom he had previously founded HCW Oil and Gas, an oil-industry real estate and investment firm, Glassman launched Wainwright Bank in 1987. The bank... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
pre-vet course of study at Texas A&M but was lured to the booming oil and gas industry after graduation. He applied to HBS a few years later and went to Wall Street after leaving Soldiers Field. Anderson worked for Donaldson, Lufkin &... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living... View Details
- Profile
Laura Arjona
mind." As part of her scholarship, Laura fulfilled a summer internship with Baker Hughes Oil Tools, working on material design projects to improve drill attachments that screened out sand. "While I found the work interesting, it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Baker Bell Dedication Rings in HBS Centennial
spiritual home of Russian Orthodoxy. In 1988 President Ronald Reagan visited the St. Danilov Monastery, and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev used the occasion to inquire about the bells’ return. But nothing came of the idea. More than a... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
examples—GE, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hasbro, IBM, United Rentals, and Tata Consultancy Services—and testimonies of leaders who have successfully used this framework, this book solves once and for all the practical dilemma of how to align... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
PublicationsFlying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success Author:Thomas J. DeLong Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2011 Abstract Confronted by omnipresent threats of job loss and change, even the brightest among View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne