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15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

by transforming" the existing business or creating a new one. An effective e-leader, Hargrove continues, must shift from "being a productivity and efficiency junkie to being an opportunity seeker and innovator who quests for... View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

01 Jan 2008
News

John Doerr, MBA 1976

businesses. “I love helping people make a large-scale impact,” says Doerr. “I’m a networker, an organizer, an unbounded enthusiast and supporter of great entrepreneurs and leaders.” When he joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980, the eight-year-old venture... View Details

24 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

categorize the world, emphasizing some values or activities over others. In other words, languages shape the way people think. After hearing about one such theory from visiting doctoral student Hao Liang from Tilburg University, Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 1998
News

A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

Stamford. "The headquarters was a dilapidated, pest-infested building in the heart of the local projects," he recalls. In 1988, O'Neill left the law firm to devote his full-time energy to mobilizing community support for reestablishing... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

that researched natural-language processing, “35 percent was nothing to be ashamed of,” Dave Ferrucci, the leader of the IBM team, later said. Still, IBM’s advancements were small. The company had a sense of Watson’s potential to dramatically change how View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

San Diego—brings “significant and long-lasting” benefits, including greater economic growth, global talent, and even more invention to these regions, write William Kerr, the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

17 Aug 2022
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

Jones and her staff in the SEC’s Atlanta office manage the enforcement, examinations, and business operations for five states: Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama. Along with SEC View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

alternative definitions of market-type dispersion and to other determinants of franchising such as the stores' geographic distance from headquarters and geographic dispersion. Additional analyses also suggest that chains that do not... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

provides details on both headquarter and country head perspective on BMW's channel strategy. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509023 Chi Mei Optoelectronics Harvard View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Feb 2015
News

The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)

difficulty keeping the heat or the lights on. Together with our headquarters team and researchers, I work with policy makers and policy groups to help develop and support better policies for young children.” What attracted you to this... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jan 2007
News

A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968

Chairman & CEO, Invacare Corporation Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Harvard College, 1962 A.B., Physical Sciences LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "At HBS I learned about all the functional parts of a business... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

Riding It Out

An ailing horse and an overweight Labrador retriever provided the inspiration for Becky Minard and Paal Gisholt (both MBA ’93) to launch SmartPak, a business that provides nutritional supplements, dog food, and supplies to customers... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

cleaning solvent formula. However, before deciding to deploy these critical assets in a particular country, multinational executives have a key issue to explore: Does the country where I'm transferring technology have intellectual property rights in place that can... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

Weinberg this was an opportunity to go the other way and reach out to be helpful to the president, and he took it. In 1933 the president had him organizing the Business Advisory and Planning Council, through which corporate executives... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

11 Jul 2025
News

Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast

Utah Alumni Explore Future of Great Salt Lake The HBS Club of Utah recently got an insider’s look at the economic and ecological health of the Great Salt Lake (GSL) with a presentation by Utah’s first GSL commissioner, Brian Steed, at the View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

21 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax

Finnegan (MBA ’24). Headquartered in Mumbai, CleanMax offers a range of services, including rooftop solar installations, project commissioning, and asset management to over 350 corporate companies across various industries. Founded in... View Details

01 Jan 2002
News

Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)

Brooks Brothers, Marks & Spencer, and Nordstrom. What isn't known to consumers is the name behind all these labels-a family-owned textile and apparel manufacturer headquartered in Hong Kong called The Esquel Group. With seventeen plants... View Details

03 Jun 2016
News

Again in a Great City

history. As the 68-year-old real estate developer navigates the central business district, he sketches an idiosyncratic map of the city—almost three decades of knowledge of what each piece of property used to be, what it could have been,... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

24 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

like budgeting, should be part of the annual governance cycle. Whenever plans are changed at the enterprise or business unit level, executives likely need to realign the organization with the new direction. The alignment process, of... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail

22 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

locally headquartered Fortune 1000 firms between 1980 and 2006. Results show that philanthropic spending fluctuated dramatically as mega-events generally led to a punctuated increase in otherwise relatively stable patterns of giving by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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