Far East Organization - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
Case

From Beirut With Love (A)

By: Christina R. Wing, Esel Y. Cekin and Samer Al-Rachedy

This case describes how Robert Fadel, CEO and chairman of ABC, one of Lebanon’s leading retail and real estate groups, professionalized the family business. Robert was the second son of the company’s founder, Maurice Fadel, who had run it single-handedly. Concerned... View Details

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06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

mask on first, before attempting to assist others” is a potent metaphor. In the blink of an eye, self-care for leaders of organizations has transformed from a feel-good nostrum to a strategic first priority. Companies cannot afford to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

the company. The program expanded beyond India to Germany, the United States, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, and Ireland. So far about 100 people have been hired for jobs including software developer or tester, business analyst, and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

themselves, shifting both professional and personal priorities in profound ways. Indeed, far beyond a deep understanding of business, industry, and leadership, the reflections below highlight the ways in which cases have also revealed,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration Unit Head, Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Brian J. Hall is Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he is the Head of the Negotiation,... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

pandemic is likely to change how companies do business. Here’s what they said: Michael Beer: Organizations will develop trust-based cultures with employees The coronavirus challenge demands an organization-wide, honest conversation that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

2019 Cambridge University Press Disciples of the State?: Religion and State-Building in the Former Ottoman World By: Fabbe, Kristin Abstract—As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Profile

Prineeta Kulkarni

an Indian pharma, Cipla, that was specifically "focused on access and affordability," says Prineeta. Through her work on the acquisitions team, Prineeta helped Cipla expand access to inexpensive HIV medicine to more countries in View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

06 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

pitfalls in the future? Many of our cases were about Western figures — such as Isaac Singer of Singer sewing machine or famed designer Coco Chanel. They were great, rapturous stories. But as GDP increasingly moves East (where it was... View Details

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

taught me to be curious, to question everything, and to never stop exploring. These traits that she instilled in me have taken me far from home, but her love and comfort always bring me back. No matter how View Details

05 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

play a role in regulating hormone levels in employees. The bad news is that far too many business situations actually fuel the very hormones that trigger unethical behavior. The findings are detailed in the paper Hormones and Ethics:... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

of information and perspectives between the two firms, and led to a novel type of agreement. ABB would design and build the plant at a far lower cost than standard. Then, if ABB could reduce the cost even further, it would receive a... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

01 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

sold - the stability, the pay, what more could I really want? I had made it so far from being the little girl on welfare helping her momma with her younger siblings. I was set to return to P&G for a second internship, and since I had... View Details

10 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated

intervention, the researchers could see the average effect of all of the interventions public health organizations were running on the platform. Using online platforms proved to be cost-effective. The authors estimate that every $5.68... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Health; Technology

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

Authors:Joseph Rhatigan, Sachin H. Jain, Joia S. Mukherjee, and Michael E. Porter Abstract The care delivery value chain is a framework that can help conceptualize the organization and structure of care delivery for medical conditions. We... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 May 2016
First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about—innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Amy C. Edmondson and Susan... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

development of new products, but was also indispensable for the constant upgrading and renewal of brands. Unilever's main problem was the time it took to turn scientific knowledge into successful branded products. It entered the 1960s with an View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

19 Apr 2023
News

A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

performance data, options that so far have not reached their full potential in Latin American countries. Another startup, Diferente, tackles food waste. According to Forbes, the region's annual loss in food supplies represents 6 percent... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

high enough, delivering mostly incremental changes rather than something truly remarkable, and they move far too slowly to keep up with the pace of disruption. In Leaders Leap, he makes the case for why a complete metamorphosis of... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

Develop: An Experimentation Mindset Develop, assess, and strengthen innovation concepts, and guide prototyping by creating critical questions related to a concept's desirability, feasibility, and viability. Highlights Impact, Difficulty, and Innovation Sweet Spot Near... View Details

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