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    Jonas Heese

    Jonas Heese is a Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting & Management (A&M) Unit at Harvard Business School.He serves as a course head of Financial Reporting and Control in the MBA core curriculum and teaches The Anatomy of... View Details

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    Competing in the Age of AI—Virtual

    capabilities that can help your business succeed in today's data-driven environments, you will discover how you can lead your company's transformation into an AI-first leader. Along with learning how to unlock new growth potential, you... View Details
    • January 2004
    • Case

    Bob Holgrom and the Buyout of the Carlson Division

    By: Thomas R. Piper
    The head of the Carlson Division stands to benefit substantially in financial terms if a private equity firm wins the bid for the division. The division is in the early stages of a performance turnaround, with only three quarters of profit improvement and no audited... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Corporate Disclosure; Ethics; Financial Reporting; Laws and Statutes; Performance Improvement
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    • August 2021 (Revised February 2022)
    • Case

    Northvolt: Making the World's Greenest Battery

    By: Jurgen R. Weiss and Emilie Billaud
    In 2021, the demand for lithium-ion batteries increased rapidly, particularly for electric vehicles. Anxious not to be reliant on Asian players, Europe was keen on developing its own home-grown capacity to control the value chain, maintain employment in Europe, and get... View Details
    Keywords: Electric Vehicles; Lithium-ion Batteries; Business Ventures; Energy; Green Technology; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Transportation; Supply Chain; Globalized Markets and Industries; Goals and Objectives; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Battery Industry; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Transportation Industry; Europe; Sweden; Germany; Poland
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    • 29 Jul 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

    through the writings of Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and Friedrich Hayek among other foundational thinkers. "Many economists think of it as a positivist system that does not impose morality upon society, but this is not the case," says Harvard View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding

      Rafael M. Di Tella

      I received my first degree in Economics in 1990 from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and a D.Phil in Economics from Oxford University in 1996. After a short stay in Argentina I joined Harvard Business School in July 1997, where I... View Details

      Keywords: broadcasting; state government
      • 18 Nov 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

      with HBS Working Knowledge's Carla Tishler, Paine explains why this shift has occurred, and why now. Tishler: Your research on corporate values and ethics dates back to the 1980s, including much work done for Harvard View Details
      Keywords: by Carla Tishler
      • 27 Jul 2020
      • Book

      Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

      not even be sure how. Yet reflection is important; it gives us a chance to pause and figure out what really matters, especially when struggling with a difficult issue professionally or personally, says Joseph Badaracco, the John Shad Professor of View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

        Nitin Nohria

        Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

        As Dean, building on... View Details

        Keywords: accounting industry; arts; biotechnology; emerging market private equity; energy; executive search; financial services; green technology; health care; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; infrastructure industry; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; manufacturing; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; professional services
        • October 2012 (Revised January 2014)
        • Case

        Building Brand Infosys

        By: Rohit Deshpandé and Vidhya Muthuram
        Infosys Limited was India's second largest exporter of IT services with annual revenues of $7 billion and a market capitalization of nearly $26 billion in 2012. The company, headquartered in Bangalore, India, had built its reputation as the Indian IT bellwether whose... View Details
        Keywords: Marketing; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; India
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        • 29 Mar 2022
        • Book

        5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

        How do companies survive not just for years, but for decades? For centuries even? During a global pandemic, researchers are studying anew what makes companies resilient, agile, and enduring. After all, Japanese construction firm Kongō Gumi, which builds temples, has... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
        • 01 May 2012
        • First Look

        First Look: May 1

        Publications Behaviorial Ethics: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Moral Judgment and Dishonesty Authors: Max Bazerman and Francesca Gino Publication: Annual Review of Law and Social Science (forthcoming) Abstract Early research and teaching on View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel
        • April 2020 (Revised April 2023)
        • Supplement

        TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?

        By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
        TransDigm was a highly acquisitive company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial customers. Over the ten years ending in 2016, its stock price had increase ten times, and both EBITDA and revenues had grown... View Details
        Keywords: Acquisition; Ethics; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Growth Management; Performance Evaluation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Value Creation; Competitive Advantage; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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        • January 2009 (Revised October 2009)
        • Case

        GLOBALGAP: Food Safety and Private Standards

        By: David E. Bell and Mary Louise Shelman
        In response to new laws governing liability and several food safety scares in the 1990s, European retailers drove the creation of a universal production standard based on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) for fresh fruit and vegetables and a third-party certification... View Details
        Keywords: Agribusiness; Food; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Safety; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe
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        • April 2025 (Revised May 2025)
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        Adobe: GenAI Opportunity or Threat?

        By: Sunil Gupta, Rajiv Lal and Allison Ciechanover
        In December 2022, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen faced a pivotal strategic decision due to the rapid rise of generative AI image models from OpenAI, Midjourney, and StabilityAI. Adobe, a leader in digital media and marketing software with a 40-year legacy of innovation and... View Details
        Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Ethics; AI and Machine Learning; Trust; Business Strategy; Technology Industry; San Jose
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        • 21 Mar 2017
        • First Look

        First Look at New Research, March 21

        in press Academy of Management Journal Compromised Ethics in Hiring Processes? How Referrers’ Power Affects Employees’ Reactions to Referral Practices By: Delfer-Rozin, R., B. Baker, and F. Gino Abstract—In this paper, we explore... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • November 1990 (Revised June 1991)
        • Case

        Final Voyage of the Challenger

        Provides a summary of technical and organizational details that led to the decision to launch the Challenger Space Shuttle, and to the ensuing accident. Details of design and testing milestones of the Space Shuttle, with a focus on the Solid Rocket Booster, offer... View Details
        Keywords: Information Technology; Risk Management; Ethics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Processes; Aerospace Industry; United States
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        • 22 Apr 2002
        • Research & Ideas

        Does Spirituality Drive Success?

        Executives from a wide range of industries trooped to Harvard Business School to discuss how their spirituality helps them be powerful leaders. The stories emerged from three panel sessions at the Möbius Leadership Forum, held April... View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild
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        MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences | MBA

        MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Joint degree with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Students are affiliated with Harvard Medical School through the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. Play A joint degree that blends business, science,... View Details
        • September 2004
        • Article

        Trust in Agency

        By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
        Existing models of the principal-agent relationship assume the agent works only under extrinsic incentives. However, many observed agency contracts take the form of a fixed payment. For such contracts to succeed, the principal must trust the agent to work in the... View Details
        Keywords: Trust; Agency Theory; Relationships; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Contracts; Business Model; Emotions; Forecasting and Prediction; Ethics; Standards; Risk and Uncertainty
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