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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

What Do We Know About Corporate Headquarters? A Review, Integration, and Research Agenda

By: Markus Menz, Sven Kunisch and David J. Collis
During the past five decades, scholars have studied the corporate headquarters (CHQ)—the multidivisional firm's central organizational unit. The purpose of this article is to review the diverse and fragmented literature on the CHQ and to identify the variables of... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Headquarters; Corporate Parent; Corporate Center; Multidivisional Firm; Multibusiness Firm; Multinational Corporation; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Business Divisions; Business Headquarters
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  • July 2021 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Fynd

By: Ranjay Gulati, Kairavi Dey and Rachna Tahilyani
Fynd is a fast-growing venture that in 7 years since its founding has become India's largest omnichannel retail company with real-time access to over 9,000 stores' offline inventory. It started as a B2B business supporting retailers who didn’t have an online business,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Model; Acquisition; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Web Services Industry; Technology Industry; Communications Industry; India; Mumbai
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  • 07 Nov 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia

Keywords: by Shane Greenstein & Feng Zhu; Information; Publishing
  • Research Summary

Bringing Worlds Together: Cultural Brokerage in Multicultural Teams (Dissertation)

Multicultural teams are becoming increasingly prevlaent and crucial for organizational success, yet they face many challenges that stem from their cultural differences. How can multicultural teams mitigate the risks of working across... View Details
Keywords: Cultural Brokerage; Multicultural Teams; Cross-cultural Collaboration; Creativity
  • January 1997 (Revised July 1997)
  • Case

Value-At-Risk

Introduces the student to the recently developed concept of value-at-risk (VAR) in risk analysis. By working through a stylized example using spreadsheet tools, the student learns the conceptual framework of VAR and its implementation mechanics. View Details
Keywords: Risk Management
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  • June 2018
  • Teaching Note

ALAC International

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
ALAC International (ALAC) was awarded the U.S. distributorship of di-isononyl phthalate (DINP) which provided ALAC an opportunity to increase its sales and profits. But the opportunity required a significant additional investment in working capital. The DINP, shipped... View Details
Keywords: Working Capital; Financing and Loans; Growth Management
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  • Research Summary

Innovating in Energy: Learning from High-Potential Ventures

By: Joseph B. Lassiter

My work at HBS has always focused on high-potential ventures.  Most recently, these have been professionally financed start-ups and buyouts in newly emerging energy and cleantech businesses. These ventures tend to be based on innovative insights into technology and... View Details

  • 26 Oct 2021
  • News

What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

  • 18 Oct 2013
  • HBS Seminar

George Borjas, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

  • March 2005 (Revised July 2006)
  • Case

Celtel International B.V.: June 2004 (A)

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Depicts the options facing Mohammed Ibrahim, founder and chairman of Celtel International, the largest pan African wireless telecommunications provider, as he tries to position his company for further growth. Should the firm, which has reached $1 billion in revenues in... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Africa
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  • September 2021
  • Case

Posse Foundation: Developing Strong Leaders from Diverse Backgrounds

By: John J-H Kim, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
Founded in 1989, Posse Foundation was a nonprofit organization with a mission of developing future leaders who reflected the U.S.’s rich diversity. The organization ran a selective, localized admissions process in 10 U.S. cities to identify outstanding students with... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Education; Higher Education; Decision Making; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Values and Beliefs; Geography; Geographic Scope; Growth and Development; Leadership; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Partners and Partnerships; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Identity; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Expansion; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States
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    Akshita Joshi

    Akshita Joshi is a doctoral candidate in the Organizational Behavior program at Harvard Business School. She has 15 years of work experience & holds an MBA from Stanford GSB & an M.A. in Psychology from UCP Portugal. Her research is focused on the emotional,... View Details

    • April 1991 (Revised July 1994)
    • Case

    Southland Corp. (B)

    By: Richard S. Ruback
    Examines Southland's financial difficulties following the LBO in 1987 up to the first restructuring plan in July 1990. The teaching objectives are: to explore the complexities of a failed leverage buyout and the operating restrictions that result from financial... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; Crisis Management
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    • September 2008
    • Case

    Israeli Special Forces: Selection Strategy

    By: Boris Groysberg, Tal Riesenfeld and Eliot Sherman
    Ron Guntz, commander of recruiting for Israel's Special Forces, had been instructed by his superiors to evaluate the process by which he selected solders for a 20-month-long training program. Was the Army conducting this process in an ideal manner? The case examines... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Training; National Security; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Public Administration Industry; Israel
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    PhD Programs - Doctoral

    program has four areas of study: Accounting and Management , Marketing , Strategy , and Technology and Operations Management . All areas of study... View Details
    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Opportunistic Returns and Dynamic Pricing: Empirical Evidence from Online Retailing in Emerging Markets

    By: Chaithanya Bandi, Antonio Moreno, Donald Ngwe and Zhiji Xu
    We investigate how dynamic pricing can lead to higher operational costs through more product returns in the online retail industry. Dynamic pricing has been widely applied by many online retailers. Research has shown that, in response to dynamic pricing, some customers... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Policy; Consumer Behavior; Cost Management; Emerging Markets; Retail Industry
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    • 05 Mar 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

    future research on the joint pursuit of financial and social goals in organizations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55763 forthcoming... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Iavor I. Bojinov
    Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
    • 12 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53200 September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review Managing Our Hub Economy: Strategy, Ethics, and Network Competition in the Age View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 29 Sep 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Pride Goeth Before a Profit

    time with people." But how do you establish a personal connection when you manage thousands of employees who may well be working in different locations and on different... View Details
    Keywords: by Theodore Kinni