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10 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 10

acquisition as an exciting means for growth, company strategy at its Hangzhou, China headquarters also included vertical integration with a goal of developing a full-on electric car. Were these two goals divergent or complementary,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

Editor's note: Building and landscape design can do much more for an organization than provide an inspirational headquarters or appealing work spaces. At Harvard Business School, the leafy, orderly, community setting helps reinforce a set... View Details

Keywords: Education

12 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 12

proximity to headquarters and corporate siblings are associated with superior performance trends following information disclosure. We also find that regional density moderates effect of establishment size on performance improvement. We... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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

24 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

multiple official languages, at least one of which is strong or weak FTR. Painstakingly going through and coding each company according to the dominant language in its headquarters city, they were able to show CSR scores differed by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

25 Jun 2020
News

Covering All Corners

Riad Armanious (MBA 2008) regards the pandemic as the greatest professional challenge he has faced as managing director of family-owned Eva Group and CEO of Eva Pharma, a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Egypt. The... View Details

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

11 Jan 2021
Blog Post

Finding My Place at HBS

to the mission, after witnessing many of my athlete friends fail to get the education, experiences and well-rounded identity to succeed in life after sport. Trey Athletes is headquartered in Dallas, TX, and since launching in 2018, we... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

The Next Big Thing

It's a case of competition and strategy on a global scale, and the stakes could hardly be higher. The prize? Leadership in the realm of life sciences, a field that experts say will shape and dominate 21st-century enterprise. What city or region will become the... View Details

Keywords: life sciences; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Apr 2000
News

Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

headquarters in Washington. You chose to become head of one of America's least popular institutions. Why? A number of factors had coalesced -- public discontent, mounting congressional criticism, technological advances, to name a few.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

16 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Finding my Passion in the Startup Space

exceptions, working between our New York headquarters and our offices in Athens. Finding your career passion is a trial and error process. People say “follow your passion” but this can be vague. The actual process of discovering these... View Details

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

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

quickly to execute the strategy. The firm has committed $1b in investment, building out a new software center in California and a commercial sales function at headquarters to deploy the new products and services. Purchase this case: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

transferring rents to multinational corporate patent holders headquartered in the world's most advanced countries, especially the United States. IPR advocates countered that improved IPR would spur innovation, and that even if this... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

05 Nov 2020
Blog Post

12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

headquartered in Boulder, CO. Not only did I get to work with an incredible team, the remote experience allowed me to get a virtual tour of one of the CEO’s hangars in Montana, something that would have been nearly impossible to replicate... View Details

2013
Working Paper

Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing

By: Kristina McElheran

Recent contributions to a growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information... View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Business Headquarters; Decision Choices and Conditions; Operations; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Power and Influence; Adaptation; Cooperation

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01 Jan 2012
News

Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952

headquarters is named after him, for instance—attest to his many contributions to the world of business, as do his outside activities, including presenting papers on entrepreneurship, venture capital, and democracy throughout the world... View Details

25 Aug 2015
First Look

First Look Tuesday

Abstract—U.S. money market mutual funds (MMFs) are an important source of dollar funding for global financial institutions, particularly those headquartered outside the United States. MMFs proved to be a source of considerable instability... View Details

05 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

purview of headquarters. Headquarters has given them full responsibility for performance with little direct oversight, and allowed them to develop a more objective view of the enterprise and its strategies. This enables them to entertain... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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