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- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
HBS Working Knowledge readers want it all, judging by our all-time most popular articles. Here you'll find stories on everything from maintaining a professional image to writing a business plan, from how to market on social media to why... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
ease of use by instructors, and even useability in an age of “fake facts.” The most negative views came from those experiencing problems arising largely from the way cases were being taught or used. Those utilizing the method in their... View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- News
The Political Issues Board Directors Care Most About
- March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
China: To Float or Not To Float? (E)- ABB Investment in China
By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
In July 2005, China revalued its currency by 2.1% and adjusted its exchange rate regime toward a more market-based system. ABB, a global power and automation technologies company based out of Switzerland with operations in China, was among those companies confronted... View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; International Relations; Problems and Challenges; Value Creation; China; Switzerland
Alfaro, Laura, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Ingrid Vogel. "China: To Float or Not To Float? (E)- ABB Investment in China." Harvard Business School Case 706-035, March 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
- October 2013 (Revised July 2024)
- Teaching Note
Amazon in 2024
By: Sunil Gupta
Amazon launched its website in July 1995 to sell books online and by 2020 it has grown to become a digital giant with over $280 billion in annual sales. A large part of its growth came from expanding into a variety of businesses that some see as unrelated. Has it... View Details
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
The COVID-19 pandemic has battered industries around the world, but one sector's prospects aren’t so bleak: venture capital. Startup backers—and private-equity managers in general—say that half of their portfolio companies haven’t been harmed View Details
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
decision-making and even to the future and viability of capitalism. One debate concerned the primacy of profit as a goal. Deaver Brown led this argument by saying, "Profit is the only legitimate goal of a corporation ," pointing... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
Summing Up Low-skilled immigrants: burden or opportunity? Immigration is apparently a topic that stirs passions globally, judging from the responses to this month's column. As Nauman Lodhi pointed out, "Tough times give rise more than ever to tough thoughts... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- March 2022 (Revised November 2024)
- Case
Aldrich Capital Partners
By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
By July 2016, the Aldrich Capital Partners team had spent over two years trying to raise their inaugural growth-equity fund. They had pitched to over 140 investors, but none had committed. Managing Partners Mirza Baig and Raz Zia each had extensive experience in the... View Details
Keywords: Growth Equity; Investment Evaluation; Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Investment; Strategy; Decision Making; United States
Tango, Jo, and Alys Ferragamo. "Aldrich Capital Partners." Harvard Business School Case 822-090, March 2022. (Revised November 2024.)
- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
below. References: Prithwiraj Choudbury and Emma Salomon, GitLab and the Future of All-Remote Work (A), Harvard Business School Publishing, April 2, 2020. Chip Cutter, The Back-to-Work Puzzle, The Wall Street Journal, July 24-25, 2021.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
When the FTC announced in July a $5 billion penalty and other actions against the company over privacy disgressions, the Federal Trade Commission said it well: “ through at least June 2018, Facebook subverted users’ privacy choices to... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 16 May 2018
- HBS Online
HBX Becoming A Better Manager
Master a process approach to management and move your organization forward. In Becoming a Better Manager youll learn to identify, analyze, design, and influence four critical organizational processes: decision-making, implementation, organizational learning, and change... View Details
- July 2009 (Revised August 2011)
- Case
What Happened at Citigroup? (A)
By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
What went wrong at Citigroup? In 1998, the Travelers Group and Citicorp merged to create Citigroup Inc., considered the first true global "financial supermarket" and a business model to be envied, feared, and emulated. By year-end 2006 the firm had a market... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Globalized Firms and Management; Leadership; Risk Management; Failure; Financial Services Industry
Rose, Clayton S., and Aldo Sesia. "What Happened at Citigroup? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 310-004, July 2009. (Revised August 2011.)
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
A group of Chinese tourists visiting the promenade in front of Pudong's skyline. Source: Richmatts When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped off the plane into a country... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
leaders often fail to notice when their decisions indirectly hurt people—and how people often fail to hold organizations accountable for indirectly causing harm. book excerpt Failing To Notice Indirect Actions From The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
When Serena Williams took Centre Court at Wimbledon on July 3, 2004, few gave her opponent, 17-year-old Russian star Maria Sharapova, much of a chance. But Sharapova took the Ladies' Singles championship in straight sets, catapulting her... View Details
- 01 Sep 2021
- News
In Print: Faculty Books
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
potential of new ideas could be inimical to operating a real business. All fall, the news had been sobering, as the dot-com bubble deflated, paring billions—ultimately trillions—of dollars of stock-market value from the "idea" companies that had been spawned,... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
personal responsibility. Evidence of this problem is provided by a study of a large European telecoms company, which revealed that very little learning occurred from a set of large and small failures over a period of twenty years. Instead... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon