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- 15 Sep 2016
- News
Reform Corporate Taxes or Suffer the Consequences, Report Says
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
Too often corporations decide to locate facilities based solely on cost savings. And that's shortsighted, argues Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Instead, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 116-015 IKEA in Saudi Arabia (A) A Swedish newspaper reveals that IKEA has erased all images of women from its catalog for Saudi Arabia. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
governments will increasingly look for ways to reform their tax and labor systems in order to attract business—or simply stop businesses from delocalizing. The direct effect of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
among, say, governments? Rangan: Not as much as we would like. What I'm finding is that the people in government and NGOs are a little lukewarm to the idea because it has View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- November 2010
- Article
Stress-Test Your Strategy: The 7 Questions to Ask
By: Robert Simons
An economic downturn can quickly expose the shortcomings of your business strategy. But can you identify its weak points in good times as well? And can you focus on those weak points that really matter? I identify seven questions all executives should ask in order to... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Creativity; Success; Customers; Employees; Business and Shareholder Relations; Performance; Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Choices and Conditions
Simons, Robert. "Stress-Test Your Strategy: The 7 Questions to Ask." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 11 (November 2010): 93–100.
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
remote work during this bizarre time, with so many people scrambling to get their work done while sharing close quarters with shut-in kids, spouses, and pets, is certainly not business as usual, even for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jul 2021
- News
America's Medical Debt Is Much Worse Than We Think
- 01 Aug 2018
- News
Are share buybacks 'plundering company resources'?
- 26 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Baker Library's Latest Collection: Little Black Library
When Cathy Chukwulebe (MBA 2021) set up a plastic bin with books about antiracism and the Black experience in the Harvard Business School Schwartz Pavilion in the summer of 2020, she never imagined that the... View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- News
What Was Volkswagen Thinking?
- July 2016 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Alphabet Eyes New Frontiers (A)
By: Juan Alcacer, Raffaella Sadun, Olivia Hull and Kerry Herman
In October 2015, Google restructured into Alphabet, a holding company, which analysts said would facilitate innovation among its diverse subsidiaries. But when news reports surfaced revealing struggles within Alphabet companies including Nest, the smart thermostat... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Conglomerates; Corporate Restructuring; Google; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Research and Development; Diversification; Financial Reporting; Talent and Talent Management; Technology Industry; Computer Industry; California; United States
Alcacer, Juan, Raffaella Sadun, Olivia Hull, and Kerry Herman. "Alphabet Eyes New Frontiers (A)." Harvard Business School Case 717-418, July 2016. (Revised March 2024.)
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
funds). See the FAQs section below for common questions about eligibility. If you are in the process of searching for a full-time job search for a role in Africa and would like to have a conversation to assess your eligibility for the GO... View Details
- 12 Oct 2016
- News
What separates honest executives from white-collar criminals
- Web
The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910
Baker Library Historical Collections Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Boston , MA 02163 Phone: 617.495.6411 Email: histcollref@hbs.edu Map/Directions Related Links... View Details
- December 2012
- Article
What Drives Corporate Social Performance? The Role of Nation-level Institutions
By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
Based on Whitley's "National Business Systems" (NBS) institutional framework (Whitley 1997, 1999), we theorize about and empirically investigate the impact of nation-level institutions on firms' corporate social performance (CSP). Using a sample of firms from 42... View Details
Keywords: Environment; Environmental Performance; Corporate Social Responsibility; Sustainability; Institutions; Institutional Theory; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance
Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim. "What Drives Corporate Social Performance? The Role of Nation-level Institutions." Journal of International Business Studies 43, no. 9 (December 2012): 834–864.
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
employee morale, followed by business relations and reputation, and then regulatory relations. I find that who initiated the bribery act, how it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
analogy for vicarious learning is the photocopier,” says Christopher G. Myers, assistant professor of Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. The idea: Watch what other people do, make copies of the good things View Details