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- 23 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia
using renewable electricity for stores, offices, and headquarters by 2020. By 2025, the company has committed to using only renewable or recycled materials in the products. It has been making Fair Trade apparel since 2014 and today has... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
unique opportunity to study strategy in the making when she headed to the company's Denmark headquarters last year. The case study The LEGO Group: Envisioning Risks in Asia, coauthored with HBS research associate Dominique Hamel, vividly... View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
standard for workers in construction, farming, and other professions that require strenuous outdoor labor. SMI built a successful national sales base from its headquarters in Massachusetts by establishing channels with large department... View Details
- Profile
Marcela Sapone
forefathers of this concept. “We’re just fine-tuning it,” she said. “People have been attacking this space but no one has done it quite the same way we have.” Headquartered in New York with an office in Boston,... View Details
- March 1992 (Revised June 1992)
- Case
Thermo Electron Corp.
George Hatsopoulos, CEO at Thermo Electron Corp., is considering whether to issue shares in a subsidiary via an initial public offering (IPO). The company has developed an unusual corporate structure in which subsidiaries fund new ventures by raising debt and equity in... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Business Subsidiaries; Resource Allocation; Valuation; Organizational Structure; Business Headquarters; Initial Public Offering; Capital Structure; Capital Markets; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Semiconductor Industry; Technology Industry
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Thermo Electron Corp." Harvard Business School Case 292-104, March 1992. (Revised June 1992.)
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
prototype branch in the bank's Charlotte headquarters where team members could rehearse the steps involved in an experiment and work out any process problems before going live with customers. The team would, for example, time each... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607088 Purolator Courier Ltd. Harvard Business School Case 508-054 On a fall day in September 2003, Robert Swanborough made his way down a thickly carpeted hallway in Purolator's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Arthur Rock
an autocratic group at the company’s headquarters on Long Island. Rock counseled Noyce and Moore to leave and start their own company. He believed that this world-class duo producing revolutionary technology was a sure thing. “I liked... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
content that hopefully powers the marketing of companies. But is that advertising? A lot of the work we do for our clients involves media not on a rate card or in a typical distribution unit. Is producing the telephone “hold” music for Burger King’s corporate View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
a chain. Our results are robust to 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
hours of operation, merchandising displays, and pricing. By contrast, the span of control for managers at corporate headquarters who oversee merchandising and other core operations is set at "wide." They are responsible for... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
"Good point, Tom, and that isn't all we'll need. We also have to have somebody in Asia. Either Singapore or Tokyo would be an ideal base. Probably Tokyo works better because more potential clients are headquartered there than in the... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 26 Oct 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
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- Blog
Emerging from the Pandemic: Insights from South Asia and ASEAN
program more attractive to them. Similarly, we were able to customize a program for another large multinational IT company with headquarters in India. HOW ARE CONDITIONS CHANGING NOW? ARE MORE PEOPLE LOOKING TO ATTEND ON-CAMPUS PROGRAMS?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
against a backdrop of unusually sobering geopolitical events, including the attack on Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris and a suicide bombing at a police station in Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet quarter, not far from the area where... View Details