Business And Government Relations - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Mar 2016
First Look

March 29, 2016

answering one key question: How are leaders successfully managing competitive companies in the 21st century? Today's constantly changing business environment presents challenges and opportunities that are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

Lalocracio Location has always been a vital resource in business. “Location, location, location,” as they say in real estate. But then along came the internet in the 1980s, and suddenly distance-related View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

15 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 15

business relations, and then reputation and regulatory relations. The impact on stock price has been much less significant, and this could be... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Feb 2017
News

Corporations Clash With Donald Trump on LGBT, Immigration Issues

14 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 14

studied and how it relates to the environment in which it occurs—affect the dissemination of knowledge from subfields to the broader field of study. Micro-process research in organizational studies rests on... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System

workers. The first rule governs the way workers do their work. The second, the way they interact with one another. The third governs how production lines are constructed. And... View Details

Keywords: by H. Kent Bowen & Steven Spear; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

01 Nov 2019
What Do You Think?

Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

has prohibited NCCs for many years. Many argue that it hasn’t hurt business in the state. After all, Silicon Valley, with all of its training and talent, has been able to thrive without NCCs, although... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

drive innovation, and engineer change. The program was developed by leading Harvard Business School faculty and is delivered in an active learning environment based on the HBS... View Details

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Michael R. Bloomberg

Bloomberg Philanthropies works to improve lives by focusing on the arts, education, the environment, government innovation, public health, and accelerating the pace of Black wealth accumulation. In 2017,... View Details

08 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

than others. “Every company today needs to think of themselves as a tech company,” says Andy Wu, the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

21 May 2024
News

A New Chapter

Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford

07 Mar 2016
News

The Trump-Obama Corporate Tax Reform Fail

09 Nov 2020
News

After a hard election, the real work begins

October 2009 (Revised April 2010)
Supplement

Societe Generale (B): The Jerome Kerviel Affair

By: Francois Brochet

This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes the environment in which a derivatives trader engaged in massive directional positions on major European stocks... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Governance Controls; Crisis Management; Financial Services Industry

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25 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

About $162 billion was spent in 2012 in the United States on corporate training—in what Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer calls the “the great training robbery.” Beer, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

23 Jun 2023
News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

Alumni Board members on campus for their annual spring meeting // Credit: Panfoto Hard work, with humility for humanity, is the spirit that animates Harvard Business School's MBA program today, Matt Weinzierl, Senior Associate Dean View Details

30 Nov 2016
Blog Post

Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS

application to the world’s best business school – one that prides itself on ethnic, geographic, and industry diversity – felt pretty daunting. Indeed, whatever inkling of hope I might have harbored after... View Details

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Matthew C. Weinzierl | About

Matthew C. Weinzierl Senior Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Research Unit Business, Government and the International Economy Contact Phone Bio Matt Weinzierl is Senior... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions - Health Care

internship positions, please contact Career and Professional Development . Are there other Initiatives at HBS? Yes, we have several other Initiatives such as: Business and... View Details

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