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- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
CSR performance is weaker for firms that have greater exposure to diverse global languages as a result of (a) being headquartered in countries with a higher degree of globalization, (b) having a higher degree of internationalization, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
Inc., the world's largest design software company, decided to engage in Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) for the design and construction of its new Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Solutions (AECS) Group headquarters near... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
visible firms are deterred from selectively disclosing only when they are subjected to civil society scrutiny. We test our hypotheses using a novel panel dataset of 4,484 public companies in many industries, headquartered in 38 countries,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
flexible workplace at our headquarters in Boston, where people can visit or have small team retreats. Our remote culture has allowed us huge flexibility in hiring and logistics. I did not expect that the investments we made for remote... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
317-074 Medtronic: Making the Big Leap Forward (B) On December 1, 2014, Medtronic announced that it had completed a $17 billion bond sale to finance the Covidien acquisition, officially completed on January 26, 2015. Medtronic’s legal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
Field sales was aware of the problem Intel faced, but, according to a sales engineer in the Hauppauge, New York, headquarters of Intel’s Atlantic Region, “the message wasn’t getting through to management on the West Coast.” On November 2,... 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
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
evidence of a lower likelihood of SEC enforcement for labor-intensive firms that are headquartered in districts of senior congressmen that serve on committees that oversee the SEC. All of these results hold after controlling for firms'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
privately-held company, headquartered in Montreal, Canada. Its long-term objective is to build a diversified portfolio focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of energy and other resource-related assets in Armenia and... View Details
- Web
Harvard Business School
involved in the efforts of AASU. After graduation Price worked in international marketing for Levi Strauss in the company's headquarters in San Francisco and also in Oslo, Norway and Brussels, Belgium. He led efforts advising the company... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
headquarters are uncarpeted concrete, an open invitation for workers to navigate the building on skateboards. When there’s overnight snow on the slopes of the nearby Wasatch Range, morning meetings are rolled back to accommodate the quest... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
and the Boston Red Sox continues to this day. Nordstrom, a leading clothing retailer predominantly owned and run by the Nordstrom family and headquartered in Seattle, was an early and major supporter of its local United Way, the seventh... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
Golden Ear.” Their no-holds-barred creativity is supported by a corporate culture steeped in youth and rebellion, as expressed in the company’s motto, “Every revolution needs a sound track.” The corridors of the Park City headquarters are... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
team, and using that to build the marketing plan,” says Flatley. It helps that they are neighbors at the company’s corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, about 10 miles west of Chicago. “We yell over the walls,” says Cunningham. “I probably... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Photography by King Lawrence Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) is holding a manager’s meeting while driving 70 mph up I-75 in Kentucky. As Rogers pins his phone horizontally against the dashboard, his Local Motors team, gathered around a conference table at the car manufacturer’s... View Details
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
client portfolio. The case enables a discussion of different types of clients in a global professional service firm in terms of relative revenues, profitability, and strategic significance. It also highlights the tensions between local subsidiaries and corporate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
household products. Steinhoff was widely known as a South African company because it first listed on the South African Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and its global headquarters was in South Africa. However, Steinhoff went on to expand... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
results of choices we made. GE Healthcare employees assemble magnetic-resonance imaging machines in Beijing. In 2011, the highly global company moved its x-ray unit headquarters staff to China-a major, rapidly growing market. Q: The US... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin