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  • 19 Aug 2013
  • News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Management
  • November 2010
  • Teaching Note

Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York (TN)

By: Ryan D. Taliaferro and Carliss Y. Baldwin
Teaching Note for 208129. View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mergers and Acquisitions; Banks and Banking; Equity; Business Earnings; Banking Industry; New York (state, US)
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  • 2010
  • Chapter

A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism

By: Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Robert MacCulloch
We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period 1983-2004. The measure of beliefs is the answer to a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help... View Details
Keywords: History; Natural Environment; Non-Renewable Energy; Values and Beliefs; Price; Poverty; Policy; Economy; United States
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  • Web

Improving the Local & Regional Business Environment - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV Adding a Social Dimension to... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Alumni Books

economy, and help turn the country around. The Power of Many: Values for Success in Business and in Life by Meg Whitman (MBA ’79) with Joan O’C Hamilton (Crown) Whitman, the former president and CEO of eBay, identifies ten core View Details
Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance
  • Web

Umbulizer Wins 2018 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

CEO, Jeff Dunn... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara 2015 Patricio “Pato” Bichara (MBA 2015) learned something important in the summer between his first and second years at HBS: He loves to build things that make a difference. While working... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2013
  • News

New Thinking for China

Chen. The son of a scientist and a brain surgeon, Chen learned the value of education at an early age, graduating from an American high school and Boston University before coming to Harvard Business School. After his return to China in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; higher education, teaching, china, social entrepreneurship
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

The Evolving HBS Campus

The importance and value of the School’s unique residential environment has been clearly demonstrated in the nearly 100 years since the campus was first envisioned and built. Recent and current building projects are intended to enhance... View Details
  • 08 May 2015
  • News

Prestige brands can expand their reach—and make their core customers proud

types of new customers: brand immigrants and brand tourists. Her findings show that while brand immigrants can dilute a brand’s image, brand tourists increase the pride of established customers by demonstrating admiration and proof of View Details
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Christensen Awarded Kim Clark Fellowship

students how to think, not what to think, and introducing them to well-researched, reliable theories applicable to a range of situations would be better preparation for leadership than trying "to teach certain values that always ought to... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Career Coach

Cheryl Rousseau

been involved in both student and alumni programming, and provides one-on-one coaching aimed exclusively at alumni.  Cheryl’s overall approach is to learn the motivations, interests and goals of those she serves in order to help them capitalize on the inherent View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Retail
  • Profile

Behrad Mahdi

leaders." Behrad will apply his newfound skills as a summer intern at Censeo Consulting Group, a boutique operations consulting firm recognized for its emphasis on values and work/life balance. "After HBS," Behrad says,... View Details
  • Web

Advancing Social Enterprise | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

“How do you motivate employees with ‘psychic equity’? or “How can we approach shareholder value creation in a broader way?” It’s much more about back-and-forth learning between the public and private sectors. Linda Rottenberg Job Title... View Details
  • 29 Nov 2017
  • News

Inbox: From Das’s Desk

An old adage about volunteers cites the value they bring to organizations as including “wealth, work, and wisdom.” These “three Ws” define the dedicated alumni body here at HBS. Although being a donor is certainly critical to sustaining... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
  • Article

When Dreaming Is Believing: The (Motivated) Interpretation of Dreams

By: Carey K. Morewedge and Michael I. Norton
This research investigated laypeople's interpretation of their dreams. Participants from both Eastern and Western cultures believed that dreams contain hidden truths (Study 1) and considered dreams to provide more meaningful information about the world than similar... View Details
Keywords: Anchoring; Attribution; Dreams; Motivated Reasoning; Unconscious Thought; Communication Intention and Meaning; Judgments; Values and Beliefs; Information; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Motivation and Incentives
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  • March 2003 (Revised January 2008)
  • Case

Northrop versus TRW

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and James Quinn
TRW, a leading supplier of advanced technology products for the auto, defense, and aerospace markets, receives an unexpected stock-for-stock offer from defense company Northrop Grumman Corp. The $11.4 billion aggregate offer, which represents a 22% premium over the... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Laws and Statutes; Negotiation Tactics; Valuation; Aerospace Industry; Auto Industry; Ohio
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  • September 1997 (Revised May 1999)
  • Case

Automated Intelligence Corporation

By: James K. Sebenius and David T. Kotchen
Precision Controls is a Minnesota-based manufacturer of electronic control devices. To enhance its product line, Precision would like to establish an artificial intelligence research group, either through internal development or, preferably, by merging with or... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Valuation; Research and Development; Stock Shares; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Mergers and Acquisitions; Manufacturing Industry; Electronics Industry; Minnesota
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  • September 1996 (Revised November 1996)
  • Case

World Bank (A): Under Siege

By: George C. Lodge and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Describes the issues that James Wolfensohn faces when he takes over the World Bank as president in June 1995. Presents several lines of criticism of the bank's strategy, structure, and relevance. View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; International Finance; Organizational Structure; Leading Change; Situation or Environment; Decision Choices and Conditions; Strategy; Management Teams; Value; Banking Industry
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  • 08 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

whole different level of sustainability strategy. And it's trying to understand how those environmental, social, and governance issues create value in the long term." Successful Sustainability The CSOs in the study made a variety of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

performance," he says. The results show that for any given shift in firm value, changes in CEO wealth due to stock and stock option revaluations are more than fifty times larger than changes in wealth due to salary and bonus. "Take the average CEO whose firm... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross