Diversified - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis

comes to positioning a company to best recover from the inevitable next banking crash, however, it pays to be prudent in diversifying investments, and cutting them with an eye to recovery as much as immediate survival. That’s advice that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking

01 Jun 2016
News

Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead

environment where 115-plus local breweries work together to create some of the best craft beer in the country. In addition, San Diego County has done a nice job of diversifying its water resources. With that said, we expect the landscape... View Details

01 Jan 2012
News

Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989

internal reorganization and strategic partnerships have led to greater efficiencies and ongoing growth. In her five-year tenure, Carroll has diversified the mix of commodities the company holds through partnerships and acquisitions.... View Details

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

focuses on a board director of a diversified holding company. The CEO is raising the idea of joining with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to spin off part of the business as a separate company. The board director must... View Details

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

other functional managers, in hopes that they'll work as a team and discover effective ways to cooperate better. "By narrowing their focus in terms of their business portfolio, companies increase the potential for synergies," Wulf says. "If you're in a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 7

ambition of Uribe or his possible like-minded successor was to secure U.S. Congressional approval of a free trade agreement signed in 2006. But would it really help Colombia diversify its economy? Colombia already had access to the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

diversified organizations may work poorly in advanced economies like the United States, but they sometimes deliver superior value in certain emerging markets, where their scope allows them to leverage their own resources to compensate for... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

23 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs

which is dominated by white, urban, professional men. To truly recognize the potential of products appealing to women and other groups, Koning says, companies must continue the hard work of diversifying their personnel. “At the end of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Feb 1999
News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

include whether high-performance Asian companies can provide a business model for success in the region, the role of accounting infrastructure in transitional economies, restructuring diversified businesses in emerging markets, and... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

30 Oct 2017
News

Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success

institutions that are driving our economy,” Rice says. He isn’t stopping there, though, because he sees diversifying MBA programs and leading employers as critical levers in a broader effort. “Our model can move the needle on... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

for all local government employees in Ontario, Canada. Their portfolio of long-term, direct infrastructure investments is diversified across multiple sectors, including energy, transportation, and government-regulated services. Caelin's... View Details

01 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?

manufacturers and service companies will seek permanently to diversify their supply chains radically going forward We might accept the lower financial results as the insurance premium we have to pay to remain more robust in the face of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

12 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?

underlying corporate strategy. A conglomerate will have a very different corporate headquarters than a firm that has diversified into a very tightly related set of businesses. The real takeaway is that "one size does not fit... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

theoretical and empirical investigation of the risks of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and... View Details

17 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

innovation-to-productivity studies. Business Groups in Emerging Markets: Paragons or Parasites? Authors:Tarun Khanna and Yishay Yafeh Periodical:Journal of Economic Literature 45, no. 2 (June 2007): 331-372 Abstract Diversified business... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

empirical investigation of the risk of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and transitory... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

whose campus occupies 26 buildings surrounded by 800 acres of forest on the northern side of an Appalachian mountain ridge. As he walks the grounds, Marietta points to evidence of what a thriving, diversified economy in eastern Kentucky... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

19 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 19

interwar years, and its subsequent diversification into many industries, including automobiles, household goods, and services, is analyzed. The case serves as a vehicle to explain why diversified business groups are so important in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2021
News

The Value of Difficult Conversations

or their parents. If 10 percent of the people they spoke to tell more people, it can become a true change factor,” she says. “Awareness is the first step.” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Advancing Racial Equity HBS Addresses Racial Equity Alumni Work to Reverse Bias... View Details

Keywords: April White; Tulsa Massacre

01 Jun 1997
News

Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field

developed an Executive Education program, Creating Corporate Advantage, and an elective MBA course based on this framework. Also in corporate strategy, Assistant Professor Tarun Khanna is studying the corporate strategy of diversified... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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