Global Order - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

behavior. It's a sobering thought in a corporate culture that champions out-of-the-box thinking. "In any organization, especially in contexts that are global and very competitive, there is so much focus on trying to be innovative and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Cornell Tech, Initiative 31 was established to: Make New York City the global hub of urban innovation. As part of her Independent Project, Zoe collaborated with the NYCEDC team to design a research-backed roadmap incorporating all... View Details

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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

Aziz Managing Director of Sefam Private Limited, explains how, in the early 1980s, she and her brother decided to innovate the entire production chain of Pakistani cotton embroidery in order to prove that emerging markets can create... View Details

07 Nov 2014
News

The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)

product features, and partnerships with top-tier brands. “With our work on MOGUL being recognized by Business Insider, Forbes, Huffington Post, Yahoo!, and Cadillac, it is exciting to leverage the internal and external momentum we have achieved, in View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

14 Jul 2021
News

The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)

from small- and medium-sized farms and ship it to our warehouses, where we prepare the orders. After the order is prepared, we ship the orders using a decentralized network of drivers to the group buyers,... View Details

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

and nutrition and readiness to learn in schools is also well established. Forthcoming revisions to the Millennium Development Goals are expected to again highlight the importance of disease prevention and health care to the global... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

How often have you heard that, when entering a negotiation, you should get your allies onboard first? Conventional wisdom, but not always the best advice. When the United States sought to build a global anti-Iraq coalition following... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

14 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

has recently opened an office in Hong Kong. Global Director of Research Robert van Brugge must consider how best to organize the firm's research department to enhance cross-sector and cross-geography collaboration among the senior... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2012
News

Shop Talk, Different Avenues

of retailing through consulting and marketing work for a roster of global clients. Traub recently sat down with Gilt Groupe cofounders Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) to discuss retailing trends and the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; shopping; e-commerce; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Oct 2001
News

David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High

—it's the challenge of leading a major company in the turbulent global economy. A longtime executive at Monsanto and BFGoodrich, Price believes that the turmoil caused by forces such as consolidation, overcapacity, and technological... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Dec 1998
News

Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

instance. One of the real problems with all of this is that many managers aren't conscious of how frequently computers use dates. Whether it's ordering supplies, transferring money, or buying and selling stocks, our business lives are... View Details

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

rates and order value and reduces fulfillment costs arising from returns and home try-on behavior, that is, customers ordering multiple sizes of the same product. We explore mechanisms through which... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2000
News

Stevenson Named Director of External Relations

says Stevenson, a member of the HBS faculty intermittently since 1968 and head of entrepreneurial studies until recently. As an HBS graduate (MBA 1965, DBA 1969), Stevenson is particularly aware of new developments that have strengthened the alumni network.... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

20 Dec 2019
Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019

It's been quite a year for HBS students, and as 2019 comes to a close we wanted to share some of the highlights from the MBA Voices Blog. In no particular order (since we love them all) here are the top 10 posts from 2019: How Being an... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

New Releases

practical application is no longer enough, Iansiti asserts. Firms must take control of the technology integration process from the very beginning, matching new technological possibilities to the appropriate applications in order to create... View Details

Keywords: Robert Binstock

01 Aug 2002
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

we worked on. The Alumni Communications Committee, under the able guidance of Paul Stewart (MBA '87), reached out to a sampling of alumni in order to better define existing market segments and their needs. The committee's work will inform... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

attention of business, which has always been part of the solution to global problems. That’s another great opportunity that these times present for us as a business school. “I see my agenda as ushering in a new century of innovation for... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

08 Aug 2018
News

Getting Life Back in Balance

future. “At the time, I was struggling with where my career was heading and in particular where corporate thinking and leadership were heading on a global scale,” he recalls. “I was becoming more and more disillusioned with working for a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

07 Jun 2016
First Look

June 7, 2016

spreads have lower means, lower cross-country correlations, and lower sensitivity to global risk factors. We discuss several major sources of credit-spread differentials, including positively correlated credit and currency risk, selective... View Details