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07 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

externalities. We arrived at Billund, Denmark eager to better understand the company’s strategy to leverage bioplastics and recycling technologies to decarbonize their supply chain. Brick-themed light fixture in the central atrium of LEGO... View Details

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

the global economy and the emergence of Global Value Chains (GVCs) have raised the interest in understanding the specific conditions and cross-company interactions within and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

companies. Portfolio managers and analysts have been using the Global Industry Classification Standard, or GICS—a taxonomy of 11 sectors, 25 industry groups, and additional subsets—to compare stocks since 1999. Periodically, Standard... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail

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Rigorous research, rooted in practice The most pressing challenges and interesting opportunities facing the world today cannot be addressed without business playing a significant role. Harvard Business School faculty conduct research on topics that today’s leaders need... View Details

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the headlines and provokes the most public and... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

May 2018
Article

Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie X. Chen

Assessing the productivity gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research and policy debate. Positive aggregate productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized... View Details

Keywords: Productivity Gains; Multinational Production; Selection; Market Reallocation; And Within-firm Productivity; Multinational Firms and Management; Production; Performance Productivity; Competition; Mathematical Methods

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16 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

workers into management would help everyone in the organization better understand “what it’s like to work on a ramp, in the cold, with a frustrated customer on a flight,” says Hill. “The frontline perspective can give management important... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation

01 Sep 2023
News

Made in Italy

and the growth model of Silicon Valley (see box). Read more about Preparing Global Leaders Each IFC begins in the fall semester with a series of classes introducing economic, political, social, and other essential contexts for the... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Strategy Drivers of Competitiveness Drivers of Competitiveness Achieving real and sustainable competitive advantage requires a clear understanding of what “competitiveness” means and how to analyze it effectively. Such clarity is the key... View Details

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MOC Network reaches 20 year milestone - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Affiliate Network MOC Affiliate Prospectus 2018 MOC Affiliate Prospectus 2020 MOC Impact Report MOC Impact MOC Network reaches 20 y... MOC Network 20 th Anniversary Workshop The December 2022 workshop was the 20th annual gathering of View Details

15 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 15

of India's Public R&D Laboratories By: Khanna, Tarun, and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract—In this paper, we build on the standard resource dependence theory and its departure suggested by Vernon to offer a novel explanation for why state-owned entities (SOEs) might... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jul 2023
News

Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

The technology that MLB Advanced Media developed is now the backbone of Disney Plus—that was a multi-billion dollar deal. I think understanding how that got developed is a real interesting case study. Can you talk a little bit about the... View Details

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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

Certificate Courses (5) Leading with Finance Professor Mihir Desai Build an intuitive understanding of financial principles to better communicate with key stakeholders, drive business performance, and grow your career. 6 weeks, 6–7... View Details

22 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

electronic communication data, one at a leading biopharmaceuticals company and a second at a global media and professional services firm. One of these follows senior leaders through a period of reorganization, and the other contains... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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Past Issues - Alumni

Blissful Thinking Happiness research is all the rage. How understanding the origins of joy can improve the way we lead organizations—and our personal lives What We’re Reading Novels and nonfiction for your summer book list Complete Table... View Details

31 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World

Wealth around the World: Benjamin Franklin and the Globalization of American Capitalism,” published in American Historical Review (February 2015). “I’m interested in how ideas reflect but also change economic realities—and how ideas can... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Portrait Project

Samrath Oberoi

As a Dhol (drum) player, I was introduced to powerful beats at an early age. Mere training of the beats, though, wasn’t enough. My maturity as an artist came from understanding the artistic meaning behind the white spaces – the moments of... View Details

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Christina Byrd

Uber,” says Christina, “I realized how important it was to speak the language of any role in the organization, and to communicate the value of HR to people who don’t necessarily understand it.” She decided to pursue an MBA because, “I... View Details

29 Sep 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries

Keywords: by Diego Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha & Luis Serven

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Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online

5-8 hrs/week Enroll by January 2 $1,850 Certificate Power and Influence for Positive Impact Professor Julie Battilana Understand how power really works and develop your own to gain influence and make an impact within your organization and... View Details

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