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- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
whose role is to listen to and help resolve employees' work-related problems. It offers perspectives from two business experts who have opposing viewpoints on a family like corporate culture and on whether the People Support plan is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society
Our Mission & Team We are working with scholars, business leaders, and community leaders around the world to advance our understanding of business' role in society and to develop a thriving ecosystem for translating that research into... View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
International Management Entrepreneurial Imagination and a Demand and Supply-side Perspective on the MNE and Cross-border Organization By: Jones, Geoffrey, and Christos Pitelis Abstract—This article explores the role of entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
in the multinational company's organizational capability. And that is where the role of the global manager is shaped. We argued that companies should not define this as an offline specialist role, but neither must they try to make... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
annual conservation needs. What role should investment capital play? What role should TNC play? Key Themes: Impact investing is option proposed a new “tool” for socially-motivated actors to achieve their... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
two daughters—Johnson conquered every challenge that came her way and methodically set about transforming the company. In 2014 she was appointed CEO and in 2016, she took on the role of chairman. Her stellar... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
historical role of politics (and, indeed, of government) in business, economic production, distribution, and exchange. The artefacts of pre-modern and modern political economy, from the fourteenth through the twentieth centuries, remain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Launching a Career in Clean Energy
Peter Wallis (MBA 1985), the alum at Ameresco, ultimately took a chance on putting me in a role that was made for an entry-level engineer, but allowed me to learn the business from the ground up. After a year or so proving myself, the... View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
materialize. That’s far longer than the typical 18 months in asset management, the authors note. Deliberate hiring strategy Brown and Keith A. Lee, the firm’s longtime chief investment officer (who assumed the role of View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-120.pdf A Theory of Explicitly Formulated Strategy Authors:Eric J. Van den Steen Abstract When a CEO tries to formulate "a strategy," what is she looking for? What exactly is "a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
2006) + More Info – Less Info Can one be a fiduciary and invest sustainably? Are these roles at odds with one another other? What does it mean to be an ESG investor? In this session, we will use a case study on JP Morgan Private Bank to... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
Well-being: A Global Perspective By: De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Amy Blankson, Andrew Clark, Cary Cooper, James Harter, Christian Krekel, Jenn Lim, Paul Litchfield, Jennifer Moss, Michael I. Norton, Mariano Rojas, George Ward, and Ashley V. Whillans Abstract—Work and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
participation, a result also consistent with household self-reports. Several experiments find an important role for trust in insurance participation. We find mixed evidence that subtle psychological manipulations affect purchase and no... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210027-PDF-ENG VIZIO, Inc. Krishna G. Palepu and Liz KindHarvard Business School Case 110-024 William Wang, CEO of VIZIO, Inc., was proud of his company's success in providing affordable flat screen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
Typically, this performance is thought to be a characteristic of the firm, not the CEO who happens to run the firm. In contrast to this conventional wisdom, we find that equity issues depend on changes in Q and returns to a greater extent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
entrepreneur, advised them in his role as a Harvard i-lab mentor. “We are in debt to him because he changed the trajectory for us,” says Jung. She adds that working at the i-lab with a network of advisors, faculty, and staff was critical... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
evidence. This paper analyzes the role of third-party information for VAT enforcement through two randomized experiments among over 400,000 Chilean firms. Announcing additional monitoring has less impact on transactions that are subject... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online
Highlights The T-Shaped Leader Time Allocation Exercise Transitioning to a New Role Show Hide Details Concepts Capital "L" Leadership Transitioning to a New Role Featured Exercises Learning Path Tool... View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Convergence, and Economic Performance By: Delgado, Mercedes, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern Abstract—This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in regional industry performance. On the one hand, diminishing returns... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne