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15 Dec 2023
News

The Musts of 2023

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details

17 Jul 2024
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Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

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as a marketing executive for Scott Paper Company. When the president of MIT approached him, he accepted a position as assistant director of the... View Details

February 2017 (Revised January 2018)
Case

Womenomics in Japan

By: Boris Groysberg, Mayuka Yamazaki, Nobuo Sato and David Lane

This case profiles Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's vigorous attempts to revive Japan's economy, specifically by advocating for a larger role for women in the economy—not as a matter of social policy or gender equity per se, but as an essential element of any solution to... View Details

Keywords: Gender Equality; Japan; Leadership; Government-business Relations; Shinzo Abe; Economic Growth; Aging Society; Womenomics; Abenomics; Labor Market Discrimination; Workplace Culture; Women And Leadership; Change Management; Leading Change; Gender; Business and Government Relations; Growth and Development; Employment; Working Conditions

September 2012
Article

The Unwanted Self: Projective Identification in Leaders' Identity Work

By: Gianpiero Petriglieri and Mark Stein

This paper employs a psychodynamic perspective to examine the development and maintenance of a leader's identity, building on the premise that such identity work involves both conscious and unconscious processes. We focus on the latter by suggesting that those in... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Identity

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Field Course: Field Y: Projects in Business Management - Course Catalog

time and attention, library and computer access); advice from your peers in a structured environment; and devoted blocks of time during your EC year to move your business... View Details

September 2009 (Revised December 2009)
Supplement

The Future of Iraq Project (B)

By: Noel Maurer and Sogomon Tarontsi

The first round of bidding on the rights to develop Iraq's oil field did not go as planned. All the bidding groups wanted to charge a fee per barrel that the Iraqi government considered too high. As a result, the Iraqi government conducted the auction a second time,... View Details

Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Foreign Direct Investment; Contracts; Auctions; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; Iraq

11 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Meet the MBA Class of 2020

University PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE The Coca-Cola Co., Eurasia Africa Group, Pacemaker International, Teach for China Jacob Meiner “I WANT TO GET SMACK-DAB IN View Details

19 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

In recent conversations with US executives doing business in China, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Roy Y.J. Chua heard about a new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Feb 2001
News

The Doctor Is In

the hallways, patients and their families mingle with physicians in loose-fitting scrubs making their rounds, earnest administrators with armfuls View Details

Keywords: healthcare; Health, Social Assistance

MARTINEZ-RODRIGUEZ, S. “Mistresses of Company Capital: Female Partners in Multiowner Firms, Spain (1886-1936)"

Contrary to the impression put forth in the literature, Spanish women at the turn of the twentieth century played an active and visible role in the business sphere. Using a unique database containing microdata on the founders of Spanish multi-owner firms from... View Details

July 2003 (Revised September 2003)
Case

Refinancing of Shanghai General Motors (A), The

By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen

The CFO of General Motors' joint venture in Shanghai, Shanghai General Motors (SGM), wants to refinance almost $900 million of project finance it raised to begin operations. The highest priority is improving the terms of the financing with regard to costs and specific... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Joint Ventures; Financing and Loans; Auto Industry; Shanghai

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

want to congratulate you on being the richest man in the world." He had come a long way from $1.20 a week. Not every giant of enterprise... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

April 2021
Case

The Clean Network and the Future of Global Technology Competition

By: Meg Rithmire and Courtney Han

In May 2019, amidst of an ever-worsening trade war between the U.S. and China, President Donald Trump added Chinese telecom giant Huawei to the Department of Commerce’s “entity list,” essentially forbidding American firms from doing business with the company. Huawei,... View Details

Keywords: 5G; Telecommunications; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Trade; Competition; International Relations; Telecommunications Industry; China