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14 Sep 2016
Blog Post

The Alumni Network at HBS

My name is Carl Culicchia and I am from Madisonville, LA. I went to Middlebury College for my undergraduate degree and worked for a private equity firm prior to HBS. I came to HBS because I thought it was the best next step to further my... View Details

17 Feb 2011
News

Field Report: Rwanda

middle ground of companies that employ 50 to 100 people — somewhere between the nonprofit that would get help from USAID and bigger, for-profit firms served by traditional consulting companies.” For his project, Barry teamed up with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

15 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

proprietary software portfolios to invest in open source software (OSS) projects that can sometimes seem unrelated to their core business. "This new reality upends the classic rules of strategy," Iansiti says, "and it's changing the way technology View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

01 Dec 2002
News

What You Know Depends on Where You Go

were largely gained in the trenches of a multiyear research project with Professor Tarun Khanna that explores the implications of conglomerate business structures in emerging markets. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, research showed that diversified U.S. and European... View Details

May 2003
Case

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

By: John A. Quelch

Didier Cherpitel, CEO of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), is implementing a new strategy that will fundamentally change the role of its International Secretariat. The organization is in the early stages of implementing a best... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Brands and Branding

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December 2009
Article

Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment

By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton

We use a new firm-level dataset that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries. Using a combination of four-digit-level information and input-output tables, we find the share of vertical FDI (subsidiaries that provide... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Competency and Skills; Foreign Direct Investment; Geographic Location; Multinational Firms and Management; Industry Structures; Production

June 2003 (Revised December 2003)
Case

Cathay Pacific: Doing More with Less

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Fred Young

This case explores the various aspects of information technology that can be outsourced. Cathay Pacific outsourced a significant part of its vital operations from Hong Kong to Sydney, Australia. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Globalization; Globalized Firms and Management; Information Technology Industry; Hong Kong; Sydney

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2003
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Managing Across Borders: New Organizational Responses

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53786 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Scope versus Speed: Team Diversity, Leader Experience, and Patenting Outcomes for Firms By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Martine R. Haas... View Details

04 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 4

India on firm size dynamics and reallocation of resources within industries. Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, and the left-hand tail of the firm size distribution thickens... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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LSEG Workspace | Baker Library

transaction data, corporate filings, ownership profiles and sell-side equity research. Note: After Market Research (AMR) from several highly ranked investment firms are not included in LSEG Workspace access (ex. Sanford Bernstein, Goldman... View Details

17 Mar 2017
News

Schwarzman on Blackstone and the Value of an MBA

(via Poets & Quants) (via Poets & Quants) Many b-school students covet a career like the one Steve Schwarzman (MBA 1972) has had. He became a managing director at Lehman Brothers when he was 31. Seven years later, he cofounded Blackstone, an investment View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Sep 2015
News

Clubs: Capital Improvements

president and COO of global private equity firm The Carlyle Group. Youngkin, the recipient of the club’s first alumni achievement award, participated in a panel discussion on the changing face of business in DC with Jean Case, CEO of the... View Details

Keywords: April White

Career Coach

Kesha Kanakiya

candidates for her firm and can share candid observations on the lifestyle and how to succeed on the job; 2) PE Ops – Kesha interned in this field over the summer and has tactical tips to share on the interview process and industry... View Details

02 Nov 2020
Blog Post

WE RISE

private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found that just 1 percent were Black;... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity

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Managing Customers for Growth - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Managing Customers for Growth Course Number 1965 Professor Eva Ascarza Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Project Overview: Without customers, there is no business! Managing Customers for Growth (MCG) focuses on how View Details

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

(BSSE) course is a second-year elective that aspires to teach aspects of the management of innovation, strategy, and growth of a firm from the perspective of the general manager. The central puzzle in this course – and something we will... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Ronald P. Mitchell

Frederick Douglass and Fannie Lou Hamer." More immediately, however, Mitchell, who has worked at his father's firm as well as at McKinsey & Co., the Anschutz Corporation, and Morgan Stanley, will join Provender Capital Group, LLC, a... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Oct 2001
News

New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell

Peter Wendell In 1982, with almost a decade of experience at IBM under his belt, Peter Wendell went "searching for the country's next IBMs," as he puts it. Enlisting the help of some friends (including classmate Gil Lamphere), he founded Sierra Ventures, a venture... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Finance

June 2008 (Revised August 2008)
Case

World Wildlife Fund US

By: Jane Wei-Skillern and Kerry Herman

World Wildlife Fund US is a leading international conservation nonprofit that operates within a global network of WWF organizations. This case examines WWF US's strategy to achieve its mission of protecting natural wildlife and resources. In contrast to traditional... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Environmental Sustainability; Nonprofit Organizations; Social and Collaborative Networks; Trust; Integration; Sumatra; United States

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