Far East Organization - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 21, 2007

Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507036 Earthbound Farm Harvard Business School Case 807-061 Describes a set of decisions confronting the senior management of Earthbound Farm, the largest View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

your ultimate goal, then you can try to think through: Where might you make investments? Where might you make decisions? Where might you prioritize one constituency over another? Because you’re clear about what it is that you as an View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

01 Mar 2006
News

The Real Conflict

words of Robert Solow, a Nobel laureate in economics and an adviser to the study, “By far the most important factor in that growth is Wal-Mart.” Second, most of the value created by the company is actually pocketed by its customers in the... View Details

Keywords: Pankaj Ghemawat; Ken A. Mark; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

23 May 2018
News

Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003

no surprise in light of his natural ability to relate to others. Howard grew up in East Texas, a region that he, the great-great-grandson of a slave, observes, “wasn’t necessarily the most racially progressive place in 1969.” The second... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Gulf using a combination of social psychology, public policy, and post-colonial feminist lenses. She has published in Organization Science , Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Contexts, and Idafat: Arab... View Details

19 Jun 2014
Blog Post

Exploring the World of Retail as an Intern at Walmart

consulting, and while I learned a ton, I wanted to see some execution. Thus, I knew I needed to work in industry rather than any sort of services firm, and I soon decided that I wanted to see what a large corporate environment would be like. As View Details

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

School prepared for the next century. We assembled forums of a dozen or more executives in Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and the US, gave them a package of graphic projections of the global economy in 2030, and spent an evening and a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2015
News

Leading Boston and Beyond

have found their passion in municipal government. “You’d be hard pressed to find any position where you are a senior manager of a $3 billion organization that impacts people so directly,” says Koh. “There is no greater meaning in life... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
Case

Careem: Base Camp or Mountain Peak? Designing an OS for Scaling

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Gamze Yucaoglu and Alpana Thapar

This case focuses on designing a fast growing organization. It is part of a two-case set that is taught together to cover the scaling journey.
Careem, a Dubai-based ride-hailing service aimed to ‘simplify and improve the lives of people, and build an awesome... View Details

Keywords: Scale; Values; Rights; Operating Systems; Business Startup; Transportation; Organizational Design; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Organizational Culture; Values and Beliefs; Decision Making; Managerial Roles; Dubai; United Arab Emirates; Middle East

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14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Winners and Losers at the Olympics

group of athletes. But as far as endorsements are concerned in the long run, he's hurt by the fact that speedskating isn't on TV very much. Michelle Kwan has everything going for her, but when, for whatever reason, you're not able to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Stephen A. Greyser; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

Portrait Project

Michael Echenberg

In the middle of October in 1921, Franz Kafka wrote in his diary, "Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. If you summon it by the right... View Details

30 May 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Sound Society

Coachella. Finally, we co-hosted an amazing event with the Entertainment & Media Club that featured a performance by the band COLDCALL. We sold several hundred tickets to their performance at Middle East Downstairs, and it was the... View Details

12 Apr 2011
News

Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

'03 David Merle, MBA '03 Superdome building integrated photovoltaics India HBS Club of India Vikram Sharma, MBA '06 Crossover Energy sustainable energy services Latin America HBS Club of Brazil Thomaz Srougi, GMP 6 2009 Dr. Consulta affordable healthcare solutions... View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

03 Apr 2017
Blog Post

The International Experience at HBS

experience in one of these places and therefore bring a completely different perspective. It is very easy to make friends within the section “family” at HBS (something I was concerned about before arriving)- but also outside the section through student clubs View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Social Enterprise Visionary

School, and social enterprise organizations all over the world has far exceeded my fondest dreams.” Following an April 13 SEI Advisory Board luncheon in Spangler Center honoring Whitehead, Thomas Tierney... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2003
News

Ruling from the Bench

imagine Snyder in a far more genteel setting than this drab, brown, Depression-era room on the 13th floor of 100 Centre Street on the city’s Lower East Side. Yet no one who has followed Snyder’s remarkable... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

02 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Uncovering the Virtual Advantage at Humana

previous two months began receiving phone calls about internship cancellations. Difficult choices were made all around as organizations and students scrambled to pivot in a landscape that remained uncertain. Yet, for Humana, a Fortune 500... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health-Related Services

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Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program | MBA

fall into poverty because the outbreak was taking away lives, sources of income, foreign investment, and community stability. My short-term response to the outbreak was to coordinate donations in cash and volunteer hours to organizations... View Details

23 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

in state industries—became a closed caste, an industrial elite with hereditary jobs, and with privileges and security far above that of their rural cousins. If anything, the gap between urban and rural identities became greater. And the... View Details

Keywords: by William C. Kirby

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