Business or Company Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

them beyond what’s done by traditional academic papers. This article originally appeared in the HBS Alumni Bulletin. You Might Also Like: How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact 9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

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Planned Giving - Alumni

lifetime or at your passing, while also fulfilling your tax, estate, and/or financial planning goals. What is the School’s Federal Tax Identification Number? HBS gifts are managed under the umbrella of... View Details

04 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

This realization led her to pursue inclusion program manager roles at Netflix and later at Amazon. “Each transition has been about a question that needed to be answered or a problem that needed to be... View Details

26 May 2022
HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

expectation that a company will have a position on social and political issues." A Harvard Business School case study and its revision, Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (A) and (B), illustrates the complex... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

Editor's note: In its March issue, Harvard Business Review contributes a special section, "Reinventing America: Why the World Needs the US to Bounce Back." We reprint here the introduction written by Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

17 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

that CEOs take home versus average employee pay is taking on added importance in 2018, as public companies in the United States are mandated for the first time to disclose pay ratios between the CEO and employees. Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets

Negativity spreads faster than positivity online, and news organizations at both ends of the political spectrum are leveraging this tendency on Twitter, according to a new study. To test whether the broadcast news adage, “If it bleeds, it leads,” persists in the social... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Media & Broadcasting

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November 1996 (Revised December 1996)
Case

SAP America

By: David A. Garvin and Artemis March

SAP America has grown at an explosive rate. This case describes the company's strategy, organization, and culture, with special attention to its approach to partnering and its sales and consulting process, which have been instrumental in allowing growth to proceed. Now... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Demand and Consumers; Organizational Culture; Alliances; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; United States

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Suppliermarket Jon Burgstone Asif Satchu Brad Loftus Business Track Runner-Up Improves the efficiency of supply chain management for mid-size and small manufacturing companies... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund

area of for-profit hospital management and the company that established the HCA Foundation. HBS has many ties to the Frist family: Thomas F. Frist III (MBA ’97), William R. Frist (MBA ’01), Julie Damgard... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

11 Oct 2023
News

Soldier On

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details

September 2005 (Revised August 2008)
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Philip McCrea: Once an Entrepreneur...(A)

By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean

In the spring of 2005, an exhausted Philip McCrea, president and CEO of software development company VitesseLearning, reflects on the demands of his successful start-up and his desire to be closer to his growing family. Profiles the youth, career, family life,... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Family and Family Relationships; Opportunities; Motivation and Incentives

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24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

IT-savvy business executive—either a CEO or a top manager who has overseen the use of IT to gain strategic advantage in another organization. The expert's job is to challenge... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

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, and launched digital... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Student Research - Doctoral

Student Research Student Research Examining critical issues in management Featured Research Transferability MATTRs: Towards Understanding Antecedents of Strategic Licensing By: Dafna F. Bearson and Maria P. Roche 18 MAR 2025 | Faculty &... View Details

26 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Driving Change in Education-to-Employment

young people and companies in need of skills. Year Up’s core program offers skills training and a six-month internship in high-growth fields like IT, Business Operations, and Finance. To date, the... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

president of Ava Labs, a Web3 company that helps traditional businesses use crypto-based innovations in their products. When he was a student at HBS, Wu couldn’t have imagined such a business. Ava Labs built... View Details

Keywords: April White

12 May 2023
News

Alabama's Yella Fella

Photo credit: Auburn University Photo credit: Auburn University In 1970, Jimmy Rane (OPM 11, 1986) took over a tiny treated-lumber business in Abbeville, Alabama, that was hovering near bankruptcy. Its owners, Rane's in-laws, had died suddenly in a car accident. Over... View Details

Keywords: Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods; Wholesale Trade

February 2012
Article

A 'Core Periphery' Framework to Navigate Emerging Market Governments—Qualitative Evidence from a Biotechnology Multinational

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, James Geraghty and Tarun Khanna

We build on the emerging literature of influence-based models to study how multinational firms can navigate host governments. Our "core-periphery" framework posits that the actions that an MNC takes with actors in what we call the "periphery"—comprised of state,... View Details