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A Campus Built on Philanthropy | About

life.” George F. Baker Founding Gift George F. Baker & Wallace B. Donham Donham’s vision, George F. Baker’s (1840-1931) extraordinary gift, and an inspired collaboration between architects McKim, Mead & White and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted led to the... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

dollar construction project, we identify dimensions, antecedents, and behavioral consequences of risky trust. Undertaken in the U.S. construction industry, a context known for its lack of trust, our study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details
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Executive Education - Global

deepen my expertise." Zoya Sakr Co-Founder and Group Editor in Chief Online Lifestyle Network (OLN), UAE "The way the professors look at complex issues and draw out applicable lessons is nothing short of magic." Jad Karam Chief Executive Officer Sarooj View Details
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How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Jada Haynes - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

is in different areas of business—telecommunications, security, and high-end IT—and is very interested in becoming a contractor in the emerging homeland security construct in America. With Li Ka-shing, the threat to success is his... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • June 2021
  • Article

Deals in the Time of Pandemic

By: Guhan Subramanian and Caley Petrucci
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new attention to the period between signing and closing in M&A transactions. Transactional planners heavily negotiate the provisions that govern the behavior of the parties during this window, not only to allocate risk between the... View Details
Keywords: Takeovers; COVID-19; Material Adverse Effect; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Pandemics
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  • October 2018 (Revised July 2019)
  • Case

Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up

By: Leslie K. John, Mitchell Weiss and Julia Kelley
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

By the time Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, began hosting a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session in January 2018, he had only nine months remaining to convince the people... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; CivicTech; Smart Cities; City Innovation; Government Innovation; Privacy; Sidewalk Labs; Dan Doctoroff; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Consumer Behavior; Governance; Business and Government Relations; Innovation and Invention; Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Transportation Industry; Real Estate Industry; Canada
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  • January 2018
  • Case

Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.

By: Boris Groysberg, Matthew G. Preble and Katherine Connolly Baden
In April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi, CEO and CFO (respectively) of Kids & Company, a Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise, are discussing how the company should proceed... View Details
Keywords: Child Care; Childcare; Day Care; Daycare; Early Childhood Education; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Leadership; Marketing; Product Marketing; Brands and Branding; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Product Design; Product Development; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Selection and Staffing; Customer Focus and Relationships; Entrepreneurship; Service Industry; Education Industry; United States; Canada
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  • 2013
  • Dissertation

Firm-to-Firm Matching Along the Global Supply Chain

By: Raluca Dragusanu
This paper examines the matching patterns between buyers and sellers at different stages of the global production chain. I construct a new dataset, which links firm-level information on Indian manufacturing exporters from the CMIE-Prowess database with firm-level... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain; Relationships; Trade; United States; India
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  • June 2014
  • Article

Acquirer-Target Social Ties and Merger Outcomes

By: Joy Ishii and Yuhai Xuan
This paper investigates the effect of social ties between acquirers and targets on merger performance. Using data on educational background and past employment, we construct a measure of the extent of cross-firm social connection between directors and senior executives... View Details
Keywords: Mergers; Acquisitions; Social Ties; Social Connections; Mergers and Acquisitions; Relationships; Outcome or Result
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  • 28 Sep 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Annelle Sheline, GWU

  • Research Summary

Airline Schedule Disruptions

Increasing congestion and frequent schedule disruptions throughout the National Air Transportation System, both at airports and en route, have led to significant flight and passenger delays. Professor Fearing's primary research focus is on measuring and reducing... View Details

Keywords: Performance Measurement; Air Transportation; Traffic Flow Management; Air Transportation Industry
  • July 2018
  • Case

LIXIL Group Corporation: Building a New Company in an Old Industry

By: Boris Groysberg and Akiko Kanno
In the spring of 2018, Kinya Seto, president and CEO of LIXIL Group Corporation, a major housing and building products and services company, called a meeting at the company’s head office in central Tokyo to discuss how to implement the new three-year strategic plan.... View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Leadership And Change Management; Consolidation; Change Management; Leadership; Global Strategy; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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  • 2012
  • Teaching Note

Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao and Hong Zhang
Founded in 2004, TGOOD is now the largest specialized developer and producer of cubicle-type transformation and distribution equipment in China, with the main products of outdoor cubicle-type power equipment supplemented by indoor switchgear cabinets, offered mainly to... View Details
Keywords: Human Resource Management; China; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Strategy; China
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    Michael A. Wheeler

    Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

    Keywords: construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction; construction
    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    The Evolution of Banking in the 21st Century: Evidence and Regulatory Implications

    By: Samuel Gregory Hanson, Victoria Ivashina, Laura Nicolae, Jeremy C. Stein, Adi Sunderam and Daniel K. Tarullo
    As revealed by the failures of three regional banks in the spring of 2023, bank runs are not a thing of the past. To inform the ongoing discussion of the appropriate regulatory response, we examine trends in the banking industry over the last twenty-five years. On the... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Instruments; Financial Crisis; Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Condition; Banking Industry
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    • November 2022
    • Article

    A Language-Based Method for Assessing Symbolic Boundary Maintenance between Social Groups

    By: Anjali M. Bhatt, Amir Goldberg and Sameer B. Srivastava
    When the social boundaries between groups are breached, the tendency for people to erect and maintain symbolic boundaries intensifies. Drawing on extant perspectives on boundary maintenance, we distinguish between two strategies that people pursue in maintaining... View Details
    Keywords: Culture; Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing; Symbolic Boundaries; Organizations; Boundaries; Social Psychology; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture
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    • 2012
    • Case

    Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao and Hong Zhang
    Founded in 2004, TGOOD is now the largest specialized developer and producer of cubicle-type transformation and distribution equipment in China, with the main products of outdoor cubicle-type power equipment supplemented by indoor switchgear cabinets, offered mainly to... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Human Resource Management; Strategy; China; China
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      A New Approach to Building Your Personal Brand

      For better or worse, in today's world everyone is a brand. Whether you're applying for a job, asking for a promotion, or writing a dating profile, your success will depend on getting others to recognize your value. So, you need to get comfortable marketing yourself. In... View Details