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- 20 Feb 2013
- News
McKinsey Tries to Recruit Mothers Who Left the Fold
- 13 Oct 2017
- News
So, You Want to Join a Startup
- 08 Jan 2020
- News
Unpacking Amazon’s Workforce Development Strategy
- 06 Feb 2025
- Video
What Makes Deion Sanders an Effective Leader?
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
Neither Jeff Surette (MBA 2010) nor Mike Peters (MBA 2017) expected to be drafted onto a team with Tom Brady after business school. However, the perspectives, experience, and skills they each brought to the table were exactly what Tom... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 28 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School
skills into practice. The highly popular courses are driven by faculty research and industry connections, with locations around the world. Classes meet several times on campus throughout the fall and culminate in a six- to 14-day... View Details
- 2007
- Working Paper
Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment
By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Activity; Horizontal FDI; Vertical FDI; Stages Of Production; Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Foreign Direct Investment; Competency and Skills; Production
Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton. "Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13447, September 2007.
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Job requirements at the top of corporations have changed. Companies have come to expect much more from their C-level executives, who need new and different skills to deal with today's business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Aspa Lekka (MBA 2020) Talks Dreams of Becoming a CEO, Handball, and Her Hometown in Greece
Aspa Lekka (MBA 2020) was a member of the Greek National Team for handball. Upon realizing she had global ambitions of competing in a larger world, she ventured out to Berlin to join a startup as a business analyst despite her lack of knowledge and View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
- News
Out of the Classroom and Into the Street
Frank V. Cespedes
Frank Cespedes is Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He received his B.A. from the City College of New York, M.S. from M.I.T. and Ph.D. from Cornell University.
At Harvard, he has developed and taught a variety of MBA and executive... View Details
- October 1991 (Revised December 1993)
- Case
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, Inc.: Keeping the Mission(s) Alive
Ben & Jerry's is an anti-establishment, values-driven company that has become a successful venture. The dominant founder, Ben Cohen, is not an effective manager, but he brings creative marketing and product skills that have been important to the company's success. He... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Entrepreneurship; Compensation and Benefits; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Theroux, John B. "Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, Inc.: Keeping the Mission(s) Alive." Harvard Business School Case 392-025, October 1991. (Revised December 1993.)
- Research Summary
Institutions and Human Capital Development in the Indian IT Services Industry
Una's dissertation research examines how institutional contexts shape human resource practices and human capital development in knowledge intensive industries and their implications for long-term industry development and competitiveness.
Una uses field,... View Details
- December 13, 2017
- Article
What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager
By: Julia Austin
As an aspiring product manager (PM), there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies, Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. The best PMs have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for... View Details
Austin, Julia. "What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 13, 2017).
- 12 Jan 2013
- News
In Defense of the CEO
- 18 Apr 2018
- News
The Surprising Power of Questions
- 21 Jul 2016
- News
Women More Likely Than Men To Lead In Times Of Crisis
- 01 Jul 2016
- Video
Fixing America’s Talent Supply Chain
- 2020
- Chapter
The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy
By: William R. Kerr
Talent is the most precious resource for today’s knowledge-based economy, and a significant share of the U.S. skilled workforce in technology fields is foreign born. The United States has long held a leading position in attracting global talent, but the gap to other... View Details
Keywords: Global Talent Flows; Talent and Talent Management; Global Range; Immigration; Policy; Economy
Kerr, William R. "The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy." Chap. 1 in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 20, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, 1–37. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020.
- February 2009 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
Upgrading the Economy: Industrial Policy and Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry
By: Willy C. Shih and Jyun-Cheng Wang
The government-led creation and incubation of the semiconductor industry in Taiwan is a striking success for advocates of strong industrial policy. It has led to the island nation's domination of the global "foundry" business in which firms like Taiwan Semiconductor... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Industry Structures; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan
Shih, Willy C., and Jyun-Cheng Wang. "Upgrading the Economy: Industrial Policy and Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry." Harvard Business School Case 609-089, February 2009. (Revised December 2010.)