Multinational Firms and Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2021
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Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges

faculty members. Finding “Hidden Workers” Even before the pandemic upended the workforce, American companies complained about the “skills gap” that left essential jobs unfilled while millions of Americans remained unemployed. HBS’s Project on View Details

01 Feb 2000
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

alumni and their spouses who are moving into a new career phase). This committee is looking at possible additions to these programs and how best to manage them given existing... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

01 Jun 1999
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Short Takes

only the costs for capital, labor, and traded goods but also social costs like the effect of air pollution on health or even the value people derive from the continued survival of an endangered species. At the same time, View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2006
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Forestalling Terror

and withhold by exception.” Have private-sector firms undergone similarly rapid, wholesale reinvention? I would say that IBM’s transformation under Lou Gerstner (MBA ’65), with its shift from hardware to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waleed Iskandar; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Mar 2010
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HBS Grads Make Their Mark in India

Amelio Child Care Founder and CEO Sridevi Raghavan (MBA ’08) Amelio is India’s first on-site child-care services provider. The company helps firms to analyze their employees’ child-care needs View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Funding His Purpose

the nonprofit sector. In addition to its lending platform, SITAWI offers philanthropic fund management and has partnered with a for-profit consulting firm that focuses on... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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What's Cookin'

venture capital firm when he and his wife, Lee Bendig (whom he describes as a “foodie”), decided to open a fresh pasta retail store in 1989 with a few seats for lunchtime customers. On the first day of... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

02 Jun 2015
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Pointing the Way to a Better World

start in school. They then show how these problems are being met with innovative solutions that can be supported by everyone. WuDunn took time away from her “day job” as managing director at Mid-Market Securities, a small New York... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 1998
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Generation Next

Family-owned companies account for more than two-thirds of all business around the globe. In fact, most of the world's largest and most influential business organizations are family-run. In the United States, for example, View Details

01 Dec 2009
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Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

HENDERSON: After two decades at MIT, she brings her interest in “green business” to HBS. Major technological shifts always pose a challenge to organizations, and Rebecca Henderson (MBA ’85, PhDBE ’88) has spent the last two decades... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2005
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A Primer on Patents

LERNER: Congress won’t address needed patent reforms until CEOs get involved in lobbying for change. Professor Josh Lerner, who holds a joint appointment in the School’s Finance and Entrepreneurial View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

Sharma (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Like other companies, family-run enterprises must develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills. But they must also manage family dynamics. The authors show how... View Details

18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit

programming for a life insurance company, and once he finished his law degree he stuck around and rose to become the firm’s secretary and general counsel. Along the way,... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

eventful. The lessons of their experience speak volumes for all of American industry, as firms large and small grapple with a host of new challenges that those beginning their careers in 1971 never... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life

benefit of the consumer and to learn what they need, rather than to sell them standardized products, consumer financial firms can forge a stronger relationship with their customers View Details

Keywords: Omer Ismail (MBA 2007), chief commercial officer, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, the firm’s digital consumer financial services business; Finance

17 Oct 2019
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Venturing Away from Venture Capital

even some investors—including Eric Paley (MBA 2003), managing partner of seed-stage fund Founder Collective—have been speaking openly about the downside of venture capital, cautioning that it should be regarded as only one of many... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Oct 1997
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Doing Something Real

not Cambridge, the heart of academia, but business-like Boston, seat of august money managers and the then-hottest management consulting firm... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)

01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes

Middle East, running a huge sovereign wealth fund, took it over. He was a royal family member. And I had never met him before, so I was going to be the first person who managed money for this giant... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away

capital management company and the first software-as-a-service application for enterprises to manage contract workers. It had $2 million in revenues at the time of investment.... View Details

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