women in business - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Nov 2014
News

Giving women more control over their biological clocks

Reproductive technology pioneer Christy Jones (MBA 2004) founded Extend Fertility in 2004 to enable women to freeze their eggs and then utilize them when the time is right. (Published November 2014) View Details

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

ahead for Japan's business leaders and for global companies operating in Japan. Rohit Deshpande, Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing The culture of Japan tends to be outer directed. Thus, taking care... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

18 May 2015
News

The impact working women have on their kids

February 1995 (Revised October 1995)
Case

Doing Business in a Distributed World: Clients, Servers, and the Stuff in Between

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Geoffrey Bock

Examines business computing as it is evolving in the 1990s. Compares the highly centralized and tightly controlled systems of the past with today's flexible, networked, client/server technology. Serves as an introduction to client/server terminology and technology. View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Performance Improvement; Transformation; Technological Innovation; Business Strategy; Adoption; Information Technology Industry

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February 2024 (Revised February 2025)
Case

Doing Business in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

By: Karen G. Mills, Allison H. Mnookin, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Shu Lin, Julianne Bliss and Morgane Herculano

Le Thi Thu Thuy, Vice Chairwoman of Vingroup, the largest private conglomerate in Vietnam, and Global CEO of VinFast, Vingroup’s automotive subsidiary established in 2017, was contemplating VinFast’s future strategy. Domestically, the EV market in Vietnam was in its... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Global Strategy; Emerging Markets; Business Strategy; Infrastructure; Competition; Auto Industry; Viet Nam

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20 Feb 2017
News

MBAs in space: rocket science absorbs business school thinking

04 May 2023
Blog Post

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

Nonstop flights generally make traveling more pleasant—but can they lead to innovation, too, especially in the global context? Research suggests that they can, with important takeaways for managers reinstating View Details

Keywords: All Industries

1978
Chapter

Changing Organizational Constraints: Toward Promoting Equal Opportunity and Treatment for Women in Public Service Systems

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Equality and Inequality; Public Sector; Service Operations; Gender

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January 1999 (Revised August 1999)
Background Note

Doing Business in Russia: Note on Negotiating in the "Wild East"

By: James K. Sebenius and Randall A Fine

Based on an MBA's experience, this anecdotal note explores cross-border negotiations between U.S. executives and Russian counterparts. The first section guides the reader through general aspects of the Russian market. Next follows a characterization of the Russian... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Problems and Challenges; Negotiation Style; Decisions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Negotiation Participants; Russia; United States

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08 Jan 2016

HBS Africa Business Club Event in Casablanca

Join current students and alumni in Casablanca on Friday, January 8, 2016 from 6-8 PM. During the event you will have the opportunity to learn more about the MBA Program. View Details

01 Nov 2022

Harvard Business School Information Session in Lagos

Hosted by Chad Losee, Managing Director, HBS MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, this event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS through the voices of HBS alumni and other community members. Whether you are just... View Details

31 Oct 2022

Harvard Business School Information Session in Abuja

Hosted by Chad Losee, Managing Director, HBS MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, this event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS through the voices of HBS alumni and other community members. Whether you are just... View Details

January 2019
Teaching Note

The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A)

By: William R. Kerr, Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman and Donald Maruyama

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spring 1996
Article

Pathways to Business Success in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: James E. Austin, W. Cohn and J. Quelch

Keywords: Success; Africa

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2011
Book

Challenges to Business in the Twenty-First Century

By: Gerald Rosenfeld, Jay W. Lorsch and Rakesh Khurana

Keywords: Problems and Challenges

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fall 2001
Article

News Is Strategic in the Newspaper Business

By: Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Strategy; Media; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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2023
Book

Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia

By: Meg Rithmire

Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian regimes. Many accounts of rapid growth alongside monopolies on political power have focused on crony relationships... View Details

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Systems; Crime and Corruption; China; Indonesia; Malaysia