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real-time experimentation close to the work itself, and may be more willing to learn innovative methods that conflict with traditional identities and norms. [...] In our study conducted with Boston Consulting Group, we interviewed 78 such... View Details
  • January 2025
  • Case

Index and Active investing: Vanguard and the New Frontier of Active ETFs

By: Marco Sammon, Luis M. Viceira and Jonathan Kanagasabai
This case explores Vanguard’s strategic decision-making process as it considers entering the growing market for actively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Set in 2024, the case places students in the position of Rodney Comegys, Vanguard’s global head of the Equity... View Details
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  • 06 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

global marketplace, it is imperative for multinational organizations to have clear language strategies. Neeley has coauthored a September Harvard Business Review article with HBS Professor of Management Practice Robert Steven Kaplan on... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

hypotheses and mixed support for our third: organizational infrastructure and identity significantly affect practice adoption, albeit in different ways, but only marginal support for leadership and elite organizational status. Our results... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2016
  • News

Entrepreneurship Needs to Be a Bigger Part of U.S. Foreign Aid

  • March 2009 (Revised June 2010)
  • Case

TOTO: The Bottom Line

TOTO, the leading manufacturer of toilets in Japan, is struggling to penetrate the U.S. market with its premier bidet-toilets, which are present in 63% of homes in Japan. The case examines the behavioral, cultural, and institutional barriers that TOTO faces in gaining... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Disruptive Innovation; Product Positioning; Market Entry and Exit; Organizational Culture; Consumer Products Industry; Japan; United States
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The Future of Economic, Business, and Social History

By: G. Jones, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen and Stephen Broadberry
Three leading scholars in the fields of business, economic, and social history review the current state of these disciplines and reflect on their future trajectory. Geoffrey Jones reviews the development of business history since its birth at the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Economic History; Business History; History; Asia; Africa; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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  • February 2009 (Revised April 2011)
  • Case

Yahoo! in China (A)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Daniel Baer
In 2007 Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo!, was lambasted by U.S. Representative Tom Lantos, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, for Yahoo's role in the arrest and imprisonment of Chinese journalist and democracy advocate Shi Tao. The case describes the... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Compliance; Laws and Statutes; Rights; Business and Government Relations; Internet; Information Technology Industry; China; United States
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    Ryan L. Raffaelli

    Ryan Raffaelli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the MBA course "Leadership: Execution and Action Planning" (LEAP) and serves... View Details

    Keywords: publishing industry; advertising; consulting; information technology industry; grocery; nonprofit industry; retailing; consumer products; federal government

      Michael L. Tushman

      Michael Tushman holds degrees from Northeastern University (B.S.E.E.), Cornell University (M.S.), and the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. (Ph.D.). Tushman was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, from 1976 to 1998 where he was... View Details

      • 24 Jan 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in US Communities

      Keywords: by András Tilcsik & Christopher Marquis
      • 16 Aug 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization

      Keywords: by Karthik Ramanna; Accounting
      • Research Summary

      Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment (joint with Andrew Charlton)

      By: Laura Alfaro
      We identify a new type of vertical foreign direct investment (FDI) made up of multinational subsidiaries producing intermediate inputs, which are of similar skill intensity to the final goods produced by their parents, and which are overwhelmingly located in high skill... View Details
      • 02 Jan 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      10 Trends to Watch in 2024

      The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • Web

      Clubs - Alumni

      Clubs Global network, local connections. 105. That’s how many alumni clubs, identity and industry associations and Harvard Club affiliates in 51 countries are already networking and serving their... View Details
      • Web

      Placement - Doctoral

      Performance in Healthcare Delivery Advisors: Robert S. Huckman , Guy David , and Ariel D. Stern Close Management 2023 Laura Weimer Management, 2023 Placement: United States Military Academy at West Point (2024-) Dissertation: The dynamic nature of leader View Details
      • 20 Jan 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

      perspectives might the wealthy businessman draw on as he transitions from CEO to commander in chief? To get a better sense of the months ahead, The Gazette asked Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty members how Trump’s nearly 50 years of experience in building a View Details
      Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
      • 06 Dec 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: Dec. 6

      as identity work and show how subtle forms of gender bias in the culture and in organizations interfere with the identity work of women leaders. Based on this insight, we revisit traditional approaches to... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 23 Jan 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: January 23, 2008

      answers to secure donations. Blonde and Blue-eyed? Globalizing Beauty, c.1945-c.1980 Author:Geoffrey Jones Periodical:Economic History Review 61, no. 1 (February 2008) Abstract This article examines the View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • March 2025
      • Article

      Novice Risk Work: How Juniors Coaching Seniors on Emerging Technologies Such as Generative AI Can Lead to Learning Failures

      By: Katherine C. Kellogg, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo, Ethan Mollick, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon and Karim R. Lakhani
      The literature on communities of practice demonstrates that a proven way for senior professionals to upskill themselves in the use of new technologies that undermine existing expertise is to learn from junior professionals. It notes that juniors may be better able... View Details
      Keywords: Rank and Position; Competency and Skills; Technology Adoption; Experience and Expertise; AI and Machine Learning
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