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  • 2022
  • White Paper

The Partnership Imperative: Community Colleges, Employers, & America's Chronic Skills Gap

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Manjari Raman
The nature of work has changed dramatically across industries in the last few decades due to rapid and repeated waves of automation. Nowhere is this more evident than in middle-skills positions—those that require less than a four-year college degree but more than... View Details
Keywords: Future Of Work; Human Capital; Competency and Skills; Training; Higher Education; United States
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  • January 2025 (Revised April 2025)
  • Case

Doing Business in Cairo: Navigating a Path to Economic Resilience

By: A. Zelleke and Ahmed Dahawy
Egypt has long been a pivotal force in the Middle East and North Africa. Located at a crossroads of global trade routes, the country was a strategic partner for numerous regional and global powers. However, a substantial currency devaluation in 2016 brought many... View Details
Keywords: Egypt; Economy; Business; Country; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Inflation and Deflation; Macroeconomics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Economies and Regions; International Relations; Emerging Markets; Risk and Uncertainty; Culture; Egypt
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  • 12 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

"Dubai's answer to Pixar" in a recent magazine article, Lammtara's first animated television show, FREEJ, had taken the Arabian Gulf region by storm a year ago. It was November 2007, and the second season of FREEJ had aired... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Article

Why Every Organization Needs an Augmented Reality Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter and James E. Heppelmann
While the physical world is three-dimensional, most data is trapped on two-dimensional pages and screens. This gulf between the real and digital worlds prevents us from fully exploiting the volumes of information now available to us. Augmented reality (AR), a set of... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness
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  • Research Summary

Winning Coalitions

By: James K. Sebenius
James K. Sebenius is examining the most effective ways to generate and sustain cooperation among a corporations many stakeholders. As the number of stakeholders grows, and management actions more often involve players outside the traditional chain of command and... View Details

    John F. Batter

    John Batter is a retired Litigation Partner in the Boston Office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP where his practice focussed on on the defense of public and private companies and their directors and management against breach of fiduciary duty claims and... View Details

    • December 2010
    • Article

    Organising Response to Extreme Emergencies: The Victorian Bushfires of 2009

    By: Dutch Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt
    How can people and organisations best respond to emergency events that are significantly beyond the boundaries of what they had generally anticipated, expected, prepared for-or even imagined? What forms of organisations are likely to be best able to cope with such... View Details
    Keywords: Organizations; Management Practices and Processes; Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Boundaries; United States
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    • April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
    • Supplement

    Fleet Oil Company: An Exercise

    The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details
    Keywords: Business Headquarters; Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Non-Renewable Energy; Cost; Production; Performance Productivity; Research and Development; Energy Industry; Atlanta; Houston
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    • April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
    • Exercise

    Raptor Oil Company: An Exercise

    The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Cognition and Thinking; Prejudice and Bias; Strategy
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    • 21 Jun 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: June 21

    case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211080-PDF-ENG Drilling Safety at BP: The Deepwater Horizon Accident Stephen P. Kaufman and Laura WinigHarvard Business School Case 611-017 Following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico explosion and oil... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

    1955–1978 Michael R. Bloomberg Bloomberg, L. P., 1982–2001 Charles G. Bluhdorn Gulf and Western, 1958–1983 W. Michael Blumenthal Bendix Corporation, 1967–1976 William E. Boeing Boeing Company, 1916–1934 Harold Boeschenstein Owens-Corning... View Details
    • Web

    Strategy - Faculty & Research

    footprint or focus on expanding internationally beyond the Gulf and Jordan. The case explores platform strategy, influencer ecosystems, customer experience differentiation, and internationalization challenges in emerging markets. It is... View Details
    • Web

    Africa - Global

    localized logistics, and private label products to build a differentiated digital platform. Students must evaluate whether Boutiqaat should establish flagship stores to deepen its omnichannel retail footprint or focus on expanding internationally beyond the View Details
    • Web

    Middle East & North Africa - Global

    retail footprint or focus on expanding internationally beyond the Gulf and Jordan. The case explores platform strategy, influencer ecosystems, customer experience differentiation, and internationalization challenges in emerging markets.... View Details
    • 04 Feb 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

    International, 1998). According to Hayes and Vogel, business people, particularly Westerners who work in the Persian Gulf and other Islamic regions such as Asia and North Africa, need to appreciate the extent to which religion and Islamic... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 05 Jul 2023
    • News

    GCC Alumni Celebrate Grand Opening of New Club Center

    Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council recently marked the grand opening of "The House"—a new permanent club headquarters and collaborative space located in Dubai and open to all HBS alumni living in or... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley
    • Web

    Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets

    indicate about the respective market environments? How did business leaders in India, Chile and the Gulf respond to the liberalization of regulation in their respective countries? What challenges did liberalization present, and what... View Details
    • 03 Oct 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

    passenger operations on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts." He believed that his strong trucking company, combined with newly redesigned cargo ships, would become a formidable force in the transportation industry. Commenting on McLean's... View Details
    Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace
    • Web

    NVC Regions - Alumni

    Barcelona Denmark France Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Israel Spain Norway Sweden The Netherlands International Countries Argentina Chile Columbia Nigeria Brazil Egypt Lebanon Mexico Peru South Africa Turkey Gulf Cooperation Counsil... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Sneha Biswas

    once told me that I must study well because men want educated wives. So, I did. But somewhere along the journey, my goal shifted. I wasn’t doing it for a husband, but for the respect that women, like my mother, deserve. I worked on ships in the deep seas of View Details