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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
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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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    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)
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    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)
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    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
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    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
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    Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

    from Kuwait and the broader Middle East. Alghanim is the CEO of Alghanim Industries, a multinational firm that is one of the largest privately owned companies in the Gulf region. He is also chairman of Gulf... 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 visiting the Gulf region. According to... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley
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    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
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    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
    • 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
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    Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

    Army Reserve where he achieved the rank of Captain, Mr. Meakem also volunteered for and served in the 1991 Gulf War. Mr. Meakem holds a B.A. cum laude from Harvard University, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and an Honorary... View Details
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    Events - Private Capital Project

    Events Events The Evolution of the Gulf Investor October 8, 2024, “The Evolution of the Gulf Investor” drew out perspectives from general and limited partners to explore the regional private capital... View Details
    • 20 Dec 2010
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    Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

    transporting Asia-bound exports down to the Gulf and through the canal and shipping them out to Seattle by land. Conversely, eastern-bound cargoes no longer consisted of strategic raw materials from California but inexpensive manufactured... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
    • 22 Feb 2024
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    GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

    Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley
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    The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

    Medium-High 70 1970 s 19 OPEC oil crisis Vietnam War ends Iran hostage crisis Imports outpace exports Influence: Medium-High 80 1980 s 19 Berlin wall falls End of cold war Iran-Contra Affair Influence: High 90 1990 s USSR dismantled; ethnic conflicts exposed View Details