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  • August 2019
  • Case

Humanistic Capitalism at Brunello Cucinelli

By: Francesca Gino and Gary Pisano
This case explores one company’s attempt to experiment with a different underlying model for a capitalist enterprise. Brunello Cucinelli, S.p.A. is a leading manufacturer of luxury fashion apparel. Despite being a publicly traded enterprise with annual revenues... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Culture; Human Resource Practices; Growth; Growth Strategy; Motivation; Values; Fashion; Capitalism; Organizational Culture; Values and Beliefs; Human Resources; Management; Business Model; Policy; Behavior; Growth and Development Strategy; Luxury; Italy
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  • September 2020 (Revised October 2020)
  • Case

Briscola—Pizza Society: Scaling Affordable Luxury

By: Gary P. Pisano and Federica Gabrieli
Riccardo Cortese and Federico Pinna were the CEOs of Briscola—Pizza Society, a restaurant chain they had founded in 2014 with a clear ambition: create a distinctive international pizza chain that would combine a fast-casual format with the devotion to quality that... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Geographic Location; Business Model; Ownership Type; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; Italy
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  • 18 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

  Working PapersWhere Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained Authors:Shawn A. Cole, John Thompson, and Peter Tufano Abstract In this paper, we analyze the spending decisions of over 1.5 million Americans who vary in their degree of revealed credit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 2023
  • Article

The Effect of Firms' Information Exposure on Safeguarding Employee Health: Evidence from COVID-19

By: Lisa Yao Liu and Shirley Lu
We show that information exposure through international business networks enables firms to take proactive measures that benefit employees and potentially the local community. Specifically, in the early days of COVID-19, firms that have business networks with China and... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Networks; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Health Pandemics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • 2009
  • Book

Let Me Explain: Eugene G. Fubini's Life in Defense of America

By: David G. Fubini
There is no necessary relationship between fame and power, and great influence is often wielded in willful obscurity. So it was with the irascible, indomitable Eugene Fubini. A physics prodigy who fled Italy when the fascists came to power, his searing intelligence and... View Details
Keywords: Biography; Personal Development and Career; National Security; United States
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    Dante Roscini

    Dante Roscini holds the Professor of Management Practice Chair endowed by the MBA Class of 1952 at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2008 after a two-decades-long career in finance. He currently teaches the course Business, Government, and the... View Details

    • 31 Mar 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    What Do CEOs Do?

    Keywords: by Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat & Raffaella Sadun
    • March–April 2025
    • Article

    Getting Value from Digital Technologies

    By: Frank Cespedes and Georg Krentzel
    Companies need digital technologies in an omni-channel buying world where online and in-person interactions are complements, not either/or substitutes. Multi-channel hybrid sales solutions are required, but what are the key requirements for using the available... View Details
    Keywords: Sales; Technology Adoption; Competitive Advantage
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    Publications - Faculty & Research

    ; Italy Citation Related Gandhi, Vikram S., and David Allen. "SWEN Blue Ocean: Impact Investing Goes to Sea." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 325-063, June 2025. June 2025 Case (Family) Size Matters: Nico Oprée and the Decreasing... View Details

      Ray A. Goldberg

      A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.

      ... View Details

      Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; fast food; food; food processing; forest products; grocery; high technology; information; restaurant; retailing; soft drink; textiles; tobacco; transportation; wholesale; wine

        The Academy of Fisticuffs

        The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the eighteenth century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the nineteenth, they paradoxically... View Details

        • 09 Dec 2014
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Does Management Matter in Schools?

        Keywords: by Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun & John Van Reenen; Education
        • 01 Aug 2012
        • News

        Face Fears with Courage

        • 21 May 2024
        • Research & Ideas

        What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

        redistributive policies and a stronger welfare state support parties that have the opposite political agenda. “This is a factor that has led to the erosion of the link between economic need and support for left wing parties.” Layne: Your research in both View Details
        Keywords: by Rachel Layne

          Tarun Khanna

          Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details

            Max H. Bazerman

            Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His recent books... View Details
            Keywords: accounting industry; management consulting; pharmaceuticals

              Rosabeth M. Kanter

              Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

              Keywords: accounting industry; advertising; airline; apparel; arts; automobiles; banking; beauty products; beverage; biotechnology; broadcasting; chemical; clothing; communications; computer; consulting; consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; electrical equipment; electronics; entertainment; fashion; fast food; federal government; financial services; food; food processing; grocery; health care; high technology; hotels ＆ motels; industrial goods; information; information technology industry; insurance industry; internet; legal services; management consulting; manufacturing; medical supplies; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; professional services; publishing industry; real estate; recreation; restaurant; retail financial services; retailing; semiconductor; soft drink; software; sports; state government; telecommunications; textiles; tourism; toy; transportation; travel; utilities; wine
              • 08 Dec 2021
              • Blog Post

              The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital

              to move from Toronto, Canada to Maranello, Italy to join the Ferrari Product Development team and kick off his career in the automotive industry. However, this is not a story about Memme’s career designing engines for some of the top... View Details
              • Web

              Alumni - Global

              Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit By: Margie Kelley 23 Jan 2024 HBS Alumni News A Wide Net Former tennis star and investor Navroz Udwadia (MBA 2005) sees... View Details
              • 01 Sep 2023
              • News

              Preparing Global Leaders

              to offer need-based scholarships that encourage a diversity of thought in the classroom. The support that alumni and friends provide plays an essential role in HBS’s efforts to deepen the worldview of all members of its community. Global Outposts Expand HBS’s... View Details