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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 22 Sep 2021
    • Blog Post

    Meet LASO: The HBS Latino Student Organization

    encourage more Latino prospective students to apply. Thirdly, a new initiative, LASO Scholars, is our way of giving back to the Latinx community by pairing HBS students with local high school students. The goal of LASO Scholars is to... View Details
    • February 2013 (Revised September 2013)
    • Case

    Elasto Therm: The Next Step

    By: Jim Sharpe and James Weber
    Julia and Nate Burstein were living their dream running their own business and balancing the demands between their work and family obligations while creating a company that was responsive to their employees' and their customers' needs. The Bursteins had joined a large... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Pricing; Pricing Policies; Pricing Strategy; Pricing Structure; Sales Force Management; Acquisitions; Work/family Balance; Family-owned Business; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Work-Life Balance; Manufacturing Industry; Rubber Industry; United States
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    • 01 Feb 1997
    • News

    Doing It Your Way

    sitting in his Baker Library office amidst drifting piles of correspondence - much of it from bright, young HBS grads describing their hopeful new business ideas. As he considers what the hottest fields for entrepreneurs have been these... View Details
    Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)
    • 03 Apr 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: April 3

    goal of residency training. The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Publication:In The Rate and Direction of Inventive... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 13 Sep 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Nirupama Rao, NYC Wagner School of Public Service

    • 13 Sep 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Nirupama Rao, NYU Wagner School of Public Service

    • 21 Nov 2018
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Square's Hidden History

    1974, Rolling Stone music critic Jon Landau walked into a show at the now-defunct Harvard Square Theater on Church Street and saw a young Bruce Springsteen play an opening set for Bonnie Raitt. Struck by the... View Details
    • March 2025
    • Case

    Sarojini Naidu: Courage of the Nightingale

    By: Ranjay Gulati, Malini Sen and Anjali Raina
    Indian poet and freedom fighter and mother of four, Sarojini (Chattopadhyay) Naidu, could not hold back. As the protestors marched ahead without retaliating against the police’s blows, she stepped forward to join them. A British officer approached Naidu and touched her... View Details
    Keywords: Gender; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence; Government and Politics; India; Asia
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    • October 2003 (Revised January 2004)
    • Case

    Burberry

    By: Youngme E. Moon, Erika Kussmann, Emma Penick, Susan Wojewoda and Kerry Herman
    In 2003, Rose Marie Bravo, Burberry's CEO, is debating how to maintain the currency and cachet of the brand across its broad customer base, while entering new product categories and expanding distribution. In the past five years, the brand has become one of the hottest... View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Management Teams; Luxury; Product Launch; Distribution; Product Positioning; Advertising; Market Entry and Exit; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; United Kingdom
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    • 2018
    • Introduction

    Introduction: History and Political Economy

    By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
    This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis, and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Government and Politics; History
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    • February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
    • Supplement

    Jieliang Phone Home! (C)

    By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
    At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators - bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and... View Details
    Keywords: Globalization; Compensation and Benefits; Surveys; Innovation and Invention; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Manufacturing Industry; Telecommunications Industry; China
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    • February 2009 (Revised August 2021)
    • Supplement

    Jieliang Phone Home! (B)

    By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
    At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have... View Details
    Keywords: Managing People; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Production; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Labor; Surveys; Decisions; Manufacturing Industry; China
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    • February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
    • Case

    Jieliang Phone Home! (A)

    By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
    At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Job Design and Levels; Business Processes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Manufacturing Industry; China
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    • August 2021 (Revised November 2021)
    • Case

    The NCB Capital Turnaround: Waking the Sleeping Giant

    By: Sandra J. Sucher, Gamze Yucaoglu, Shalene Gupta and Fares Khrais
    The case opens in 2019, five years after, Sarah Al Suhaimi, CEO of NCB Capital (NCBC), the investment arm of Saudi’s largest bank, NCB, took the helm. Having successfully turned the business to make it the market leader, she was contemplating her next steps as... View Details
    Keywords: Turnaround; Investment Banking; Financial Institutions; Change Management; Leadership; Business Model; Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Management Teams; Asset Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Saudi Arabia
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    • Teaching Interest

    Overview

    By: Jill J. Avery
    Creating Brand Value (MBA elective course)

    Overview:

    In the consumer/retail space, brands are often companies’ most valuable assets and sources of their sustainable competitive advantage. But, managing brands to achieve their full value potential... View Details
    • Web

    California - Global

    autonomous AI agents designed to transform how businesses operate by taking on tasks traditionally performed by humans. With a mission to deploy one billion AI agents by the... View Details
    • 2018
    • Book

    New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy

    By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert
    This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Government and Politics; History
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    • Web

    Business History - Faculty & Research

    unique blend of internal expertise and a global network of well-connected individuals. Since 2019, the firm was under the leadership of Varun Chandra, a young and dynamic managing partner who had steered Hakluyt into remarkable growth and... View Details
    • 01 Feb 2001
    • News

    What Makes a Good Leader

    of the 21st century. by Deborah Blagg and Susan Young Name: John Kotter, Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership Director: HBS Global Leadership Initiative Most recent... View Details
    Keywords: Management