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    Bridging the GAAPs

    Inconsistencies in accounting treatment across countries are a major obstacle for global equity investment. Founded in 1985, HOLT is an equity valuation service provider that offers its clients (e.g., global equity investors) a consistent performance metrics from... View Details

    • 22 Jun 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    “Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

    restructure, sell, or liquidate a failing company. Bottom line, no firm should be too big to fail. At the same time, the majority of financial firms that pose no systemic risk should face relatively light regulation, ensuring their View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
    • 27 Jan 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

    economic development decisions to a new level of sophistication. In a cluster, a company can draw on a local supplier base of skilled people, specialized service providers, and local institutions that can provide training and perform... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    HBS Fund - Alumni

    Giving HBS Fund Giving HBS Fund Annual Giving Fuel HBS’s continued excellence Annual gifts to the HBS Fund provide resources that we can put to use immediately toward core priorities, such as financial aid and faculty research. Similar to... View Details
    • July 2018
    • Case

    Hironobu Tsujiguchi and His Sweet Revolution

    By: Boris Groysberg and Naoko Jinjo
    Hironobu Tsujiguchi, a Japanese chocolatier, had chosen an unusual path to success as a pastry chef. Instead of spending most of his time in his kitchen and focusing on one or two confectionery categories like most pastry chefs, he chose to work on diverse projects and... View Details
    Keywords: Relevance; Entrepreneurship; Diversification; Personal Development and Career; Decision Making; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan
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    • 27 Jul 2020
    • Blog Post

    HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19

    The HBS Summer Fellowship Program provides an opportunity for students to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. This summer, HBS is supporting a record 162 Social Enterprise Summer Fellows,... View Details
    • September 2009 (Revised November 2021)
    • Case

    OnStar: Not Your Father's General Motors

    By: Clayton M. Christensen
    After two years of less than stellar performance resulting in sales well below plan, senior management at General Motors (GM) mobile telecommunications service start-up, OnStar, recognized that without a substantial change in their strategy, support for the venture... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Technology; Risk and Uncertainty; Joint Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Risk Management; Auto Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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    • 13 Mar 2023
    • Op-Ed

    How Leaders Should Leave

    timing. Sometimes, an employer will want to announce your successor at the same time as your departure to convey continuity to customers and employees, though merging the two in a single announcement could risk diminishing both parties.... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch
    • 02 Oct 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: October 2

    boundaries of firms. And it also studies the development of British industrial science in universities and efforts to promote innovation through the formation of industry clusters. Overall, the evidence supports the traditional story of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Jul 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: July 15, 2008

    and Rohini Somanathan Publication:In Handbook of Development Economics. Vol. 4, edited by T. Paul Schultz and John Strauss. Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 2008 Abstract This chapter focuses on the relationship between public... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 14 Nov 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: November 14, 2007

    sectors beyond the original bath soap category. The development causes the brand team to take a fresh look at the clichés of the beauty industry. The result is the controversial Real Beauty campaign. As the campaign unfolds, Unilever... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 18 Mar 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Marketing After the Recession

    the result will be continuing downward pressure on prices. Economic recovery will not allow producers to let up on tightening cost controls and improving productivity. Know your lead indicators. Every good marketer knows the specific... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail
    • Web

    Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

    which funds are used are subject to frequent debate. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (DNATF), an agency that funds partnerships between universities and private companies to View Details
    • 2019
    • Book

    Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership

    By: Linda A. Hill
    In your career, or anyone's, there is one transition that stands out as the most crucial—going from individual contributor to competent manager.

    New managers have to learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and respect, to... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Leadership; Leadership Development; Management Skills; Learning
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    OPM Renew

    professional network Continue to develop your network by living and working with entrepreneurial business leaders from diverse backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build new relationships... View Details
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    Mid-US - Global

    United States Mid-US Harvard Business School (HBS) established the Mid-US Research Center (MRC) in 2021 to build a deeper understanding of business practice and innovation in the region. The MRC plays a vital role in developing and... View Details
    • 06 Jun 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

    Entrepreneurial Leader: Peer Assessment.” Both are being prepared for launch in summer 2016. The team included Applegate; Janet Kraus, entrepreneur-in-residence; and Tim Butler, Senior Fellow and Senior Advisor to Career and Professional View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
    • January–February 2015
    • Article

    Heroic Villains: Are Foreign Investors Problems or Solutions in the Ebola Crisis?

    By: Debora L. Spar
    For months, the news out of West Africa has been unrelentingly grim. As of early December, the devastating Ebola epidemic had infected a reported 17,942 people and killed 6,388, according to the World Health Organization (WHO); the actual toll, which would also account... View Details
    Keywords: Ebola; Multinational Corporation; Epidemics; Foreign Investment; Extractive Industries; Multinational Firms and Management; Health Pandemics; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Africa
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    • 05 Aug 2014
    • Blog Post

    Leverage the Power of Alumni Networks in Recruiting

    A few weeks ago, the HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) team had a very successful trip to Minneapolis where we met local recruiting partners, alumni and current students pursuing internships in the area this summer. The trip... View Details
    • 10 Dec 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    State Owned Entity Reform in Absence of Privatization: Reforming Indian National Laboratories and Role of Leadership

    Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury & Tarun Khanna