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Capstone | MBA

discussions. Like in the case method classroom, the presenter, advisors, and fellow students share their opinions and experiences. It’s a collegial conversation, a debate stage, a celebration of hard work, and a showcase of two years of building the foundation to lead... View Details

    Jeffrey T. Polzer

    Jeff Polzer is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies how people collaborate in teams and across organizational networks to accomplish their individual and collective... View Details

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    Managing Multiple Identities at Work

    By: Lakshmi Ramarajan
    Peoples’ work identities, which are often a deep source of meaning for them, may conflict with or complement cultural, familial, or personal identities they value. A central focus of Professor Ramarajan’s work is understanding, on the individual level, how these... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2021
    • Blog Post

    Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship

    these programs to exist beyond the global pandemic because of the unique ability to connect with students across geographies and expand the pool of potential candidates. To help organizations think through... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • September 1990 (Revised November 1991)
    • Supplement

    Procter & Gamble Japan (C)

    By: Michael Y. Yoshino
    Updates the (A) case. The issues facing P&G were two-fold. 1) General manager, Japan--how to keep both the business and organization growing; 2) President, international--what role should the Japanese operation play in the P&G worldwide business? View Details
    Keywords: Business Offices; Business Growth and Maturation; Globalization; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizations; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Japan
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    • April 2004 (Revised June 2004)
    • Case

    Entrepreneurship Goes Global: ResMed's Gamble

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett, Andrew N. McLean and Meg Glinska
    On the basis of its innovative medical device for treating sleep apnea, CEO Peter Farrell has made Australian-born ResMed a successful global company. But the company is struggling to implement a strategy to expand the device from its focused core market to a much... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Globalization; Innovation and Management; Management; Marketing Channels; Production; Expansion; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • 25 Feb 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

    more productive.” About the Author Kristen Senz is a writer and social media editor for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: FatCamera] Related Reading How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely The Gift of Global... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • May 2001
    • Supplement

    Mike Levett, CEO Old Mutual

    By: Tarun Khanna
    Discusses issues related to the transformation of Old Mutual from a mutual company to a stock corporation, and from a South African insurer to a global financial institution. Emphasis is on understanding effects of South African institutional context. View Details
    Keywords: Financial Institutions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Globalized Firms and Management; Financial Services Industry; South Africa
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    Corporate transparency and information disclosure strategies

    By: Michael W. Toffel
    This research focuses on transparency and information disclosure strategies, a topic of growing importance in environmental sustainability, corporate strategy, stakeholder relations, and public policy.  My prior research in this area explored why... View Details
    Keywords: Transparency; Disclosure Strategy; Disclosure; Environment; Environmental Performance; Regulation; Supply Chain; Environmental Sustainability; United States
    • June 2014
    • Case

    The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission (Multimedia)

    By: Anette Mikes and Tom Ryder
    During a military exercise in August 2000, a state-of-the-art Russian nuclear submarine, the Kursk, sank in the Barents Sea, triggering global media attention and an international rescue effort.
    In addition to Russia's Northern Fleet, two other organizations got... View Details
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    • November 2012 (Revised March 2013)
    • Case

    Talking Strategy at Greighton Partners

    By: Boris Groysberg and Kerry Herman
    Since its inception, London-based private equity firm Greighton Partners had managed over $15 billion in investor capital. The firm employed about 150 professionals around the globe and had completed over 175 company acquisitions since its founding. Started with a... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Asia; Europe
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    • Program

    Managing Turbulence

    format provides opportunities to apply new skills and frameworks in your organization during the program. Both case-based formats are led by HBS faculty, who share their latest research and engage you in a dynamic exchange of ideas with a... View Details
    • 03 Apr 2009
    • What Do You Think?

    How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

    Summing Up To remain sane and relevant, must we smell the flowers as well as the ozone? This month's question of how much obsolescence business and society (and by implication, we as managers) can absorb brought out both the poets and the engineers among respondents.... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News
    • February 2025
    • Tutorial

    Preparing Business Leaders for an Era of Climate Instability: Understanding and Managing Physical Climate Risk

    By: Michael W. Toffel and Spencer Glendon
    In this compelling video, Spencer Glendon, founder of Probable Futures and Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, describes the profound implications of climate change for businesses, the economy, and societies around the world. Drawing from his background in... View Details
    Keywords: Risk; Uncertainty; Modeling; Climate Change; Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Local R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages

    By: Juan Alcacer and Minyuan Zhao
    This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive technology clusters, where much of the world's R&D takes place. The leading players in these clusters are multi-location firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide.... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Industry Clusters; Research and Development; Competitive Advantage; Semiconductor Industry
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    • 2007
    • Report

    The Role of Clusters in the Chemical Industry

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    The European Chemical Industry, still in the leading position globally, is under intense competitive pressure from emerging locations in Asia and the Middle East. After first reacting by efficiency upgrading within companies and then pursuing outsourcing and aggressive... View Details
    Keywords: Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Industry Clusters; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Chemical Industry; Asia; Europe; Middle East
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    • Program

    Senior Executive Leadership Program—Middle East

    Summary Change is everywhere in the Middle East today, as many countries seek to diversify their economies and encourage new industries. The region's complex business environment includes distinct political and economic conditions in each country—and an uncertain View Details

      José Alejandro Cortés

      Keywords: Diversified
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      Faculty & Advisors | MBA

      Harvard University; BA, Chemistry, Princeton University Hannah Chang is a Managing Director at Wu Capital, a global evergreen fund. Dr. Chang focuses on early-stage biopharmaceutical venture capital investments out of the firm’s San... View Details
      • 13 Jun 2014
      • Op-Ed

      World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention

      The business of football has a well-established global audience. In this playing field, aggregating the attention of fans and selling a portion to advertisers and sponsors is where the real riches lie. The ticket sales are a mere fraction... View Details
      Keywords: by Thales Teixeira; Sports