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  • 10 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

Companies that outsource merely to shuffle off commodity work to save costs might be missing important opportunities to work with vendors and significantly improve the final product. "When it comes to the outsourcing of many complex View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health
  • 18 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

HBS Students and Alumni Fostering a Supportive Community

provides a variety of services and resources for them, including advising and counseling, one-on-one tutoring, workshops, and specialized career coaching. These offerings have been informed by the work of a task force cofounded by Holly... View Details
  • August 2007
  • Case

Codelco Copper Mines

Codelco was a Chilean copper-mining company, widely considered to be one of the most professionally managed firms in South America in spite of the fact that it was 100% government-owned. A $10.5 billion company in 2005, Codelco faced the challenge of incorporating... View Details
Keywords: Mining; Geographic Location; Leading Change; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Mining Industry; Chile
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Upton, David M., Virginia Fuller, and Bradley R. Staats. "Codelco Copper Mines." Harvard Business School Case 608-053, August 2007.
  • 21 Mar 2014
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East Asia MBA Market Update

pay outside professional services firms will be lower than the U.S. MBA norm and finding opportunities will require a lot of networking and relationship building. View Details
Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail
  • January 2007 (Revised October 2007)
  • Case

Procter & Gamble: Organization 2005 (A)

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Alessandro L. Spadini
In response to a huge crisis in 2000, the new CEO of Procter & Gamble has to decide whether to continue with an unusual organizational design or to revert to the old matrix organization. Describes all the organizational designs used by Procter & Gamble from the 1920s... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure
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Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, and Alessandro L. Spadini. "Procter & Gamble: Organization 2005 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 707-519, January 2007. (Revised October 2007.)
  • June 1998 (Revised August 2000)
  • Case

Microsoft CarPoint

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport
CarPoint.com was Microsoft's Web-based entry into on-line automobile retailing. While it could not, in fact, "sell" or deliver any cars, it could shift much of consumer search, comparison, and decision-making, including pricing, the traditional car dealer to the Web.... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Service Operations; Market Entry and Exit; Consumer Behavior; Auto Industry; Retail Industry
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Rayport, Jeffrey F., Avnish S. Bajaj, Steffan Haithcox, and Michael V. Kadyan. "Microsoft CarPoint." Harvard Business School Case 898-280, June 1998. (Revised August 2000.)
  • 23 Apr 2019
  • Blog Post

HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders

HBS Career & Professional Development is excited to share some of our favorite books from the Harvard community for Human Resources leaders. Covering topics from effective leadership, to mentoring talent, to creating an environment of... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

number of hours CEOs devote to work activities, and longer working hours are associated with higher firm productivity, growth, profitability, and CEO pay. Second, family CEOs record 8% fewer working hours relative to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Leadership That Defines you – Reflecting on my Time at HBS

attention to what they do, rather than what they say." Actual strategies are manifested by the products, processes, and services that managers allocate resources to rather than the ideas generated in the boardroom. Ultimately, the... View Details
  • 2017
  • Book

Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming

By: Niels Viggo Hauter and Geoffrey Jones
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance industry from the nineteenth century to the present day. Reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, was largely unnoticed outside the expert... View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Risk Management; Business History; Globalization; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Africa; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; Asia
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Hauter, Niels Viggo and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • June 2009 (Revised July 2010)
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Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Women Initiative

By: Christopher Marquis, V. Kasturi Rangan and Cathy Ross
Describes the conception, development, and implementation of Goldman Sachs' five-year, $100 million philanthropic initiative to provide practical business and management education to 10,000 women around the globe. The initiative recently celebrated its first... View Details
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Education; Gender; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry
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Marquis, Christopher, V. Kasturi Rangan, and Cathy Ross. "Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Women Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 509-042, June 2009. (Revised July 2010.)

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    Co-Chair, Driving Digital Strategy

    Sunil Gupta is the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration and  co-chair of the executive program on Driving... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
    • Fall 2013
    • Article

    Sustainable Operations Management: An Enduring Stream or a Passing Fancy?

    By: David Drake and Stefan Spinler
    Paul Kleindorfer was among the first to weigh in on and nurture the stream of Sustainable Operations Management. The thoughts laid out here are based on conversations we had with Paul relating to the drivers underlying sustainability as a management issue: population... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainable Operations; Sustainability; Environment; Paul Kleindorfer; Management; Environmental Sustainability
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    Drake, David, and Stefan Spinler. "Sustainable Operations Management: An Enduring Stream or a Passing Fancy?" Special Issue on the Environment. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 15, no. 4 (Fall 2013).
    • March 2021
    • Technical Note

    Competitive Strategy in International Construction

    By: John D. Macomber and Emrah Ergelen
    Construction of buildings and infrastructure is one of the largest industries in the world in terms of volume. It is also one of the most physically risky, financially uncertain, and politically impacted. The industry is highly fragmented since there are few economies... View Details
    Keywords: Construction; Infrastructure; Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Strategic Planning; Global Range; Construction Industry
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    Macomber, John D., and Emrah Ergelen. "Competitive Strategy in International Construction." Harvard Business School Technical Note 221-074, March 2021.
    • November 2003 (Revised September 2016)
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    Creating Global Oil, 1900-1935

    By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Daniel Wadhwani
    Taught in the elective MBA course entitled The Evolution of Global Business. Examines the development of an international cartel in the oil industry in the 1920s and 1930s. Focuses on the decisions and actions of the leading multinational oil companies—particularly... View Details
    Keywords: History; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Alliances; Cooperation; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry
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    Jones, Geoffrey G., and Daniel Wadhwani. "Creating Global Oil, 1900-1935." Harvard Business School Case 804-089, November 2003. (Revised September 2016.)
    • March 2009 (Revised July 2010)
    • Case

    State Street Corporation

    By: William E. Fruhan
    To maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. State Street Corp. reports a 13% gain in EPS in 2008 amidst a global financial crisis. The stock price declines 59% on the day of the earnings report. This one day decline was exceeded in the... View Details
    Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Financial Reporting; Financial Crisis; Financial Liquidity; Financial Markets; Crisis Management; Financial Services Industry
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    Fruhan, William E. "State Street Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 209-112, March 2009. (Revised July 2010.)
    • 19 Jul 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

    her course for Harvard MBA students, Managing Service Operations, which explores interactions between firms and customers. Defy Conventional Wisdom Commerce Bank entered a mature industry where the overall... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • September 1998
    • Case

    McDonald's: International Expansion Strategy

    By: Gary W. Loveman and Sabina M. Ciminero
    James Cantalupo, CEO of McDonald's International, and top management have a few months to decide how the McDonald's brand should be transferred into India. Faced with the challenges presented by the Indian market--80% of Indians are Hindus and cherish cows as sacred... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Expansion; Brands and Branding; Strategy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Service Industry; Service Industry; United States; India
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    Loveman, Gary W., and Sabina M. Ciminero. "McDonald's: International Expansion Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 899-005, September 1998.
    • September 2019
    • Technical Note

    Care Economy in the U.S. (Primer)

    By: Joseph B. Fuller, William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Carl Kreitzberg
    This case describes how caregiving responsibilities influence American employees, firms, and the broader economy. It details how sociodemographic trends in the late 20th century transformed the way that Americans balance their personal and professional lives, analyzing... View Details
    Keywords: Human Resources; Talent and Talent Management; Demographics; Labor; Health Care and Treatment; Family and Family Relationships; Strategy; Management; United States
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    Fuller, Joseph B., William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman, and Carl Kreitzberg. "Care Economy in the U.S. (Primer)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 820-027, September 2019.
    • 16 Nov 2021
    • Blog Post

    How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation

    Mike Anders (MBA 2020) grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC. After attending Northwestern University, he began a career in tech working for a legal services startup in Chicago called Envoy Global. He moved to San Francisco after HBS... View Details
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