cross cultural issues - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Sep 2014
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Don’t leave this out of your job posting…

internship job postings: What makes your organization unique? In addition to your organization’s industry and mission, the company description section is a great opportunity to highlight what distinguishes your company from others in your sector. Is there a quirky... View Details

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

organization, but was far from broken. "Women's progress has really leveled off, and has been stuck for at least 10 years," says Robin J. Ely, the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and senior associate dean for... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

reject." To avoid generating only "a grossly ethnocentric set of values," continues Salter, explorations of performance hypotheses require a diverse student body. "We also need to be alert to the fact that different cultures place... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Feb 2002
News

HBS Expands Global Presence

impact, and visibility of HBS international research efforts. Dessain, who speaks five languages, has extensive experience in business and higher education throughout Europe, most recently as a senior director in charge of managing corporate relationships at INSEAD.... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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B2B Sales and Distribution - Course Catalog

hire and manage first line sales managers, define a sales culture and create scalable compensation systems. The go-to-market design module will address how to choose an appropriate sales model to achieve growth and profitability and... View Details

08 Jul 2015
What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

colleagues on the Harvard Business School faculty, legendary teacher and thinker Tony Athos. In an organization with a culture of long hours and FILO (first in last out) norms (borrowing from David Physick's comment), Tony liked to sit... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

01 Oct 2000
News

Books

chemicals and pharmaceuticals; and computers, Silicon Valley, and the Internet. From the past eighty years of "relentless change," McCraw offers colorful illustrations of how business transformed the country's economic and cultural... View Details

21 May 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai

across the country. The climate movement can sometimes feel like a distant battleground centered around vast and technical challenges like the energy transition. While critical, these issues can seem abstract and removed from our everyday... View Details

October 2000 (Revised July 2001)
Case

Avon Products (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Greg Rogers

The general manager of Avon Mexico, Fernando Lezama, must decide whether to promote a woman to the position of vice president of sales. If appointed, the candidate would be the first female in all of Latin America to hold an executive position and one of the first... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Leading Change; Salesforce Management; Organizational Culture; Job Design and Levels; Gender; Management Teams; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Mexico

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13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55048 From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration By: Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—How does the appearance of a new out-group affect the economic,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

the wider company culture that always affects what a firm is and is not capable of [achieving] in the marketplace. We will look at these issues in some detail in the program, with very practical takeaways... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Mar 2013
News

Leveraging Female Talent

a lot of books and articles on gender studies. I decided that I would also talk to people, research some companies, look at the data, and let that inform my path. That's the beauty of being at HBS—finding questions that are researchable but also relevant. I've always... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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1.18 Field Global Capstone | MBA

Code Students are responsible for packing attire that is appropriate for the weather and respectful of cultural norms in the FIELD Global Capstone location. Students are responsible for confirming dress codes directly with their Global... View Details

29 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

global rather than merely local. The issue of limited resources and inefficient distribution is creating environmental and social problems respectively, that businesses can no longer afford to neglect/be indifferent to. Technological... View Details

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire

08 Jan 2025
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Mapping Pain Points at the IRS

Having spent a decade helping retailers optimize customer service, Fumi Tamaki (MBA 2014) could not pass up the opportunity in June 2024 to take on the challenge of improving the customer experience at the government organization that serves more Americans annually... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; IRS; customer service; government service; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

21 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

and Latin America. Why Azmi? “India has the world’s largest cinema industry, and it exercises an enormous cultural impact within the country,” says Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History. “Shabana Azmi has long... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video

01 Mar 2019
News

The Fight Beyond

have been entirely different.” Green would be posthumously awarded the American Distinguished Service Cross for extreme gallantry and the Czechoslovak War Cross. No, he and his men had not hastened the end of the war in Europe, which... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

03 Jun 2002
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

nuanced cultural approaches." Whether this will produce sustained economic superiority or a model to be emulated in the U.S. is debatable.—James Heskett Roy Bingham points out that "American management seems to work best when... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important attempt to span this abyss. IGOs are mandated variously to smooth economic transactions, facilitate global... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Recruiting International Students is Easy and Beneficial for Employers

months of work authorization upon graduation, and many have up to three years. Because Harvard issues work authorizations for interns, no additional paperwork is required by the employer, and there is no need for the employer to... View Details

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