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Global Business Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Business in Society and Strategy track. Introduction to Global Business ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Global Business $1,850 Next 4-week session starts... View Details

09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

critiques of our work with empirical data and conceptual arguments. We agree with Wilson and Stolarz-Fantino that researchers seeking to understand a policy’s influence on consumers should test predictions about which strategies firms... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

June 2010
Article

The China Rules: A Practical Guide for CEOs Managing Multinational Corporations in the People's Republic

By: Lynn S. Paine

To achieve growth and profitability in the world's third-largest economy, multinationals need strong leadership--but China is tough on top executives. Pulsating with opportunity, China attracts foreigners, yet HR professionals continue to rank it as one of the most... View Details

Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Leadership; Management Skills; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Adaptation; China

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21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

cliché, but I watched Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Lionel Bony (MBA 2006), a sectionmate at HBS, was also influential. He worked with the School on its efforts to implement sustainability practices and was vocal about the... View Details

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

International Red Cross, UNICEF, Médecins Sans Frontières, Oxfam, and Amnesty International. Topics include managing growth, performance assessment, mission and strategy development, and most of all, understanding, developing, and... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

innovators who are creating and implementing new solutions to these daunting challenges. The only barrier to empowering many of these entrepreneurs is the availability of funding to ensure that their ideas can get off the ground and... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

decision makers (rather than an outsider) who formulate the strategy and shows that outsider-strategists often face a tradeoff between the quality of a strategy and its likelihood of implementation, whereas... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

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Electricity - Business & Environment

early-stage advanced nuclear power and geoengineering ventures.” Joseph Lassiter Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired, Harvard Business School Nora Hennings HBS MBA 2016 Senior Manager, View Details

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

personalized selling (cosmetics, for example), online shops have a hard time creating a satisfying experience. Hence stores have much to offer in these product categories. What strategies can retailers View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

steps: Create a system for evaluating and reviewing crisis plans. Building a process for reviewing crisis management plans and implementing new feedback and lessons helps companies stay ready for the unexpected. Any organization should... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

your leadership skills to drive organizational success and effectively implement transformative change. 7 weeks 6-8 hours per week 7 modules Self-Paced This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn .... View Details

31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0910.html#wp10-070 When the Name Is the Game Authors:Marco Bertini, John Gourville, and Elie Ofek Publication:Business Strategy Review 22, no. 3 (2011) Abstract In Romeo and Juliet,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007

to as "user-centered design." Yet, analysis of design-intensive manufacturers such as Alessi, Artemide and other leading Italian firms, show that their innovation process hardly starts from a close observation of user needs and requirements. Rather, they... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

ways in which organizations met the challenges of 2020. What strategies and actions worked better than others? What can we learn from these? While many companies reduced payor headcount, some pledged at the outset of the crisis to do... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

moving target, potential customers are wary of costs and implementation complexities, and use cases, while powerful, are still lacking in many areas. Take advantage of uncertainty All this uncertainty is a fertile breeding ground for... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

07 May 2024
Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

Specific projects within the portfolio may vary based on availability but will meet these criteria. In addition to this initiative, HBS has significantly reduced its GHG emissions and partially offset required academic student travel along with View Details

23 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

on screen. Harvard Business School’s Amit Goldenberg worked with seven other researchers, including Airbnb executives, to evaluate online strategies for mitigating loneliness. Goldenberg’s findings offer insights for managers and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31

innovation and strategy formulation. As the company grows, managers must decide how to scale the Vision Community process so that it retains its spirit of employee involvement and engagement while encompassing a larger, more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

and Emily Mower, for "Demand Learning and Dynamic Pricing for Varying Assortments: Algorithm Development and Implementation at Zenrez." Marco Iansiti : Winner of the 2019 Best Conference Paper at the 24th Conference on Information Systems... View Details

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