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- 14 Jul 2015
- News
Debt Should be a Guide to Policy Making
- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
Sustainability, was among the first to take the stage. He spoke of the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the consequences for the Earth. “Our present moment,” he said, “is one of both climate optimism and deep foreboding.”... View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job
product, which is the module that our customers build into their apps to be able to connect to the bank accounts of their millions of users. So... View Details
- June 2021
- Case
One Family Textiles: Stepping Back to Move Forward?
By: V.G. Narayanan, Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais
This case explores how a family business builds a board that includes independent directors that helps to professionalize and strengthen governance in the company. The case relates to One Family Textiles, an Abu Dhabi-headquartered manufacturer of garments. The company... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business History; Decision Making; Accounting
Narayanan, V.G., Alpana Thapar, and Fares Khrais. "One Family Textiles: Stepping Back to Move Forward?" Harvard Business School Case 121-045, June 2021.
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From Inquiry to Action | Baker Library
last into the next century.” 1 Drawing on materials from the HBS Archives, From Inquiry to Action explores the introduction of the case method in the teaching of business administration and highlights the... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
We tend to think of the moment of insight and creativity in sudden and shocking terms: the bathtub overflowing (Archimedes), the apple beaning off the head (Newton), the bolt of lightning shivering the key at the end of a kite (Franklin).... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
are, after all, employees not partners; the decision and accountability ultimately accrue to the chief executive. As for the board of directors, only a stream of wrong decisions is likely View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
platters in counts of 30 each. “But for me to have 100 original pieces to offer a catering company, that’s a relatively big investment for a small and young business,” she says. Rentals View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
polarizing barrier to collaboration,” Neeley says. “But no one was looking at that, even as global organizations were rapidly moving toward making English their lingua franca.” Since joining the HBS Organizational Behavior Unit nearly... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Grads Launch Cybersecurity Nonprofit to Fight Infodemic
continue to grow the company with the goal of bringing privacy and accountability back to the modern internet. humanID would not have accelerated had it not been for HBS’s... View Details
- 2011
- Teaching Note
UFIDA (D) (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ping He, Xiohua Wu and Lijuan Liu
This case describes the financing decisions of a software company at difference stages of its development. Started from 1988 as an individual business, along with the "Reform and Open" policy of China, the firm has experienced tremendous growth, and has become a... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Computer Software; Emerging Markets; Financial Strategy; IPO; Investments; China; Applications and Software; China
McFarlan, F. Warren, Ping He, Xiohua Wu, and Lijuan Liu. "UFIDA (D) (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2011.
- 12 Jun 2019
- News
Busy IPO Market Offers Lifeline to Troubled Retailers
- 25 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Attending HBS to Grow the Family Business
a degree in marketing. She then spent three years at GE Healthcare as a process improvement consultant before coming to Harvard Business School. Post HBS, she worked as a senior analyst in Nike’s corporate strategy department before... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
focus on.Adaptation and resiliency, addressing legacy pollution, ensuring equitable access to food, water, transportation, and housing, and engaging with communities to understand the best application of... View Details
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From Concept to Product | Baker Library
From Concept to Product Left: Patent 3,142,567, July 28, 1964. Polaroid Corporation Legal and Patent Records, b. II.165, f. 12. Right: Patent 2,435,720, Feb. 10, 1948. Polaroid Corporation Records Related to... View Details
- September 2010
- Supplement
Using Regression Analysis to Estimate Time Equations (CW)
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
This note presents a simple way to estimate time equations using regression analysis in Excel. The note quickly outlines regression analysis, then presents a real-life case example from the natural gas industry that students can use to gain experience developing and... View Details
- March 2000 (Revised February 2005)
- Case
Hewlett Packard--Computer Systems Organization: Selling to Enterprise Customers
By: Das Narayandas and Robert C. Dudley
In late 1996, Manuel Diaz, head of Worldwide Sales for Hewlett-Packard's (HP) Computer Systems Organization (CSO), is reviewing the results of an audit of HP's enterprise customer management approach with the objective of identifying market and organizational... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Transformation; Customer Relationship Management; Cost vs Benefits; Marketing Strategy; Sales; Computer Industry
Narayandas, Das, and Robert C. Dudley. "Hewlett Packard--Computer Systems Organization: Selling to Enterprise Customers." Harvard Business School Case 500-064, March 2000. (Revised February 2005.)
- 19 Dec 2017
- News
What Investors Need to Consider About Tax Reform
- March 2020
- Article
Voluntary, Self-Regulatory, and Mandatory Disclosure of Oil and Gas Company Payments to Foreign Governments
By: Paul M. Healy and George Serafeim
Concerns about high rates of government corruption in resource-rich countries have led transparency advocates to urge oil and gas firms to disclose payments to host governments for natural resources. Transparency, they argue, can increase government accountability and... View Details
Keywords: Oil ＆ Gas; Corruption; Transparency; Self-regulation; Industry Self-regulation; Regulation; Disclosure; Disclosure Regulation; Energy Sources; Crime and Corruption; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Energy Industry
Healy, Paul M., and George Serafeim. "Voluntary, Self-Regulatory, and Mandatory Disclosure of Oil and Gas Company Payments to Foreign Governments." Accounting Horizons 34, no. 1 (March 2020): 111–129.
- 12 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards
against mission." Repeatedly we have seen new trustees and ineffective boards try to wag the mission dog with the financial tail. It just doesn't work that way. Without mission and its accountability we have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne