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  • 09 Apr 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis

Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus; Video Game; Web Services
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

The Impact of Funds: An Evaluation of CDC 2004-12

By: Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, Steve Dew and Dong Ik Lee
CDC was founded in 1948 as part of the U.K. government's efforts to develop the economic resources of Britain's remaining colonies. Since then, CDC has pursued a series of strategies to "do good without losing money," as its original mission was phrased. Its approach... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Great Britain
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  • 12 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

downward earnings management, corporate donors to candidates in closely watched races exhibit significant evidence of downward earnings management in the second and third calendar quarters of 2004." Ramanna agreed to an e-mail... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • September 1993 (Revised June 1994)
  • Case

Hewlett-Packard: Singapore (A)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard
In the over 20 years since Hewlett-Packard (HP) set up a manufacturing site in Singapore to produce calculators, HP has invested managerial talent and resources in developing its licensor into a technology development partner. The case details the growth of high-volume... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Market Entry and Exit; Competency and Skills; Research and Development; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Product Development; Computer Industry; Singapore
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  • Web

South Asia - Global

be a major force within the world economy. As a result, the School supports its faculty with their research interests on the emerging trends that are quickly transforming and shaping the region. To date, the IRC has supported most of the case studies and HBS research... View Details
  • September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
  • Case

From Beirut With Love (A)

By: Christina R. Wing, Esel Y. Cekin and Samer Al-Rachedy
This case describes how Robert Fadel, CEO and chairman of ABC, one of Lebanon’s leading retail and real estate groups, professionalized the family business. Robert was the second son of the company’s founder, Maurice Fadel, who had run it single-handedly. Concerned... View Details
Keywords: Family Conflicts; Sibling Rivalry; Second-generation; Foundation; Trust; Work-life Balance; Succession Planning; Corporate Culture; Shareholders; Board Of Directors; Retail; Department Store; Shopping Mall; Real Estate; Growth; Non-executive Chairman; Sustainability; Family Business; Conflict Management; Management Succession; Governance; Leadership; Transformation; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Management; Growth and Development; Retail Industry; Real Estate Industry; Lebanon; Middle East
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  • Career Coach

Oscar Mak

Prior to joining Toyota Tsusho, Oscar held various cleantech roles, including project development, renewable energy finance, and corporate development for a solar energy technology startup. He has additional experience as a consultant... View Details
Keywords: Auto/Transportation/Logistics; Consulting; Clean Technology; Energy; Energy; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship
  • Career Coach

Robert Kimmel

outside of work. Robert has been a Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group and has worked with private-equity-backed companies as part of the Portfolio Improvement Group at Audax Private Equity. His direct operations View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing; Private Equity; Financial Services (All)
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

coauthor of the new book Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, for an intimate, powerful conversation that touches on: the mistake people make in thinking that money, power, and fame will bring them happiness; the importance of View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 14 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

through turbulence. In particular, she and her family emphasized maintaining strong capital equity structures to deal with currency volatility, seeking reliable local partners, and never forgetting long-term opportunities. "For managers... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

supervisor, peers, and customers. You're constantly fighting fires. You're mired in office politics. You end each day exhausted and discouraged, wondering what, if anything, you've accomplished. You're not alone. As Linda Hill and Kent Lineback reveal in Being the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

MBA Experience - Global

apply what they learn to multiple contexts, in meaningful ways. Faculty bring important business issues and management problems from around the world into the classroom. Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) is a... View Details
  • 22 Apr 2020
  • Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

March 4, Harvard Business School gathered senior executives, risk experts, and leading investment professionals from some of the world’s largest asset managers to share how they’re approaching these complex questions. The conference,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • Web

Fellowships - Business History

pedagogical efforts such as the Creating Emerging Markets (CEM) Project, outstanding archival services through the Baker Library Special Collections, and a wonderful atmosphere of collegiality...HBS provided the perfect setting to pursue my upcoming View Details
  • Web

Middle East & North Africa - Global

Research Center: Cairo Cairo, Egypt Middle East and North Africa Research Center: Istanbul Istanbul, Turkey Israel Research Office Tel Aviv, Israel News & Highlights March 2025 CREATING EMERGING MARKETS INTERVIEWS Creating Emerging Markets Interviews: Alan Tabourian... View Details
  • 14 May 2013
  • Blog Post

Scratching the surface

It’s amazing to think that already a month has passed since the school year started. Things have finally reached a solid level of familiarity, even as other things (notably internship recruiting) are only now warming up. Prior to HBS, I worked in View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • Web

About | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

investing. She has worked as a project manager at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a program coordinator for the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center and the Jewish Multiracial Network. She holds... View Details
  • September 2014
  • Case

Pfizer's Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI)

By: Gary Pisano, James Weber and Kait Szydlowski
In 2010, Pfizer established four small research units in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and San Diego located close to several premier Academic Medical Centers (AMCs), or hospitals with adjoining medical schools. The goal of these units was to redesign collaboration... View Details
Keywords: Drug Development; Academic Collaboration; Research And Development; Innovation; Translational Research; Management; Operations; Problems and Challenges; Research; Science; Information Technology; Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; North and Central America; Europe; Asia
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  • 03 Feb 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

Summing Up Our forward projections often reflect what we have just experienced. Responses to the question, "What will be the single most promising area of research or study in the next 10 years?," reflect issues that fall into... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett