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- 12 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 12, 2008
Working Papers Direct versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-term Consequences (revised) Author: Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under direct British colonial rule with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20
a signi cant potential upside compared with solutions obtained via classical RO methods. Working Papers Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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HBS - The year in Review
pandemic travel restrictions, the program pivoted to focus on US challenges and opportunities, taking more than 1,000 students to one of 15 domestic locations. With a lens on the course’s three modules—contextual intelligence, team effectiveness, and View Details
- 15 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Medallia
Why We Recruit is a series of interviews with our recruiting partners covering everything from their experience working with HBS to what they would like students to know. Each week, we will release a new interview that dives into a unique... View Details
Keywords: Technology
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About - Business & Environment
and beyond. Annual Reports Annual Report 2024 Annual Report 2023 Annual Report 2022 Annual Report 2021 Annual Report 2020 Annual Report 2019 47 affiliated faculty View Faculty 291 articles, books, and working papers about business &... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic
hold practical implications for managers struggling with low engagement and inefficiency amid a lack of face time and continued pandemic stress. “One of the big insights from our work has been that, just because you went to the meeting... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
performance. In summary, the polarized claims that corporate voluntary regulation represents a win-win opportunity-or constitutes a smokescreen that allows firms to operate with less regulatory oversight-are misguided. Instead, the key to efficient and effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online
Business Essentials Interpret data to inform business decisions, explore the economic foundations of strategy, and discover what’s behind the numbers in financial statements. Explore Subject 3 Courses Credential of Readiness (CORe) View Details
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Fatima Albassam
In 2017, when Fatima Albassam was working in her home country of Saudi Arabia as a business development analyst for Saudi Aramco, she began making volunteer service trips to Jordan to support Syrian refugees. “While there,” Fatima says,... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Working PapersUnmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity Authors:Robin J. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson Abstract This paper presents a case study of offshore oil platforms—a workplace that has traditionally... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
Contrary to the view that non-core users and downward brand extensions pose a threat to the brand, this work investigates the conditions under which these non-core users enhance rather than dilute the brand image. A distinction between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
identification and party mapping, to "social mapping" and building guanxi, to creative deal design and tactics, in order to most effectively work out issues of equity, management control,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together
Love them or hate them, team-building rituals can fortify bonds among coworkers and create the shared sense that work is more meaningful, which may be especially critical now as managers look to reconnect colleagues re-adjusting to View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
to sway our decisions in directions we did not initially consider? And what can we do to correct for the subtle influences that derail our decisions? The answers to these and similar questions will help you negotiate similar factors when faced with them in the real... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum
of race and inequity. Led by Professors Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Sandra Susan Smith, the course was designed to ensure a consistent understanding of the race and racism not as tangential to U.S. history, but “at the heart of the... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
of attention. The design of work units, spans of control, and spans of accountability are the main structural tools to influence work and information flows and to direct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 2023
- Teaching Note
Buurtzorg
By: Ethan Bernstein and Tatiana Sandino
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-101. As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were... View Details
- October 2001 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
Philipp Justus at eBay Germany (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Maria Farkas
A week after becoming country manager of eBay's recently acquired German auction site, Philipp Justus must steer the company through a massive technical integration with eBay's Web site. Throughout the seven-month project, Justus and his team must master the challenge... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Leadership; Internet and the Web; Globalized Firms and Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Managerial Roles; Management Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Auctions; Retail Industry; Information Technology Industry; Germany
Hill, Linda A., and Maria Farkas. "Philipp Justus at eBay Germany (A)." Harvard Business School Case 402-007, October 2001. (Revised January 2002.)
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Value Creation Through Effective Boards
Summary The impact of a corporate board can be significant—but the challenges faced by board members are increasingly complex. Designed to enhance your contribution as a corporate board member, this program provides the frameworks for... View Details
- 21 Jan 2011
- Working Paper Summaries