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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Alumni Books Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi (AMP 82, 1979) (Penguin UK) Until May 7, 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was the Saudi oil minister (and an OPEC kingpin), a position he held... View Details
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
to become less diversified. The paper notes that many US firms have narrowed the scope of their operations since the 1980s, in efforts to compete better in the global economy-winnowing their product portfolio and focusing on a particular... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
remains to be seen, she added. Although some sites such as Yahoo! include premium services that require fees or subscriptions, the largest business model by far is advertising: a $45 billion industry globally that has been growing about... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
chronicles the meteoric rise and equally fiery fall of Iridium, Motorola’s spin-off venture into global wireless communications. Although the technology was literally “rocket science,” involving the launch of a whole new satellite... View Details
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
segments to existing products, lowering price by removing features, failing to think through all the technical requirements, neglecting stakeholders, and refusing to believe products created for low-income markets could have global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
decision because she loved magazines. When she was appointed chairman and CEO of the company in 2002, it was the highlight of her own success story. Now the highest-ranking woman in the Time Warner organization, Moore oversees more than 145 magazines, their Web sites,... View Details
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Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online
coursework, unique team activities with a diverse global network, and a capstone project that applies the program’s learnings. 6 months 5-6 hours per week 4 Courses plus a capstone project Self-Paced This course earns you a Credential of... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
pessimistic forecasts for banks that could be their future employers. This pattern is not observed when the same analysts forecast earnings of companies that are not likely to be their future employers. Moreover, we use the Global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
of real-world systems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-059.pdf Quality Provision, Expected Firm Altruism and Brand Extensions Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper studies quality choice in a model where... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
bring a champion back home to Kentucky. Japan, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, England, Ireland, Australia, France, and Brazil are just a handful of the countries that represent the global nature of the Thoroughbred industry. “For... View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
customize products and respond to customers. Regional managers take responsibility for sales, product development, distribution, and manufacturing. As a consequence, the spans of control for managers back at the head office are relatively narrow, covering only... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
moments of a boy’s life. Silent Winds, Dry Seas is a poetic, powerful, and universal novel of identity and place, of the legacies of colonialism, tradition, modernity, and emigration, and of what a family will sacrifice for its children to thrive. Direct Selling: A... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Career Coach
Mo Fong
Mo Fong (HBS ‘02, Stanford ‘95 ChemE, ‘96 MA Education ) Mo is currently the Executive Director at Stanford Technology Ventures Program in the School of Management and Engineering focusing on entrepreneurship research, programs and outreach. Prior to STVP, Mo spent 15... View Details
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
ability of a firm to transfer its capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
the leadership talent and expertise required to build an organization. “There is a worldwide acceptance of Indian goods and services,” he remarks. “The challenge is to think big and achieve scale. We need global Indians who have been... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
manufacturer (ODM)? Tung Lung Metal Industries Co. Ltd. is a Taiwanese maker of door lock hardware that is faced with the question of whether to continue to focus on its ODM business or start placing more emphasis on its own brand... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
California, headquarters to learn how he turned a struggling Bay Area ice-cream business into the nation’s leading producer. Today, as chairman and CEO of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Rogers, 63, presides over a $2 billion global... View Details
- Career Coach
Erika Osterling
services across different businesses and geographies, leading to a global P&L role. In her most recent role as Executive Director at Russell Reynolds, she advised CEO, C-Suite leaders and board of directors of public and private... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
“blockbuster” green patents, meaning they have developed foundational technologies that other companies frequently cite and build on in subsequent innovations. Cohen says many large energy companies have tried to rebuild their images, distancing their View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
profit for shareholders and directors. Pfeffer is also tired of seeing so-called leadership development services offered in a sanitized vacuum by a “leadership industry” under “brands” such as authentic leadership and servant leadership, View Details