Business Offices - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2022
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ROI vs. ROI: The Grupo Baobá Family Office

By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye and Grace Headinger

Fernando Scodro, a third-generation member of his family, mulled over the next step in integrating an ESG strategy into his family office’s investment portfolio. While his family office, Grupo Baobá, had made excellent progress in incorporating his family’s values into... View Details

Keywords: Impact Investing; ESG; Green Building; Family; Partnership; Latin America; Brazil; Buildings and Facilities; Green Buildings; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Financial Management; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; Brazil; Latin America

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20 Feb 2013
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Office Depot-OfficeMax CEOs Face Off in Unorthodox Search

09 Aug 2011
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How to Master the Art of Office Politics

August 2019 (Revised July 2023)
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Demystifying the Family Enterprise

By: Christina R. Wing and Madeline Keulen

90% of the GDP in the world is created through family-owned businesses. Family businesses are frequently thought to be exclusively mom-and-pop, small businesses. Most fail to realize that Walmart, Fidelity, Cargill, Koch Industries, and Ford, to name a few, are all... View Details

Keywords: Family Office; Family Business; Family Ownership

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17 Sep 2020
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We Really Shouldn’t Force People Back into the Office

17 Aug 2018
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Open Offices Still A Mistake For Employee Productivity, Collaboration

March 2011 (Revised June 2012)
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Office of Technology Transfer - Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences

By: Willy Shih, Sen Chai, Kamen Bliznashki and Courtney Hyland

Gordon Zong is trying to teach Chinese universities and research institutes how to do effective technology transfer and IP licensing, but he is trying to do it in an environment with weak property rights and an underdeveloped support infrastructure. As the managing... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Patents; Knowledge Management; Law Enforcement; Business and Government Relations; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; China

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24 Nov 2022
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The term family office is confusing; it needs a new name, says Harvard academic

29 Mar 2015
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How one office cut down on emails with handwriting

04 Jun 2022
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The Office Monsters Are Trying to Claw Their Way Back to 2019

08 Jun 2021
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The Apple Employees’ Complaint Letter Is Also a Road Map for Reopening Offices

05 May 2020
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Former Medtronic CEO: 'The office is going to change dramatically'

04 May 2021
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A Return to the Office Is a Great Chance to Make a Fresh Start

2009
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Becoming the Lamp Bearer: The Emerging Roles of the Chief Risk Officer

By: Anette Mikes

Enterprise risk management, under the leadership of chief risk officers (CROs), has the promise to bring enterprise-wide risks, which threaten the achievement of the firm's strategic objectives, into the open and under control. Its organizational significance is... View Details

Keywords: Governance Controls; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Business Processes; Risk and Uncertainty

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