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  • 25 Jan 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

Where once "corporate giving" meant writing an annual check to a favorite charity, more recently businesses and nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have joined forces to achieve their separate, but related missions. When these partnerships... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
  • 20 Jul 2015
  • Blog Post

My Journey to Working with At Night Management / PRMD Music

From the time I arrived at HBS, I knew that my path to finding a summer internship wouldn’t be very traditional. Although I’ve managed to find others that share my career interests, working in the music industry remains an uncommon path out of View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
  • 19 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen is living proof of the adage "If you want to get something done, ask a busy person." Throughout a distinguished career that has included often-overlapping leadership roles in business, teaching,... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 03 Jan 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

of General Motors because of her skills at turning around a large organization. My colleague Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, knowing... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • May 2016
  • Case

The Inexorable Rise of Walmart? 1988—2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In October 2015, Walmart surprised investors by announcing that it expected flat sales growth for 2015 and growth of only 3% to 4% over the coming three years. Profits would also fall due to significant investments in people and technology. The company’s stock price... View Details
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  • 15 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

While attention to business environment issues is important for all automakers, GM is more likely than most of its rivals to feel strong pressure to pursue public policy goals such as domestic employment... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 28 Jun 2022
  • Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 18 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

It stands to reason that every major company has a unique set of strategic goals. Consequently, it stands to reason that the chief executive’s compensation package should be uniquely designed to align to those goals, while addressing the individual View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting
  • May 1987 (Revised June 1987)
  • Background Note

Note on Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II)

By: David A. Garvin
Describes Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II), a production technique designed to couple business and financial plans with manufacturing plans. It is an important tool for aligning manufacturing with a company's overall strategy and goals. Describes MRPII,... View Details
Keywords: Design; Finance; Surveys; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Production; Mission and Purpose; Strategic Planning; Business Strategy
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  • 18 Jan 2023
  • Blog Post

Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)

on-campus recruiting for Google from 2014 until she left Google to join a startup in 2020. What is an HBS career coach? An HBS career coach is an experienced business professional trained to guide students and alumni through their career... View Details
  • 14 Dec 2016
  • Blog Post

Career Paths: From Finance to Social Enterprise

Business school was my escape. I saw it as a way out of a career in finance that I could no longer envision myself in. It was an opportunity to open the door to social enterprise, what I saw as the nexus of my interests in the private... View Details
  • August 2021 (Revised February 2022)
  • Case

Northvolt: Making the World's Greenest Battery

By: Jurgen R. Weiss and Emilie Billaud
In 2021, the demand for lithium-ion batteries increased rapidly, particularly for electric vehicles. Anxious not to be reliant on Asian players, Europe was keen on developing its own home-grown capacity to control the value chain, maintain employment in Europe, and get... View Details
Keywords: Electric Vehicles; Lithium-ion Batteries; Business Ventures; Energy; Green Technology; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Transportation; Supply Chain; Globalized Markets and Industries; Goals and Objectives; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Battery Industry; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Transportation Industry; Europe; Sweden; Germany; Poland
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  • 03 Mar 2014
  • Blog Post

Align Your Social Media and Recruiting Strategies

who recruit at Harvard Business School, we are often asked how to align a social media and recruiting strategy. Here are 7 guidelines we’ve compiled to help organizations successfully leverage social media within their hiring strategy.... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

This year the theme of Climate Week is highlighting what businesses and governments can do to meet their climate targets. In that spirit, we have reached out to recent alums working in the climate space and asked them the following, “What... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
  • 21 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

Cabinet, she was familiar with Plaid’s role in helping small businesses and was excited to oversee my Independent Project.   Another part of the curriculum that supported my career goals was the Scaling... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

search processes that shape networks, cognition, and capabilities. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-106.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsBanca Regional Andino: Facing the Globalization of Microfinance Harvard View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Growing on the Job - Alumni

continued growth depends largely on your own initiative. Ultimately, growing on the job requires two things: identifying the areas in which you would like to grow, and establishing goals for your progress. Assessing needs and View Details
  • 25 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

The mission: To sell more laptops. The market: Rural China. The challenge: The business partner wants to know what laptop features would be appealing to customers in rural China. Landing in Shanghai with eight days to find out, a team of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 30 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date

conversation partners,” says Alison Wood Brooks, assistant professor and Hellman Faculty Fellow at Harvard Business School. “This strategy does both. It’s an easy-to-deploy strategy anyone can use to not only be perceived as more... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Web

Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

that will allow you to feel comfortable that you’ve done enough. Reframe success Complement the quantitative approach above with a qualitative one. Over time, your definition of success can change. The markers that once signaled achievement may lose meaning, or new... View Details