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  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

developing fresh capabilities for organizations. Based on a study of all the programs offered by the business schools, consultancies, corporate universities, and online education providers, we analyze the advantages, and the constraints,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

regulatory, normative, and cognitive factors in shaping firms' decisions to adopt specific organizational practices, above and beyond their technical efficiency. Similarly, institutional theory emphasizes legitimation processes and the tendency for institutionalized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

The Way You See It

a giant in a way few have and redesigned what a major corporation can be," as one alumnus put it. Added another, "Welch's vision of a nonbureaucratic large organization makes GE the business everyone wants to copy or raid for talent."... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

School Case 809-012 Du Pont's realization in 1921 that its "U-form" corporate structure was ill-suited to its new diversification strategy led to a pioneering new kind of organization—the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

fostered by the established structural context of the firm. We illustrate this model of corporate intervention with a case study in which a high-performing firm seeks to shift its performance trajectory into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

in global supply chains have engaged in activism that led transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor their suppliers for compliance, but it is not clear whether these organizational View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling - Course Catalog

While all true and all necessary, this course focuses mainly on selling to customers, whether that is through a direct sales force, a channel sales force, or building an OEM relationship. Sales is the one function that cannot hide behind the veil of View Details
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

New Releases

concept is no longer an idealized model," commented Bartlett in a recent interview. "It is the corporate form that companies around the world are building and managing in an ongoing routine fashion." The revised work features a new... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 22 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

forthcoming Handbook of Structural Transformation Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational Firms By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen Abstract—Multinationals exhibit distinct agglomeration... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

perceived as value-destroying and may not improve a firm's competitive advantage. Bank Debt and Corporate Governance Authors:Victoria Ivashina, Vinay Nair, Anthony Saunders, Nadia Massoud, and Roger Stover Periodical:Review of Financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

must change the way it supports basic and applied scientific research to promote the broad collaboration with business and academia needed to tackle society's big problems. Second, corporate management practices and governance View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • December 2010 (Revised March 2012)
  • Teaching Note

Alibaba Group

By: Julie M. Wulf
Teaching Note for 710436. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Business Subsidiaries; Competition; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Growth and Development; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Structure; Retail Industry; China
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  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract—This paper documents a set of stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility in the nonfinancial View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

consider the real effects of bank lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset incorporating information on the universe of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2012
  • News

On a Sound Track

across the globe, where government rules, regulations, labor laws, cultures, and tax structures vary significantly. The consumer sees a cool product and an awesome brand, but there’s a huge amount of unglamorous business activities behind... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio equipment; fashion; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 08 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

Manager for three years. His next step was back into the corporate world to provide stability for his growing family. “I joined SAP and was promoted seven times in ten years eventually leading the entire Latin American team,” Dzodan said.... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Steady as She Goes

Courtesy Coles This was going to be the year everything got back to normal. Since Leah Weckert (MBA 2008) became the CFO at Australia’s Coles Group in 2018, the supermarket giant had announced a demerger—the largest in the country’s history—from View Details
Keywords: April White; COVID-19; change management; leadership; women; grocery stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 11 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

me, in either a team or a one-on-one setting." Continues Klump, "I understood enough of Chinese culture to know that you rarely, if ever, confront someone in a group setting, as maintaining face is important. So I waited to have a one-on-one session with my... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

forward? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709404 Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation Harvard Business School Case 609-063 Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness

small businesses, historically engines of opportunity for millions of Americans, are the most pessimistic of all businesses in their view of the United States’ trajectory. Isn’t the U.S. economy on an upward trajectory as it recovers from the Great Recession? View Details