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  • July 2020
  • Article

Intra-firm Geographic Mobility: Value Creation Mechanisms and Future Research Directions

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
This paper argues that intra-firm geographic mobility is an understudied mechanism that can help mitigate coordination failures in a geographically distributed organization. The paper presents an organizing framework on how intra-firm geographic mobility creates value... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Employees; Geographic Location; Value Creation
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  • February 2008 (Revised May 2009)
  • Case

INSEAD

By: Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In the spring of 2008, INSEAD offered a one-year MBA, PhD, executive MBA, and non-degree management education programs to nearly 900 MBA students, 64 PhD candidates, and over 8,500 executive education students. With two campuses, one in Europe and one in Asia, INSEAD... View Details
Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Geographic Location; Business Education; Globalization; Diversity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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  • February 2003 (Revised August 2004)
  • Case

Flextronics: Deciding on a Shop Floor System for Producing the Microsoft Xbox

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Jim McCusker must guide a group decision-making process aimed at getting input and buy-in from key people in California, Mexico, and Austria to choose a shop floor IT system for Flextronics. McCusker is Flextronics' account manager for the Microsoft Xbox project.... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Power and Influence; Geographic Location; Problems and Challenges; Leadership; California; Mexico; Austria
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Banking Market Concentration and Consumer Credit Constraints: Evidence from the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances

This paper uses data from the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances to test the relationship between the banks' market power and households' self-reported levels of credit constraints. The 1983 Survey was the last to identify households' geographic location, making it... View Details
Keywords: Age Characteristics; Household Characteristics; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Banks and Banking; Interest Rates; Geographic Location; Banking Industry
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  • November 1989 (Revised April 2018)
  • Case

Automation Consulting Services

By: Robert Simons and Hilary Weston
Illustrates the management control challenges that are associated with rapid growth and geographic expansion. Situated at an offsite Executive Committee Retreat. The three founding partners of a specialized consulting firm are grappling with several difficult questions... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Policy; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Expansion; Consulting Industry
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  • 08 Jun 2011
  • News

George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees

When Singapore’s George Yeo (MBA ’85) was a young man, his intellect and achievement made clear to his country’s leaders that he was destined to become an important national resource. Indeed, he has fashioned an impressive career built on civic engagement and public... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

    David D. Glass

    Glass is credited with leading Wal-Mart through an aggressive expansion program – increasing sales ten-fold (from $16 billion to $165 billion), developing the SuperCenter concept combining groceries and general merchandise, and opening hundreds of retail View Details
    Keywords: Retail
    • Fast Answer

    Management Consulting: Build a List

    href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/go/capitaliq.html" title="Capital IQ">Capital IQ (Individual account required) Once in Capital IQ, Mouse over Screening Tab and click on Companies. To screen by geographic location, scroll down to Company Details and... View Details
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    Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India

    style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Watch our video putting this Fast Answer into action: we explore using the resources below to research clean energy in India.   Country Information & Data:View Details
    • 23 Jan 2020
    • News

    Bringing Education Back Home

    “Universidad of San Sebastian is located in Culiacán, Mexico. Culiacán happens to be one of the most violent places in Mexico, and by now, in the world, and the education level in our country, in general, is really low. So a friend of... View Details
    Keywords: Educational Services
    • 25 Mar 2008
    • News

    Whistling Past the Graveyard

    with, and research inside the corporate and financial sectors, know firms’ operations and industry practices well. They have a pretty good hunch where the corporate O-Rings are located — those potential pressure points that could explode... View Details
    Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
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    Day in IFC: Meghana Dhar (MBA 2017), Japan - MBA

    Life Project Partner Locations Locations Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Hong Kong, China London, United Kingdom Los Angeles, California Shenzhen, China Taichung, Taiwan Taipei, Taiwan Tohoku,... View Details
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    The New Digital Divide

    By: Mayana Pereira, Shane Greenstein, Raffaella Sadun, Prasanna Tambe, Lucia Ronchi Darre, Tammy Glazer, Allen Kim, Rahul Dodhia and Juan Lavista Ferres
    We build and analyze new metrics of digital usage that leverage telemetry data collected by Microsoft during operating system updates across forty million Windows devices in U.S. households. These measures of US household digital usage are much more comprehensive than... View Details
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Measurement and Metrics; Geographic Location; Behavior; Technology Adoption; Demographics
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    • April 2011
    • Article

    Local Dividend Clienteles

    We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on corporate payout policy. Retail investors tend to hold local stocks, and older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for... View Details
    Keywords: Business Headquarters; Demographics; Investment; Geographic Location; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    Betas

    transactions, and people.  From the company summary page, select the "Tearsheet" link in the left side navigation bar. Value Line Find a company profile using company name or ticker. Beta is located on the header of the... View Details
    • 29 Feb 2016
    • News

    How Joe Shoen Got U-Haul Back on Track

    apologizes. He directs her to the location finder on uhaul.com, where she can look up climate-controlled self-storage locations. Later he calls Mike Kinealy, vice president of sales and customer service, and tells him to follow up. Using... View Details
    Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Truck Transportation; Transportation
    • 09 Mar 2017

    HBS 2+2 Information Session at Duke University

    Join us to learn more about the 2+2 application process to the MBA at HBS. The event will include a presentation and an opportunity to ask questions to an Admissions Officer. Registration is not required but encouraged. The session will begin promptly at 7:30PM. View Details
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    Ask Special Collections & Archives | Baker Library

    Ask Special Collections & Archives Please use this form to connect with Special Collections & Archives We are located in the de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room on the first floor of Baker Library Call us at 617-495-6411 Email us at... View Details
    • 16 Mar 2017

    HBS 2+2 Information Session at Boston University

    Join us to learn more about the 2+2 application process to the MBA at HBS. The event will include a presentation and an opportunity to ask questions with a member of the MBA Admissions team. Registration is not required but encouraged. The session will begin promptly... View Details
    • 15 Jan 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: January 15, 2008

    over 150 countries over the last 200 years. We use this comprehensive data set to explore the shape of the diffusion curves. Our main finding is that, once the intensive margin is measured, technologies do not diffuse in a logistic way. Microeconomic Determinants of... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace