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Corporate Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Company The Walt Disney Company creates corporate value by harnessing fit across the value chains of its multiple business units. Compete in theme parks and resorts, video entertainment, and consumer product divisions leveraging the... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive (also listed under General Management) Willy Shih Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Willy Shih Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Demystifying the Family Enterprise Christina Wing Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Designing Tech... View Details

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Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

1.5 Leading a Family Business Josh Baron Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Role (MDD) (also listed under Technology & Operations Management) Amy Edmondson , Tiona Zuzul... View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

environmental and social governance? Keywords: Investment Fund ; Philanthropy ; Charitable Donations ; Sustainability ; Foundation ; Impact Investing ; ESG ; Family Business ; Forecasting and Prediction ;... View Details

23 Jul 2024
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The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

created risk mitigation strategies to deal with China. They must now do the same for the United States. William C. Kirby is the T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and the Spangler Family Professor of View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications

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Soltan Bryce

of large data sets in complex systems alongside the formation of a business case could be applied to my interest in sustaining public goods, like agricultural activities.” Throughout his college years, Soltan also worked on an organic,... View Details

30 Mar 2009
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Professional Networks in China and America

commingle. One explanation is that norms for family relationships are often applied to relationships in other domains of life, such as professional or business relationships. The other interesting finding is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

2025
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Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You

By: Teresa M. Amabile, Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall and Kathy E. Kram

Retirement, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by acclaimed authors in the fields of business leadership, careers, and work, this book goes beyond the typical financial and health-related advice on retirement,... View Details

Keywords: Retirement

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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

the people-related issues become increasingly important. The technical tools that seem so important when you are a student will help only up to a point." CURRENT READING Divisadero, by Michael Ondaatje Jaime Zobel didn't plan to start his career in the View Details

08 Oct 2012
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The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

establishing the struggling young country's financial system. In The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy, Thomas McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking

21 Nov 2022
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Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers

their means, the authors say in their working paper. “Put yourself in the shoes of the consumer,” says Di Maggio, the Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration. “You see something you... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Financial Services; Technology

28 May 2014
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Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

seen it all including Banco Nacional de Mexico's Agustín Legorreta (his bank was nationalized twice); Turkey's Güler Sabanci, the first woman in her family to run its $14 billion conglomerate and one of the globe's top View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Jul 2023
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Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details

Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology

07 Nov 2023
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Love and Money

we even talk about romantic relationships, I want to understand more about you and what makes you happy. So think about a person in your life who genuinely makes you happy when you're around them. It could be a friend or family member, it... View Details

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J. R. D. Tata

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson

J.R.D Tata, Chairman of the Indian conglomerate Tata & Sons, played a significant role in building India's economic infrastructure. Under his guidance, Tata & Sons built locomotives, steel refineries, airlines, chemical plants, and technology-based enterprises.... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Development Economics; Working Conditions; Leadership; Infrastructure; Personal Development and Career; Business and Government Relations; India

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04 Jun 2024
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Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

generative artificial intelligence (AI) explodes, companies face balancing individual privacy, coveted data insights, and the law—all while pursuing competitive advantage. Eva Ascarza, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

18 Jun 2020
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What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

Do lower-income families need and deserve access to fewer things than everyone else? As a society, we seem to think so, revealing a "grim double standard," finds a study published this month, Inequality in Socially Permissible... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

27 Jul 2021
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What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership

In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

14 Sep 2020
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You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

Work-from-home employees whose days seem longer, with more meetings and emails than ever before, may find a new Harvard Business School study validating. An analysis of the emails and meetings of 3.1 million people in 16 global cities... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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