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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
says. “It had all the earmarks for a huge success, but it wasn’t.” Why? “I was an absentee owner,” explains McCann. “I wasn’t networked into the community. In Santa Cruz, nobody knew me. I’d thought it was the great location that would... View Details
- Web
Theobald Gathering Spaces | About
spaces across campus have enhanced including several dormitory patios and courtyard and most notably, the courtyard between Spangler and Aldrich Hall, which has become a vibrant gathering spot for students between classes. The addition of benches, tables and chairs,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Pyramid Scheme
locate to other cities and add a new and different adventure. “My main goal in starting a business,” DuPlessie told the Boston Herald (September 22, 2004), “was that I’d never be bored.” View Details
- July 2020
- Article
Intra-firm Geographic Mobility: Value Creation Mechanisms and Future Research Directions
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
Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "Intra-firm Geographic Mobility: Value Creation Mechanisms and Future Research Directions." Special Issue on Employee Inter- and Intra-Firm Mobility. Advances in Strategic Management 41 (July 2020).
- 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
- 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
Polzer, Jeffrey T., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Flextronics: Deciding on a Shop Floor System for Producing the Microsoft Xbox." Harvard Business School Case 403-090, February 2003. (Revised August 2004.)
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Dan Bricklin Classroom, Aldrich Hall 108 | About
Dan Bricklin Classroom, Aldrich Hall 108 The Dan Bricklin Classroom, located inside Aldrich Hall , was named by the School in honor of alumnus and technology entrepreneur Dan Bricklin (MBA 1979), the co-developer of VisiCalc, one of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
reunions on campus in October. 3 Tokyo was one of 67 locations where clubs and alumni groups enjoyed an evening of networking and socializing in conjunction with the annual HBS Global Networking Night held on October 18. 4 Jay and Page... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Location-Specificity and Geographic Competition for Remote Workers
By: Thomaz Teodorovicz, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Evan Starr
The precipitous growth of remote work has given rise to a new phenomenon: geographic competition between localities for the physical presence of remote workers. Remote workers with high general human capital may create value for their new destinations and reverse net... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Human Capital; Geographic Location; Civil Society or Community; Motivation and Incentives
Teodorovicz, Thomaz, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Evan Starr. "Location-Specificity and Geographic Competition for Remote Workers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-071, May 2023.
- July–August 2012
- Article
The Growth Opportunity That Lies Next Door
By: G. Jones
This article uses the case of Natura, the largest Brazilian beauty company and one of the world's top twenty beauty companies, to explore how the logic of globalization is changing for corporations from emerging countries as growth opportunities in those countries... View Details
Keywords: Brazil; Marketing; Green Marketing; Environment; Globalization; Developing Countries and Economies; Geographic Location; Growth and Development Strategy; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Latin America; Europe
Jones, G. "The Growth Opportunity That Lies Next Door." Harvard Business Review 90, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2012): 141–145.
- June 2013
- Supplement
Studio Moderna - Sandi Cesko, CEO, Video Supplement
By: Jim Sharpe
This is the Video Supplement for Studio Moderna - A Venture in Eastern Europe (HBS Case #808110). View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Marketing; Entrepreneurial Organizations; International Entrepreneurship; International Expansion; Consumer Marketing; Consumer Goods; Innovation; Leadership; Organizational Structure; Advertising; Internet; Marketing; General Management; Growth; Organizational Development; Television; Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Globalization; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Digital Marketing; Business Startups; Marketing Channels; Media; Consumer Products Industry; Distribution Industry; Retail Industry; Slovenia; Slovakia; Croatia; Macedonia; Bulgaria; Serbia and Montenegro; Poland; Hungary; Bosnia and Hercegovina; Czech Republic; Lithuania; Estonia; Albania; Romania; Central Asia
Sharpe, Jim. "Studio Moderna - Sandi Cesko, CEO, Video Supplement ." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 813-716, June 2013.
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
New Global Initiative Director Takes Broad Outlook
director (Camille Tang Yeh (MBA 1980) in Hong Kong and Gustavo A. Herrero (MBA 1976) in Buenos Aires) and a research staff to assist faculty members with their work. With HBS researchers currently studying companies in more than forty countries, Ryan says choosing the... View Details
- 05 May 2015
- Blog Post
See What's New on our Site
employment by industry, function, and location. A world map provides an extensive view of data by location Entrepreneurship: Discover how many students joined start-ups or founded their own ventures 3) Perspectives - A quick look into the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Global Leadership Roundtables | Institute for Business in Global Society
local context for the topics that we discuss and on their extensive networks in each region. As such, we select the locations for our Roundtables based on which research centers have the interest and capacity to partner with us and which... View Details
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
full-time attention to horology, serving as chairman of the National Watch and Clock Library and as a member of the collections committee for the National Watch and Clock Museum, both located in Columbia, Pennsylvania. He is also building... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ensuring success through education
energy, and banks. Located outside of Istanbul, Özyeğin University offers financially accessible education programs focused largely in business and engineering, and has plans to grow its student population to 6,000 by 2015. “I try to... View Details
- Fast Answer
Turnarounds and Transformation
awards archive to identify companies of interest. Capital IQ: Go to Screening--Saved Screens Locate the T & T Idea Screen from the list. Adjust criteria related to credit ratings as desired. View Details
- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
Locations Visited: Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore Date: March and May, 2006 Purpose: Assess the progress of eighteen business schools in Harvard Business School's Program on Case Method and Participant-Centered... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
for several years before joining Novantas, a start-up consulting firm located in New York. The first eighteen months, she recalled, were "absolutely wonderful. I felt like my mentors at the firm were really excited about the work I... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
trailers pulled out of a Pfizer plant in Portage, Michigan, carrying the initial doses of a coronavirus vaccine—each preserved at -70 degrees Celsius —to 636 different locations across the country. “If supply chain folks do their job... View Details