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  • 19 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

If you are an executive of a multinational looking for geographies in which to expand your markets, operations, and investments, is China more attractive than India? South Africa better than Mexico? Does Russia have more promise than the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

concept, there are many challenges and risks in execution for the service organization, government and investors. The VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact Funds (819021) by Vikram Gandhi , Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme and Nathaniel... View Details
  • Web

McArthur Hall | About

McArthur Hall McArthur Hall was named in honor of John H. McArthur (MBA 1959, DBA 1963), Dean of Harvard Business School from 1980 to 1995. The 97,000-square-foot, Georgian-style building with contemporary finishes was designed by the View Details
  • January 2017
  • Case

The Six CEOs of Tyco International Ltd.

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In September 2016, Johnson Controls, Inc. completed the acquisition of Tyco International PLC, a $9.9 billion business with operating profits of $884 million. The purchase consideration was $14.4 billion. Although the deal was billed as a merger, Ireland-based Tyco... View Details
Keywords: Tyco; Dennis Kozlowski; Edward Breen; Fire Safety; Fire Protection; Security; Packaging; Securities And Exchange Commission; Fraud; Accounting; Accounting Audits; Earnings Management; Financial Statements; Goodwill Accounting; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Headquarters; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Restructuring; Crime and Corruption; Engineering; Applied Optics; Chemicals; Construction; Metals and Minerals; Ethics; Finance; Cash Flow; Public Equity; Stock Options; Financing and Loans; Initial Public Offering; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Health Care and Treatment; Business History; Executive Compensation; Selection and Staffing; Courts and Trials; Lawfulness; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Horizontal Integration; Value; Chemical Industry; Construction Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Energy Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Mining Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Utilities Industry; Republic of Ireland; Switzerland; Bermuda; United States; New Hampshire
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  • 01 Jan 2004
  • News

D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

to put his quantitative and analytical skills to good use. Headed by the legendary Marvin Bower (MBA '30), an early leader of both the firm and the management consulting profession itself, who had recently begun the practice of stocking... View Details
  • 17 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

their work, so they’re searching for something to replace that work identity.” Over four years, the researchers conducted interviews and surveys of 120 professionals at three quite different companies located in different parts of the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 11 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

Specialisterne, a Danish software firm with 75 percent of its workforce diagnosed with ASD. Ferose, like the founder of Specialisterne, has a son diagnosed with ASD. Specialisterne is what Austin calls the “gold standard” of... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology
  • 06 Dec 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

you name Google’s closest competitor in search and search-related advertising? That’s market power” Now comes the “New Tech Big Four,” often characterized as Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. Like their older cousin Microsoft, all are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services
  • September 2009
  • Article

The Technology Manager's Journey: An Extended Narrative Approach to Educating Technical Leaders

By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Shannon O'Donnell
Technology management poses particular challenges for educators because it requires a facility with different kinds of knowledge and wide-ranging learning abilities. We report on the development and delivery of an information technology (IT) management course designed... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Business Education; Multinational Firms and Management; Entertainment; Communication; Curriculum and Courses; Framework; Design; Goals and Objectives; Learning; Information Technology Industry
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  • 20 Apr 2021
  • Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

companies have the potential to create more value and increase their profits. Even modest advances can have dramatic implications. “If a US company that ranked 50th today jumped to 40th next year, its return on invested capital (ROIC) would increase by 21 percent,” he... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 24 Oct 2018
  • Blog Post

The Energy & Environment Club

Green Bank to operations at Tesla.  The 40+ first-year MBA students in attendance were eager to learn what to expect from the internship search cycle, from generating a list of target companies to nailing the interview and accepting the... View Details
  • 16 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set forth in previous chapters to theories of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

Danielle Kost: Every executive is searching for the next big idea or strategy. Are there any techniques or approaches that people can use to stimulate their own creativity at work? Teresa M. Amabile: Three... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

transformation of the very nature of the innovation search process. We find intermediate disclosure has the advantage of efficiently steering development towards improving existing solution approaches, but also the effect of limiting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

overlook our most powerful tool for effecting change: our own thoughts. Through a variety of exercises called Think Keys, Zaltman guides the reader through the mind’s most important unconscious and conscious dynamics. Zaltman has used these techniques with View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

corporate directors' fiduciary duties in that state. This change limited incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt. We show that, as predicted, this increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced risk taking. The changes are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

for firms from industrialized economies and negative effects for firms in other emerging economies, which are less export-intensive and more import-intensive. Motivated by these facts, we build a dynamic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

Abstract—Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of the wages of people in different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

networks, we also document the key role of business schools in diffusing "Chicago-style" economic approaches—offering support for anti-regulatory approaches and popularizing narrowly financial understandings of the firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

balanced scorecard data from a convenience store chain, Store24, during the implementation of an innovative, but ultimately unsuccessful, strategy. Quarterly strategic reviews, based in part on the firm's balanced scorecard, led View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne