Agreements and Arrangements - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

maximizing regional opportunities. Ghemawat discusses five regional strategies while leaving the meaning of a "region" open for interpretation. This excerpt describes the challenges of designating a meaningful definition of region for your company View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

01 Apr 2008
News

“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”

labels. Over the next 15 years, as the use of e-mail and the Web expanded, the work of the Records Office became more complex and demanding — paradoxically even as alums could do more View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Arab American Heritage Month | Baker Library

arrangement of the collection brings together books, periodicals, and pamphlets organized by industry. James A. Clark and Michel T. Halbouty. (1952). Spindletop . Random House.... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Predictable Surprises

CEOs several decades ago. The airline’s previous generation of leaders settled tough union negotiations, made agreements that allowed them to operate profitably and look good in the short term, View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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1.5 Attendance | MBA

scheduling travel arrangements that conflict with a student’s class schedule should be rare and avoided whenever possible. Students should not make vacation or other personal travel View Details

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IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog

Unilever, and startups such as Ohmium Green Hydrogen, Ather Mobility, StringBio, and Exponent Energy. We will also focus on rural development and energy access for the poor... View Details

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Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog

contact her assistant, Mads Tolsdorf ( mtolsdorf@hbs.edu ) to arrange a meeting. Goal of course – Create a community, learn from each other and have fun. Copyright © 2024 President & Fellows of Harvard... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

Case Study: The Credit Bureau

young professionals) select pieces from curated collections on the company’s website—think Scandinavian, mid-century modern, or industrial looks. Within a week, a white-glove team delivers preassembled pieces and View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

01 Sep 2009
News

E Ink’s Wild Ride

percent a year and is poised on the cusp of enormous change. In June, Prime View International (PVI) signed an agreement to acquire E Ink for about $215 million. Based in Taipei, Taiwan, PVI is E Ink’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

01 Jun 2003
News

Strategic Networking

Most alumni are aware that graduates of the School can be found in leadership positions all over the world, in organizations of every size and description. Not everyone, however, may know that more than 25,000 are members of the Alumni... View Details

Keywords: Networking

21 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

Reporting and Control (FRC) professor, Jonas Heese, to write a case about stock-based compensation, and actually got to work with Twitter’s CFO as part of the process. Independent Projects are flexible View Details

24 May 2018
Blog Post

Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris

company." The intangibles represent the "soft skills" that are familiar to business leaders – but with a twist. "As a CEO," Norris says, "you may not have had to reach agreement with others. But for board service, collegiality View Details

28 May 2019
News

The Physical Campus in a Virtual World

winner of this contest, and it closely resembles the buildings that went into construction in 1925. I keep these drawings on display as a reminder that the institution we inhabit today is the result of a discrete series of choices made... View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

19 May 2015
News

Getting Ready for Success

another arranges funding new schools. “Some volunteers get a taste for what is not necessarily monetarily rewarding, but quite rewarding nonetheless, and it changes their perception of life,” she says. After... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Services

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural analysis is complete without a diagnosis of how present View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

17 Aug 2011
News

Breath of Life

$9 million operation. The company, renamed Harvard Bioscience, Inc. — it has a licensing agreement with Harvard University — went public in 2000 and by 2010 had become a $108 million firm. Asked how he came... View Details

Keywords: stem cell research; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Feb 1998
News

Running Up the Score

battling among themselves, were willing to pay ever-increasing sums for the rights to broadcast sports. Charles G. "Chase" Carey (MBA '81), chairman and CEO of Fox Television, was the driving force behind Fox's broadcast View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

The Case for Studying Financial History

HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Sep 2012
News

The School of Life

formerly editor of the Harvard Business Review and deputy editor of Inc. magazine. From the book How Will You Measure Your Life? © 2012 By Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon. Reprinted... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

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