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  • 13 Jun 2017
  • News

Finding Common Ground

company seem bigger than it actually was. He was almost discovered when a Japanese customer arrived in the United States and insisted they meet and go to dinner. Two years shy of legal drinking age, Crespin spent the evening in mortal... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • 03 Sep 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

necessarily the best team leader, because a lot of board members don't value the team leadership aspect of the position." Clifford F. Baker put it this way: "Having worked for a living in a corner office of a corporate ivory... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage
  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

group had generated. These ranged from stabilizing the company's current carbon emissions to complete carbon neutrality. The UBS Corporate Responsibility Committee would meet early next week. Suter wondered which option he should support.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

Business, Aaron Chatterji, call “CEO activism,” in which corporate executives speak out about social or environmental issues not obviously related to their core businesses. “What prompted this research is that we kept observing instances... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing
  • June 2003 (Revised April 2004)
  • Case

Mercy Corps: Global Social Entrepreneurship (A)

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Daniel F. Curran
Neal Keny-Guyer, CEO of Mercy Corps International, built his organization by following the advice of Theodore Roosevelt: "Be smart enough to hire good people and have sense enough to get out of their way." For eight years, Keny-Guyer helped Mercy Corps grow in size and... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Government and Politics; Selection and Staffing; Leadership; Organizational Structure; Opportunities; Afghanistan; Iraq
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  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity-debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

this case:http://hbr.org/search/312109-PDF-ENG Credit Unions: The Future of the Cooperative Financial Institution Robert C. Pozen and Grace HouHarvard Business School Case 312-131 Credit unions are a specialized type of depository institution with a cooperative,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2008
  • HBS Case

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

perspective. There are numerous media accounts of the corporate monolith riding its suppliers into the ground. But what about those who manage to survive, and thrive, while dealing with the classic hardball negotiator? In "Sarah... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

in Developing Countries Authors: Diego Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha, and Luis Serven Abstract We build a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with two features: (1) a product cycle structure determines the range of intermediate goods... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog

protagonists and guest speakers who have decades of hands-on experience to share with the class. The course will be structured around several turnaround levers—some connected with planning and some with execution. The course will open and... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

BOOK: The Money of Invention

the growing role of intermediaries. Gompers and Lerner argue that the next decade is likely to see a fundamental transformation in the structure of the venture industry, as a relative handful of large, professionally managed venture... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Finance; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

both host and home governments, and the international legal framework. The second was the market and resources of the host country. The third factor was competition from local firms. The impact of these factors on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

Williams Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown As a sociologist and legal scholar, Williams investigates the effectiveness of various legal, policy, and organizational interventions designed to reduce bias and enhance equity and... View Details
  • 15 Sep 2016
  • News

US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’

Porter and Rivkin. “The weak economic recovery we now see is due to long-term structural issues, which are further compounded by political paralysis.” The report draws attention to the choices facing the nation in order to rebuild a... View Details
  • 15 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

Establish clear accountability and governance structures, including appropriate legal counsel. Consider where it is needed and proper to have insurance, such as Directors and Officers (D&O) liability coverage, for people in critical... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
  • 22 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

support. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55515 January–February 2019 Harvard Business Review What Does Your Corporate Brand Stand For? By: Greyser, Stephen A., and Mats Urde Abstract— While most firms are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

Blameless Victim: Our Ten-Year Legal Battle against Zurich American Insurance and American International Group by Harold S. Rhodes (MBA 1980) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) This is the detailed story of the Rhodes family’s... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

Finance," focused on five subjects: corporate capital raising, corporate restructuring, extracting information from security prices, risk management, and security design. The fifteen papers presented at the... View Details
  • 1991
  • Book

Advantage Sweden

By: Michael E. Porter, Orjan Solvell and I. Zander
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Industry Structures; Global Strategy; Economy; Sweden
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  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Benaree Wiley

father taught us we should make a contribution in some way and that responsibility comes along with success." At The Partnership since 1991, Wiley leads an organization that helps minorities gain access to the city's corporate power View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner