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- 08 May 2020
- News
Don’t Let Your Company’s Intranet Become a Junk Drawer
- 07 Jan 2021
- News
Cross-Team Meetings Don’t Have to Be a Waste of Time
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
acquiring the customer list. We’re acquiring the people and their expertise that allows them to sell to those customers. So we don’t get rid of people in a hurry. As a global firm, do you have a single company View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
cultures and languages. When Japanese companies send their managers overseas, however, they have to face completely different cultures and languages. Other Asian View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
now has 140 employees and forecasted revenues of $125 million in 2009. Behind those figures, however, is the story of a company that has survived more than one brush with the void by reinventing itself through continuous, deep-seated... View Details
- July 2008 (Revised February 2011)
- Supplement
Sanford C. Bernstein: The Fork in the Road (B)
By: Boris Groysberg and Geoff Eckman Marietta
Update on the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Knowledge; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Competitive Advantage; Valuation; Financial Services Industry
Groysberg, Boris, and Geoff Eckman Marietta. "Sanford C. Bernstein: The Fork in the Road (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 409-008, July 2008. (Revised February 2011.)
- Career Coach
Layla A. Ramirez
leaders get unstuck. Layla takes pride in helping her clients define success on their own terms and then helping them stay accountable to achieving that success. Presently, Layla is a DEIB practitioner at Justworks, a company on a mission... View Details
- 01 Nov 2019
- News
It’s a Small World
Ming Chen (MBA 1998) is Chief Culture Office for the educational travel company EF Education First. In this video, she talks about her role in helping manage a large global business that strives to have a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
assistance of LARC senior researcher Ricardo Reisen de Pinho (PMD 74, 1999), Frei was soon on her way to researching and writing “Magazine Luiza: Building a Retail Model of ‘Courting the Poor.’ ” “Magazine Luiza has made a business of targeting the bottom of the... View Details
- September 1998 (Revised May 2004)
- Case
Becton Dickinson: Ethics and Business Practices (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine
Becton Dickinson's Global One-Company Operations Group must decide on the company's global policy on gifts, gratuities, and business entertainment. A central issue is whether the policy should be established centrally and made uniform worldwide or whether it should be... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Ethics; Law; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Global Strategy; Trade; Business or Company Management
Paine, Lynn S. "Becton Dickinson: Ethics and Business Practices (A)." Harvard Business School Case 399-055, September 1998. (Revised May 2004.)
- 29 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
From the Classroom to the Workplace: How I Applied Learnings to my Internship
interesting to note how culturally sensitive Zalando has to be as a company due to operating so closely to the customer in so many different countries. It often feels like Europe can be treated as one... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 02 Feb 2021
- News
Should You Rehire an Employee Who Left Your Company?
- November 1993 (Revised October 1995)
- Case
Sunrise Medical, Inc.'s Wheelchair Products
Sunrise's CEO must decide whether to intervene in a decision by a division, Guardian Products, to introduce a new lightweight standard wheelchair. Guardian wants to introduce the wheelchair to complement its line of commodity crutches, walkers, and other patient aids.... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Business Divisions; Organizational Culture; Decision Making; Product Marketing; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
McGahan, Anita M. "Sunrise Medical, Inc.'s Wheelchair Products." Harvard Business School Case 794-069, November 1993. (Revised October 1995.)
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
Denmark West (MBA 1998), founding partner of Connectivity Ventures and Culture Shift partner and advisor (photo by Brian Ach) It’s a common scenario: A company wants to increase diversity on its board or in... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Fast Answer
Managing Global Operations
information Nexis Uni Business legal news, cases, practices, statures and legislations. It also provides country and company profiles. US Census Bureau: Foreign Trade News, regulations, guide, and data on US foreign trade. View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Inside Chinese Business: A Guide for Managers Worldwide reveals the social and cultural values that underpin Chinese business practices and influence day-to-day corporate decisions. Written by Ming-Jer Chen, an expert on business strategy... View Details
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Polaroid Corporation Collection | Baker Library
Polaroid Corporation Collection Edwin H. Land demonstrating Polaroid Land Instant Film, April 1947. Polaroid Corporation records. The Polaroid Corporation was among the most creative and technologically innovative companies of the... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
interests were to be minimized. Bill Bain conceptualized his firm to serve one company per industry to ensure a focused, client-centric approach. Most firms established an unwavering culture where growth was... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
companies around the globe in order to find out where and how much they differ." With a research agenda organized around eight major world cultures — African, Confucian, Hindu/Buddhist, Islamic,... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 09 Jul 2024
- News
On Balance
Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) has encountered gender discrimination in the workplace. “I think it’d be hard to find a woman in any workplace who didn’t have personal experiences of it,” she says. As director of Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Wooldridge, who... View Details