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- 17 Dec 2014
- News
Facilitating an understanding of business and society in Turkey and the surrounding region
Turkey, government officials, and prominent business leaders, laying the foundation for future research. Çekin also develops connections between companies in Turkey and HBS’s FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development)... View Details
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Turkey
href="https://www.library.hbs.edu/Find/Databases/EMIS-Emerging-Markets-Information-System" target="_blank">EMIS Useful for: emerging market information, including company info, news and niche industry reports. Strong foreign... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Investing in Scalable Impact on K-12 Education
their broader educational philanthropy goals to improve learning outcomes and also increase access to quality education. What we are looking to do is support entrepreneurs and invest in companies that we think can make a very scalable... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Hands-on Experience in Hospitality
bottleneck” and “how can we improve the capacity of our production in the kitchen” came to mind. Likewise, my experience with the housekeeping and room cleaning staff reminded me of discussions from the first year about company View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
- 15 Nov 2019
- News
Diversity as a Driver of Performance
Source: Tapestry Source: Tapestry In September, Jide Zeitlin (MBA 1987) was named chairman and CEO of Tapestry, the $5.9 billion parent company of Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart Weitzman. A former Goldman Sachs executive, Zeitlin has been... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
various cultural traditions and the challenges faced when a company from another tradition enters the market. The complexities of such research start with language, she notes, recalling a visit to a Chinese... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
In the motion picture industry, most people know Alan Horn as the smart, savvy chairman and CEO of Castle Rock Entertainment, the film company that has turned out movie hits such as When Harry Met Sally and In the Line of Fire, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 27 May 2021
- News
History’s Future
Courtesy Amr AlMadani Courtesy Amr AlMadani Millennia ago, the AlUla region in northwestern Saudi Arabia was a thriving commercial and cultural center, a stop on the trade routes that connected the spices, silks, and other luxuries of... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
Walt Disney and the 1941 Animators' Strike Harvard Business School Case 406-076 Focuses on the leadership lessons drawn from the events precipitating the Animator's Strike of 1941, depicting the growing pains of a company that was as much... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values
institutional authority. Do the individuals charged with diversity and inclusion report to the CEO? Do they have the staffing and budget capacity required to make an impact not only in recruiting but also in creating organizational View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
the company anticipates this year will bring in double the $6.7 million in revenue it saw in 2016. New challenges: With rapid growth comes concerns about culture and scalability. “How do we preserve the... View Details
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
Lost sales. Friction. Inefficiency. These are dirty words in the world of business, and they are inevitabilities for companies that don't watch their language, so to speak. Harvard Business School Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
Considering an international assignment? Working abroad can be a pivotal juncture in one’s career. Yet making a successful transition to another country isn’t just a question of adjusting to a new culture — it’s also about personal... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Cyberposium 16
The company wasn’t running on fumes, the fumes were gone,” said Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy (MBA ’85), describing his first desperate days at the firm that has now become a wildly successful online personalized radio service with 65 million... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
influence can equal any government’s. Based in Switzerland, UBS is a financial services company with no obligation to comply with the Kyoto Accord or European Trade Union restrictions on carbon emissions. It has a strong internal View Details
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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising
all-inclusive quality of trade catalogs, trade cards offered a more intimate presentation with which companies could announce their line of business and products. Produced in a variety of shapes and sizes, trade cards generally measured 2... View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders
Business Frances Frei and Anne Morriss believe that customer service is a secret weapon for achieving strategic advantage in the service based economy. To take it a step further, a high level of customer service needs to be so engrained in the View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- October 2000 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
Avon Products (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Greg Rogers
The general manager of Avon Mexico, Fernando Lezama, must decide whether to promote a woman to the position of vice president of sales. If appointed, the candidate would be the first female in all of Latin America to hold an executive position and one of the first... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Leading Change; Salesforce Management; Organizational Culture; Job Design and Levels; Gender; Management Teams; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Mexico
Paine, Lynn S., and Greg Rogers. "Avon Products (A)." Harvard Business School Case 301-059, October 2000. (Revised July 2001.)
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
in different sorts of organizational cultures and situations produced many interesting insights and observations — and some disagreements — about how to handle the Parson matter. Panelists’ opinions ranged from “I’d promote this guy in a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
people resist change, show how passive aversion to cultural problems affects company performance, and provide an actionable framework for transforming corporate culture. View Details