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  • March 2016
  • Article

Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing

By: Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover Goswami and William R. Kerr
We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation... View Details
Keywords: Highways; Roads; India; Development; Manufacturing; Density; Rent; Infrastructure; Manufacturing Industry; India
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  • 2009
  • Chapter

Becoming the Lamp Bearer: The Emerging Roles of the Chief Risk Officer

By: Anette Mikes
Enterprise risk management, under the leadership of chief risk officers (CROs), has the promise to bring enterprise-wide risks, which threaten the achievement of the firm's strategic objectives, into the open and under control. Its organizational significance is... View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Business Processes; Risk and Uncertainty
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    Capitalism at Risk

    The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before and raised living standards to new heights. But capitalism’s future is far from assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 came within a hair’s breadth of triggering another Great... View Details

    • May 2021
    • Case

    André Hoffmann: Beyond Philanthropy

    By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye and Spencer C.N. Hagist
    André Hoffmann is a leader of one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. His exceptional tenure in philanthropy over the past several decades, including being president of the WWF and the vice-president of the MAVA Foundation, has allowed him access to a far... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Restructuring; Social Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Cash Flow; Macroeconomics; Ethics; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Switzerland; United States; Japan
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    • 28 Oct 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization

    Keywords: by Nicholas Bloom, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun & John Van Reenen; Technology
    • 31 Oct 2017
    • News

    Predictions for the Future of Small Business Lending and Fintech

      Extreme Teaming

      Today’s global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross industry... View Details
      • 2019
      • Chapter

      The Great Divergence and the Great Convergence

      By: Geoffrey Jones
      This chapter provides a new lens to the extensive debate among economists and economic historians concerning why the West grew rich and the rest of the world lagged behind as modern industrialization took hold in the 19th century. The literature has focused heavily on... View Details
      Keywords: Globalization; Growth and Development; History; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; Oceania
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      Club Conferences - MBA

      Women's Student Association February 23, 2025 Asia Business Conference Asian-Affinity Business Association March 2, 2025 Family Business Conference Family Business Club March 8, 2025 Tech Conference Tech Club March 9, 2025 Social View Details
      • Program

      Driving Corporate Performance

      (financial and others) who are responsible for designing and implementing systems to measure, monitor, and improve enterprise performance HR executives engaged in aligning the organization's talent with business strategy Particularly... View Details

        Steven C. Wheelwright

        Steve Wheelwright is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School.

        Following his retirement from HBS in 2006, he served with former Dean Kim B. Clark at BYU-Idaho and then from 2007-2015 he served as... View Details

        • Web

        Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

        Kodak Company, 1972–1983 William S. Farish Standard Oil of New Jersey, 1937–1942 James A. Farrell United States Steel Corporation, 1911–1932 Marshall Field III Field Enterprises (Chicago Sun/Parade Publications), 1941–1956 Marshall Field... View Details

          Julie Battilana

          Julie Battilana is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty... View Details

          • Article

          Risk Management—The Revealing Hand

          By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes
          Many believe that the recent emphasis on enterprise risk management function is misguided, especially after the failure of sophisticated quantitative risk models during the global financial crisis. The concern is that top-down risk management will inhibit innovation... View Details
          Keywords: Risk Management
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          • 2015
          • Chapter

          Managerial Responsibility and the Purpose of Business: Doing One's Job Well

          By: Nien-he Hsieh
          Business managers routinely make decisions that significantly affect the lives of others in both positive and negative ways. In the light of these wide-ranging effects, much scholarship has been devoted to specifying the responsibilities of managers of for-profit... View Details
          Keywords: Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives
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            Marketing Metaphoria

            Why do advertising campaigns and new products often fail? Why do consumers feel that companies don't understand their needs? Because marketers themselves don't think deeply about consumers' innermost thoughts and feelings. Marketing Metaphoria is a groundbreaking book... View Details
            • 01 Nov 2010
            • Research & Ideas

            How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

            What determines whether decisions happen on the bottom, middle, or top rung of the corporate ladder? New research offers a surprising conclusion: The answer often lies in the technology that a company uses. Information-based systems, such as View Details
            Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
            • Web

            Research Areas - Doctoral

            multi-disciplinary approach. 11. Social Enterprise research seeks to understand the challenges associated with driving sustained, high-impact social change. Current research focuses on leadership of socially mission-driven organizations;... View Details
            • Web

            Curriculum - MBA

            fall of Year 3. Also during Year 3, all students complete a year-long capstone exercise at HKS. Participants generally complement their required and elective studies with two summer internships: either a policy, international development, or social View Details
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            Help - Alumni

            Qualified graduates from the MBA Class of 1999 onward are eligible to apply. Learn more . You can learn about other opportunities for alumni offered by the Social Enterprise Initiative at Alumni for Impact . How can I contact other alumni... View Details