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29 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

and team creativity, entrepreneurship, organizations, and society. To develop a research agenda that identifies new questions and approaches relevant to both academics and practitioners. The underlying assumption of the colloquia was that View Details

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire

January 2015 (Revised May 2023)
Technical Note

FIELD Global Immersion: Orchestrating a Compelling Presentation

By: Jill Avery

This note was written to help you organize and orchestrate your FIELD Global Immersion final project presentation to your global partner. It is designed to illustrate ways to make your final presentation persuasive, inspiring, and powerful — a presentation with... View Details

Keywords: Presentation Skills; Communication; Communication Intention and Meaning; Communication Strategy; Interpersonal Communication; Management Skills

26 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

that it possesses by virtue of its local position. In combination, these 3 benefits—cost, capability and contextual knowledge—comprise the "3C's" of a global collaboration strategy. The second principle is that firms must View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2003
What Do You Think?

Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?

an interesting concept of the importance of a "national brand."—Jim Heskett Others, while agreeing with this thesis, were not so sanguine about whether this will happen without greater efforts to influence foreign policy by leaders responsible for View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2012
News

FIELD 2: Global Intelligence

a new concept for a product or service for global partner organizations around the world. In January, they spent a week in the region conducting market research and meeting with the View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

2018
Chapter

Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence

By: Geoffrey Jones

This chapter explores the British experience in a volume which examines the historical evolution of business groups in developed Western economies. The chapter argues that during the nineteenth century British merchant houses established business groups with... View Details

Keywords: Business Groups; Conglomerates; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Organizations; Business Conglomerates; United Kingdom

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October 21, 2022
Article

Climate Regulations Are About to Disrupt Global Shipping

By: Willy C. Shih

Ships that transport goods across oceans are collectively a major generator of greenhouse gases. Rules from the International Maritime Organization and the European Union aimed at curbing these emission promise to make transoceanic and regional shipping more expensive... View Details

Keywords: Shipping; Decarbonization; Environmental Regulation; Supply Chain; Disruption; Shipping Industry; Atlantic Ocean; Oceania; Asia; Europe; North and Central America

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21 Oct 2022
News

Climate Regulations Are About to Disrupt Global Shipping

20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

Globalization hasn't made manufacturing clusters obsolete, but the geographically concentrated pockets of industry have to be smart to ensure their survival, according to new research from Harvard Business School. Gary P. Pisano, the... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

April 2017
Supplement

Global Leadership in a Dynamic and Evolving Region: Molinas @ The Coca-Cola Company (D)

By: Tsedal Neeley and Esel Çekin

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Functions; Structure; Centralization; Decentralization; Diversity; Country Of Origin Effects; Global Contextual Intelligence; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Experience and Expertise; Situation or Environment; Central Asia; Turkey

April 2017
Supplement

Global Leadership in a Dynamic and Evolving Region: Molinas @ The Coca-Cola Company (B)

By: Tsedal Neeley and Esel Çekin

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Functions; Structure; Centralization; Decentralization; Diversity; Country Of Origin Effects; Global Contextual Intelligence; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Experience and Expertise; Situation or Environment; Central Asia; Turkey

01 Dec 2011
News

Inside MTV’s Global Fame

Related Links Watch Bill Roedy describe his approach to taking MTV global In 1989, Bill Roedy (MBA ’79) was told to transform the American success story MTV into a global presence. Twenty years later, Roedy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

May 2022 (Revised June 2022)
Case

Proposing to Redesign a Global Investment Bank

By: David G. Fubini

A major, NYC-based, global investment bank is looking to rethink its Systems strategy amid a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Your firm has served the client across most of its major geographies on a range of substantial Systems and IT efforts, but is facing... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Professional Services; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Digital Strategy; Presentations; Competitive Strategy; Consulting Industry; New York (city, NY)

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

Investment By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved.... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Exploring Global Business Practices

today’s classrooms reflect our global society. In the MBA Program, all students in the first year get hands-on exposure to organizations in emerging markets through the January module of the FIELD (Field... View Details

July 2007 (Revised September 2009)
Case

CEMEX (A): Building the Global Framework (1985-2004)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Pamela Yatsko and Ryan Raffaelli

CEMEX grew through acquisitions from a Latin American to a global company under the leadership of a CEO who believed in the importance of a "one enterprise" culture and benchmarking against world standards. As the CEO ponders an acquisition that would double the... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Competency and Skills; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Integration; Latin America

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For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Organizations and professionals from around the world participate in our Executive Education programs, access our research publications, and interact with our students and alumni through field-based projects, recruitment activities, and... View Details

Teaching Interest

Managing Human Capital: Keeping Hope Alive in Organizations (Not offered 2013-2014)

Managing Human Capital has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the general manager who seeks to manage both other people and his or her own career with optimal effectiveness. Any and all students who believe they will need to effectively manage... View Details

September 2010 (Revised February 2014)
Case

The Global Sight Initiative

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

How to replicate a 'one of' social entrepreneurship effort: To cure blindness, Seva took the Aravind Eye Hospital & scaled it up to 100 hospitals globally. View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Globalization; Health Industry