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28 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

themselves to local needs and cultures. If good managers are to be moved around the world as part of a "one company" strategy, they have to be hired with that in mind and provided with training in language and customers, time to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

intimidate the local population, some captains took to sinking their ships as soon as they landed. Now there was no choice but to stay and fight. Scuttling the ships made the threat—"We will fight to the death!"—credible to the... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

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Health Care Curriculum - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

care delivery thinking, but can also serve as a platform for other efforts by universities to contribute to local or national health care reform. It opens the potential for field projects in which students and faculty work with delivery... View Details

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By: Feng Zhu

Professor Zhu’s research focuses on the design of platform business models and its impact on platform performance. Platforms have become central to our economy. A platform is a product or service that enables two or more customer groups to interact. For example,... View Details

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

provide tax advice. NOTE: HBS will not be able to make payments in jurisdictions where such payments may violate gift ban rules, create a local tax obligation for HBS, create an employment relationship, create a business presence or... View Details

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

business discussions and drive strategic decision-making with this free guide. Access your free e-book Upskill Your Team, Transform Your Organization Whether you represent a large multinational corporation or a small local business, we... View Details

06 Aug 2023

HBS Information Session in Tokyo

Join us for an in-person information session co-hosted by the HBS Japan Research Center and the HBS Club of Japan. This event will be a great opportunity to learn more from local alumni and current students about the MBA program, life at... View Details

04 May 2023
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Class of 2024 Embarks on Global Immersion

sessions, and immersive design thinking projects—to help students broaden their global perspective. Through partnerships with small- and medium-sized companies in each immersion city, student-led teams work closely with local businesses... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy

HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details

Keywords: April White

23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

decision-making “Minds”—Ideal Point Mind, Market Comparison Mind, Local Comparison Mind, and Image Mind—lead to very different outcomes and behaviors. We have developed the 4 Minds framework to serve as a diagnostic tool to help identify... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Oct 2015
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HBS and the Arts

collections of local HBS alumni. We also took a trip to New York to see the Armory Show and visit artists’ studios, and hosted a community event called Slideluck that featured work by local artists and an en... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time

market share in the 1920s. Ford, who believed that buying cars on credit was morally reprehensible, responded to GMAC with a surge in advertising and an unpopular program that encouraged customers to use their local Ford dealer as a... View Details

14 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 14

interest in the web platform so that they have real impact on retail corruption in India. Possible solutions discussed include teaming up with local governments and police, focusing attention on one or two Indian cities, and franchising... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Survey Questionnaire on Environmental Management Practices: Summary of Results by Industry and Practices

By: Magali Delmas and Michael W. Toffel

This document provides a summary of the results of a survey on Environmental Management Practices (EMP) conducted by the University of California at Santa Barbara during October and November 2003. The survey was sent to 3255 facilities in 8 industrial sectors: pulp,... View Details

Keywords: Economic Sectors; Surveys; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Non-Governmental Organizations

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Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa

By: Debora L. Spar

In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,... View Details

10 Aug 2023

Women's Lunch in São Paulo

Join us for a casual lunch and conversation with local HBS alumnae. This event is designed for prospective students to learn more about the MBA Program, the admissions process, and the community of women at HBS. View Details

21 Sep 2023

HBS Information Session in Austin

Join us for an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions presentation and the opportunity to... View Details

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About the Project - U.S. Competitiveness

conducting research in areas such as innovation, manufacturing, entrepreneurship, company location choices, firm governance, local business ecosystems, human capital, K-12 education, fiscal policy, tax policy, capital markets,... View Details

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Social Technology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Care for Older Adults

By: Arthur Kleinman, Hongtu Chen, Sue E. Levkoff, Ann Forsyth, David E. Bloom, Winnie Yip, Tarun Khanna, Conor J. Walsh, David Perry, Ellen W. Seely, Anne S. Kleinman, Yan Zhang, Yuan Wang, Jun Jing, Tianshu Pan, Ning An, Zhenggang Bai, Jiexiu Wang, Qing Liu and Fawwaz Habbal

Population aging is a defining demographic reality of our era. It is associated with an increase in the societal burden of delivering care to older adults with chronic conditions or frailty. How to integrate global population aging and technology development to help... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Age; Service Delivery; Information Technology; Collaborative Innovation and Invention

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August 2015
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Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

By: Pol Antràs and C. Fritz Foley

This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how these terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; International Finance; Financing and Loans; Trade

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