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- 2022
- Working Paper
Multinationals and Varieties of Capitalism: When U.S. Giants Stepped into the Swiss Coordinated Labor Market in the 1950s
By: Sabine Pitteloud
This working paper investigates unintended consequences of U.S. FDI in Switzerland in the 1950s-1960s: the increased competition that U.S. firms generated within the national labor market and the challenge their hiring practices constituted for the institutional... View Details
Keywords: Multinationals; Capitalism; Business ＆ Government Relations; Foreign Direct Investment; Immigration Policy; History; Switzerland; Americanization; R＆D; Labor History; Labor Market Institutions; Tax Havens; ＂USA,＂; Business Interest Association; Lobbying; Labor and Management Relations; Business History; Multinational Firms and Management
Pitteloud, Sabine. "Multinationals and Varieties of Capitalism: When U.S. Giants Stepped into the Swiss Coordinated Labor Market in the 1950s." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-075, June 2022.
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
In a working paper presented at the June colloquium, HBS professors Michael Porter and Nitin Nohria consider the CEO’s role in the large, complex organization that is typical in today’s global economy. An excerpt follows: “CEOs must... View Details
- Web
FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
process improvement or outcomes measurement roles. Also useful is potential for the project manager to make a long-term commitment to value measurement. Clinical knowledge is helpful but not necessary.... View Details
- Web
Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Care explores the best practices for reorganizing and coordinating care, improving process efficiencies, implementing new reimbursement approaches, View Details
- Article
Control, Performance, and Knowledge Transfers in Large Multinationals: Unilever in the United States, 1945-1980
By: G. Jones
This article considers key issues relating to the organization and performance of large multinational firms in the post-Second World War period. Although foreign direct investment is defined by ownership and control, in practice the nature of that "control" is far from... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Governance Controls; Performance; Business or Company Management; Ownership; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
Jones, G. "Control, Performance, and Knowledge Transfers in Large Multinationals: Unilever in the United States, 1945-1980." Business History Review 76, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 435–478.
- February 2018
- Article
Retention Futility: Targeting High-Risk Customers Might Be Ineffective.
By: Eva Ascarza
Companies in a variety of sectors are increasingly managing customer churn proactively, generally by detecting customers at the highest risk of churning and targeting retention efforts towards them. While there is a vast literature on developing churn prediction models... View Details
Keywords: Retention/churn; Proactive Churn Management; Field Experiments; Heterogeneous Treatment Effect; Machine Learning; Customer Relationship Management; Risk Management
Ascarza, Eva. "Retention Futility: Targeting High-Risk Customers Might Be Ineffective." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 55, no. 1 (February 2018): 80–98.
- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
illustrate how major organizations have used the Scorecard to create an entirely new performance management framework that puts strategy at the center of a company's key management View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- Web
Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
information, managers and clinicians can standardize clinical and administrative processes, eliminate non-value added and redundant steps,... View Details
- 2011
- Working Paper
From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Practice; Business Education; Labor and Management Relations; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; Knowledge; Production; Business Conglomerates; Education Industry; United States
Fourcade, Marion, and Rakesh Khurana. "From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-071, January 2011.
- 26 Apr 2023
2+2 Program and Admissions Virtual Information Session
Do you know where an MBA can take you? Open your mind to the breadth of career opportunities available in business and learn how an MBA in general management can open new doors for your professional View Details
- 04 Jan 2023
2+2 Program and Admissions Virtual Information Session
Do you know where an MBA can take you? Open your mind to the breadth of career opportunities available in business and learn how an MBA in general management can open new doors for your professional View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Given success of this magnitude, why aren’t for-profit managed charter schools like Sabis in high demand? The authors rebut the charge that for-profits running charter schools are in it for the money, not the kids, View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
Considering integrated reporting’s current state of play, Professor of Management Practice Eccles and his coauthor provide guidance to ensure wider adoption of the View Details
- 01 Feb 2023
2+2 Program and Admissions Virtual Information Session
Do you know where an MBA can take you? Open your mind to the breadth of career opportunities available in business and learn how an MBA in general management can open new doors for your professional View Details
- 18 Jan 2023
2+2 Program and Admissions Virtual Information Session
Do you know where an MBA can take you? Open your mind to the breadth of career opportunities available in business and learn how an MBA in general management can open new doors for your professional View Details
- June 2011
- Case
Shelley Capital and the Hedge Fund Secondary Market
By: Luis Viceira, Elena Corsi and Ruth Dittrich
An advisory company has to decide how to sell their client's hedge fund holdings in the secondary market, and thinks about their future. Shelley Capital was a a European advisory company operating in the hedge fund secondary market, a market that boosted in 2008 with... View Details
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment Funds; Marketing Strategy; Financial Crisis; Sales; Leadership Development; Financial Markets; Crisis Management; Business Processes; Risk and Uncertainty; Globalized Economies and Regions; Financial Services Industry; Service Industry; Europe
Viceira, Luis, Elena Corsi, and Ruth Dittrich. "Shelley Capital and the Hedge Fund Secondary Market." Harvard Business School Case 211-112, June 2011.
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
Think of Harvard Business School's recently launched the Digital Initiative (D/I) as a giant laboratory, where leading scholars and practitioners convene to research, teach, and put into View Details
- June 2012
- Article
The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control
Using data from embedded participant-observers and a field experiment at the second largest mobile phone factory in the world, located in China, I theorize and test the implications of transparent organizational design on workers' productivity and organizational... View Details
Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Organizational Learning; Operational Control; Organizational Performance; Chinese Manufacturing; Field Experiment; Rights; Interpersonal Communication; Management Practices and Processes; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Performance Productivity; Boundaries; Organizations; Social and Collaborative Networks; Labor and Management Relations; Power and Influence; Manufacturing Industry; China
Bernstein, Ethan S. "The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control." Administrative Science Quarterly 57, no. 2 (June 2012): 181–216.
- 28 Oct 1994
- Lecture
Japanese and American Corporate Governance: Converging to Best Practice?
By: W. Carl Kester
- Web
Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog
the developing world. GEM provides frameworks to understand the processes of economic growth and development; to develop contextual intelligence regarding emerging markets; to View Details