International Financial Integration - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 May 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) reflects on how her experience at HBS shaped her career and inspired her to make a difference in her home region of Asia through impact investing. How has your education at HBS helped to shape your career in impact and ESG investing? Though I... View Details

17 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?

Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, is an expert in corporate integrity and risk management. He interviewed dozens of business executives convicted of crimes, including Bernie Madoff, for his 2016 book, “Why... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Biotechnology; Technology; Medical Devices & Supplies

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CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV in Practice Creating Shared Value in Practice Not all profit is equal—an idea that has been lost in the narrow, short-term focus of View Details

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

support all these activities through a conscious and proactive effort to be as effective and clear as possible in their communication to both internal and external stakeholders. To learn more, read Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

of change. The unprecedented flood of mergers and acquisitions, the advent of the global marketplace, the stock market's dizzying rise, and the capricious fortunes of technology-based companies have made financial services a fascinating... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

epidemic of business scandals would be to speak of a widespread failure among CEOs and other senior executives (along with board members, auditors, financial analysts, and others) to uphold their professional obligations. To speak of the... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

16 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 16

PublicationsEnterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions Through Big Data Author:Thomas H. Davenport Publication:FT Press, 2012 Abstract This book, an edited collection of research papers from the International... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

competitive by integrating activities and coordinating resources across national borders. At the same time, they also need to be sensitive and responsive to national differences in consumer tastes and government requirements, for example.... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

In the summer of 2023, Initiatives intern Skye Bluestein conducted important research with the BEI on the intersection of environmental justice (EJ), policy, and business. The resulting paper posted below provides an interesting and... View Details

13 Nov 2017
Blog Post

5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS

The first time I thought seriously about the Harvard MBA was after work colleagues suggested I apply. It sounded daunting, but I like challenges and I had little to lose. I wanted to test myself at this new level, get an international... View Details

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

too-commonly used term, not mine) are tradable on international labor markets. They especially follow the migration of manufacturing activity involving jobs requiring lower skills and compensation. Efforts to revive high value-added... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

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Judges - Alumni

consisted of launching internal fintech ventures for large financial services firms, after joining the technology strategy firm DiamondCluster (acq. PWC) in its early days. Shereen also spent six years... View Details

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

returning to Atlanta." If the business climate can force Coke, which historically was (and is) more profitable internationally than domestically, to seesaw back and forth on globalization in this way, think of the pressures on the typical large company, for which... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Cohen : Winner of the 2022 International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) Master's World Powerlifting Competition Championship (83kg). Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2022 Best Paper Award on Finance in Management Science from the Finance... View Details

Profile

Constanza Oliveira e Sousa

frustrated because I knew my research would never get out of the binders. I wanted to see real world results! After graduation, I worked at a manufacturing plant in Portugal, then I came to Atlanta to start a manufacturing plant there. Suddenly, I was in a management... View Details

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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment

and public sector responses. The wide-ranging effects of environmental risks, technological advances, infrastructure challenges, business model innovations, and national and international policy shifts are impacting the View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

policy for company debt. The board's job is to see that these policy statements are carefully designed, are internally consistent, and help to achieve the goals of the company and its shareholders. Reviewing The Job Performance Of The Ceo... View Details

26 Sep 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

Searched-For Female," as recorded by Google, and made international headlines for donning a dress made of red meat, which Time Magazine called the top fashion statement of 2010. “Gaga is a marketing phenomenon” So it's almost... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

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Events - Private Capital Project

Corporate Responsibility Engagement at JPMorgan Chase), Clark Binkley (Managing Director at International Forestry Investment Advisors), Ratnika Prasad (Director at the Environmental Defense Fund), John Gilbert (Executive Vice President... View Details

17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

poor process design (23%), and a lack of integration in the internal supply chains (23%). Our findings thus suggest that employees are unlikely to discern the role that their department's routines play in... View Details