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- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
A: Jim Heskett: One can only speculate on the sources of low job satisfaction. It could be a product of unmet expectations, possibly due to inadequate attention by firms to hiring, training, and subsequent management. Those entering the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
PapersNegotiation Processes As Sources of (and Solutions to) Interorganizational Conflict Authors:Elizabeth Long Lingo, Colin Fisher, and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract We investigate how structural features of negotiations can affect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
volunteer before becoming a successful corporate leader. He and his work partner, Robert Saudek, had to deal with defective solar cells, embezzlement, and an Ebola outbreak before finding a smooth path to lighting and power sources for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
market, offering the only economically competitive, domestically produced, renewable source of this clean burning fuel. Clear Suppliers Paul Morgenthaler Alex Zhang Business Track Runner-Up Clear Suppliers is a global supply chain... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
or local companies. It was also the sheer spread of businesses it owned beyond packaged consumer products, including African trading, plantations, specialty chemicals, paper and packaging, transport, advertising, and market research... View Details
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Events - Business History
Seminars, & Workshops Jun 11 11 Jun 2025 Virtual Seminar Paloma Fernández Pérez (University of Barcelona), "Global Business and Local Welfare: the Transfer of Radium from Multinationals to Hospitals for the Poor in Barcelona in the 1920s"... View Details
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
needs worldwide. JLL saw this as an opportunity to develop integrated solutions that would (1) serve other global corporate clients and (2) develop capabilities in terms of both global and local services. “The role of employees is... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
manufacturing and financial activities around the globe prior to WWI. The British trading companies played a significant role in opening new markets and developing new sources of supply in resources in the emerging global economy.... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
soon became the electoral kiss of death for Panamanian politicians. Q: What has happened since the transfer of control? A: After the United States removed Noriega, the Panama Canal underwent a management revolution. Once the political conditions were met to prevent the... View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
public. And as the United States became a major source of television programming worldwide, it proved a major force for diffusing American ideals of lifestyle, fashion, and beauty worldwide. Q: What do you think were the most significant... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
find that three commonly used models that all suffer from the IPS restriction-the homogeneous logit model, the nested logit model, and the random coefficient logit model-lead to counterintuitive estimates of the sources of demand gains... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
villages, small towns, and major cities, often with a sizable amount of investment or involvement by local government authorities. It is hard to find any reasonably sized Chinese company in which government authorities do not have input.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
come from diverse sources Chief among the recommendations from Grushka-Cockayne and her colleagues is aggregating several probability forecasts, typically from between five and 10 experts. Ideally, those experts should have some... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
particularly as it pertains to energy prices, European nations used this as a catalyst of opportunity to transition to more renewable energy sources given the more expensive traditional sources currently... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
companies), clients exert a measure of control over the access of those agencies to confidential information while also offering them incentives to avoid conflicts of interest. Findings from the existing body of conceptual and empirical research bearing on the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
paradigm behind global value chains, generally a production network, suggests that firms should outsource to the countries with the lowest overall costs. (Firms could potentially source particular intermediate inputs from only one... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
possess a basic understanding of capital markets, portfolio theory, and risk and return. 6-7 hrs Module 1 Private Equity Learn what private equity is and its different segments: growth equity, buyouts, and venture capital. Explore the View Details
- 13 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion
our GP company. Finally, after some prep sessions in Boston, we were off to the field. The GPs are sourced by HBS and assigned to your team and each project is an exciting challenge the partner is trying to solve. For example, some of my... View Details
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
Value Explore the three pillars of value creation, why capital is costly, and how to use this information to benefit your organization. Highlights Three Sources of Value Weighted Average Cost of Capital Beta Show Hide Details Concepts How... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
clashed as decision-making power, pay and incentives, and clout were altered and redistributed. JLL realized that its organizational structure was hindering the firm in achieving key strategic goals, such as rapid scalability of corporate accounts and effective View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne