Leading A Global Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Sep 2016
News

Why CEOs Need to Make a Better Case for Free Trade

20 Aug 2019
News

181 Top CEOs Have Realized Companies Need a Purpose Beyond Profit

01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

regulation of natural gas, nuclear power, and hazardous wastes. A Global Solution Professor Joe Lassiter The flame from a natural gas flare dances in the shadow of an oil pump... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

24 May 2021
Blog Post

graduating from Harvard Business School! We led a team of administrators, students, and faculty to balance the possible with the realities of an evolving pandemic. The result became four marquee events... View Details

18 Jul 2019
News

U.S. Targeting of Chinese Scientists Fuels a Brain Drain

01 Mar 2024
News

Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

trajectories of both blockchain and artificial intelligence when growth is led by foundations rather than corporations. “This is playing itself out in real time,” Wu says. “Learning about new business models requires literature and cases.... View Details

Keywords: April White

Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those... View Details

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

challenging conditions, such as the following, are present: When cultures clash. Negotiators from diverse organizational, professional, or national cultures often bring clashing assumptions to the table. As Ming-Jer Chen, the former director of Wharton's View Details

Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

With a pandemic temporarily closing many businesses and stifling consumer demand, whole industries, especially those that recently leveraged their balance sheets to take advantage of near-zero interest... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

14 Jun 2013
News

A Roadmap For Afghanistan’s Economic Future

17 Jun 2014
News

Shedding light on business issues and opportunities in Asia

When Michael Shih-ta Chen (MBA 1972) attended HBS in the early 1970s, only a handful of case studies featured businesses in Asia. Now, some 25 cases a year focus on View Details

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‘Misfits’ in Power: When a Company Needs a Leader CEO, But Gets a Manager | Working Knowledge

an assistant professor at the University of Zurich; Oriana Bandiera, a professor at the London School of Economics; Dávid László, a research fellow at the London School of Economics; Helena Schweiger, View Details

26 Nov 2013
News

Feeling Anxious? Why Trying To "Keep Calm" Is A Terrible Idea

16 Aug 2018
News

Working with a Giver’s Spirit

If you were looking for the perfect candidate to run a nonprofit that fights poverty through entrepreneurship, Manny Ayala (MBA 1992) is just the person you’d want. That was the opinion of Cindy Ko (MBA 2005) in 2013 when she was... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Mar 2019
News

Building a Movement

and central to what they do. We have to be thinking about how we’re going to support our students and business leaders to do that. The EC course that Rebecca Henderson (MBA 1985) and George Serafeim have developed, Reimagining Capitalism,... View Details

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Becoming a Consulting Expert

failure. Consulting isn’t about learning everything there is to know about every company or industry you work for; it is about quickly understanding the KEY aspects of the business that will allow you to make informed recommendations to... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

01 Jun 2006
News

A Capital Asset

to my office — and we’re still friends.” Since leaving the Department of State in 2000, Cohen stays busy and involved. She is the principal of BR Cohen & Associates, which provides logistical and technical advice to U.S. organizations... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Oct 2014
What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

"fail to consider or know how to recognize what is outside their industry that is impacting their business (such as) customers who are buying their goods but don't fit the target profile, or alternative (product) uses Focus has View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2000
News

A Canadian Hero

list of the most successful business leaders this country has ever produced," according to the Toronto Globe and Mail, is president and CEO of ONEX, a thriving public company he founded sixteen years ago.... View Details

May 2022
Case

Honeywell: Transforming a Century Old Industrial

By: William W. George, Michael Norris and John Masko

In late 2021, Darius Adamczyk, Chairman and CEO of Honeywell is considering the changes he has made to the company since he took over the top leadership position in 2017. The company he had inherited from his predecessor, David Cote, was seen by most as a... View Details