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  • 28 Apr 2020
  • Blog Post

The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership

be allocated? To which groups? And on what basis?” To integrate operations and reach the public, she also oversaw the launch of SJDigitalInclusion.org, San Jose’s portal for the initiative. Building the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

is not specific to any function, firm, or industry. Instead, it draws on an eclectic collection of materials: HBS cases as well as readings from academic journals, popular literature, and current newspapers and magazines. CCMO is divided... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

what it takes to build intellectual and human capital and prepared me for the processes we are now engaged in with our own faculty. What are some of the cultural differences between doing business in the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 27 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

shareholders, Firestone Chairman and CEO Richard Riley justified his company's heavy investment in terms of creating jobs instead of creating value for owners: The replacement and View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation
  • September 2018 (Revised January 2019)
  • Case

Sobha Group Real Estate: Backward Integration for Quality

By: John Macomber and Alpana Thapar
From humble beginnings in Kerala, India, Mr. PNC Menon built a reputation for quality, detail, and trustworthiness, earning him major construction commissions in the Gulf region. This paved the way for venturing into real estate development in Dubai, UAE. Striving to... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Backward Integration; Land Acquisition; Raising Capital; Construction; Family Business; Decision Making; Joint Ventures; Quality; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; India; Middle East; Dubai
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  • 25 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Interview Strategies to Connect with a Wider Range of Candidates

people being able to use their discretion to hire people who are just like them, that they are comfortable with, that look like them, that act like them, that talk like them.” One way to counter the interviewer’s reliance on the “soft stuff” is to View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • Web

Site Credits - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details
  • 31 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

showed that immigrants who come into the country at a young age build better growing firms than those who come to the United States as adults. So far, the analysis only scratches the surface of what the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey

and travels around the world, although writing was still on his mind, Barron enrolled at HBS intending to build a business of his own. After graduation, he took a job with Prospect Group, Inc., a New York... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
  • 25 Apr 2023
  • News

Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

hospitals with its nursing workforce management platform. “We’re building the technological layer that hospitals and health systems need to adapt to the expectations of modern nurses in a post-Covid world,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 04 Aug 2023
  • Blog Post

Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change

and architecture. Still, he wasn’t fully aware of the impact that construction had on climate change before becoming a real estate developer. “Cities are responsible for three fourths View Details
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

drugs for chronic conditions—from pharmacies to a combination of direct mail and telephone. The idea was that if you have a chronic condition, you're in a replenishment mode. You have to fill the prescription regularly over a number View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 22 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

countries improve trade conditions and build sustainable practices. Back then, fair trade essentially referred to a system of price-fixing, using Resale Price Maintenance contracts to help smaller businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services
  • 12 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

auditors. Building Capacity for Change Both studies—considering factors in countries where factories are located and at the makeup of the teams that audit them—may be helpful in arriving at an accurate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 04 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley

Building on a Legacy Decades in the Making For decades, WesTrek has been a flagship professional trek at Harvard Business School, giving students direct access to the heart of the tech industry. This year’s... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 21 May 2019
  • News

Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest

Reserve Bank of Chicago’s imposing building to discuss with thought leaders and entrepreneurs the impacts of climate change on the agricultural sector View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
  • 16 May 2016
  • HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

a long time to build up a culture of integrity for any inspection service,” Quelch says. Plus in China, some suspect that foreign brands are at times unfairly targeted, accused View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • December 1998 (Revised May 1999)
  • Exercise

Negotiating Peace Accords in Bellicoso for the Head of the Opposition Political Party (OPP): General Instructions and Confidential Information

Bellicoso is a multi-party conflict resolution simulation based loosely on the bitter civil war in El Salvador. It is designed to explore issues in: 1) the management of interactions between external negotiations between sides and internal negotiations within them, 2)... View Details
Keywords: War; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Participants; Government and Politics; Conflict and Resolution; El Salvador
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  • December 1998 (Revised May 1999)
  • Exercise

Negotiating Peace Accords in Bellicoso for the Director of the National Landowners Association (NLU): General Instructions and Confidential Information

Bellicoso is a multi-party conflict resolution simulation based loosely on the bitter civil war in El Salvador. It is designed to explore issues in: 1) the management of interactions between external negotiations between sides and internal negotiations within them, 2)... View Details
Keywords: War; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Participants; Government and Politics; Conflict and Resolution; El Salvador
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  • 14 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

all sorts of models and approaches to understanding the answer to that problem,” Iansiti says. “In this day and age, as an organization, you have to possess the capabilities to build those systems. There’s... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports