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Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide
The organizational theory of the multinational firms holds that foreignness is a liability, and specifically that lack of embeddedness in host-country social networks is a source of competitive disadvantage; meanwhile the literature on labor market discrimination... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
package, angel investment opportunities, the creation of wealth in the digital age, the building of successful urban enterprises, and transferring wealth to future generations. A provocative discussion on... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
Business School’s Ranjay Gulati looks at how it tackled the challenge. He identifies several important takeaways for other multinationals: Give the local organizations clout, embrace creative abrasion, build strong functions, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
several strategic imperatives: the need to build a strong, desirable, and prestigious brand identity and grow a profitable and sustainable... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
never watch a baseball game the same way! My favorite cases were in Professor Ryan Buell's Managing Service Operations class, and informed my work improving government service delivery during the pandemic." Reggie: "My favorite class was... View Details
- Fall 2020
- Article
Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual and the End of the World as We Know It
How does one witness to businesspeople about climate change? Climate change is a problem for the collective and the long term, whereas business often requires a ruthless focus on the individual and the quarter. Climate change is an ethical catastrophe whose solution... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Business; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
Henderson, Rebecca. "Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual & the End of the World as We Know It." Special Issue on Witnessing Climate Change. Daedalus 149, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 118–124.
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact - Course Catalog
unleashing your potential to build and use power to effect change at home, at work, and in society. It is meant for those who want to make things happen, despite the obstacles... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
When the Hospital Emergency Room Is Inundated with Knee-Deep Water
- 16 May 2018
- Blog Post
Internship Success: Mutual Growth Brings Intern and Enterprise Together
asking questions about their products and process structure. It was a great way to really understand what I could expect if I got the job.” Tran will continue to develop more connections between Zillow and... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
newly approved Gen III+ nuclear reactors (e.g., AP-1000 variants or even the still-to-be-approved, but largely derivative Small Modular Reactors) are not likely to produce power cheaply enough to change the currently forecast build out of... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
developments in the Bangladesh ready-made garment industry after the fire at Tazreen Fashions factory, including formation of the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Accord (“Accord”) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
institution to donate funds and expertise to build a half-way house for homeless teenagers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the bank has a major presence, and to link up... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors Course Number 2010 Professor Lynn Paine Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Who should take the course? This course should be of interest to most, if not all,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
April 2018 Management Science Offline Showrooms in Omni-channel Retail: Demand and Operational Benefits By: Bell, David R., Santiago Gallino, and Antonio Moreno Abstract—Omnichannel environments where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2024
- Article
The Monitoring Role of Social Media
By: Jonas Heese and Joseph Pacelli
In this study, we examine whether social media activity can reduce corporate misconduct. We use the staggered introduction of 3G mobile broadband access across the United States to identify exogenous increases in social media activity and test whether access to 3G... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Twitter; Corporate Accountability; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks
Heese, Jonas, and Joseph Pacelli. "The Monitoring Role of Social Media." Review of Accounting Studies 29, no. 2 (June 2024): 1666–1706.
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718424-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-040 Sales Razor Technologies Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board of directors, assembling an executive team,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Space, Public And Commercial Economics (SPACE) - Course Catalog
about this revolution and the companies, such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Axiom, Planet, and more that are driving in. We will be joined by leaders in the industry, including prominent HBS alumni, eager to help... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- Blog Post
Making the Move into Digital Health and Software Engineering
community to work on technical projects together, so we launched CODE. Our mission is to bring technologists together at HBS. We want to keep our technical skills sharp and create accountability to learn and... View Details
- March 2022
- Case
Unilever: Remote Work in Manufacturing
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Susie L. Ma
In December 2021, Unilever—one of the world’s largest producers of consumer goods—was in the midst of a pilot project to digitize its manufacturing facilities and enable remote work for factory employees. This was possible because of an earlier project to retrofit a... View Details
Keywords: Change; Globalization; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Human Resources; Jobs and Positions; Operations; Education; Training; Manufacturing Industry
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Susie L. Ma. "Unilever: Remote Work in Manufacturing." Harvard Business School Case 622-030, March 2022.
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53561 Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne