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February 2009
Teaching Note

AMD Dresden: Copy Inexactly! (TN)

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Keywords: Growth and Development; Production; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Investment; Industry Clusters; Groups and Teams; Motivation and Incentives; Competency and Skills; Engineering; Science; Geographic Location; Semiconductor Industry; Germany; Europe; United States

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28 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

of their corporate governance, placing them within the wider context of the economic and social history of Germany. Based on both quantitative data and archivally based case studies, this book explores how the relationship between the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

entrepreneurship to become bold again and transformational through re-engagement with history. Historical theories of time, context, and change are applied to entrepreneurship theory to demonstrate how they illuminate aspects of the entrepreneurial process that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1997
News

Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction

Social Sciences 47% Other 4% (All data as of Summer 1997) Members of the Class of 1997 participated in a three-day graduation celebration last spring leading up to the School's 86th Commencement exercises on June 5, when 883 new MBAs and... View Details

23 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

this loss of land, mining-related environmental degradation, and allegations of human rights abuses, a coalition of five indigenous communities forged an alliance with a group of domestic and international NGOs to build their case against... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

work lives of their employees." —Teresa Amabile For example, in her course Managing for Creativity, Amabile divides students into brainstorming groups to work on a problem. What they don't know is that the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

in press Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Pseudo-Set Framing By: Barasz, Kate, Leslie John, Elizabeth A. Keenan, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Pseudo-set framing—arbitrarily grouping items or tasks together as part of an... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 3

social cues from reputation stakeholders and from prominent third-party bureaucratic actors can serve as symbolic signals that can affect the decision making of regulatory agencies. Our findings suggest that while View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Alex Furleigh

two years from HBS to focus entirely on my own development—what I want to do, what I want to learn, and who I want to be. While it’s easy to get caught up in the stresses of class preparation, social events, and recruiting, I’ve tried to... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot

millions if not billions of miles. And those scenarios vary from city to city. Plus, autonomous cars are very expensive today. Those costs will have to come down before it can scale. How will autonomous vehicle fleet operations incorporate View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

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Partners & Families | MBA

and meet some of your closest friends. Partners Club The Partners' Club provides value to on-campus partners seeking opportunities to socialize and network with other partners. Eligible members include spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends,... View Details

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

assembly line, marketing, sales, and after-sales service channels) A management model (the hierarchy) A social or regulatory system (specialized work, pay-for-performance incentives, worker education, unions, antitrust laws) As we enter... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
Supplement

Jieliang Phone Home! (C)

By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria

At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators - bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Compensation and Benefits; Surveys; Innovation and Invention; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Manufacturing Industry; Telecommunications Industry; China

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02 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

management ploy that could only create a net long-term loss for the company, measured in part by its broken trust with its customers? In my book, the first group exhibited “renter” behaviors. The second group, on the other hand, were... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

the course: One is a textbook, The Moral Leader: Challenges, Tools, and Insights, that provides historical and social context for the works read in the course, as well as instructional materials. The other is an instructor's guide,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

01 Feb 1999
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

(or lifelong learning) is critical if one is to keep up with a rapidly changing business and social environment. All agreed that the School is in a unique position to strengthen connectedness by offering educational programs that meet the... View Details

13 Jul 2017
News

Making Friends with Mother Nature

been in his family for more than a century. He huddled with locals about the idea, then helped to convene a group of motivated backers, who ultimately raised $500,000 with one fundraising letter. He later agreed to be the project’s... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

02 Nov 2020
Blog Post

WE RISE

group for entrepreneurs in 2017. What started as a group of 25 is now the 20,000-member Female Founders Alliance, a social purpose organization that provides guidance to... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity

01 Jan 2008
News

Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

that has redefined commerce. Since stepping down from eBay last spring, Whitman’s focus now lies in the public and social sectors. When Meg Whitman joined eBay in 1998, the two-year-old private company had thirty employees and $4.7... View Details

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

the Black Lives Matter movement can create lasting and sustainable change.” JULY 28 Camille Hackney (MBA 1994) and Michael Lynton (MBA 1987) were both recently named to the board of the Warner Music Group (WMG)/Blavatnik Family Foundation... View Details

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