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- June 2014
- Case
The Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP
By: Ian Larkin and Karen Huang
The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance measurement, feedback, and promotion/compensation decisions. In the cases, a leading law firm must decide whether to...
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Keywords:
Performance Appraisal;
Performance Measurement;
Employee Feedback;
Motivation;
Promotions;
Human Capital;
Performance Evaluation;
Management Systems;
Compensation and Benefits;
Retention;
Legal Services Industry;
United States;
Massachusetts
Larkin, Ian, and Karen Huang. "The Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP." Harvard Business School Case 914-044, June 2014.
- August 2012 (Revised October 2022)
- Case
Elia Nuqul and the Making of a Middle Eastern Business Group (A)
By: Geoffrey Jones and Lana Ghanem
The case is concerned with Elia Nuqul, the founder of Jordanian-based Nuqul Brothers, a large diversified business group. It shows how Nuqul, a Christian Palestinian whose family was forced to flee to Jordan after the creation of Israel in 1948, built a business in his...
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Keywords:
Business History;
Entrepreneurship;
Globalization;
History;
Government and Politics;
Global Strategy;
Consumer Products Industry;
Middle East
Jones, Geoffrey, and Lana Ghanem. "Elia Nuqul and the Making of a Middle Eastern Business Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 813-052, August 2012. (Revised October 2022.)
- 1987
- Book
Banking and Oil
By: Geoffrey Jones
This is the second of two volumes of a business history of a major British bank in the Middle East. Volume 1 traces the history of the bank from its foundation in 1889 as The Imperial Bank of Persia, through the years it was the state bank of Iran, and its...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Economics;
Banks and Banking;
Government and Politics;
Growth and Development;
Business History;
Problems and Challenges;
Iran;
Jordan;
Kuwait;
Oman;
Dubai
Jones, Geoffrey. Banking and Oil. Vol. 2, History of the British Bank of the Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
- 30 Mar 2015
- Video
HBS Campaign - Texas Events
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
growing trend for firms with international branch offices, says Harvard Business School professor Jordan Siegel. He discusses the issue in a new study titled "Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Management - Doctoral
Ranjay Gulati Jonas Heese Linda A. Hill Jillian J. Jordan Christian Kaps Nancy F. Koehn Karim R. Lakhani Jacqueline Ng Lane Dutch Leonard Joshua D. Margolis Kathleen L. McGinn Nitin Nohria Joseph Pacelli Leslie A. Perlow Jeffrey T. Polzer...
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- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
PublicationsAddressing the Leadership Gap in Medicine: Residents' Need for Systematic Leadership Development Training Authors:Daniel Mark Blumenthal, Kenneth Richard Lee Bernard, Jordan David Bohnen, and Richard Bohmer...
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Carmen Nobel
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Organizational Behavior - Doctoral
Gulati Linda A. Hill Nien-he Hsieh Jon M. Jachimowicz Summer R. Jackson Leslie K. John Jillian J. Jordan Rakesh Khurana Shirley Lu Joshua D. Margolis Edward McFowland III Kathleen L. McGinn Tsedal Neeley Michael I. Norton Leslie A. Perlow...
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- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2190963 Which Does More to Determine the Quality of Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies, Firms or Countries? Authors:Hugill, Andrea, and Jordan Siegel Abstract Scholars of corporate governance have...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Creating Emerging Markets
President, Indian Dairy Association; Former Managing Director, GCMMF (Amul) Nigeria Omobola Johnson Senior Partner, TLcom Capital; Former Minister of Communication Technology, Nigeria (2011-15) Oman Mohammed Al Barwani Founder and Chairman, MB Holding Company View Details
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Institutional influences on the firm: cross-country comparisons
A third stream of work examines the influence of country institutions on firms in a cross-country comparative context. In a paper co-authored with Jordan Siegel (published in Management Science in 2009), we employed a quasi-natural experiment: a...
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Placement - Doctoral
Operations Management Area Dissertation: Designing Operations to Inspire Trust Advisors: Kris Johnson Ferreira (Chair), Ryan W. Buell, and Jordan Tong Caleb Kwon Technology & Operations Management, 2024 Placement: University of Texas at...
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Institutions and Corporate Lobbying
“Institutions and Make-or-Buy Decision of Lobbying: The Role of Sociopolitical Legitimacy on Foreign MNEs’ Lobbying Internalization”
In this study, I examine how legitimacy comes into play in foreign MNEs’ make-or-buy decisions... View Details
Keywords:
Institutions;
Make V. Buy;
Lobbying;
Legitimacy;
Corruption;
Culture;
Multinational Enterprise;
United States
- 31 May 2023
- HBS Case
From Prison Cell to Nike’s C-Suite: The Journey of Larry Miller
street, his past continued to haunt him, costing him an important job offer. Desperate for a fresh start, Miller hid his prison record for 40 years. However, his career took off and he eventually rose to lead Nike’s Jordan brand, as well...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
the success of the Jordan brand. He discusses how education can break the street-to-jail cycle and why business leaders should give formerly incarcerated people a second chance. Crushed to see his dream job evaporate and fearing that no...
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Northwestern University, on an advisory board of RAND Corporation, and on the board of trustees for Young Life. Jones earned a bachelor's degree from Williams College. He and his wife, Sarah Jones, reside in Riverside, Connecticut, and they have four grown children...
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Faculty - Faculty & Research
Assistant Professor of Business Administration Jerry R. Green David A. Wells Professor of Political EconomyJohn Leverett Professor in the University Brian J. Hall Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration Leslie K. John James E. Burke Professor of Business...
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Fatima Albassam
In 2017, when Fatima Albassam was working in her home country of Saudi Arabia as a business development analyst for Saudi Aramco, she began making volunteer service trips to Jordan to support Syrian refugees. “While there,” Fatima says,...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Drop Everything, Read This
creativity, and connectedness. —Allegra Jordan (MBA 1995) After my mom passed away unexpectedly last year, I found myself searching for materials about grief, mourning, and even death. Somewhere along this journey, I discovered The...
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- August 2023
- Case
Floward
By: Krishna Palepu and Namrata Arora
In 2022, Abdulaziz B. Al Loughani, CEO and co-founder of Floward, an online flower and gifting company established in Kuwait in 2017, contemplated the firm's growth trajectory. Floward, an e-commerce enterprise that offered fresh-cut flowers sourced directly from...
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Keywords:
Initial Public Offering;
Expansion;
Growth and Development Strategy;
E-commerce;
Information Technology Industry;
Middle East;
North Africa;
Saudi Arabia;
Kuwait;
United Arab Emirates;
Jordan
Palepu, Krishna, and Namrata Arora. "Floward." Harvard Business School Case 124-010, August 2023.