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- 13 Jul 2021
- News
Strategies for Underdogs: How Alibaba’s Taobao Beat eBay in China
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Building business for a better Brazil
consumer goods, jobs, and global markets. Since selling the company to Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998, Lemann and his partners, Carlos A. Sicupira (OPM 9, 1984) and Marcel H. Telles (OPM 10, 1985) have focused on acquisitions that...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Results and Recognition
institutions that were formative in shaping who we are,” says Joe, and, second, “we want to support organizations that make a difference in the lives of others.” Given that HBS meets both criteria, the O’Briens are committed not only to...
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- 01 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
Herrero. HBS Professor Howard H. Stevenson, chair of the HBS Latin America Initiative, noted that the entire project was sparked by an idea of Dean Kim Clark's two years ago. The Latin America Research Center has been a key element of the School's View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
part of their research, they have interviewed more than fifty people in two cities and collected data on some 1,000 communities since the late 1980s. They observe that organizations in different cities seem to have different foci when it...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
Summing Up Will management innovation be "pushed" or "pulled"? Competitive organizations in the future will be managed differently. This will require new roles for managers. But according to respondents to this month's...
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by Jim Heskett
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by...
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by Julie Battilana
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
of doing things" and shape its international organization structure and processes. Business historian Alfred Chandler has traced the influence of the cultural values and social structures on British management practice. For reasons...
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- 2003
- Chapter
Managing Across Borders: New Organizational Responses
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
local communities. “Our collective reach is much greater than our individual club reach,” says David Harris (MBA 1984), President-elect of the HBS Association of Boston, and co-lead in organizing the conference. He also served as a...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into building an inclusive economy was “a...
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April White
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Preaching with a Choir
volunteer experience as a musician with my background in consumer package goods marketing and my Harvard MBA training. “What we were looking to do is to take the Cadillac brand that is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, re-energize it, re-invigorate it, create a more View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Uniting business, industry, and governments to save the planet
Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) took over as president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the largest network of international conservation organizations on the planet, in 2005. Since then, he has been working to bring leaders in business,...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
his classmates’ FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) projects. But in retrospect, he says, conducting field research in Mexico and developing and presenting innovative product ideas to senior executives at Colgate’s Consumer Innovation Center...
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- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
Google ended its service to China, China would respond by creating its own version of Google." Jack Carpenter advised, "If an organization is serious about doing business in China, it must 'ride out' all government restrictions....
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- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
The popular press focuses on the colorful: the globally known swamis; the ash covered monks; the business people and penniless people together in the Ganga; the elephants and orange robes and crazy hair and the blend of true believers and...
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- 16 Oct 2013
- News
Progress Through Preservation
he says. The obesity epidemic? People need places to exercise, especially low-income folks who can't afford a membership to the local fitness club, says Rogers. So the Trust works to create parks and playgrounds in the nation's cities. View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
today's managers are trying to implement third-generation strategies through second-generation organizations with first-generation management. In an earlier study we analyzed the evolution of CEO Jack Welch's thinking at General Electric...
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- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
could have a large impact on global climate. When Payne signed on for the project, he didn’t realize how important his volunteer effort would become. The Arctic Ice Project has sparked the interest of such View Details
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April White
- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Real-World Learning for the Digital Generation
generation. “The work that I’m doing now is trying to create a global organization that makes our kids what they don’t become necessarily at school: good, effective, world-improving people. We want to do...
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