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- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
others, being customer-driven, etc. Their managements have concluded that it is too difficult and costly to try to change the attitudes of adults. As a result, they release those unable to work and View Details
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by by Jim Heskett
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Effects of Temporal Distance on Intra-Firm Communication: Evidence from Daylight Savings Time
By: Jasmina Chauvin, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tommy Pan Fang
Cross-border communication costs have plummeted and enabled the global distribution of work, but frictions attributable to distance persist. We estimate the causal effects of temporal distance, i.e., time zone separation between employees, on intra-firm communication,...
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Communication Patterns;
Time Zones;
Geographic Frictions;
Knowledge Workers;
Multinational Companies;
Communication;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Geographic Location
Chauvin, Jasmina, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Tommy Pan Fang. "The Effects of Temporal Distance on Intra-Firm Communication: Evidence from Daylight Savings Time." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-052, September 2020. (Revised November 2021.)
- December 2020
- Article
Unwanted Attention: Swiss Multinationals and the Creation of International Corporate Guidelines in the 1970s
By: Sabine Pitteloud
During the last decade, we have seen an increased opposition to globalization. Within this wave of criticism, firms and more specifically multinational corporations have been major targets, accused of multiple wrongdoings, such as social dumping, fiscal evasion, job...
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Multinationals;
Guidelines;
Lobbying;
Business History;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Global Range;
Switzerland
Pitteloud, Sabine. "Unwanted Attention: Swiss Multinationals and the Creation of International Corporate Guidelines in the 1970s." Special Issue on Multinational Corporations and the Politics of International Trade. Business and Politics 22, no. 4 (December 2020).
Making Sense of Past and Present
entrepreneurs managed through many tricks and traps to write the untold rules of capitalism. Professor Jones’s course also pushed me to deeply think about my intrinsic values as a leader and entrepreneur....
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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
related businesses in the local market or even in other countries. Stage III: Acquisition of New Capabilities. Becoming increasingly sophisticated as they competed with larger foreign rivals, the firms developed new capabilities in areas...
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by Nancy O. Perry
- December 2015 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
BRF
By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
In 2015, BRF's new leadership team is transforming several aspects of the Brazilian protein giant, which had grown sluggish after the 2011 merger that created it. Underlying their reforms are the common goals of reducing bureaucracy, streamlining decision making, and,...
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BRF;
Brasil Foods;
Tarpon;
Brazil;
Marketing;
Protein;
Commodity;
Commodities;
Branding;
Turnaround;
Culture;
Transformation;
Mergers;
Change Management;
Private Equity;
Distribution;
Food;
Goods and Commodities;
Supply Chain;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Trade;
Brands and Branding;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Brazil
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
understand the executives I talk about in this book very well because I share their predicament,” notes Tom DeLong, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the author View Details
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
planned and managed in a much more efficient and sustainable fashion than in a dispersed population. Mayors of the world's largest cities agree, with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg leading a global...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction
impressive debut with the participation of 160 students, 35 faculty, and numerous alumni and friends of the School. At the award ceremony, contest faculty advisor Professor William A. Sahlman shared the...
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- 20 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Steps to Help You Get Out of Your Own Way
Harvard Business School faculty on how to get out of your own way. A Good Place to Start Reflecting on Work Improves Job PerformanceResearch by Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano, and colleagues shows that taking...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
her first year out of HBS working as the Oil of Olay brand manager for Procter & Gamble (P & G) in Bangkok, Hoa returned to Hanoi to found...
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Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
developments. His work examines how "sell-side financial analysts incorporate accounting information in their earnings forecasts, common stock valuations, and investment recommendations." He also analyzes management reporting...
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- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
intimate and immediate,” she said, noting that 1871 is home to 500 early-stage tech startups. “We’re a place to bring together all of the stakeholders—venture capital, universities, and corporate partners,”...
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- 2014
- Teaching Note
Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Yang Siqun and Shen Meihua
Microfinance is introduced into China in the 1990s. It had gone through 3 phases since the beginning, namely the pilot phase when all Microfinance practices are sponsored by charity funds based on projects, the promotion phase when the government subsidized some...
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Yang Siqun, and Shen Meihua. "Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2014.
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
1991 and 2009, a period when the growing number of highly educated women in the workforce tested widely held understandings about gender and professional work, write the authors, Harvard Business School professors Lakshmi Ramarajan and...
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- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
global organizations, with PetroChina currently leading the list with a market value of more than $1 trillion. The impact of this phenomenon on competition is interesting. Just ask the View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
Ninan Chacko (AMP 158, 2000) was on vacation in Turin, Italy, when he stopped to snap a photo of a street sign. In the picture, all you can see is the name: Via Roma. But for Chacko, the CEO of Monotype, the world’s largest type seller, the classic letters told the...
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- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
was directed at Latin America—about ten times Latin America's share of world FDI. Europe's much larger regional economy was pushed into second place as a destination for Spanish capital. Finally, it's...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Oct 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat
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by Paul Novosad & Eric Werker
- 15 Aug 2022
- Book
University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed
is a place, like the contemporary United States, of real income inequality across its schools, even as its students are recruited from every sector of American life. Like the United States, it has enviable...
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