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- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Business School Case 307-077 Describes the opportunities and strategy facing one of the most innovative global supply-chain companies, and the strategy it has chosen to deal with the expanding demand for its services. Li & Fung links thousands of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- June 2021
- Case
One Family Textiles: Stepping Back to Move Forward?
By: V.G. Narayanan, Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais
This case explores how a family business builds a board that includes independent directors that helps to professionalize and strengthen governance in the company. The case relates to One Family Textiles, an Abu Dhabi-headquartered manufacturer of garments. The company...
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Governance;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Operations;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business History;
Decision Making;
Accounting
Narayanan, V.G., Alpana Thapar, and Fares Khrais. "One Family Textiles: Stepping Back to Move Forward?" Harvard Business School Case 121-045, June 2021.
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By: Jorge Tamayo
Professor Tamayo’s research focuses on theoretical modeling and structural estimation of firm decision-making and productivity.
Professor Tamayo studies dynamic competition for customer membership. Generally, firms that implement a membership model charge a... View Details
Professor Tamayo studies dynamic competition for customer membership. Generally, firms that implement a membership model charge a... View Details
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My research focuses on two interrelated organizational trends that have become salient in the 21st century: workplace transparency (who gets to observe whom) and workplace connectivity (who gets to communicate with whom). Open offices and factories have made what was...
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Privacy;
Transparency;
Productivity;
Field Experiments;
Communication;
Design;
Human Resources;
Leadership;
Management;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Performance;
Groups and Teams;
Networks;
Behavior;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Satisfaction;
North America;
Europe;
Asia;
China;
Japan;
Latin America
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
customer needs both today and tomorrow, and the other that is focused on crazy innovation." Leaders who strike the balance well, note O'Reilly and Tushman, do so by mitigating the effects of separation with a structure that...
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by Paul Michelman
- 22 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Humans vs. Machines: Untangling the Tasks AI Can (and Can't) Handle
nuances of its limits. Since ChatGPT debuted a year ago, automation hopes and fears—previously limited to factory floors and supermarket checkout lines—have shaken the ranks of highly-educated knowledge workers and provided new avenues...
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My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
the face of a crippled economy. “Many Japanese companies are not that popular with Wall Street types because they are not as focused on gaining superior profitability and maximizing shareholder value,” he says. “They talk consistently...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
should managers know most about self-regulation? Michael Toffel: A growing number of firms are expressing concern about the societal aspects of industrial activities. In the 1990s, most were focused on the activities within their own...
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by Martha Lagace
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
and the value of modular designs Elizabeth Christoforetti Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti is the founding principal at Supernormal, an architecture, urban design, and research practice focused on the design of form and processes that...
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- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
chains work and the performance of the factories that comprise them. The area is also a primary supplier of lithium battery chemicals, flash memory, and anisotropic conductive film used in LCD flat panel displays. "In the race to...
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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Since its inception, the Social Enterprise Initiative has explored the role of business in creating social value. Early efforts in the late 1990s included hosting a research conference on business leadership in the social sector and developing an MBA course View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
boardrooms, consistently ranking at the bottom of some two dozen possible priorities. Many years ago labor conditions in Asian contract factories prompted Nike board member Jill Ker Conway to lobby for a board-level corporate...
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
before it went public. He then led Open Market's expansion into business-to-business applications. In 1999, he founded and ran PurchasingCenter.com, a "My Yahoo" portal for industrial purchasing agents who purchase $2-$10 million of View Details
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The Disruptive Voice - Forum for Growth & Innovation
near-term health of their established businesses while also focusing adequate resources on the innovations that could ultimately lead to their downfalls - The Innovator’s Dilemma! 103. Unlocking Opportunities Through The Application of...
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- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
like computers in financial models. Behavioral finance replaces these idealized decision makers with real and imperfect people who have social, cognitive, and emotional biases. My work focuses on how the resulting inefficiencies in the...
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by Julia Hanna
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
priorities. Many years ago labor conditions in Asian contract factories prompted Nike board member Jill Ker Conway to lobby for a board-level corporate responsibility committee, which the company created in 2001. In the years since, the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
to obtain.” In a study of a Chinese manufacturer that encouraged factory workers to submit innovative ideas to bolster the company’s operations, Gallani and her colleagues find that providing certain perks and incentives for task-based...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
between focus and a broader vision? What are the antidotes to too much focus? What do you think? Original Article Focus is good, right? For years we have been admonished as managers to maintain focus: design strategies centered around View Details
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by James Heskett