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- September 2012
- Article
The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: Empirical Evidence
By: David J. Collis, David Young and Michael Goold
Based on a six-country survey of nearly 250 multinationals (MNCs), this paper is the first empirical analysis to describe the size and composition of MNC headquarters and to account for differences among them. Findings are as follows: MNC corporate headquarters are...
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Headquarters;
Subsidiaries;
Multinational Corporations;
Organization Design;
Administrative Heritage;
International Strategy;
Business Subsidiaries;
Organizational Design;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Size;
Business Headquarters;
Global Strategy
Collis, David J., David Young, and Michael Goold. "The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: Empirical Evidence." Journal of International Management 18, no. 3 (September 2012): 260–275.
- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
and her coauthors surveyed more than 2,000 research psychologists at major US universities and told them that the more truthful they were about their transgressions, the more money would be donated to a charity of their choice. The 10...
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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online
impactful than other online programs (From a 2023 survey of participants across all HBS Online programs, conducted by City Square Associates). Better overall experience (From a 2023 survey of prospective...
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
Innovation Sweet Spot Near Far Sweet Moderna ShowHide Details Concepts Idea Selection and Evaluation Defining and Refining Your Prototype Plan Prototyping: From Exploration to Validation Leading Concept Development Featured Exercises...
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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online
risks and rewards of entrepreneurship Leverage experiments to validate concepts and refine your business strategy Discover the key financial decisions entrepreneurs must make in the early stages of a startup Understand the process of...
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- 12 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia
on things like the publication record and grant databases, which are not designed for us to see how science is operating.” Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Kyle Myers and seven colleagues surveyed professor-level researchers at...
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- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
discovery to validate a problem but don’t yet have a product, my follow-up question is: “How do you know people or companies will use your product?” Answers are equally discouraging. More often than not, I hear examples of interest tests,...
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by Julia Austin
- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
KKR sold CHI in 2022 for 10 times the equity it had invested, it amounted to the company’s most successful deal in more than two decades—and a payout of $360 million to its 800 employees. It was validation that changing the mindset of...
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by Avery Forman
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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
confidently in the venture capital and startup community. Stephanie LagunaHealth Care Strategy & Innovation Leader Read more learner stories * Source: 2022 surveys and course data All FAQsLaunching Tech Ventures FAQs Could you tell me a...
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- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
26, no. 1 (February 2012). For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
digitally literate, right? In actuality, our research highlighted that none of these characteristics matter as much as you might think when it comes to leading digital transformation. In fact, 71 percent of 1,500 executives we surveyed in...
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- 06 Feb 2014
- HBS Seminar
Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
positions for every job seeker, resulting in significant labor shortages in sectors ranging from business services to manufacturing. Gen Zers, meanwhile, will comprise approximately one-third of the workforce by 2025. And they are inveterate job hoppers. A December...
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
for a venture. Participants learn an overarching framework—People, Opportunity, Context, Deal—to evaluate opportunities, manage start-ups, and finance ventures. This course also introduces participants to the idea that entrepreneurs run structured experiments to View Details
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
Owners & Entrepreneurs. The answers are already starting to come in, thanks to initial results from a pilot test of “The Entrepreneurial Leader: Self Assessment” survey taken by 1,300 HBS alumni. Results allowed the researchers to...
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by HBS Working Knowledge
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
cares about their well-being. Many realize that this needs to change. Practicing active, habitual kindness can transform the remote workplace and it can start today. A little reassurance, compassionate listening, a conscious effort to View Details
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by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
back to Tier 1 Survival The first step in developing outcome measures is to define what to measure, who the stakeholders are including patients, and to set up a multidisciplinary team with an influential leader. Measures, risk adjustments, and View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife...
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Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
the misuse of moment conditions that leads to incorrect inference. Theoretical illustrations and Monte Carlo simulations are provided for validation Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54889 "Incentives...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving
listening to podcasts, according to a survey of hundreds of drivers who commute to work each day conducted by a group of interdisciplinary researchers, including Raffaella Sadun, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business...
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by Jay Fitzgerald