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Harvard Business School Note 809-097 Choosing a GAAP for Canada Karthik Ramanna and Beiting Cheng Harvard Business School Case 110-023 Wiwa v. Royal Dutch/Shell Lynn S. Paine and Lara Adamsons Harvard Business School Case 310-038

Bohmer's new book, Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care (Harvard Business Press, 2009), explains how to create more knowledgeable, flexible, and responsive delivery organizations. Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Press. Excerpt from Design...

As some of the dust from this extraordinary moment begins to settle, we can see that it has cleared away a range of old products, organizations, structures, perspectives, and behaviors. As this book is being published, consumers, investors, lenders, government actors, and business le...

A: I am working on a new management textbook primarily for undergraduate students with Nitin and Ranjay Gulati. We are trying to reconceptualize the manner in which the principles of management are taught. We plan to present the principles of management through three perspectives or len...

Goodwin, Michele. 2006. Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Sappol, Michael. 2002. A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Cases & Course Materials Calera Corporation Joseph B. Lassiter, Thomas Steenburgh, and Lauren Barley Harvard Business School Case 810-030 IBM's Dynamic Workplace Rosabeth Moss Kanter Harvard Business School Case 308-107

Fortunately here at Harvard, we have faculty and students at the Law School, the Business School, the Economics Department, and the Kennedy School who share this point of view. We've been trying to put our efforts together wherever we can to push this area forward. It's very exciting!

The Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions, Inc. Richard Bohmer, Stephen P. Bradley, and Natalie Kindred Harvard Business School Case 610-014 Transworld Auto Parts (A) V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem Harvard Business School Case 110-027

In February 2010, Subramanian will publish Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace, a book that draws on his experience studying and advising on complex corporate transactions and high-stakes personal transactions such as buying a home or car. The f...

Cases & Course Materials CapitaLand Ltd: CEO Selection Harvard Business School Case 410-055 Consumer Lending in Japan: Citi CFJ (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 710-018 The London 2012 Olympic Games Harvard Business School Case 510-039

A:I'm enjoying a new year of teaching at Harvard Business School. My Authentic Leadership Development (ALD) class has been phenomenal to work with so far. We now have four experienced faculty members teaching four sections with 240 students, yet there is still a long waiting list for the c...

CEMEX's Foundations for Sustainability Harvard Business School Case 308-024 Daqi Harvard Business School Case 309-113 David Neeleman: Flight Path of a Servant Leader (A) Harvard Business School Case 409-024 Urban Decay: A Great Idea Harvard Business School Case 310-032

Q&A with:Rosabeth Moss KanterPublished:October 5, 2009Author:Sean Silverthorne In her new book Supercorp, Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues that capitalism is near a crossroads. The old ways of doing business no longer work. Traditional leadership roles are breaking down. And the pub...

President Faust reflected on Harvard Business School's past 100 years and shared a visionary perspective for the types of leaders that the School should aspire to produce, while Dean Light discussed the School's history and highlighted key focus areas for the future. Throughout the pa...

Life Stories of Recent MBAs Harvard Business School Case 410-026 Monica Chi: Life Story of a Recent MBA Harvard Business School Case 410-036 Sachin Jain: Life Story of a Recent MBA Harvard Business School Case 410-039 Who Broke the Bank of England? Harvard Business School Case 709-026

As author of NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and co-editor of Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism and Public Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Ebrahim has focused his research and t...

Eddie Bauer (A) Harvard Business School Case 110-008 Eddie Bauer (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 110-009 Eddie Bauer (C) Harvard Business School Supplement 110-010 Intel NBI: Vivonic Harvard Business School Case 610-025

Book link: http://www.tobinproject.org/twobooks/pdf/New_Perspectives_Full_Text.pdf Book link: http://www.tobinproject.org/twobooks/pdf/New_Perspectives_Full_Text.pdf Twitter Harvard Business School Case 709-495

Cases & Course Materials Alacra, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 810-012 Intel NBI: MXP Digital Media Processor Harvard Business School Case 608-100 Intuit Harvard Business School Case 810-018 iZumi Harvard Business School Case 809-105

Published:August 20, 2009Paper Released:July 2009Authors:Chia-Jung Tsay and Max H. Bazerman Executive Summary: The art and science of negotiation has evolved greatly over the past three decades, thanks to advances in the social sciences in collaboration with other disciplines an...

Echoing Green Harvard Business School Case 410-013 The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana Harvard Business School Case 310-025 Oprah Winfrey Harvard Business School Case 809-068 Sustainability at Millipore Harvard Business School Case 610-012

Institutional Work and the Paradox of Embedded Agency Authors:Julie Battilana and T. D'AunnoPublication:In Institutional Work: Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations, edited by Thomas B. Lawrence, Roy Suddaby, and Bernard Leca. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Unive...

Delphi Corp. and the Credit Derivatives Market (A) Harvard Business School Case 210-002 Denmark: Globalization and the Welfare State Harvard Business School Case 709-015 Partners in Health: HIV Care in Rwanda Harvard Business School Case 709-474

At HBS, Rangan serves as cochair of the Social Enterprise Initiative (with Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard) and as faculty chair of the Executive Education program Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategies to Create Business and Social Value (to be held November 4-7, 2009). He has taught a...

By understanding the social network of users, firms can better understand and influence consumers' behavior," says Gupta, who coauthored the working paper "Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network?" [PDF] with Raghuram Iyengar, of the Wharton School, University of Penns...

Busse Corporate Center Harvard Business School Case 209-154 HTC Corp. in 2009 Harvard Business School Case 709-466 Mina O'Reilly at Logan Airport's TSA Harvard Business School Case 409-116 Target Corporation: Ackman versus the Board Harvard Business School Case 109-010

Executive Remuneration at Royal Dutch Shell (A) Harvard Business School Case 409-126 Sun Hydraulics: Leading in Tough Times (C) Harvard Business School Supplement 409-714 Tokyo Electron Ltd. Harvard Business School Case 609-096

Cases & Course Materials Financial Networks and Informal Banking in China: From Pawnshops to Private Equity Harvard Business School Note 809-111 KenCall—Can Nik Nesbitt's Venture Succeed in Kenya? Harvard Business School Case 809-114

Date of Event:October 13, 2008Moderator:Forest Reinhardt, HBS facultySpeakers:Jim Barry, Chief Executive, Ntr Plc David Blood, Managing Partner, Generation Investment Management James McCarthy, Harvard University faculty

Pozen advised the Senate committee to tap the Federal Reserve as the super regulator but to delegate enforcement to the appropriate existing federal regulatory agencies. "If the Federal Reserve Board is going to bail out a broad array of financial institutions, and not just banks, it sh...

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Date of Event:October 14, 2008Moderator:Michael Porter, HBS facultySpeakers:Thierry Breton, France's Former Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industry; Senior Lecturer, HBS Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the White House's National Economic Council; Charles W. Eliot Universi...

Cases & Course Materials China Mobile's Rural Communications Strategy Harvard Business School Case 309-034 Global Health Partner: Obesity Care Harvard Business School Case 709-494 The Newspaper Industry in Crisis Harvard Business School Note 709-463

How should business leaders learn from this latest turning point? HBS faculty weigh in. More HBS Faculty Opinions in other Publications: GM and the World We Have Lost Richard Tedlow and David Ruben comment on the profound American loss that is the collapse of General Motors.

Date of Event:October 14, 2008Speaker:Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the White House National Economic Council, and Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University In this keynote address, former Harvard president Lawrence Summers shared his view of the challenges fac...

Cases & Course Materials Areva Harvard Business School Case 109-092 Jieliang Phone Home! (A) Harvard Business School Case 609-080 Kmart and ESL Investments (B): The Sears Merger Harvard Business School Supplement 209-045

A: I'm writing a history of the beginnings of the economic forecasting industry. It looks at the first generation of forecasters in the early 20th century, including Roger Babson, John Moody, and economist Irving Fisher. And a group at Harvard published an economic forecasting newslett...

Cases & Course Materials Brummer and the bracNet Investment Harvard Business School Case 309-065 Montgomery County Business Roundtable for Education Harvard Business School Case 309-105 Note: Restructuring Distressed Companies-Cross National Comparisons Harvard Busine...

A different management strategy Sato believes that the challenges particular to businesses and institutions that use scientific breakthroughs to advance their agendas fall across several key areas, including strategy, organizational design, decision-making, and resource all...

 MA Vicki L. Sato is the Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, and also Professor of the Practice in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Harvard University. Willy C. Shih is Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the ...

Date of Event:October 14, 2008Speaker:Joseph L. Bower, HBS faculty Professor Joseph L. Bower distilled takeaways from a two-year research project exploring the views of global business leaders and HBS faculty on what might threaten the world's economic progress.

Cases & Course Materials Bono and U2 Harvard Business School Case 809-148 Marquee: The Business of Nightlife Harvard Business School Case 509-019 Sanctuary Soft, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 409-104 Welcome to a Wireless World Harvard Business School Note 709-445

Linden Lab: Crossing the Chasm Harvard Business School Case 809-147 Nantero Harvard Business School Case 809-031 Note on the Global Wind Industry Harvard Business School Note 709-005 Sermo, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 809-142

Q: Firms are economic organizations as well as social institutions, as you write. These days, most every company is hurting as an economic organization. What pressures are subsequently placed on the social institution? How can good leadership strengthen morale as well as the economic s...

Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action Introduced by Harvard Business School professor Robert Kaplan and colleague David Norton, the Balanced Scorecard has been used by thousands of organizations to align business activities with the strategy.

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A: Definitely. For one thing, the number of social entrepreneurs developing new for-profit organizations with a social component is growing and is likely to continue to grow. Once their concept is worked out and proven, these organizations will naturally want to seek scale, both to capt...

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The case raises an uncomfortable question: Why should Monitor pay a Harvard MBA top dollar to conduct business research in the United States while an Indian Institute of Management graduate could do the work just as effectively in Delhi for much lower pay?" Rivkin asks. "I think that brou...

Published:November 24, 2008Author:Staff, HBS Alumni Bulletin Henry Mintzberg of McGill University in Montreal devoted a book to his contention that "conventional MBA programs train the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences."

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Take a company like Skype. When I visited Skype several years ago, it had 125 employees from 23 countries. The development team was in Estonia, and its headquarters in Europe. Skype had raised seed capital in Europe and in the United States. That's the new model.

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The case method has become synonymous with education for management. In fact, it was derived in the early 20th Century from training for the law at Harvard by several members of the Harvard Business School faculty. And in other forms, it serves the medical and other professions as well. A kin...

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5. See generally Bishop Carleton Hunt, The Development of the Business Corporation in England, 1800-1867 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1936). 15. For a full account of the evolving concept of the corporation, see Hovenkamp, "Classical Corporation in American Legal Thou...

Chairman Levin and members of the subcommittee, it is a pleasure to appear before you today to discuss the accounting and tax treatment of incentive compensation. I am an associate professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Eco...