On Monday July 15, Wharton’s Global Initiatives Program will welcome Singapore Management University Executive MBA students for a week of intensive classes and company visits. The students will engage in sessions about corporate strategy and supply chain management. Mack Institute Co-director Harbir Singh is Wharton’s Vice Dean for Global Intiatives…Read More
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Progressive Business: Where Turning a Profit and Saving the Planet Collide
If I had a nickel for every time I forgot to recycle, I would approach Richard Branson status. But even Branson himself, the billionaire founder of Virgin Group, has taken the initiative to promote more responsible behavior when it comes to our planet, a move that Wharton-sponsored research says could…Read More
Mergers and Acquisitions: The Importance of Integration
When it comes to moving a business forward, the biggest gains are often a hair’s breadth away from the greatest risks—a truth reflected in discouraging change success rate statistics. A recent CNBC article highlights the even greater chance of defeat in the field of mergers and acquisitions, citing the Mack…Read More
Harbir Singh Speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos
Wharton organized a session on “new creative models for job growth and creation” during which faculty explored what companies can do in both the West and the East to create more jobs and better manage risks to job growth. Wharton faculty speakers include Professor of Management Michael Useem, Professor of…Read More
Harbir Singh Leads a Faculty International Seminar to South Africa
In July and August 2011, a team of Wharton faculty visited Kenya and South Africa to learn how Africa is evolving within the global economy. They gained precious insight from local entrepreneurs and alumni. The group was in Africa as part of Wharton’s Faculty International Seminar (FIS), which takes groups…Read More
Harbir Singh Discusses the Future of India’s Mobile Phone Industry
This market is burning hot — 200-plus brands, 2,000-plus models and more being added quickly, even as existing models are looking at obsolescence every year and a half. The mobile handsets market is crowded, noisy and fast-paced as brands — international and Indian — slug it out. As Naveen Mishra,…Read More
The Evolution of Alliance Portfolios: The Case of Unisys
How do alliance portfolios evolve? We develop grounded theory based on Unisys’ case, which reveals how exogenous technological changes at the industry level and shifts in a firm’s strategy shape the composition of partners and the nature of alliance relationships.…Read More
Evolving Communication Patterns In Response to an Acquisition Event
This study combines qualitative and quantitative methods, with particular emphasis on network data of worker behavior, to analyze changes in worker communication patterns during the first three years of a post-acquisition integration. The findings suggest that new communication routines develop slowly and are not entirely enduring even when a transformative event, such as an acquisition, occurs.…Read More
Governing Collaborative Activity: Interdependence and the Impact of Coordination and Exploration
We examine the performance implications of selecting alternate modes of governance in interorganizational alliance relationships. While managers can choose from a range of modes to govern alliances, prior empirical evidence offers limited guidance on the performance impact of this choice.…Read More