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South Sea Bubble - Bancroft Collection | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
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- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England at annual competitions between 1839 and 1939. We find that the effects of prizes on competitive entry are large, and we also detect an impact of the prizes on...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008
Casey, Comcast's New England Region general manager, transformed a low commitment and performance organization. When he took charge of this Comcast region he inherited an organization that was bureaucratic,...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
P/E industries, which have a negative valuation change in the year after the investment. 2006 New England Journal of Medicine Leading Clinicians and Clinicians Leading By: Bohmer, Richard M.J. Abstract—More...
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Sean Silverthorne
- February 2010 (Revised July 2010)
- Case
Barclays Wealth: Reignite WAR or Launch AlphaStream?
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Elisa Farri
In late January 2009, Thomas Fekete, managing director at Barclays Wealth in London, redeemed the most illiquid positions in the so-called Wealth Absolute Return Fund (WAR), one of Barclays Wealth's most promising offshore funds of hedge funds, and halted the Fund's...
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Financial Crisis;
Financial Liquidity;
International Finance;
Investment Funds;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
London
Goldberg, Lena G., and Elisa Farri. "Barclays Wealth: Reignite WAR or Launch AlphaStream?" Harvard Business School Case 310-090, February 2010. (Revised July 2010.)
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Cotting House | About
students, MBA fellowships, and faculty development each year. Cotting belonged to the fourth generation of a venerable New England family that figured prominently in the early development of Boston as a city...
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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit
Related Collections Site Credits From the earliest days of trade between the United States and China, the major obstacle to this commerce had been the lack of American commodities that could be sold in China. — Thomas Layton, The Voyage of the ’Frolic’: View Details
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Research Fellowships at Baker Library | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Search page.The following fellowships include support for research at Baker Library:The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium The NERFC is a collaborative association comprised of 30 major cultural...
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HBS Fund Council - Alumni
London, England Stephen J. Ketchum MBA 1990, Section I New York, NY Eugene Kim MBA 1993, Section D London, England Douglas R. Korn MBA 1988, Section D View Details
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Events - Business History
Indonesia under Suharto's New Order, Malaysia under the Barisan Nasional, and China under the Chinese Communist Party." It shows how "all three regimes enjoyed periods of high growth and supposed alliances between autocrats and...
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- August 1999 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)
By: Steven C. Wheelwright, Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest and Christian G. Kasper
Describes the procedures and processes used by Cisco Systems in its acquisition of high-technology firms. Its goal is to retain key engineering talent and to leverage existing product development efforts, but to quickly merge acquired companies its own systems and...
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Information Technology;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Acquisition;
Integration;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Production;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Management;
Technological Innovation;
Talent and Talent Management;
Human Resources;
Manufacturing Industry;
Technology Industry;
England
Wheelwright, Steven C., Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest, and Christian G. Kasper. "Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 600-015, August 1999. (Revised February 2000.)
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Cumnock Hall | About
Room. About the Name Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Alexander Cumnock came to the United States with his family in 1846 and began his career in the textile industry as a young man. By the turn of the century, he was a well-known figure in New...
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Loeb House | About
The building’s facade was restored and repairs were made to the exterior stucco, bricks, and wood trim. A new granite landing was added to the front entry, with steps and a historical iron railing, to allow safer access to the building....
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- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
Rockman, Sven Beckert, and David Waldstreicher. University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming Abstract The traditional story of modern management begins in the factories of England and New England, extending...
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Sean Silverthorne
- August 2013 (Revised October 2013)
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MedImmune Ventures
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Lane
Ron Laufer is the new Senior Managing Director of MedImmune Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of AstraZeneca, a leading pharmaceuticals firm. Laufer has to decide whether to pursue a high-potential, but very risky, early-stage investment. The decision Laufer...
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MedImmune;
MedImmune Ventures;
AstraZeneca;
NeuProtect;
Corporate Venturing;
Biotechnology;
Venture Investing;
Venture Capital;
Health Care and Treatment;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
United States;
Australia;
Europe;
London
Hamermesh, Richard G., and David Lane. "MedImmune Ventures." Harvard Business School Case 814-023, August 2013. (Revised October 2013.)
- 09 Feb 2021
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Investing in Entrepreneurship
investments in what became Eastern Air Lines and McDonnell-Douglas. At Venrock, he continued, “in the early days, we focused on aviation, aeronautics, electronics, computers, and software. Over time, we broadened our interests.” The first deal that Crisp worked on with...
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Susan Young
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European Economic History & Philosophy - Kress Collection | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
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- 16 May 2024
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On the Job
and worked for a nonprofit, they gave you more money to make you be at the average of summer earnings between your two years. And I went and worked for New England Medical Center here in Boston and I wrote...
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first job;
leadership;
life experience;
career lessons;
Finance;
Oil and Gas Extraction;
Mining;
Retail Trade
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Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association - 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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- 28 Jun 2022
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The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University...
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by Avery Forman