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- 01 Apr 1999
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Short Takes
tolerate human rights abuses, Spar advocates that multinationals and human rights are not such strange bedfellows as once thought. Reebok, for instance, created a new production facility in Pakistan and established a system of independent View Details
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2016
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Case Study: On the Table
possible, then a change in your business model may be necessary. Go local: pre-sent choices to customers only from local suppliers so that the delivery and logistics is managed by the seller, but monitored and guaranteed by the e-commerce...
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- 19 Apr 2016
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LuminOva Makes Great Strides Tackling Infertility
Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) LuminOva, a biotech startup in Boston that won the 2015 Bertarelli Prize, is making progress on its quest to develop a new technology that could increase in vitro fertilization success rates by View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?
do business the same way — with identical processes, functions, and operations — while approaching this elevated stage; but by the time they attain it, successful companies do share certain qualities and practices not observed in firms...
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Garry Emmons
- 13 Apr 2017
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Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
maximize self-discovery beyond the classroom. “We recruit children every summer for a week-long program of workshops about leadership and empowering change. It’s all volunteer-run,” Rewane says. Upon graduating from Stanford, she took a job with the consulting View Details
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
golfer). Strategy came later, with the encouragement of HBS professor Chris Christensen; Porter went on to earn a Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard and later cofound the Monitor Group consulting firm...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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John R. Davis
and accounting for all 800 “cow units” (a standard measurement that in this case means about 1,175 actual cattle). Calving season calls for constant monitoring of the pregnant cows and helping them give birth — including stitching them up...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils
firms to large capital-intensive enterprises, such as banking, telecommunications, mining, and transportation. By the late 1980s, many had developed a good deal of autonomy. Twenty-five years of economic reform have changed the structure...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and employees from the problems that...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
in household income? At the end of the day, did we reduce poverty? "We measure quantified objectives beforehand, monitor them during implementation, and evaluate them afterward," Bloom continues. "It's all very public, very explicit, and...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Eyes in the Skies
firm whether a vessel carrying vital goods has left port or show an insurance company the damage a tornado has left in its wake. Customers access the BlackSky constellation through an online portal that allows them to image locations...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
program,” he says, “every $516 places a vet in a job.” Goldenberg’s path to the Endowment began in 2008 when he was working at the consulting firm Frost & Sullivan. As the financial crisis hit that year, he witnessed sailors who were...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It’s time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be allowed to run for office in local...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”...
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- 28 May 2019
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Tech for the People
help San José partner with innovative tech firms to address high-impact civic challenges. He knew the city had worked with Airbnb to make emergency housing available after the recent disaster, and he reasoned, why not establish a...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail
moral hazard in the financial system to an entirely new level,” he warns. But Moss has a fix: The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose “systemic risk” — the risk that a failure of one institution...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Taking Care of Business
most importantly, affordable. Since then, the company’s offerings have expanded to include a monitor that uses mobile technology to record patient calls and response times by medical professionals; also in the works is a medication...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts
helping to monitor and oversee the 52 student clubs at HBS. Explains Minto, "One initially becomes involved with the SCC as a section representative; I saw being a rep as an opportunity to get to know and do something for my sectionmates...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Vision: Into the Breach
local schools and colleges in the education sector and the small- to medium-size businesses it serves in the United States. (The firm also raised $205 million in Series D funding, saw an eightfold increase in year-over-year premium...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm that oversees more than $170 billion in pension and mutual funds, Pozen writes with authority and unusual clarity about complex issues in Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial...
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