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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children
Kayla Brochu (MBA/JD 1999) deployed business and legal strategies to combat some of the world's worst crimes as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Expert on Technology-Facilitated Child Abuse, Exploitation, and Trafficking....
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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
others. Result: Carnegie Steel became the low cost, high quality producer of a commodity vital to the creation of the modern world. Carnegie sold his company to J.P. Morgan, who used it as the fulcrum for United View Details
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by Richard S. Tedlow
- 08 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan
those who claim them, while cuts to mortgage interest and state and local tax deductions can be seen as efforts to get the government out of the business of distorting prices. “Discussing values gives the country the opportunity to choose...
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by Matthew Weinzierl
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
for rigorous accounting research. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50473 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Hiding...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Marc Wilson
United States. "It meant they had to start over from scratch, but they did it to give their two sons better opportunities." Inspiring the next generation While Marc loved his work, he realized that his larger dream of...
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Nonprofit/Government/Education
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Blake Landro
dates. In effect, Nenlu sells privacy and community; not just tea.” Today, Blake seeks opportunities for combining his creative side – as an actor and performer --with his analytical skills. “Helping direct the HBS Show is interesting because it View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
examples drawn from take-back regulations promulgated in Europe, Japan, and the United States governing waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). Download the paper:...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
on supplying 580 multifamily affordable-housing units for low- and moderate-income residents of Boston. But finding a factory site in the city proved impossible, and the deal died. Searches in Providence, Rhode Island, and Hartford,...
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John Speer
retail worked.” But after weeks of studying comparable customer-loyalty programs in the United States, John and his team thought they had some solid ideas. They were wrong. “We were way off the mark,” John says. For example, the...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ron Shaich (MBA 1978)
with our own arms and legs.” With nearly 1,800 stores in 44 states and Ontario, Canada, the company and its franchisees employ about 80,000 workers and saw system-wide sales of nearly $4 billion in 2013. “Serving people is the most...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping one child led to improving the lives of thousands
companies like State Street and Google, who see their partnership with Year Up as good business, not philanthropy. Today, 85 percent of more than 5,200 Year Up graduates are employed or attend college within four months of completing the...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
India would require more than 10,000 ambulances and some 35,000 trained EMTs, but even that number would be roughly only a quarter of the number of ambulances deployed in the United States to service a much...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
society with bad business decisions is magnified by multipliers that include technology, financial interdependencies, and pressure to react quickly in increasingly competitive environments. The solution can begin with one participant raising a hand to View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
University Press) Associate Professor Maurer and his coauthor chronicle the canal’s economic and political history, from the great economic dividends of its first quarter-century to the turnover of the canal to Panama in 1999. The United...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
environmental regulations that the United States has seen recently. Has populism shaped responses to the coronavirus and calls to reopen the economy? VP: We’re studying that now. I’ve been working with...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
company opened a lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant in Livonia, Michigan, thanks in large part to $249 million in financing from President Obama’s stimulus package, with a second plant coming online in Romulus, Michigan. “The interplay of View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
Carlile Publication:Academy of Management Learning & Education 8, no. 2 (2009) Abstract Some in the Academy have questioned the usefulness of case studies in teaching sound management theory (Shugan 2006). Our research and experience suggests exactly the...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
the United States of America. “The temporariness induces you to take more risks—to share more risqué or uninhibited content” The paper, titled Temporary Sharing Prompts Unrestrained Disclosures That Leave...
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by Rachel Layne
- Portrait Project
Linda Li
It was the 2012 presidential campaign season. I had been knocking on doors of apartment units and mobile homes, on metal screens, wooden boards, cracked glass, and picket fences. Women and men, students and the elderly, English-speaking...
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- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
military, so I figured I would too," says Earls. "But they decided as a group that someone had to start the family on the college path, and that I was the one to do it. They provided the financial support that made it possible." Earls entered Norfolk View Details