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Collection Highlight | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Baker Library, Harvard Business School. PhilanthropyAs both donor and fundraiser, John Whitehead was deeply involved in philanthropic efforts, particularly after leaving the State Department in 1989. Whitehead served on the boards of many...
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- 23 Oct 2019
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Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society
and mastery of business. “However, they often don’t get to tackle some of the big issues that intersect business and society and that don’t fit neatly into a single course,” says Robert Huckman the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of...
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Educational Innovation
- June 2023
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Royal Golden Eagle: Pursuing Cross-border Expansion with Bold Ambition
By: Kristin E. Fabbe, Dante Roscini, Adina Wong and Dawn H. Lau
About how Singapore-based natural resources firm Royal Golden Eagle, starting with a palm oil business in Indonesia, eventually expanded into a global conglomerate that also included the kraft pulp and paper, viscose, and natural gas industries.
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Singapore;
Indonesia;
China;
Canada;
Cross Border;
International Trade;
Commodities;
Expansion;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Business Conglomerates;
Pulp and Paper Industry;
Energy Industry;
Forest Products Industry;
Singapore;
Indonesia;
China;
Canada
Fabbe, Kristin E., Dante Roscini, Adina Wong, and Dawn H. Lau. "Royal Golden Eagle: Pursuing Cross-border Expansion with Bold Ambition." Harvard Business School Case 723-022, June 2023.
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Historic Corporate Reports | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
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Economist Intelligence Unit | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
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Hospitality & Hotels | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
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- April–June 2014
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Firmes mondialisées et imaginaire de la beauté
By: G. Jones
This article highlights the role of business enterprises as influences on ideals of human beauty. The homogenization of such ideals has been one of the most noteworthy features of globalization over the last two centuries. This study suggests that firms were both...
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Keywords:
American History;
Economic History;
Business History;
Globalization;
Entrepreneurship;
History;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Europe;
North and Central America
Jones, G. "Firmes mondialisées et imaginaire de la beauté." Relations internationales 157 (April–June 2014): 131–146.
- 2023
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Let's Coordinate! The Reinforcement of a ‘Liberal Bastion’ within European Industrial Federations, 1978-1987
By: Sabine Pitteloud
This article focuses on the establishment in the 1970s of a new international private governance forum, the so-called ‘Interlaken Conferences’, which gathered together the leading figures of the Industrial Federations of the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria,...
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Business Interest Association;
Lobbying;
Neo-Liberalism;
Neocorporatism;
Coordination;
Economic Policy;
Business and Government Relations;
Labor Unions;
Economics;
Policy;
Europe
Pitteloud, Sabine. "Let's Coordinate! The Reinforcement of a ‘Liberal Bastion’ within European Industrial Federations, 1978-1987." Special Issue on Brokers of the wealthy (Transnational business associations) edited by Pierre Eichenberger, Neil Rollings and Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl. Business History 65, no. 2 (2023): 345–365.
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
immense losses, fueling the country’s greatest economic downturn since the crash of 1929. On September 16, 2008, one day after Lehman’s collapse, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York lent $85 billion to the global insurance company American View Details
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Dean LeBaron | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
CoxGreylock Michael DanziUS Labs William DonaldsonDonaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Timothy C. DraperDraper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) William H. Draper, IIIDraper Richards, L.P. T. J. Dermot DunphySealed Air Charles EllisGreenwich Associates Orit GadieshBain & Company Philip...
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An Educated Investment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
An Educated Investment Safeena Husain was the first in her family to attend university overseas—so being admitted to the London School of Economics was cause for celebration, even if her father had to sell his business to pay for tuition...
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Food & Beverage | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
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- March 2013
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From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
This article draws on historical material to examine the co-evolution of economic science and business education over the course of the twentieth century, showing that fields evolve not only through internal struggles but also through struggles taking place in adjacent...
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Professions;
Disciplines;
Neo-Liberalism;
Education;
Economics;
Finance;
Society;
United States
Fourcade, Marion, and Rakesh Khurana. "From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America." Theory and Society 42, no. 2 (March 2013): 121–159.
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
could be prescribed, assembled, and fitted in the field by trained microentrepreneurs rather than by optometrists or ophthalmologists. The next step was to form a "Low Cost Available Eyeglasses" (LCAE) team and enter the HBS Business Plan...
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eyeglasses
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Robert Reiss | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
CoxGreylock Michael DanziUS Labs William DonaldsonDonaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Timothy C. DraperDraper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) William H. Draper, IIIDraper Richards, L.P. T. J. Dermot DunphySealed Air Charles EllisGreenwich Associates Orit GadieshBain & Company Philip...
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Entertainment & Media | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
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- 2019
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Industrie-Holding: Creating a Community of Interest among Swiss 'Multinationals'
By: Sabine Pitteloud
This article focuses on the genesis and evolution of Industrie-Holding, a federation of Swiss multinationals, from 1942 onwards. Thanks to recent donations from the Alusuisse and Hero archives, historians now have access to the minutes of the Industrie-Holding...
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Keywords:
Business & Government Relations;
Multinationals;
Lobbying;
Business and Government Relations;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Switzerland
Pitteloud, Sabine. "Industrie-Holding: Creating a Community of Interest among Swiss 'Multinationals'." Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte = Revue suisse d'histoire 69, no. 3 (2019).
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Medical Devices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Passing on knowledge at a new business program in Switzerland
Bob Gebhardt (MBA 1973) is following a long career in international business by helping to launch a business school program in Switzerland modeled after his experience at...
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- March 2017 (Revised June 2019)
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Mubadala and EBX: To X or to X It?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz, Ricardo Andrade and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
In April 2012, Mubadala, Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund invested $2 billion in Brazilian conglomerate EBX, believing the company to be undervalued by the public markets. Shortly thereafter, however, EBX and its multiple business lines began to spiral downward. Hani...
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Keywords:
Sovereign Wealth Funds;
Conglomerates;
Investing;
Corporate Structure;
International;
Sovereign Finance;
Business Conglomerates;
Investment;
Financing and Loans;
Restructuring;
Organizational Structure;
Economy;
Brazil;
Abu Dhabi
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, Ricardo Andrade, and Sayiddah Fatima McCree. "Mubadala and EBX: To X or to X It?" Harvard Business School Case 217-065, March 2017. (Revised June 2019.)