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- 25 Feb 2020
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Beyond the Plastisphere
beaches to the processors that turn those bottles into recycled plastic pellets and flakes. It then matches those supply chains to major manufacturers looking for large volumes of recycled plastic. “We’re dot connectors,” Goodwin says....
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- 01 Apr 1998
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New Releases
broad range of companies and industries, including Microsoft, General Electric, and L.L. Bean, the contributors address important topics such as connecting with customers, merging network infrastructures, and developing strategy. "The authors in this View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
external funding requirements. Is this model typical among business schools? Our approach, together with the research that it enables, is one of HBS’s key differentiators. Our funding model puts us in a position to leverage a breadth and View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire
Information Technology, published last year by the HBS Press, McKenney argues that while modern information technology provides the tools that make innovation possible, corporate managers are the ones who actually apply those tools creatively. The View Details
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Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
than half the firm's trading volume and handles some $4 billion in securities transactions per week. A few years ago, online transactions were nonexistent at Schwab. But just as significant as the explosion of its Internet trading...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2004
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Luxe Redux
the balance is always between volume and exclusivity. “Luxury is defined differently by people depending on what they value,” she says. “That’s what people pay more for — goods that are really special, as well as brands and experiences...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
eventful. The lessons of their experience speak volumes for all of American industry, as firms large and small grapple with a host of new challenges that those beginning their careers in 1971 never anticipated. Another MBA '71 graduate,...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
year. Those megamergers, combined with thousands of smaller transactions around the country, reached $650 billion, "nearly twice the dollar volume and the number of deals of the peak year of the 1980s," according to the Wall Street...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
of golf at nearby Pebble Beach. That unexpected outing speaks volumes about the state of venture capital in the midst of the worst “correction” in the industry’s nearly sixty-year history. “VCs venture capitalists didn’t have anything...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
Second, despite an initial flurry of protectionism and inward-looking politics, it will become clear that the best way to lessen the severity of worldwide recessions is to increase the volume of interdependent trade among nations. Which...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over
The result was Litton Industries, Inc., an electronic products and systems manufacturer that in its first twelve years increased sales by 30,000 percent. It was said at the time that Litton had reached $1 billion in volume faster than any...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
approaches to solve technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation counters the dominant paradigm, which casts firms’ profit-seeking incentives as the main driver of technical change. This volume provides a...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
the airport’s few runways. On the ground, there’s traffic congestion of an entirely different sort. Cars, trucks, three-wheelers, bicycles, rickshaws, and even a couple of horsemen jockey for position on a road far too small to accommodate such a View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2011
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Where Conservation Means Business
historical volumes occupying 28,000 linear feet of shelving over two basement floors of climate-controlled — 60 F and 40 percent humidity — stacks. That’s more than five miles of shelves filled with a trove of historical documents, from...
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Roger thompson
- 01 Mar 2016
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Credit, Decoded
A page from one of 63 credit volumes covering business in Louisiana State. This annotated entry details the success of two “free men of color” (identified by scholars as light-skinned men of mixed race) who worked as exchange brokers in...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Faculty Books
cost-effective responses to climate change. The studies are part of a discussion of how such acceleration might best be accomplished and the role that public policy and government might play in supporting innovation. Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University...
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Utilities
- 01 Mar 2006
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Chandler Donates Papers to Baker Library
CHANDLER: The historian's papers find a fitting home. Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the School’s Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, is known for his sweeping volumes chronicling the growth of modern capitalism, corporations, and management....
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- 30 Jan 2021
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Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
items, is about $35. Simon’s troops clean more than 100,000 pieces a year,” Heath writes. These higher volumes and higher prices helped Parkway reach almost $4 million in annual revenue before the pandemic hit last March. “Simon said most...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Research Brief: Lost in Translation
intraday trading volumes and more modest price movements in stocks compared with calls led by more fluent speakers. “Executives typically speak English quite well when they’ve had time to prepare and rehearse,” says Yu. “But when they...
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Apr 2000
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New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
An 1868 broadside, for example, showing a worker's timetable at the Lowell Mills in Massachusetts, speaks volumes about its time. "One thing you notice when you look at that," says Pulitzer Prizewinning business historian Professor Thomas...
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Nancy O. Perry