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Research - Managing the Future of Work
How employers' support for employees with caregiving responsibilities can benefit the organization Joseph B. Fuller OCT 2023 Report The American Opportunity Index (pdf) By: Joseph B. Fuller, Matt Sigelman, Nik Dawson, Alex Martin, and Gad...
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- May 2012
- Article
Herbert A. Simon on What Ails Business Schools: More than A Problem in Organizational Design
By: Rakesh Khurana and J.C. Spender
We critically examine Herbert Simon's 1967 essay, "The Business School: A Problem in Organizational Design." We consider this essay within the context of Simon's key ideas about organizations, particularly those closely associated with the 'Carnegie perspective' on...
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Organizational Design;
Perspective;
Innovation and Invention;
Business Education;
Research;
Management Practices and Processes;
Teaching
Khurana, Rakesh, and J.C. Spender. "Herbert A. Simon on What Ails Business Schools: More than A Problem in Organizational Design." Journal of Management Studies 49, no. 3 (May 2012): 619–639.
- November 2008 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of St. Luke
By: Anthony Mayo and Shandi Onise Smith
As America struggled to regain its balance in the aftermath of the American Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker did her best to actively effect change by finding solutions to the social and economic problems facing blacks and especially black women. Taking charge of the...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leading Change;
Ethnicity;
Race;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Personal Development and Career;
Welfare;
Business and Community Relations;
Gender;
Banks and Banking
Mayo, Anthony, and Shandi Onise Smith. "Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of St. Luke." Harvard Business School Case 409-057, November 2008. (Revised January 2017.)
- November 2007 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
ThedaCare: System Strategy
By: Michael E. Porter and Sachin H. Jain
Over the 1980s and 1990s, America's changing health care payer environment resulted in mergers of numerous community hospitals into hospital systems. Based in Appleton, Wisconsin, ThedaCare stood out among community hospital systems in its pursuit of service...
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Value Creation;
Health Care and Treatment;
Problems and Challenges;
Innovation and Invention;
Health Industry;
Wisconsin
Porter, Michael E., and Sachin H. Jain. "ThedaCare: System Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 708-424, November 2007. (Revised January 2010.)
- May 2004
- Article
The Case for International Coordination of Electricity Regulation: Evidence from the Measurement of Efficiency in South America
A decade of experience has shown that monitoring the performance of public and private monopolies is the hardest part of electricity sector reform in South America—because operators control most of the information needed for effective regulation. South American...
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Information;
Mathematical Methods;
Monopoly;
Globalization;
Energy Sources;
Energy Industry;
South America
Ruzzier, Christian Alejandro, A. Estache, and M. Rossi. "The Case for International Coordination of Electricity Regulation: Evidence from the Measurement of Efficiency in South America." Journal of Regulatory Economics 25, no. 3 (May 2004): 271–295.
- February 1991 (Revised December 1992)
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Xerox and Fuji Xerox
Describes the growth and development of Fuji Xerox, Xerox's joint venture in Japan, and the evolving relationship between Fuji Xerox and Xerox. Focuses on the technological development of Fuji Xerox, and on the contributions that Fuji Xerox has made to Xerox's...
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Gomes-Casseres, Benjamin. "Xerox and Fuji Xerox." Harvard Business School Case 391-156, February 1991. (Revised December 1992.)
- 10 Sep 2014
- News
“An Economy Doing Half Its Job”
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
America traded one recession for a far more serious one
- 27 Mar 2018
- HBS Seminar
Jeffrey Clemens, University of San Diego, Economics
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Capital IQ - Identifiers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
for the American Bankers Association, offer CUSIP numbers, standardized descriptions, and additional data attributes for over 5 million corporate, municipal, and government securities in North America. With a primary focus on uniquely...
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- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
In the early 1790s, a flood of newly issued public and private securities sparked an investment boom in the nascent United States. In New York, the bustling commercial district along Wall Street emerged as the center of the city's securities trade. One of the many...
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Martha Lagace
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Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center | About
and US-China cultural exchanges. All six of Dr. and Mrs. Chao’s daughters received undergraduate and graduate degrees from prestigious American universities, including four who attended the MBA Program at HBS: Elaine Chao, Mt. Holyoke...
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HBS - Key Metrics
Gender: Female 45% 46% 46% 44% 43% International Citizenship 39% 38% 37% 33% 35% US Race / Ethnicity1 American Indian / Alaska Native 0% 0.2% 0% 0% 0% Asian 22% 24% 24% 19% 17% Black / African American 10%...
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Collection on the Business Aspects of Aviation | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Corporation in 1939. In the public sector he served as vice president of the Defense Supplies Corporation in charge of American Republics Aviation Division from 1941 to 1942; served as Special Aviation Assistant to the Secretary of...
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Professor Sawyer’s research focuses on U.S. political economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, concentrating on the development of competition policy and the administrative state. While the conventional history of U.S. competition policy portrays the... View Details
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Online Resources - MBA
External Funding Online Scholarship Resources Tuition Assistance Additional Harvard Funding External Funding Online Resources Women Minority Students International Students Veterans New Americans College/Grads Business Disciplines LGBTQ...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Action Plan: In Context
Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012) knows that many people think of etiquette as outdated, nothing more than “stuffy, stuffy old manners.” She has made a career—and now a Netflix series, Mind Your Manners—out of updating this old-fashioned perspective. “I see etiquette as the...
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- 27 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership
In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and...
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by Francesca Gino
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My research draws upon social and cultural theories to address three important topics in marketing: branding strategy, organizing to deliver creative content, and cultural consumer behavior:
1)Branding Strategy: How are iconic brands built?
I have... View Details
- 09 Feb 2024
- HBS Case
Slim Chance: Drugs Will Reshape the Weight Loss Industry, But Habit Change Might Be Elusive
what may at first blush appear to be an easier fix: new drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro, says Harvard Business School Professor Regina E. Herzlinger, who has studied the American health care system for decades. Wegovy has been...
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