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- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
flowers, juice, and ice cream, was at a strategic crossroads in 2014. CEO Alvaro Muñoz had to choose the best way to achieve profit goals and provide his company with a sustainable competitive advantage. The company had already developed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517054-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-006 Muñoz Group Faces Brexit In 2016, Muñoz Group, a multifaceted agribusiness company that developed, produced, packed, imported, and exported...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
been against this particular risk—safely through HBS, her son had received lucrative job offers from Wall Street and consulting firms. Six months in, the group had grown to 10, but they were served with an eviction notice when the...
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- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
employed full time and reported high levels of clinical depression or anxiety, as well as those experiencing workplace distress, with signs of presenteeism or burnout. One group was given full access to the Happify platform, which offers...
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- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
especially the hard feelings. If you ever feel like you’re on a small boat alone in the dark ocean, maybe I’m not a lighthouse person, but I’ll be paddling over on another small boat. I’ll reach you, with a lamp in my hand, as well as ice...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
building not-for-profit groups to pursue their mission. Businesses in this era focused on compliance with a rising body of legislation and public policies designed to mitigate what were then seen as environmental excesses. The social...
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- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
capital through their network. Results would also help IC members discuss the larger question about the relationship of financial returns and social returns. In short, should capital providers expect some lesser degree of financial...
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by Manda Salls
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Weaving Success in India
Group chairman Rahul Bajaj (MBA 1964), and Shahnaz Herbals founder and CEO Shahnaz Husain. The Nalli story Past Chairman Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti on his introduction to the family sari business, started by his grandfather in Madras (now...
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April White
- Profile
Jenny Tison
right away. I persevered, believing I would ultimately succeed – I learned the power of positive expectations.” When Jenny returned home to Virginia, that power rose again when she tackled a sport not often associated with the South: ice...
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- 27 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing
to complete the course. The businesses operate in a wide range of areas including food services, health care, manufacturing, and composting. Students have been split into groups of four to five and paired with a member of the faculty...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
More Alumni Books
Odds by Gerald C. Leader (MBA ’61) with Amy F. Stern (Harvard Education Press) Strategy and the Fat Smoker: Doing What’s Obvious But Not Easy by David Maister (DBA ’76) (Spangle Press) Fuel: Catholic Men Living the Faith, A Small Group...
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- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
glory on the slopes or on the ice are looking for endorsement opportunities that will lead to a post-Olympics pot of gold. In short, the Olympic Games are big business. Harvard Business School professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser has...
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- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716426-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-446 IC Group A/S IC Group owned several of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Honorable Mention
has been an institution that educates leaders. Those whom we honor today have been measured against a very high standard: they are leaders in a community of leaders." Clark then announced the award winners and briefly described their accomplishments. He began with a...
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- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
were employed full time and reported high levels of clinical depression or anxiety, as well as those experiencing workplace distress, with signs of presenteeism or burnout. One group was given full access to the Happify platform, which...
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- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
managers: "Can we teach [the people we serve] the importance of being self-sufficient while not being self-sufficient ourselves?" Bread Means Business The bakery at Boston's Haley House is a case study in how one group has...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
Above: Friedman at Union Glacier, Antarctica Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. While Ken Friedman (MBA 1983) was at HBS, he and a group of about a dozen friends would...
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- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
the data showed that customers tended to order a higher percentage of "should" items (like leafy greens) and a lower percentage of "want" items (like candy bars) the further in advance they placed an order. For a detailed account of the study, see "I'll Have the View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
present. My simple message to companies—simple to say but not simple to do—is that the future is now. The simplicity, you note, makes it easier to adopt. The book gives examples of groups ranging from GE to a church employing the...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
CEO of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO), which supports its seventeen hundred members with a range of financial and business-related services for physicians in group and individual practice. The MGPO's mission is...
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