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- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Science Foundation. The developed platform offers an unprecedented view of the R&D-to-patenting innovation process and a close analysis of the strengths and limitations of the Industry R&D Survey. The files are linked through a name-matching algorithm...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
reassess how their strategy is working and to change initiatives if need be. It’s a high-impact lesson in driving corporate performance. Later that day, all nine sections played the latest version of the Beer Game. The simulation, first played on paper in the 1960s,...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
HBS Association of Ireland: Connecting at Home and Abroad
while for Irish alumni to find their way back to the Emerald Isle — most graduates live and work in the United States or England for a few years before returning to their homeland. Barry himself was no...
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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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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Finding sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises
strengthen and scale three of the top nonprofit organizations in Rio de Janeiro. In February 2014, Goodwin took on new roles as Mattel's director of corporate affairs and executive director of the Mattel Children's Foundation. Previously, he held senior positions at...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
New Releases
Readers of Kotter's latest book will learn to appreciate the difference. Breaking Through by David A. Thomas and John J. Gabarro (Harvard Business School Press) On the cusp of a new millennium, the face of corporate power in the United...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
Children in the United States today are at risk to live shorter lives than their parents. This sobering assessment is one reason big box retailer Target is investing $40 million this year to improve the...
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- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
Summing Up--Is Product Security A Potential Distraction for Apple’s Leadership? The saga of Apple’s stand-off with the United States government over the Company’s refusal to assist the FBI in hacking its own...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money
address this problem? They should close the difference between money laundering that arises domestically and that which arrives here from abroad. If it’s an offense in the United States, that same kind of money coming from abroad should...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Can’t Forget the Motor City
’85), key players on the presidential task force that’s deciding what to do about the U.S. auto industry. As a longtime special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers union, Bloom previously used skills he honed at Lazard...
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- 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
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
particular, which means that profits are going to be higher. As a result, stockholders will get a bigger share of the pie. That raises stock prices all over the place. A related effect is the issue of repatriating profits from abroad – with companies bringing back to...
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by Jim Aisner
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
certain threshold . . . the state should move to minimize its involvement." Gaurav Goel opined, "I think Galbraith will be more relevant in the first half of this century. . . . For markets to act in coherence with society, it...
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by James Heskett
- Profile
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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- 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 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
other sectors of the economy including health care." In the case of electronic cigarettes, existing evidence indicates that they have led to a net decrease in smoking. Of the 43.8 million smokers in the United View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
nearly 2,000 Ph.D.'s), most of whom are employed at its Washington, D.C., headquarters. Although the United States controls only 17 percent of the Bank's votes, by tradition the Bank's nine presidents have...
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Garry Emmons
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
state and defend my ‘opinion,’ but I hadn’t decided what my opinion was. Rather than say that, I just chose the first argument that came to mind and went with it. I think maybe one-third of the class agreed with me in the end, which, in...
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Fola Folowosele
school, I can state categorically that HBS has infected me with an audacity to dare to dream big dreams and take on challenges that I would have second guessed prior to my time at HBS. By consistently being exposed to others who have...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
wrote his business plan, found a partner, and left Microsoft in 1997 in order to start VacationSpot, an online reservations network for consumers seeking to rent vacation properties. “We worked hard on it for three years,” states Murch....
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