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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
(formerly known as Project Antares), a collaboration between HBS and HSPH that intends to use business and markets to break the perverse synergy between poverty and poor health. Says HSPH professor and Antares cofounder David Bloom, an...
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- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
supplier aggressively explore synergies across its various component agencies as well as eliminate research redundancies. Value experience and judgment. CMOs should tap the knowledge and intuitions of managers and researchers who've lived...
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by John Quelch
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
the experience of having grown up in Africa and a desire to help solve the problem of unemployment among youth. Navid Rahimi, another classmate, joined the team along with two classmates from an HGSE course on entrepreneurship in education. In all, their combined...
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Jill Radsken
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
quality or prices for consumers. Such mergers reduce competition in the insurance market, ultimately dampening much-needed innovation. What’s more, there’s no requirement or expectation that any savings from synergies generated from the...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
National Science Foundation grant to implement an ambitious inquiry-based science curriculum.” Highest and Best Use With that synergy as a starting point, since 2009, Thompson Island’s Connections program and the science department of...
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- 11 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
as the Career and Professional Development are always available to students to help them with their career goals, the recruiting team supports companies with recruiting strategies and any questions they have to ensure synergy between HBS...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
thing to do. Many other companies are now doing it as well. Now we look forward to better days. Our business plan for the next three to five years — known as our Millennium Plan — calls for growth, continued restructuring and reform, investment in our people, and View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
industry) will ultimately be successful. Those associated with growth and so-called synergies - such as the Time Warner acquisition of Turner - will ultimately be viewed as unwise. Today's activity, he notes, is more like the "disastrous"...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Stanford Business School, INSEAD in France, IESE in Spain, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "EDP has helped create a working relationship between institutions with a truly global point of view," says Clark. "The Bank and the academic institutions will all...
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Garry Emmons
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
China's Huawei has recruited 1,500 engineers in India to develop software for its telecommunications products. Even the countries' state-owned oil companies, including Sinopec and ONGC, have teamed up to hunt for oil together. Multinational companies usually find that...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
while also finding linkages and synergies across goals. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50994 The Great Training Robbery By: Beer, Michael, Magnus Finnstrom, and Derek Schrader Abstract—In 2012 U.S....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Laoye must decide which of these options offers the greatest growth opportunities. In addition, as her company grows, she must decide how best to structure the payer and provider aspects of her business in a way that maximizes synergies...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
that had synergies with the company's businesses, and formed a small venture capital fund for exploratory investments. Komori also initiated a reorganization that created six new divisions within the company while simultaneously...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
inequality. And rising inequality is directly imperiling democracy. Rather than a screed against capitalism, this book is a call for capitalism to return to its roots, reenergizing its synergies with democracy. Raymond Baker explains the...
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- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
asked in his case, would this be a good way to return to the original vision of creating synergies throughout the Lincoln Center campus? Readers of the case ponder along with the protagonist on whether to do some or all of the options,...
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- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
sometime incubate those. We sometimes partner with people that have those. But what we do is create economic coalitions between those atomic units in order to provide for the delivery to the customer of a complete solution." With venture capital funds, he said,...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
business with operating profits of $884 million. The purchase consideration was $14.4 billion. Although the deal was billed as a merger, Ireland-based Tyco effectively acquired U.S.-based Johnson Controls in a tax inversion deal that saved $150 million a year in taxes....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
decision. The (B) case explores the specific identified synergies in-depth and provides an opportunity to judge their viability. The (C) and (D) cases conclude the story and update the case with issues facing the global confectionery...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
activities differ as well, as creating and marketing a wine brand typically diverges from the approach used to develop a beer label. Finally, sales force synergies appear minimal, as a single sales force will find it difficult to support...
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- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
Economic Development under Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. “I had learned from [HBS professor] Michael Porter about the synergy that comes from establishing industry clusters, and that became our focus. We became metrics driven and also...
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Jill Radsken