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- 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
it's supposed to." Bower continues: "Theoretically, when an industry has excess capacity, prices fall and the least efficient producers can't survive." But, Bower adds, that doesn't always happen. "In many countries, for all sorts of...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People
team. At the time, it was the highest price paid for a sports franchise, in any sport, anywhere in the world. In time, what appeared to be a very risky decision proved to be a winning business move. Kraft’s bold bets over the years have...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success
exponentially since we were at HBS. I marvel at how quickly things have changed. When I started in this business, if a client wanted price and volume information, someone had to literally go to the library to consult the books put out by...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Younger Black Knowledge Workers BIO As global leaders prepare to meet in Glasgow, the prospects for mitigating the impact of climate change do not look very good. A detailed new analysis from the Rhodium Group, as reported by Axios.com,...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
It’s a drab gray morning in April, and real estate developer Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo (MBA 2008) is standing at the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun Streets in Baltimore’s historic Union Square district. Behind her, a chain-link fence decorated with a small...
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- 29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Profits and Purpose
measure the environmental and societal impacts of companies, how we can analyze them, and then how do we standardize them to create a race to innovation instead of a race to the bottom. Because then you can actually start mobilizing...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Gore All Business at HBS
students during a talk titled “A Change in Business Climate” presented in Burden Auditorium in December. Gore explained that the population explosion, coupled with the revolutions in science and technology, have greatly magnified the View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
I wonder how that anecdote was instructive to you. Steven Rogers: It was hugely impactful on how I view the circumstances, and that is—like Malcolm X and I learned from him—that you must be prepared for teachable moments and those...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives
for this include the ten-year maturity of typical option awards, which allows a long window for value recovery, plus the relatively high volatility of many stocks with significant price drops, making a similar rebound less far-fetched....
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- 23 Oct 2019
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Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
expensive—one cake sells for the same price as a package of 12 original cakes. The biggest challenge was how to differentiate the new version. While interviewing consumers in Seoul about their snack preferences, the team gained insights...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
declines in almost any of the producing basins around the world. How will this shortage affect the U.S. and world economy? The price of oil and gas is going to have to go way up. Sixty dollars a barrel for crude oil is a preposterously...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Accelerating Scientific Discovery
related to the market. He says that the case studies he and his fellow instructors have written will encourage discussions about topics such as the ways companies determine the pricing of a novel drug to make it both accessible to...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2004
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Finding a Balance
period, multinational pharmas reported a growth rate of only 1 percent.) The case outlines Hamied’s impact — for one, pressuring global pharmas to cut the price of AIDS drugs by exporting a low-cost...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Creating a more just and celebrated multicultural world
Sarah Endline (MBA 2001) produces chocolates with a mission. As founder of sweetriot, Endline works directly with Latin American cacao farmers to ensure a fair price for their labor. Founded in 2005, sweetriot’s product mix features dark...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
alongside money from mainstream business malpractice. One common technique for moving large sums of illict money, Baker asserts, is falsified pricing in international trade. Invoices can be written to reflect one price, while still...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success
beekeeping demonstrations and training. It purchases honey at fair-trade prices and also processes, packages, and distributes the honey to markets. HCA’s business model, which is being replicated in other African countries, places an...
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- 19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
sticker shock would carbon prices trigger?). Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006), engagement officer for climate and impact investing at the International Finance Corporation, also responded that government policies...
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April White; photos by Jack Conroy