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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). SEAS is relocating its campus across the street from the business school in a few years, and the two organizations are discussing collaboration opportunities. Seeking answers from...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
country is not competitive. Competitiveness has to do with being a productive location in which to do business, which allows companies to succeed globally while also supporting good wages. One without the other is unsustainable. If businesses win not through...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
canoes, dwellings, and totem poles. A road now bisects the hill and the coast, with a busy logging facility operating just off the water. Hulking yellow vehicles relocate felled trees around a dirt lot, navigating stacks of...
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Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
need to maximize moviegoing to Hollywood blockbusters and also source smaller movies that appeal to our diverse audiences throughout the year," says Frank, who cites Lopez's "incredible positive energy and vision" as the key reason for her family's View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
their families for 48 weeks a year. At the same time, they were building the massive transportation infrastructure that eventually allowed factories to relocate to the center of the country and to move goods from the factory to customer....
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Deborah Blagg
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
they can relocate their headquarters to a hub, as GE recently did (but make them much smaller). A less expensive strategy is to create an innovation lab or corporate outpost in a talent cluster, as Walmart did with Walmart Labs. The most...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
profitability, 4) relocation process, and 5) takeover by new management. At each stage, students must confront tensions in balancing profit, growth, and control. Difficulties encountered in the business are due to management's attempts to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
previously undisclosed files, many of which detailed the treatment of Kikuyu detainees during the Mau Mau Rebellion. The files had been removed from Kenya and relocated to Britain in the 1950s, along with reams of documents removed from...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Andrew Jackson's First Annual Message to Congress in 1829 and the second document from Jackson's Second Annual Message in 1830, the year the Indian Removal Act was passed. The third and fourth documents cover the Congressional debate over the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
where the connection between the work itself and the physical environment where it happens has been permanently severed. Work can happen from anywhere. Millions of companies—and a huge percentage of planet—have kind of relocated their...
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- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
from MBA class, 2002. So after I graduated from 2002, then I stayed in Boston for a year, working here. Then my husband graduated from 2003. So when he graduated, he found a job with United Health Care in Minneapolis. And I said, OK, so we're View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
108-091 An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) relocation process, and 5) takeover by new...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
households had at least $25,000 in both a taxable and a tax-deferred account. And while about two-thirds of those households held tax-efficient portfolios, most of the remaining third could reduce their taxes by relocating heavily taxed...
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by Ann Cullen
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
relocated to a larger store and is experiencing losses for the first time. Sales and costs have increased along with the breakeven point. Changes in pricing and promotion must be explored. Alternative actions to return to profitability...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
he announced his candidacy. He says he and his wife, Anne, relocated for the “quality of life” and a better environment to raise their young daughters. Others see the move as political opportunism. “Most people in this community who are...
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- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
with sales and purchasing and relocated the business to a more efficient facility. She wondered if she moved too quickly. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-021...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved from the interior to new factories on the coast, leaving behind their families for 48 weeks a year. At the same time, they were building the massive transportation infrastructure that eventually allowed...
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by Deborah Blagg
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
that when a firm actually disappeared from the directory from which we were drawing our data, the women were very likely to leave the industry (93 percent). When a firm disappeared from the industry, the men were more likely to relocate...
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
development also involved working with the Slum Redevelopment Authority to relocate and build on the site homes in towers for at least 20,000 slum dwellers and restoring much of the site to green space. At the request of Chairman...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
interest rates, money funds change their product offerings by investing in riskier asset classes, are more likely to exit the market, and reduce the fees they charge their investors. The consequence of fund closures resulting from interest rate policy is the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne