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- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
exclude customers without Internet access or a bank account. That strikes me as a relatively small investment to make for a relatively large number of individuals. Tufano suggests a few adjustments to "reinvent" the savings bond program, such as allowing...
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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 View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
that end, we hope to find ways to collaborate with efforts such as the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise and to contribute to the development of new nonprofit case studies at the School.
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
they work to peel away a portion of the consumer decision-making process, the way Birchbox offered women a new way to sample new beauty products from a variety of cosmetics and fragrance companies, without having to go to the Revlon or Estée Lauder store. In a...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
beginning of the last great surge in oil and gold prices. That fact alone provides a powerful justification for the study of financial history. From The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson. Reprinted by...
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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
to study must have had a compounded annual growth rate in revenues, profits, and market capitalization that exceeded the 50th percentile of industry peers between 1997 and 2006 or for the CEO's tenure. Corresponding figures were used for...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
shelter during his undergraduate studies had whet his appetite for volunteerism, so when his managerial background landed him “the world’s best Peace Corps assignment,” he was more than ready for the adventure. Murphy was assigned to the...
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- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
encouraging them to participate in case studies and other research. The School hopes that highlighting these higher-ambition efforts could act as a template for other companies to follow. "I do think you are...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
resources, compensation, capital budgeting, and strategic planning — that tend to lock them into the past. In the case of resource allocation, organizations will have to move from an "allocation" to an "attraction"...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
equip and support entrepreneurs in Africa, through the process of starting and growing successful and resilient agriculture and food businesses that will transform the continent. Through case studies and...
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Margie Kelley
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
investment landscape. The firm is the leading boutique for hedge fund managers, asset managers, private equity firms, and family offices in search of top investment talent for their public and global investment initiatives. It was the subject of a 2023 Harvard Business...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
socialite Dina Merrill, who sat on the board for eighteen years and served on the compensation committee that approved CEO Richard Fuld’s $484 million in salary, stock options, and bonuses from 2000 to 2007. John Helyar, coauthor of Barbarians at the Gate and now a...
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- 16 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
he says. “But that was not the case at all.” It certainly wasn’t the experience for many of the black business executives included in the book Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience, co-edited by Mayo,...
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Staff Directory | Baker Library
jbeauregard@hbs.edu Areas of Expertise: financial databases (i.e Bloomberg, Crunchbase, Pitchbook, LSEG, Morningstar, FactSet, Datastream), data gathering, literature searching, fact-checking and background information, class preparation, View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
to do is work on is following a phased plan. And there are three phases to the plan. Phase one was fixing the fundamentals of the business, which are making sure you're operating well, making sure you got high-quality food and system. Like in our View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
manage it, and give it direction? That's what our new book, From Resource Allocation to Strategy, is about. People have studied the process in various ways, first to understand how it works and then to understand how it breaks down; and...
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by Martha Lagace
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
every minute, and he conveyed that....[Y]ou really learned from his passion and from his entrepreneurial fire." 10 Doriot became well known for his Manufacturing course, a second year class he began teaching in 1937. The full year course resembled no other as Doriot...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
written a series of case studies on Minneapolis–St. Paul, Charlotte, and Detroit that look at the initiatives business leaders in those regions have launched to improve competitiveness. How do you plan to...
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- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
confidence that we can draw on all our past strengths and look forward to a remarkable future. I grew up in Bombay, as it was called then, Mumbai in India, came to the United States after having done my undergraduate degree in India and my chartered accountancy and...
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- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
commons”: issues where stakeholders with different agendas and clashing cultures each own part of the problem and must each play a role in the solution. That makes collaboration essential, no matter how unlikely the partnerships might seem. A good View Details
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Ralph Ranalli