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- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
Mexican history, he found a common thread running through the country's various shifts of power: reliance on a third party to enforce the rules (such as property rights) that make it possible to do business. A Stake In The Game Porfirio Diaz, for example, View Details
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by Julia Hanna
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
stomach pains to coughs to kidney disease, “Sagwa” was in reality Healy and Bigelow's own formulation. They not only told fictional accounts of its origins but likely invented its name to make their product sound more “Indian.” The View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
that are paying careful attention to the hiring, training, and rewarding of store employees. Our favorite example of a retailer that has used labor successfully is the online retailer Zappos.com. The company pays very careful attention to...
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- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
"What can you do for this company?" as opposed to "What's your deal-making experience?" The company found that minorities and women rose to the top in the candidate pool from these very...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
constantly changing environment, companies must deploy talent in new ways to remain competitive. The authors provide leaders with a new playbook for acquiring, managing, and deploying talent for today’s agile, digital, analytical,...
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Art Nature Business
Artifacts Collection. Virtual Tour HENRY P. HUNTCutting Ice at Spy Pond, Arlington, Massachusetts, 1859Oil on canvasGift of Frederic Tudor to the Business Historical Society, 1934HBS Art and Artifacts Collection, 1934.2This painting by Henry P. Hunt depicts the Tudor...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. He also leads a new merchandising and media company serving the African-American community via the Internet. Of these ever-changing challenges, he quips, "I just enjoy learning new...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States By Alliah L. Agostini (MBA 2009); Illustrated by Sawyer Cloud becker&mayer! Kids On June 19, 1865—more than two years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
schools tracked by HBS. Harvard Business Publishing All three of HBP’s market-facing groups delivered stronger-than-anticipated growth in fiscal 2018. Total revenue rose by $19 million, or nearly 9 percent, to $240 million, from $221...
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- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
individuals and companies that people can go back and forth between. That creates some really, really interesting tensions. I think that's really one of the most important stumbling blocks today given the imperative to cut corporate tax...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
new product (curled metal pile driver pads) that, in field tests, delivers customer benefits that are many times SML's manufacturing costs. Jonathan Lee and Alex Tan of SML's Engineered Products Division are responsible for formulating a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
pandemic. In response to the need for protective equipment for health care workers, 3D greeting card maker Lovepop is using its facilities to manufacture face shields. “We’re a company that has access to significant production resources,”...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
think, become more diffused, more broad-based. The other thing that we’re seeing a lot more of is multinational companies or others locating their talented people around the world—think Shanghai, Beijing, taking it to India and...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
trajectory of overdose deaths from prescription drugs and heroin. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US death rate from opioid overdose has increased over 400 percent since 1999; the picture is even grimmer in Georgia, where the death rate...
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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
companies like International Harvester and US Steel. But over time, automation steadily reduced the number of workers required to extract the mineral, while competition from natural gas and cheap, low-sulfur coal from out west did the...
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- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50923 May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Invention and Agglomeration in the Bay Area: Not Just ICT By: Forman, Chris, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein Abstract—We document that the Bay Area View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
greatest challenges, such as economic inequality, environmental destruction and racial injustice. In both areas, the faculty is creating foundational and applied research that is brought back to the classroom to guide students in their understanding of View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019
million, or 9 percent, to $262 million, from $240 million a year earlier, exceeding the School’s cautious forecast for zero growth. International sales rose 14 percent, comprising 36 percent of Publishing’s total annual revenues. Harvard...
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- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
the neighborhood. These were people that had just tremendous love. And it was everything from, I think, those bigger lessons, to little things like how to properly prune a rose bush and put it up for winter. Mitch Hill, and I was in...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
market where there’s such a consistent propensity for competitors to steal talent—especially talent coming from an organization with a reputation of the Cleveland Clinic—a lot of companies have expressed interest in apprenticeship. It’s a...
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