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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
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
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave...
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- 20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits
Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her glass to take a sip and, with the flavors of the drink...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
dispose of waste in a landfill. By mandating recycling, as some states have done, you’re guaranteeing a certain volume will flow into processing facilities. There’s a return on investment.” One piece of the puzzle will fall into place...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
historical volumes occupying 28,000 linear feet of shelving over two basement floors of climate-controlled — 60 F and 40 percent humidity — stacks. That’s more than five miles of shelves filled with a trove of historical documents, from...
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Roger thompson
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Credit, Decoded
A page from one of 63 credit volumes covering business in Louisiana State. This annotated entry details the success of two “free men of color” (identified by scholars as light-skinned men of mixed race) who worked as exchange brokers in...
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- 30 Jan 2021
- News
Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
items, is about $35. Simon’s troops clean more than 100,000 pieces a year,” Heath writes. These higher volumes and higher prices helped Parkway reach almost $4 million in annual revenue before the pandemic hit last March. “Simon said most...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Research Brief: Lost in Translation
intraday trading volumes and more modest price movements in stocks compared with calls led by more fluent speakers. “Executives typically speak English quite well when they’ve had time to prepare and rehearse,” says Yu. “But when they...
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
An 1868 broadside, for example, showing a worker's timetable at the Lowell Mills in Massachusetts, speaks volumes about its time. "One thing you notice when you look at that," says Pulitzer Prizewinning business historian Professor Thomas...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Chandler Donates Papers to Baker Library
CHANDLER: The historian's papers find a fitting home. Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the School’s Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, is known for his sweeping volumes chronicling the growth of modern capitalism, corporations, and management....
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
all in, purchasing inventory at volume up front to enter the market with an abundance of options? Or should the company continue to take pieces on consignment, offering a limited assortment of plates and bowls to test the demands of the...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 03 May 2019
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Giving Voice to Black and Hispanic Women
investment in terms of making a decision to develop a magazine that will speak volumes about how these two communities, particularly Hispanic women and black women, are going to make a difference in the lives of all of us as we continue...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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HBS Press Books in Brief
Featuring all-star names in marketing such as Don Peppers, Martha Rogers, David Aaker, and Kevin Keller, this dynamic collection provides a diverse look at the field of marketing. From global branding to one-to-one marketing to managing "buzz," this indispensable View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Beckert and Christine Desan (Columbia University Press) This volume presents a sampling of cutting-edge research from prominent scholars. These essays offer new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women’s rights; slavery and political...
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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
but his achievements over the past fourteen years speak volumes about his skills and vision as a leader. From the vantage point of his sparsely staffed Boston headquarters, for example, he sets the overarching strategy for each firm,...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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The Myth of Laissez-Faire
taxes. Is this short volume convincing? I, for one, need more persuading on what daily life under this expanded governmental presence would look like. But Madrick does make a spirited argument against Thomas Paine’s view that government...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Taking Care of Business
expertise in quality control and volume manufacturing in the automotive industry (where he does double duty as managing director of Sundaram Brake Linings), Mahesh launched Sundaram Medical Devices in 2010, won the NVC, and built a better...
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Julia Hanna
- 07 Sep 2021
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Funding His Purpose
concept proved successful—nonprofits and for-profit social or environmental impact companies did benefit from access to loans—but the model did not. SITAWI did not see the necessary volume in deals to be sustainable as a lender. So...
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