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beverage company with $90 billion in revenue, $15 billion in profits, and 8,500 brands sold in 197 countries. For most of the 20th century, Nestle enjoyed steady growth and profitability. The company had been early to establish factories in developing countries,... View Details

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On Campus Logistics - Recruiting

classrooms. We encourage companies to bring the presentation on a flash drive or email it to themselves to utilize the classroom computer and the class remote to advance the slides. If using your laptop, you will need to bring a remote or... View Details

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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

of print publications. Adopting color offered another way to make a bold photographic statement in a print publication.” 10 As photograph historian Sally Stein writes, however, “So long as the linkage between colors and commodities remained weak, the perception of... View Details

21 Aug 2019
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What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

performance. “Machine learning is able to utilize data that is both large in size, but also in a different form than what would traditionally fit into an Excel spreadsheet,” says Harvard Business School’s Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Mar 2021
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teach for 30 minutes. When the professor took the chalk from me, I sat down to enormous applause. Fast-forward 16 years later, the UVA School of Engineering, my alma mater, asked me to teach a class called the Business of Engineering, View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

03 Dec 2020
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Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

many companies is that widespread salary cuts may not be workable because of existing employee agreements. Furloughs A furlough is a mandated unpaid leave of absence, utilized by private (such as General Motors during the 2019 United Auto... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

01 May 2020
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5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

Aaron Hancock is a member of the HBS Class of 2021. He serves as Senator for Section H and is the Chair of the Senate Clubs Committee. He is also one of the incoming Co-Presidents for the African American Student Union (AASU). Aaron is originally from Charlotte, NC and... View Details

03 Jun 2020
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How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee

from your team for what they need to be most productive/engaged Set clear expectations and definitions of success along with systems to track progress to ensure employees can independently and collaborative work towards goals. Utilize... View Details

15 Nov 2018
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Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

29 Sep 2023
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HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Reyna Pacheco Rios (MBA 2025)

also demonstrates immense determination. He often utilizes his skills and focuses on the impact he can make in our immediate communities. He is a perfectionist at his craft and is always someone I look to when I want an example of someone... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

utilization of a payout formula means that the annual payout rate is generally lower following years of relatively high investment returns, as was the case in fiscal 2022, and higher following years of lower investment returns.... View Details

04 Jan 2022
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Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

business utility akin to Zoom, but the early stages will be dominated by gamers.” Charles Morrissey saw a practical use now, saying that “the virtual university will finally deliver an alternative, low-cost substitute.” David Wittenberg,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

January 2024
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Colbún and Chile’s Energy Transition

By: Forest Reinhardt, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal

In May 2023, Colbún, Chile’s second-largest electricity generator, plans capacity expansions using renewable energy and storage. This strategy supports Chile’s commitment to carbon neutrality (also known as net zero emissions) by 2050. The case delves into the... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Infrastructure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Expansion; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile

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11 Mar 2001
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Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

this period. The British willingness to use outside capital in affiliate ventures was distinctive. With some exceptions, in other European countries non-trading activities might be separately incorporated but were usually wholly owned. The ability of the British... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

young boy for dismantling a phonograph, from then on "nothing or nobody could stop me from carrying through the execution of an experiment." 6 As a child, he was drawn to the beauty and utility of chemistry and optics. Kaleidoscopes and... View Details

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School’s international reach. Noting the post-World War II growth in international trade and increasing numbers of multi-national companies, Baker observed, “Businessmen and educators in all parts of the world are recognizing professionally educated management as a key... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship

process better.” Yet the possibilities for state-of-the-art enterprise B2B software utilizing SaaS business models inspired him to seek more. Going to HBS, with its start-up support system, would give Stan, “a guided experience into the... View Details

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Key Stakeholders - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

fundamental goal of economic policy is to enhance competitiveness, which is reflected in the productivity with which a nation or region utilizes its people, capital, and natural endowments to produce valuable goods and services.” —... View Details

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Rclone - Research Computing Services

Software Tools Rclone 8ms About rclone Many people use a web browser to transfer files between local and cloud storage. In comparison, Rclone is a robust command-line utility for synchronizing and transferring files to and from cloud... View Details

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Monitoring CPU usage of your jobs on the HBSGrid - Research Computing Services

Press u and enter your username to view only your processes. (Optional) Press 1 (the number one) to see the utilization of each cpu core or hyperthread. Press q or ctrl-c to stop monitoring. Monitoring execution via bjobs output This is... View Details

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