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- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
has is already underway (the typical American response). In either case, though, policies are demanded and policymakers need to think about how best to balance the demands of society and commerce. Q: In today's headlines, what story or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Management Training Program - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
Management Training Program and experienced a brief postwar enrollment boom. The new name reflected a broader scope that included human relations as well as production issues related to industry and government. T. North Whitehead, who had... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change
What do Chinese coal plants and the American legislative branch have in common? They are both major adversaries in the fight against climate change, according to former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón. "The most serious problem is in the United States... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Differentiation: Implications for Corporate Strategy." Reinhardt, who joined the faculty in 1991, currently teaches the required MBA course Business, Government, and the International Economy as well as the elective Business and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
patents. If you look at the PhD workforce for science and engineering, the immigrant share is even higher at roughly 50 percent. The math and science skills behind many of these innovations are relatively easy to port across locations—they aren’t as reliant on having... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
the official government of a fearsome global superpower, the implications and reasons for these attacks are well beyond anything Reilly could have imagined, and point not to random acts of terror, but calculated acts of war. RED Hotel is... View Details
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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
Heard & Co., 1840-1877 Augustine Heard & Co. was among the largest American trading houses in China in the mid-19th century, leaving behind extensive records of their experiences. The exhibit provides insight into momentous events as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
items. Meanwhile, Target and Walmart smartly deployed their formidable power over suppliers and the more than 7,000 large format retail stores between them to out-compete and out serve Amazon’s fewer than 200 North American fulfillment... View Details
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
party." This sparked a side discussion about regulation. As Wilson Kimutai put it, "If we bring in Government to bail out, more regulation should be brought to stabilize the market." David Moore echoed this thought and went further, suggesting that View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
Clubs News Clubs News Toronto Alumni Compare Canadian and US Health Care Systems In partnership with the Cleveland Clinic Canada, the HBS Club of Toronto hosted 40 alumni on September 12 for a lively panel discussion exploring the future of health care in Canada, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ink: Q&A with Kathy Wang (MBA 2011)
story of a Chinese American family whose unpredictable father, Stanley, learns he has pancreatic cancer. As his health declines, the family contends with the messy questions of inheritance, cultural expectations, and career ambition. You... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
expansion for U.S. Steel, increased output of steel from foreign sources began to impact domestic markets. With their post-war economic recoveries well underway, Europe and Japan emerged as major competitors in the global steel market.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
When Business History Was Business News UTAH, 1859: East meets West and America opens for business. Henry Guttmann/Getty Images Newspapers, so the saying goes, write the first draft of history. In her new book, The Story of American... View Details
Jeff Goldman
Jeff Goldman practices exclusively in the area of business immigration law. He has 31+ years of extensive experience representing technology, life science, and entrepreneurial businesses regarding all visa matters, as well as permanent... View Details
Jeff Goldman
Jeff Goldman practices exclusively in the area of business immigration law. He has 31+ years of extensive experience representing technology, life science, and entrepreneurial businesses regarding all visa matters, as well as permanent... View Details
Keywords: Legal
- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
supply chain. The gowns were produced by a tight circle of manufacturers that had begun to shut down as a result of COVID-19. “The system works very well when the demand is stable,” notes Hanazawa. It was clear, however, that the supply... View Details
- 03 Nov 2008
- HBS Case
Economics of the Ethanol Business
situation becomes clearer. Reinhardt has taught the case in his Energy course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, as well as the Agribusiness course in the MBA and Executive Education programs. "One objective of the case is a... View Details
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The Dedication - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
longer-lived than any other human institution. For generation after generation, it renews the springs of high purpose.” 18 Gay’s words reflected as well the ideals of former Harvard President Charles Eliot (Eliot had died only a year... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
demonstrates the benefits of affiliating a business with charities and nonprofits. They include an increase in the bottom line and employee morale as well as a boost to the company’s brand and reputation. Plugged In: The Generation Y... View Details