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- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
Shapiro and Kash Rangan bring us up to date on their pioneering research that helped ignite today's intense focus on the customer. The key? Know your order cycle management. Key concepts include: The order cycle provides a window through... View Details
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Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Company began as four separate entities: the Boston and Worcester Railroad, the Western Railroad, the Albany and West Stockbridge Railroad, and the Hudson and Boston Railroad. The records date from 1831 to 1898 and include minutes of... View Details
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Using the Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Search Information System ( OASIS ) Digital images for portions of Baker Library Historical Collections’ photograph collections can be viewed through HOLLIS Images, ( HOLLIS Images ) Up to date MARC catalog records for photograph... View Details
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Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
frewlein den bawren bringen vmb das sein." From his Stirpium Insignium Nobilitatis , "in Verlegung Ludwig Kunings vo Basel," first edition published before 1612, another edition dated 1617. The prints were also published in other sets. 19... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
October Reunions Break Records, Strengthen Ties
Chinese authority. In his welcoming remarks, Dean Kim B. Clark brought alumni and guests up to date on some recent initiatives at the School in areas such as technology, entrepreneurship, and global management. He also thanked the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
As a young man, Tim Brier was so smitten with flying that he used to take dates to watch planes land and take off when he was growing up in Staten Island, New York. It's not surprising, therefore, that he would later embark on a career in... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
successful to date has been the effort to sign up public libraries, with roughly 20 percent of the nation’s 9,000 libraries carrying Bookmarks. Still on the horizon is the tantalizing prospect of marketing directly to members of an... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Negotiators Share Lessons from High-Stakes Global Diplomacy
Administration. The videotaped interviews—to date with former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright, James A. Baker III, Hillary Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, George Shultz, and Rex Tillerson—have been... View Details
Keywords: University Collaborations
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
problems. Yet, they also enjoyed unexpected benefits, including plenty of networking and after-war opportunities for the tight community of German businesspeople in India. "The business implications of civil internment are uncharted territory" “The literature... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
come into fashion? For example, I was reminded of stretch when the goal of a 50 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2040 was at least informally agreed to at a recent economic summit. In that case, the end date was conveniently set... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax
one in a country like India. The challenges they face are unique, but given the successful track record to date and the level of expertise the team seems to have, we left the site inspired and optimistic about the impact companies like... View Details
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Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting
The main focus of ARF to date has been to create a giving process that educates and engages donors and anti-racism allies. By building a platform that explains how donors can make an impact through the ARF four Pillars of Purpose -... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
smaller floor plate and more windows.” Indeed, buildings that date to the early 20th century, like 4753 North Broadway, make up the bulk of conversion success stories, while construction from the past few decades, with the amenities that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
and develop leadership and ambition for a career by practicing real science in an inspiring natural environment. Evaluations to date show that students who complete Connections modules have a better grasp of academic principles; and... View Details
- 27 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right
recall will be determined by the percentage of affected products that are returned. Anything less than 90 percent within 3 months for a child safety hazard will represent failure. As long as the 2 recalls to date are the whole of the... View Details
- Fast Answer
Real estate: emerging markets
href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/go/wdi.html" target="_blank" title="World Development Indicators">World Development Indicators Statistics for almost 600 development indicators (including public health, environment, education, and labor force) View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
1776, by David McCullough In any survey of great American corporations that have left their mark on business history, IBM would always hold a special place. Its origins date back to the late 1880s, when mechanical time recorders and... View Details
- Profile
Abby Falik
Entrepreneurship Fellow for 2009-2010, just the second person to date to receive the honor. “HBS has given me the confidence to be committed to the biggest possible vision,” says Abby. “It’s helped me be comfortable playing the many roles... View Details
- 06 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Takeaways from the Peek Women's Colleges Cohort
Peek has changed a lot since its founding in 2015! Please visit the Peek website for the most up to date information on dates, registration, and program events. I was incredibly excited when I learned about Peek Weekend, which offers an... View Details
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Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Associations in the United States and Prussia," Business and Economic History , Second Series, vol. 19 (1990): 133-142. - Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the United States and Prussia . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994. Harris... View Details