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28 May 2019
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Future Source

applicants the most in-demand programming languages and provides living expenses in exchange for contracted developer time with client organizations. Its acceptance rate is less than 1 percent, but the open source Andela Learning... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2007
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Saving the Steel Industry

United Steelworkers (USW) union as an “unsecured creditor” — much like a financial institution or corporate supplier — and used his Wall Street knowledge and contacts to facilitate mergers aimed at strengthening the industry. In exchange... View Details

Keywords: Primary Metal Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2015
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Accelerating Research in China

group of classmates based in Shanghai and Beijing. Passionate about seeing a growth of research and the exchange of ideas and best practices between the School and China, the longtime friends established the MBA Class of 2005 Fund for... View Details

02 Dec 2017
News

The Lines That Divide America

exchange for hard work is now both limited and unevenly granted,” he writers. “Worse yet, white working-class citizens perceive others—mainly minorities and immigrants—to be unfairly cutting ahead of them in line. And members of the white... View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

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C. Roland Christensen Papers — New Directions – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

German Machinery French Agriculture Venetian Exchange Rate Visual Evidence Lewis Hine Photographs Oil Industry Photographs Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact Email: © President and... View Details

January 1995 (Revised May 1997)
Case

Syscom Computers

By: Kenneth A. Froot, Peter Tufano and Chris L Marshall

Discusses a company deciding what it should do to manage its worldwide hedging operations. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Currency Exchange Rate; Information Management; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Operations

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August 2010 (Revised February 2012)
Supplement

Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (D)

By: David F. Hawkins

The fourth case in the Cosmeticos de Espana case series. What should management's accounting response be to the imposition of foreign currency controls? View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Decision Choices and Conditions; Inflation and Deflation; Currency Exchange Rate; Governance Controls; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Spain; Venezuela

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01 Sep 2005
News

Have Ideas, Will Travel

exchange of ideas,” said Gustavo Herrero (MBA ’76), executive director of the Latin America Research Center in Buenos Aires and a symposium co-organizer. HBS also has research centers in China, India, Europe, and Silicon Valley and a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Portrait Project

Glenn Bean

expectations. Better grab some blueberries for brain food. Naturally, I will enjoy the meal with others. Through exchanging ideas, fellowship, and celebration, a shared meal allows relationships to flourish. These relationships are the... View Details

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

implementing ideas. It requires everything from formal education to "water cooler conversations" to get members of an organization to exchange and build on each others' ideas. Given the complex nature of tacit knowledge and the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Board Diversity: Pressure Leads to Action - Blog: RGE Report

Action Tamara Lytle Author tag Board Diversity The process of appointing powerful board directors has been put into the spotlight in recent years, as companies, courts, governments, investors and even a stock exchange weigh in. For the... View Details

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Contemporary Corporate Archives | Baker Library

Muriel F. Siebert (1928-2013) was the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and the first woman to own and direct a brokerage firm that was a member of the NYSE. Henri A. Termeer Papers Document the career of an... View Details

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Introduction - New Directions: Building Baker Library's Collections

Roland Christensen Papers George Lombard Papers Invention & Innovation Early German Machinery French Agriculture Venetian Exchange Rate Visual Evidence Lewis Hine Photographs Oil Industry Photographs Baker Library | Historical Collections... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Iron Lady

“build an economy that works for the ordinary citizen of Nigeria” (BBC, September 13, 2010). Dubbed the “Iron Lady,” Oteh announced last summer that “local and international investors need to understand that things have changed.” She sacked the two top officials of... View Details

Keywords: Finance

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

be able to give a kidney to the person you want to give to," Roth says. Historically, those incompatible donors would be sent home, and their sick loved ones would wait for a deceased donor. But a few years ago Roth started studying the idea of a kidney View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

05 Jul 2022
Op-Ed

Hear Me Out: Introverts Can Be Loud and You Might Like Microsoft Teams

business leaders demanded collaboration tools, we saw Zoom and other video conferencing products explode. But MS quickly responded with improvements to Teams’ videoconferencing capabilities and ease of use. As everyone in the company has an MS 365 account and an View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain

and happy customers produce value for investors, makes sense. Why do so many employers fail to follow this logic? Sasser: I'm not sure I would use the word 'happy' unless 'happy' is a synonym for highly satisfied. The key is that organizations are in value View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

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Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Travel should be directly related to the project. Travel to or from non-project sites is not eligible for grant funding. Please note: Packaged deals for hotel/airfare/car rental are not fundable unless each component of the expense can be identified. For foreign... View Details

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Kenneth R. Andrews Papers — New Directions – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Polaroid Instant Camera Global Markets Dana Letterbook Dillingham Collection Intellectual Capital Kenneth Andrews Papers Alfred Chandler Papers C. Roland Christensen Papers George Lombard Papers Invention & Innovation Early German Machinery French Agriculture Venetian... View Details

21 Sep 2015
News

Funding Progress Back Home

platform that facilitates diaspora and impact investing in Africa. Formerly a portfolio manager with the World Bank, where he helped African and other emerging nations set up foreign exchange and asset management activities, Guichard... View Details

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