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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising
all-inclusive quality of trade catalogs, trade cards offered a more intimate presentation with which companies could announce their line of business and products. Produced in a variety of shapes and sizes, trade cards generally measured 2... View Details
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courses like "Business and Society in Black Africa," "Systems Analysis: The City," and "Black Power and the Business Community." Students could pursue self–directed research reports, initiate seminars of their own design, or cross–enroll... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Profits? Barbara DeLollis 16 Mar 2023 Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) Debuts New Offering Exploring the Pu... New Venture Competition Announces 2023 Social Enterprise Track Semifinalists 22 Feb 2023 In... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
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Growing from Within
there’s an obvious cost to that arrangement. But what are the benefits that company ownership offers McDonald’s? In the US, the McDonald’s Operating Company, McOpCo as we call it, plays an important role for the McDonald’s system:... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
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Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation... View Details
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Diversity Comes to Corporate Boards, but Slowly - Blog: RGE Report
you're seeing only a small slice of the qualified candidates who are out there?” said Colleen Ammerman, director of the Race, Gender & Equity Initiative at Harvard Business School. “If your network is homogenous you’re selecting from a... View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
1970s, the seeds of change for ARD were in the air. The Small Business Investment Act of 1953 had promoted the creation of small business investment corporations (SBICs) through financial support and loans. Over time, the financial benefits View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
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The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
In the early 1990s, both Teradyne and Hewlett-Packard identified new technologies that had enormous potential to cause new-market disruptions. As with most disruptive innovations, these technologies offered to provide smaller and less... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
Digital Initiative to facilitate online and offline conversations around classroom topics. Responses ranged from oil companies to ice-cream makers and almost everything in between. We’ve excerpted a few of them here. Shake Shack Data... View Details
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Ann Lucena
a lot of ambition and drive, but I needed business skills to reach my goals. With my biology and Spanish background, I didn't have the business education I wanted; the skills necessary for future success." HBS stood out among Ann's options because "it View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
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New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
The New Venture Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative open to all students and alumni who are launching new business and social impact ventures. This year,... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18
Scale Global This case tracks Jerome Chouchan’s strategies and execution for a successful turnaround of Godiva Japan’s operations, which were experiencing a decline in sales when he became the managing director of the company in 2010. Through various View Details
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
healthy perspective during her recent initiation into the topsy-turvy world of start-ups, as cofounder of Boston-based edu.com. "If I was able to get through HBS under those circumstances, I figured I could handle anything," Kanner... View Details
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- 08 Sep 2016
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4 Unexpected Things I Learned at HBS
was able to achieve a level of understanding financial concepts that I would not have otherwise reached. In addition, by making myself vulnerable, I was able to return the favor and share my own expertise with the classmate who I View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
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Defining Flex Work
estimated that some 30 percent of women would leave the professional world to become caregivers, but that 70 percent would have stayed if they had access to a flexible schedule. It was an “aha” moment for Auerbach. She initially launched... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
alumni volunteers through the club system. Perry Driggs (MBA '61) skillfully led the Lifelong Learning Committee in discussions on how alumni perceive lifelong learning, what role HBS might play in that arena, and how best to market the programs View Details
- 15 Apr 2002
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In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
products that are difficult for consumers to find locally. The ability to customize clothing for fit, fabric, or style should also provide an impetus to increase online sales of fashionable garments. Several initiatives are under way to... View Details
- 11 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 11
initial relative firm capabilities, market attractiveness, market-firm fit, and knowledge transferability. By explicitly incorporating firm rivalry across multiple markets, our model offers a comprehensive... View Details
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Advancing Social Enterprise | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Advancing Social Enterprise Background I graduated from Harvard College in 1990. I was the first college recruiter at Teach for America with Wendy Kopp and I got to know the people who were starting up the Social Enterprise Initiative at... View Details
Levels of Meaning
courses were even offered at HBS. But I decided to take Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (EGC) and The Coming of Managerial Capitalism because I wanted to balance “hard skills” courses with classes that broadened my perspective on... View Details