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Robert Higgins | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
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- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
decline, and even the spike created by the delta and omicron variants could not stop corporations from recalling workers to the office. Many companies want to go back to the way things were, but that would be a mistake. “Organizational...
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by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
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U.S. Business Immigration Overview - Alumni
Careers U.S. Business Immigration Overview Careers U.S. Business Immigration Overview Looking to work in the United States? We know that it can often be tricky to figure out the requirements needed to secure work authorization. Below we...
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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets
Money Control Is there such a thing as an Indian way of doing business? Harvard Business School professors Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna say yes, and no... 19 MAR 2022 HBS Working Knowledge Five Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for...
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- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
social efficiency, and we argue that implementation of this rule is feasible despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework for the price trajectory of IPv4 addresses. In a world without uncertainty, the unit...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
- Case
Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1)
By: Fabrizio Ferri, V.G. Narayanan and James Weber
Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge fund manager, seek to improve board oversight at a chain restaurant company. Prestley Blake founded Friendly Ice Cream in 1935 with his brother, and the two created a chain of full-service restaurants. In 1979, they...
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Investment Activism;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Business or Company Management;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Conflict of Interests;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Ferri, Fabrizio, V.G. Narayanan, and James Weber. "Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1)." Harvard Business School Case 109-013, September 2008. (Revised October 2008.)
- 25 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
Physician burnout costs the United States health care industry $4.6 billion a year, a number that brings a new spotlight to an age-old problem. In a paper published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine this past June, a research...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
Three dollars in cash, six changes of clothing, five bottles of rum, and a box of cigars. These were the items that belonged to 12-year-old Carlos Saladrigas when he arrived in Miami in 1961. His parents chose the risk of sending their only child to the View Details
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Susan Young
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A Journey of Discovery, Teamwork, and Impact with FIELD Global Immersion - MBA
East and North Africa South America United States Filters Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st...
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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
were coproductions. . . . Congress and the courts created ways in which corporations could fail repeatedly and arise again.” 23 US Railroads Management Site Credits Petition to Western Rail Road Corporation for the Establishment of a Bank...
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William R. Kerr | About
William R. Kerr Dimitri V. D’Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration Unit Entrepreneurial Management Contact Phone , Email Bio William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard...
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- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
change—business leaders have entered a new era requiring new ways of leading. Traditional management methods seem no longer sufficient to address the volume of change we are seeing. I label this VUCA 2.0. In a 1998 report designed to...
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by Bill George
- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
killing jobs at a time when the United States can ill afford to lose them. Few regulatory agencies have a more direct effect on businesses than the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the federal agency responsible for...
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by Michael Blanding
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Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen
View Video Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen (MBA 2019) is accustomed to changing directions. At age fifteen, he moved from his home in Venezuela in the midst of civil and political unrest, seeking safety and opportunity in the United States. He...
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- October 2015 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear! (Abridged)
By: Willy C. Shih
This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the...
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Big Data;
Business Analytics;
Product Development Strategy;
Machine Learning;
Machine Intelligence;
Artificial Intelligence;
Product Development;
AI and Machine Learning;
Information Technology;
Analytics and Data Science;
Information Technology Industry;
United States
Shih, Willy C. "Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear! (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 616-025, October 2015. (Revised October 2016.)
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
to reshape their companies, and explored how they can put data to work for them in ways that create value for their own businesses. The data advantage in sports Big data is already being used heavily in the sports world, students heard...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
restaurants-which kinds of communities support restaurant chains and which kinds of communities tend to support independent local restaurants and food service providers instead. We analyze data from a 2005 sample of 49 counties across the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector
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Improving Lives One Data Set at a Time - MBA
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- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
and engineering, reshaped the economy, and influenced society at large. But America is bogged down in thorny debates on immigration policy, and the world around the United States is rapidly catching up, especially China and India. The...
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Dina Gerdeman