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- 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
sustainability efforts at Novozymes, the world's largest and oldest producer of industrial enzymes. In 2015, the Danish company became the world’s first company known to have crafted a new corporate strategy based on the United View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
left the corporate world to pursue that passion full-time. His long list of travels include hiking the Appalachian Trail, walking from Mexico to Canada and back on the Continental Divide, and completing two three-year tours of all 25...
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- 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008
financial services that Washington D.C.-based Microfinance International Corporation (MFIC) had been providing for two years to a growing number of "unbanked" Hispanic nationals in the United...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
customers that you don’t burn out. At least I haven’t yet! Sharing the Passion Skullcandy sponsors leading surf and skate teams and partners with prominent athletes, such as NBA stars James Harden and Kevin Durant, and nationally known...
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- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
efforts to build and run an innovation center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As the center goes through different periods of leadership and strategic models, its relationship with the corporation and other research sites is explored. The...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21
can account for secular changes in how payouts were made over the last 30 years, during which repurchases have replaced dividends as the prime vehicle for corporate payouts. Other payout motives such as changes in compensation practices...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
from where it is grown to the tables where it is consumed. The global population is rising, with the United Nations projecting it to swell to 9.7 billion from its current 7.7 billion by 2050. “We also have to solve the calorie deficiency...
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- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
conclude by briefly reviewing two additional strategies for coping with such difficult situations: forgoing making decisions and forgetting those decisions altogether. How Well Do Social Ratings Actually Measure Corporate Social...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
they can relocate their headquarters to a hub, as GE recently did (but make them much smaller). A less expensive strategy is to create an innovation lab or corporate outpost in a talent cluster, as Walmart did with Walmart Labs. The most...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
shareholders. These results suggest that the domestic operations of U.S. multinationals were not financially constrained and that these firms were reasonably well-governed. The results have important implications for understanding the impact of U.S. View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
says. “And that was overly optimistic; it worked only when everything clicked.” The subsequent national conversation about minimizing risk through reshoring—that is, bringing American manufacturing facilities back to the United...
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- 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015
important lessons in national strategy and political economy. Now, though, its famous chaebols may need reform, the population is aging, and relations with the North are as tense as ever. What should the country's leaders do? Purchase...
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Sean Silverthorne
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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Having its world premiere at Harlem's National Black Theatre in 2013 (executive produced by Harry Belafonte), Bain plays 40 characters in this tour de force production which has been featured at The Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, Jazz at...
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- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
Most Successful CEOs Come from Within By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing shareholder value. View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
resource pools, increased corporate operational dependence on IT, and enhanced application opportunities have combined to drive this topic much higher on many companies' agendas. Different companies are impacted in different ways....
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
totaling $375 billion. Nine are large enough to be listed in the S&P 500. Wall Street goes shopping. Wall Street surveyed the mountain of defaulted S&L loans taken over by the federal Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) and saw an...
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- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
cultural icons are built. Icons are the big winners of the culture share game. I conduct historical studies of brands like Volkswagen, Budweiser, Harley, Nike, and Mountain Dew. One of the key findings of my research is that all of these brands reinterpret a key View Details
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by Manda Salls
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Strategic Services in 1944 to train European resistors, this is the essential handbook to help stamp out unintentional sabotage in any working group, from major corporations to volunteer PTA committees. While the manual was written...
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Xavier Aubry, MBA 2001 Kimberly Lei, MBA 2001 Bluesolid (now Appear Networks) has created a software company focusing on WLAN and Bluetooth networks (the so-called WLAN hotspots). The company has gained 15 large corporate customers during...
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