Corporate Services - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

analysis. Then, you'll learn how to apply these tools in a variety of decision contexts, including securities analysis, credit analysis, corporate financing policies analysis, mergers and acquisitions analysis, and governance and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Should You Outsource Your Marketing?

she was president of the Fidelity Personal Investments unit of Fidelity Investments, serving 4 million customers with $500 billion in assets. She answers our questions in this e-mail Q&A. Poping Lin: We are familiar with the benefits of outsourcing various View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin

Fast Answer

Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship

target="_blank">Boston, MA Cambridge, MA New York City, NY Helsinki, Finland Open Budgets India – Municipal Corporations Look at the resources above for more, or a simple Google search of town/city name and “open... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Information Technology

merged to form Dun & Bradstreet in 1933, both were early adopters—even drivers—of technological innovations in an emerging information industry. Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) donated its historical corporate records to Baker Library, and this... View Details

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Finalists | New Venture Competition

facilities. Social Enterprise Track, 2024 SeaCycle Hande Ilhan (MBA 2025) Jakob Spiess (MBA 2025) Pioneering sustainable biopolymer production. Solara Rea Savla (MBA 2024) Vishesh Mehta Providing an on-demand solar irrigation service to... View Details

06 Aug 2020
News

Defining Flex Work

United Way, and Warner Music Group. Another client is Credigy, an Atlanta-based financial services firm with 170 employees. A Werk assessment at Credigy revealed that while the leadership believed they were running a flexible workplace,... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

Second Acts

When Glen Meakem (MBA ’91) couldn’t persuade his employer, General Electric, that he was on to a hot idea to revamp corporate purchasing using the Internet, he quit and started his own firm, FreeMarkets, which charted the way for... View Details

Keywords: e-commerce; B2B; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

products or services look beyond their self-interest and work to collectively build the institutional infrastructure, they—and society as a whole—are more likely to prosper. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

very presumptuous for business schools ... to feel they should 'weed out' or 'license' the moral credentials of students." Alexander Magoun echoed this view when he asked, "Would it not benefit society and corporate culture as a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2005
News

Winning Legally

business objectives.” Before joining the HBS faculty in 2000, Bagley was a corporate securities partner in Bingham McCutchen LLP and a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She teaches the MBA elective Legal Aspects... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

assess situations and connect at-risk individuals with support services as needed,” Mendu says. A third component of the initiative pairs mental health clinicians with outreach workers for the homeless to head off potential crises before... View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries

companies, and of corporate strategies. Organizers Queener, David Conway (HBS '97), and Paul Ostergaard (HBS '97) said they deliberately sought out companies that have never, or have not recently, recruited at HBS. They did so to... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Jan 2011
News

Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969

Founder and Chairman, FiBA Group Download Özyeğin profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1945 Born, Izmir, Turkey 1966 Elected student body president at Oregon State 1972 Returns to Turkey for military View Details

12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

April 2016 Harvard Business Review Can You Cut 'Turn Times' Without Adding Staff? By: Bernstein, Ethan, and Ryan W. Buell Abstract—The president of RSA Ground, the subsidiary of Rising Sun Airlines responsible for servicing its planes at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

those who were usually called 'raiders' in the eighties - entrepreneurs who were putting their own money and reputations on the line." Jensen believes that most current mergers undertaken to reduce excess capacity and combine related View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

15 Dec 2024
News

After Ozempic

Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Pete Ryan; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

25 Jan 2000
Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

apparel and footwear, when City Year requested fifty pairs of boots for its youth service corps program. "In the philanthropic relationship," Austin observes, "each side benefits modestly. The NPO receives funding, goods, or services,... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 2008
News

Kash Rangan

performance, and even go beyond and recall cases, frameworks, and solution approaches. It is quite a different approach to participating in the sector. In a way they become the catalysts for internal change. Many alumni get involved with View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

10 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

“particularly on high cost of failure situations where good information on potential service providers is correspondingly of high value.” Angie's List had a paid subscription model as it charged “members” for access to the information... View Details