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Stamps Reading Room | About
gift from the charitable foundation of E. Roe Stamps IV (MBA 1974) and Penelope W. Stamps funded the meticulous restoration of Baker Library’s historic lobby and reading room during the building’s 2003–05 renovation. The gift also... View Details
- 21 Jul 2010
- News
Mad Men, the Early Era
Related research Dare to Be Different Should You Bring Advertising Expertise in House? Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads Step into the lobby of the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center and you’ll find an exhibit that coordinates well with... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
accounting firms fiercely lobbied Congress to block new regulations that would have limited auditors' ability to provide consulting services. Appearing at congressional hearings in 2000, accounting firm CEOs assured legislators that no... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
let's just not allow our customers to do it," he says. That might mean lobbying for legislation, suing in court, or making customers sign contracts that prevent decoupling. After Aereo allowed viewers to stream TV programs over the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Sep 2011
- News
A Taxing Question
subsidiaries of US firms is supposed to be taxed at the corporate rate of 35 percent. But the law provides a huge loophole that allows companies to sidestep paying any tax on foreign profits as long as the money stays outside the US. Hence, the overseas cash stash.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Sarah Talley’s Key Negotiation Principles
drive costs down and produce it so much cheaper you don’t have to replace me, because if you work with me I could do it better.” Sequence and lobby fairly carefully with people who’ve got some credibility, those who they listen to, people... View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
over intellectual property theft and forced technology transfer, there has also been discussion in Congress about expanding secrecy orders. That proposal was strongly opposed by powerful lobbies including the American Bar Association and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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IT Strategy: Improving Service to Support Innovation | Information Technology
for all members of the HBS community. Replaced over 2,000 aged PCs that were delayed due to hardware funding cuts. Renovated the Shad IT service lobby to include space for TSS to collaborate with customers, and to feature a fully... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
president, Moret created a new, reorganized student government and lobbied the faculty to place a greater emphasis on teaching quality in granting tenure. After graduating from LSU, Moret remained in Baton Rouge and worked as an... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
it wasn’t hard for Airbnb to establish a toehold fast. Without the overhead of real estate and hotel staff, Airbnb has quickly expanded into related services, making it tougher for incumbents to compete, says Teixeira. After lobbying and... View Details
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
of policy and the people’s preferences, as well as factors generating information bias. It explores the interactions between all stakeholders influencing policy-making (ruling elites, companies, media, and the people) and their impact on business. Representative cases... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
and legislative debates and processes, ranging from campaign contributions to lobbying to political activism. In 2016, Target CEO Brian Cornell must determine how to respond to the debate over North Carolina's recently signed law,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2011
- News
Students Hear Wall St. Critics
sheer power, arrogance, and swagger,” he said of the financial industry and its political and lobbying clout in Washington. “My biggest takeaway was the extent to which financial services drive the economy, and how much of it was just... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
(fascinating!) and people-watching in the lobby (outrageous!). And, most important, in the pause, I had connected a couple of ideas I had been struggling with for days.” Recommended by Author Nanette Fondas (DBA 1987) Unfinished Business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
comply with international patent law by 2005, precluding production of some of Cipla’s biggest moneymakers. With time running out, what should Hamied do? Lobbying the Indian government to exclude food and pharmaceuticals from patent laws... View Details
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably
discuss what types of lobbying and policies might be best suited to sustainability transformations in other industries and geographies. ----- Read more posts in the IFC Series: Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization Port Esbjerg: Deploying... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk. There’s an incentive for the private entities to hold as little capital as possible against their own loan guarantees, and they would lobby... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
performance. Publisher's link: https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-truth-about-csr Working Papers Auditor Lobbying on Accounting Standards By: Allen, Abigail M., Karthik Ramanna, and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract—We examine how Big N auditors'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy
important when a competitor began offering products at a steep discount. Engineers lobbied their companies against buying those products because the competitor lacked a similar social platform.) Start-ups can also employ social strategy.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
comes to resolving the inherent tensions between headquarters—where the focus might be on standardizing products to drive down cost—and subsidiaries lobbying to adapt products to meet the specific needs of a local market. Making The... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna