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- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
their families for 48 weeks a year. At the same time, they were building the massive transportation infrastructure that eventually allowed factories to relocate to the center of the country and to move goods from the factory to customer.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
with sales and purchasing and relocated the business to a more efficient facility. She wondered if she moved too quickly. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-021... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved from the interior to new factories on the coast, leaving behind their families for 48 weeks a year. At the same time, they were building the massive transportation infrastructure that eventually allowed... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
that when a firm actually disappeared from the directory from which we were drawing our data, the women were very likely to leave the industry (93 percent). When a firm disappeared from the industry, the men were more likely to relocate... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
look beyond just relocating supply toward harnessing process innovations and revisiting some of the trade-offs between product variety and flexibility. Harvard Business Review Webinar Student Perspective on Entrepreneurial Journey Having... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
students, relocated persons, immigrants, or refugees—will find useful advice for landing a job in the United States this book. Readers will learn the different stages of the search process and how to prepare for each one, as well as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
need to maximize moviegoing to Hollywood blockbusters and also source smaller movies that appeal to our diverse audiences throughout the year," says Frank, who cites Lopez's "incredible positive energy and vision" as the key reason for her family's View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25
Andrew Jackson's First Annual Message to Congress in 1829 and the second document from Jackson's Second Annual Message in 1830, the year the Indian Removal Act was passed. The third and fourth documents cover the Congressional debate over the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
have more requests for meeting rooms and the auditorium than we can possibly accommodate.” Not on the approved list of uses, despite frequent inquiries, are weddings, funerals, and bar mitzvahs, she adds. “Spangler is a very special place,” says Steve Nelson. “It View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
108-091 An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) relocation process, and 5) takeover by new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
households had at least $25,000 in both a taxable and a tax-deferred account. And while about two-thirds of those households held tax-efficient portfolios, most of the remaining third could reduce their taxes by relocating heavily taxed... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7
opportunities to develop skills (“crucible experiences”) and a greater motivation to relocate out of the challenging context. We also find that managers deployed to a challenging context early in their careers continue to experience... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
whole portfolio, relocated one of the company's major factories, and reviewed every element of the cost structure. Whirlpool offered a front-row seat for the dramatic changes under way in Brazil's economy. "When the middle class really... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
relocated to a larger store and is experiencing losses for the first time. Sales and costs have increased along with the breakeven point. Changes in pricing and promotion must be explored. Alternative actions to return to profitability... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
he announced his candidacy. He says he and his wife, Anne, relocated for the “quality of life” and a better environment to raise their young daughters. Others see the move as political opportunism. “Most people in this community who are... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
interest rates, money funds change their product offerings by investing in riskier asset classes, are more likely to exit the market, and reduce the fees they charge their investors. The consequence of fund closures resulting from interest rate policy is the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
development also involved working with the Slum Redevelopment Authority to relocate and build on the site homes in towers for at least 20,000 slum dwellers and restoring much of the site to green space. At the request of Chairman... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017
relocation of resources in affected fund families and in the asset management industry in general, as well as decline in capital of issuers borrowing from money funds. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51404... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel