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- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
than recent economic crises and recessions such as the Great Recession of 2008 and the Mideast oil crisis, whose causes were financially driven. The fundamental driver of the pandemic is health and safety concerns and hence customer... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How To Do Business in Islamic Countries
much freight Saudi Arabia is holding back." Asked if they see a lessening of dependence on Gulf oil since the September 11 terrorist attacks, Vogel said Central Asia should be tapped to counterbalance dependence on Gulf countries and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
was based in Alabama and had shipping and docking rights in prime eastern port cities. Buying Pan-Atlantic for $7 million, McLean noted that the acquisition would "permit us to proceed immediately with plans for construction of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
cuts that eviscerated core services such as street sweeping and litter-bin collection. The results were both predictable and unpleasant: a “visibly filthier” city, to use Tisch’s phrase, and an exploding rat problem. The funding and... View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
West and Southwest Influence: High 90 1990 s Immigration tops 9 million (largest number since first decade) Baby boomers age Hispanics become fastest-growing minority Population grows from 250 million to 281 million Influence: Medium-High 1900 s 19 Model T Plastic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
“It’s important for US business leaders to respect the countries where they do business, by appreciating their language and culture. In high school, I learned Spanish; in college, I learned Arabic; and at HBS, I found a tutor to teach me... View Details
- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
creating effective cultures. A 2010 Conference Board study revealed that only 45 percent of US workers were satisfied with their jobs—the lowest level in the history of the survey. Our Q&A with Heskett begins with that dour figure.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
1980. At BCG he focused on organization and innovation in large organizations. He was elected a worldwide partner of the firm in 1987. Shikhar left BCG in 1988 to become CEO of Appex, an early-stage venture backed company that built the inter-carrier infrastructure for... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
L.E. Simmons
Simmons & Company, an investment banking firm specializing in the oil field service industry. "It's a fascinating industry that encompasses all the businesses that manufacture a product or provide a service that is View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
the limits of attempts by outside governments to improve business and political conditions in other countries. Answering them, however, required a long and detailed romp through the history of US involvement with what Secretary of War... View Details
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History
the World J.G. Bartholomew, ed., Atlas of the World's Commerce (London: George Newnes, 1907), p. 22-23, map. Crude Oil Flow T. T. Connors, An Examination of the International Flow of Crude Oil, with Special Reference to the Middle East... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay... View Details
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Library, Harvard Business School. BusinessWeek , February 20, 1984, featuring Lehman Bros. Chairman Lewis L. Glucksman. Lehman Brothers Records, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Used with permission of Bloomberg L.P. Copyright... View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
nation developed organized sales forces to the same degree as the United States by the early twentieth century. For the average salesman, used to traveling more or less on his own (and at that time, almost all were male), this meant a... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
create new jobs and revitalize DACs. Plugging orphaned oil and gas wells will help resolve major ongoing environmental and health hazards, and the grants to states for that purpose prioritize wells near DACs.[52] The program also... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
pioneered new industries, from jute manufacture in India and cotton textile manufacture in China, to the oil industry in California."The improvements in transport and communications from the 1870s resulted in opportunities and... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
and in our success as a family," notes L.E. Simmons (MBA '72), founder of L.E. Simmons & Associates in Houston, which manages a private equity fund that invests in the oil service industry. "We all believe in and support what Kim Clark is... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
hand in a clear manner. It offers recommendations for both those seeking and giving advice to make the process as effective as possible. Publisher's link: https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-art-of-giving-and-receiving-advice January 2015 Journal of Healthcare Management View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
going and really able to make a meaningful contribution, and I’m interested in your diverse thoughts and backgrounds and helping us get there.’” The company also provides employee-led online forums that allow people to express and pursue... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati