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the board of the Robert Toigo Foundation and the Howard University Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation Institute. Kenneth Powell MBA 1974 Kenneth Powell is a business and social enterprise leader with... View Details

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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

mechanical population, together with a steady remodeling of social and political habits, ideas, and institutions to fit the new scale and suit the new conditions.” 37 The rise of modern American capitalism,... View Details

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A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni

Ethics program, which is now an integral part of the MBA Program. 1995 John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947) makes a founding gift to create the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative . 1997 HBS opens the California... View Details

August 2011 (Revised July 2012)
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Mike Mayo Takes on Citigroup (A)

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Amy Kaser

The case details the conflict between Mike Mayo, an influential banking analyst and Citigroup about what Mayo considers aggressive accounting policies. Mike Mayo questions Citigroup's lack of a valuation allowance against their Deferred Tax Assets despite Citi's recent... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Taxation; Capital; Financial Reporting; Corporate Disclosure; Valuation; Banks and Banking; Financial Strategy; Money; Conflict Management; Capital Budgeting; Asset Management; Banking Industry

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25 Apr 2023
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Using Design Thinking to Invent a Low-Cost Prosthesis for Land Mine Victims

Keywords: Re: Srikant M. Datar; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

economies, many business enterprises defy traditional industry boundaries. In this study, we evaluate six "big data" approaches to peer firm identifications and show that some, but not all, "wisdom-of-crowd" techniques perform... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Aug 2000
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From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

How can a company from an emerging economy manage to make waves in global business? Ask Embraer. The Brazilian firm also known as Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A. is the fourth largest commercial aircraft manufacturer in the world, behind Boeing, Airbus and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

20 Oct 2003
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Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

Brookings Institution has published two excellent books, Targeting the Computer and Creating the Computer, which provide excellent brief reviews of the industry's story into the 1970s. He has done so by focusing on the computer-making... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

17 Aug 2021
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Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

services. Institutional investors, such as endowments and pension funds, often have “vice clauses” prohibiting investments in Schedule I industries. Even private investors are dissuaded by the industry’s lack of access to bankruptcy... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

30 Jun 2003
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Are You Supporting Your B Players?

Vijayaraghavan, B players are the "heart and soul" of any company. B players are loyal. They are the ones who do their work without fanfare or fuss. They are the keepers of institutional memory during hard times such as a merger... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

March 2020 (Revised May 2020)
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Generation Investment Management

By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Sarah Mehta

By January 2020, sustainable investment firm Generation Investment Management (Generation), founded in London in 2004, had grown from a shared vision among seven founders to a 90-person firm managing $27 billion in public and private equity. Throughout its history,... View Details

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

assignment. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating with a global community of peers before, during,... View Details

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Dean’s House | About

Baker Library to allow room for future structures. HBS Deans lived at the house until 1980, when it came to be used primarily for social functions. Dean Nitin Nohria revived the in-residence tradition when he was named Dean in 2010. About... View Details

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Ludcke House | About

headquarters for the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness . Led by Bishop William Lawrence University Professor Michael E. Porter, the institute is dedicated to the study of competition and its... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision

opportunities to reach many more leaders than ever before so they too can benefit from our transformational learning models. We see opportunities to reach many more leaders than ever before so they too can benefit from our transformational learning models. Tell us more... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

14 Dec 2020
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Nonprofit Boards: It is Time to Lift Your Gaze and See the System

12 Oct 1999
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Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

and prosperous than others. And the third, which arose from the second, examines how you can take competitive thinking and apply it to social problems such as the environment, inner cities, and health care. Most of my readers have tended... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

15 Jun 2021
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Leading at State

Secretary's Leadership Seminar. “The State Department has operations in virtually every country in the world, and we have to manage very large enterprises that are subject to the same sort of constraints and rules that any large... View Details

Keywords: leadership; international relations; politics; Executive Education

25 Mar 2015
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Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

Avery, it is essential for organizations diving into digital not to give in to the temptation to farm out blogging and social media to outside companies. "You have to be confident that whoever is speaking on behalf of the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

28 May 2020
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Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

following four years, Lyondell’s total operating profit increased by 90 percent, while its stock price increased by 413 percent (over 50 percent a year, on average). By the end of 2014, Lyondell’s total enterprise value (the market value... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

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