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opportunity to pull all of the pieces of distributed and clean energy together for customers into an individualized, integrated solution that makes sense for them." Dan McCready MBA 2011 | Funding Solar's Future "Solar isn’t just cleaner,... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

restricted, in binding terms laid down by the donors. Fortunately, those gifts go right to the core of what we do; half of the endowment is devoted to professorships, for example, and close to a quarter to financial aid. The second point is that the View Details

21 Apr 2015
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domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms: within-firm productivity improvement... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

innovation qualities, and firm size affects innovation incentives. This framework allows us to analyze how different types of innovation contribute to economic growth and how the firm size distribution can have important consequences for... View Details

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

The art of business today seems to be the ability to influence resources your company doesn't own—resources such as the production scheduling of manufacturing partners, the packaging requirements of distribution partners, and the... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

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Clarissa Quintanilla

campus. After graduation, she worked at Edward Jones “because I was interested in its community-based distribution system.” After two years with the company (working in its Rotational Development Program and in marketing), she married her... View Details

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Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Railroad Records Photographs Research Collections Secondary Sources Related Sites Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies &... View Details

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Using the Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

duplication services. All requests are subject to review by the reference staff. Staff may recommend or require professional photographic reproduction as an alternative to copying materials to protect the collections. Images for publication or View Details

18 Jan 2012
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Charter Supporter

headquartered in Waterloo, Wisconsin. While there, she set up Trek’s sales and distribution companies across Europe and worked in forecasting and planning. Since 2007, she has devoted her energy and skills full time to the nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

24 Mar 2022
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Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages

materialized a month or two later if those governors had opted to keep distributing the federal benefits, Kluender says. Unemployment insurance flowing into accounts dropped by $281.50 per week by early September. Yet earnings for those... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

29 Mar 2008
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Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

global rather than merely local. The issue of limited resources and inefficient distribution is creating environmental and social problems respectively, that businesses can no longer afford to neglect/be indifferent to. Technological... View Details

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire

18 Aug 2020
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Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew

3D printed, fully-functional, and in the final design aesthetic – which we’re now distributing to our advisors and friends to collect feedback (if you want in, you can sign up for our Beta at our website). We’ve been picked up in a few... View Details

13 Dec 2018
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Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment

areas of focus to help move the needle on climate action. The initiative is especially active on the curriculum front through facilitating the development of innovative cases, teaching notes, and other materials, both for use in the HBS classrooms and for broader... View Details

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FAQ - Alumni

Alumni Track. Prizes will be distributed by Alumni Relations in the weeks following the Finale. What are the important dates? 10/1/24 Applications open 12/5/24 Past winners’ panel 1/31/25 5 pm ET Applications close 2/3/25 Regions start... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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Tipping Point

distributed through the coffee cooperatives, building more permanent homes to replace mud houses and investing in their daughters’ educations. “They can start planning for the future,” Nyamumbo says. She hopes to expand Kahawa’s approach... View Details

Keywords: April White; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

26 Jan 2016
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The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)

and do fulfillment for our e-commerce orders. First thing in the morning, we pack and ship the orders that came in overnight. Beyond that, every day is different. One day, we might be out of the office meeting with prospective View Details

11 Jul 2013
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The Good Writer

Studios’ film distribution division in Burbank. “A friend told me that people in Hollywood would think I was Einstein because I could work with spreadsheets,” he half jokes. “I’m one of the few writers who gets excited about reading the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2004
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Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates

incorporated into a larger, School-sponsored Executive Education survey currently under development. That survey strives to enhance the School’s understanding of the role the HBS experience may have played in helping graduates along their diverse career paths. It will... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Alumni Association Board of Directors; committee; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

April 2021
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Glovo: Expanding Quick Commerce

By: Antonio Moreno and James Barnett

In March 2021, delivery app CEO Oscar Pierre and his team consider strategies to grow Glovo’s quick commerce delivery service and to approach their expansion in Kenya. View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Food; Global Strategy; Operations; Strategy; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Africa; Kenya; Nairobi; Europe; Spain; Barcelona; Middle East; Central America; South America

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April 2013
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Southfield Packaging

By: Michael Beer and Alisa Zalosh

Southfield Packaging provides packaging materials and services to medical device manufacturers. The case examines the relationship between a corporate vice president, Mark Sanders, and one of his direct reports, Regional Manager Frank Belby. Sanders' preparation for... View Details

Keywords: Rank and Position; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Management Teams; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry

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