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28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

Summing Up: What Next, If Manufacturing Proves Not To Be A Creator Of Those Good "factory Jobs" Of The Past? Manufacturing is essential to the health of an economy. It both fuels and results from innovation. It is natural in the course of economic View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

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Jean M. Cunningham | About

Jean M. Cunningham Bio As part of the Dean’s Office staff, Jean is engaged in an evolving array of activities and initiatives. Projects have included the centennial, W50, and other milestone commemorations; the opening of the Harvard... View Details

14 Jul 2016
Blog Post

Dating at HBS

who partner up at HBS. My fiancé and I were assigned to the same discussion group. Our other friends met in section or through social encounters. A few connected over the summer before attending HBS, or in the social activities at the... View Details

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Fast Facts - Health Care

Mentoring 220 MBA health care students mentored by alumni working in health care in the 2022-2023 school year Alumni 8,487 Active alumni in the health care sector in 1,300 cities around the globe Research 3,851 Faculty publications on... View Details

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

Students are invited to walk in the shoes of the CIO and become active participants in making these decisions and creating new knowledge about IT leadership through classroom discussion and debate. We want to send the signal that this is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Demonstration Policy | About

ensure that the research, teaching, work, and other activities of the School are able to continue without interference. While the Harvard Business School campus is largely open, it is also private property, and as such, the School has the... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

the individual work activities that create intermediate products, services, and information. In essence then, the people who work in an organization that produces something are simultaneously engaged in collaborative production and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

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Peter Gumulia

out, during which you slowly develop your decision-making muscle and, more importantly, your very own leadership philosophy.” Peter’s eagerness to explore has already yielded new opportunities. Active in the Education Club, he is... View Details

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Reunions - Alumni

events or encourage your classmates to invest in the future of HBS by fundraising for your class gift. In alignment with the School’s commitment to advancing racial equity , we are actively seeking planning volunteers and fundraising... View Details

04 May 2020
Blog Post

6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

both of their degrees at Harvard. Many joint degree students find themselves getting heavily involved in activities and events at both schools across all three years. Matt: After interacting with students and faculty in my admissions... View Details

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Strategy for Universities & Nonprofits - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

helps leading universities and nonprofits develop a strategic focus and deliver more value to the people and communities they serve. Strategy for Non-Profits The Museum Value Chain Choosing how to perform and integrate these activities... View Details

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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

by Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer, and Pamela Sud This case provides a sample of Walmart's social engagement activities and asks students to categorize each as philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, or creating shared value.... View Details

12 Jun 2023
Blog Post

What Does PRIDE at HBS Mean to You?

thankful for. It’s been so affirming and validating to have a community that shares a sense of empathy and actively engages in supporting one another. The friends I’ve made through PRIDE are ones I chat with about exploring my own... View Details

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

2000). But it is also politically harder to sustain then, for example, the Thai "dual track" strategy with growth impulses for both exporting and local activities that turned out to generate broad-based public support (Looney,... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

15 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax

benefits we gain from the activities of government required to support it. A rare document: IRS notifies a taxpayer that as aresult of an audit, the taxpayer is due a refund.Source: Whitin Machine Works Records, Baker Library, Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl

01 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love

don’t share a common background or life experience with team members. Such empathy in turn generates trust and activates team members’ sense of self-worth. Each of us in our own way seeks acceptance from others. When we receive it, it not... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Sports

19 Apr 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Is India’s Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?

Keywords: by Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover Goswami & William R. Kerr; Manufacturing

04 Aug 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Effect of Market Leadership in Business Process Innovation: The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

Keywords: by Kristina McElheran; Technology

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Re-Producing Exclusivity: A History of the Transatlantic Fashion Industry, 1929-1960

The history of fashion has been increasingly explored over the last decade, but two important and intertwined features of the topic are still underdeveloped: business and its international aspect. These dimensions are crucial. Fashion is first and foremost an industry... View Details

2019
Article

The Social Desirability of Offshoring: A Swiss Consensus (1945–1975)

By: Sabine Pitteloud

This article focuses on the evolution of the rhetoric and practice of corporate offshoring in Switzerland from the post-war economic boom to the industrial crisis in the mid-seventies. The virtue of a historical perspective on the issue of offshoring is to show how... View Details

Keywords: Multinationals; Offshoring And Outsourcing; Relocation; Labor Relations; Multinational Firms and Management; Labor and Management Relations; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Switzerland

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