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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
most difficult markets,” Chernilovskiy says. “That’s why it’s stayed this way for a long time.” One executive in the industry recently told them he admired their courage. They took this in stride. “You need to know both the commercial... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
industrial location, talking and asking about the question with the nervous energy for which his team had always known him. By his own words, LaMagna was "a risk addict and a compulsive capitalist," and deep down knew that he... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- News
On Balance
topics Wooldridge wants to address, such as desegregating Australia’s feminized and masculinized industries. “It’s a generational project to shift mindsets about traditional roles and traditional industries to drive gender equality,” she... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Burunda Prince (MBA 1987)
My parents were both public school teachers, but they also owned a repair shop called Satellite TV. After school and on Saturdays we’d all go over to the family business. That was my first insight into the hard work of entrepreneurship.... View Details
Frank L. Gillespie
Having worked in a large, successful white insurance firm, Gillespie saw the need to bring better insurance services to Chicago’s black community and founded Liberty Life in 1919. Unlike other insurance firms, Liberty Life was the first to offer whole life insurance,... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Thomas C. du Pont
duPont consolidated the military powder production industry to the point where the duPont Corporation was producing 90% of all explosives in the U.S. In a matter of four years, duPont acquired the stocks of... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
application in an industry with the most room for improvement. Online retail, particularly online fashion, definitely fit the bill. Why is fashion a good place to focus? The industry faces several challenges... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
immigrant who shrewdly spotted an opportunity in the nascent steel industry and became one of the richest men in his adopted country. Carnegie's era also saw an unprecedented explosion of branded consumer goods, among them Ivory Soap,... View Details
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Eligibility & Criteria | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
of a Field Course, you will be asked for additional information in the application; and projects will be accepted on a case-by-case basis. Meet all project and eligibility requirements outlined on the HBS Independent Projects website.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
many American industrial companies racking up record profits? It's true that, from about 1890 to the present, ours has been the world's most productive economic system, but its rate of increase has slowed down remarkably. In fact, the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
and Sharp - remain on that path, and they are all in Japan. In computers, the Japanese have been and remain major challengers to the U.S. industry, with growing market share in large systems, servers, and software. These have been... View Details
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International Job Search Resources
Location > United States (un-check box for "Search by Headquarters only"). Add criteria. This will give you a list of China based companies with operating locations in the United States. Continue to filter the list by adding View Details
- Profile
Curt Willener
problems to analyze them. I had been operationally focused in my work, so I didn't know what I didn't know. The cases have opened up my whole world. Now I can look into every aspect of business through multiple industries and roles."... View Details
- 01 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Investing in Career Switchers - Cyril Straughn-Turner & Invesco US
skills – and all the hard work has paid off. Former management consultant Straughn-Turner is excited to be starting the next chapter of his career contributing to the development of the American South. At the same time, Invesco US has... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
reactor" in accelerating the rise in health-care costs. Why is this system such a problem? A: By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients' needs. Today's doctors work in a... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg
rotate them, and the sophistication of the energy generation process were all palpable in this encounter. To see an operational wind turbine early in the trip was great context for many of the subsequent visits that explored individual... View Details
- Career Coach
Shub Chhokra
Having worked across all these industries, Shub can provide insight on how these industries recruit, personal brand positioning, cover letter/resume reviews, career visioning/mapping, and interview prep. He... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
U.S. areas where the two industries are not co-located. All three of Marshall's theories of agglomeration are supported, with input-output linkages particularly important. The Definitive Guide to Recruiting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
failsafe mechanisms will kick in to prevent things from getting to the edge of the proverbial cliff. This time, however, it seems that those failsafe mechanisms haven't kicked in. All these factors lead to a very high level of anxiety. Q:... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 25 Mar 2008
- News
Whistling Past the Graveyard
power have been virtually stagnant for decades. Two incomes are required where one used to suffice. Jobs and entire industries have gone overseas. The trade deficit has grown enormously. Tax codes have become skewed to the very wealthy.... View Details