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19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19

government institutional development influences the extent to which CSR communications are symbolically decoupled from substantive CSR activities. Our database includes all CSR reports issued by the approximately 1,600 publicly listed... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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1.17 Field Based Learning / Independent Projects | MBA

1.17 Field Based Learning / Independent Projects 1.0 Academic Information & Policies HBS students may have the opportunity to experience faculty-supervised, field-based learning during their MBA Program. The following policies apply to all members of the HBS View Details

June 2013
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Hexcel Turnaround—2001 (Video Supplement)

This is the Video Supplement for Hexcel Turnaround - 2001(A), (B) and (C), HBS Cases 806099, 806100, 806101. View Details

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20 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

Vogel clearly viewed deregulation as the right direction for Japan, he said that in most industries, especially communications and finance, the country is not ready. "There are a lot of politicians who are going to slow down that... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

continued to invest in innovative startups. ARD portfolio companies included Textron Electronics (aerospace, industrial, and metal products); Cordis Corporation (therapeutic medical equipment including angiography injectors, catheters,... View Details

05 Aug 2014
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A Diversified Portfolio

yes and, according to Dorsen, that has become even more so in recent years. In doing their research, the pair also found that the capital needs of start-ups had evolved but the VC community had not kept up. There is now a good deal of... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

employee communication about operational failures. Doing so may result in higher levels of frontline system-improvement efforts and ultimately improved work processes. Cases & Course MaterialsAllianz AG: Becoming a European Company... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

opportunities to sell something at a profit. These opportunities are exploited by adventurous investors who are willing to risk large losses in order to make large gains. A community in which everyone attempted to make a living by getting... View Details

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Staff Directory | Baker Library

Venezuela, Dora has over 18 years of experience in finance across both corporate and higher education settings. She has worked with global companies such as Pfizer and Nestlé, as well as at Brandeis University. Spanish is her first language, and she enjoys working with... View Details

12 Jul 2006
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Competition the Cure for Healthcare

and changes in the practitioner community that we were drawn to try to operationalize our thinking into recommendations that would allow the actors to do things differently, and dramatically increase the value we could achieve from all... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

15 Oct 2014
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Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

communications readers used by Apple Pay unless consumer demand is high. First off, Apple must convince merchants to adopt its service, says Willy Shih, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice. “I think Apple has its... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

05 Jul 2004
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Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

importantly, mindset. Photography firms like Nikon, Canon, or Kodak, coming into this new arena, think about it very differently than Sony or another consumer electronics firm or HP or Intel as computer industry firms. So given the biases... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

11 Dec 2018
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Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

that’s actually not true. There are times when globalization takes a step back. From 1850 to 1914, there was a technological revolution: With the telegraph, suddenly you could communicate from New Zealand to London in seconds, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

even value-destructive practices in order to maintain it or inflate it further? And does anyone really believe that shareholders are the only constituency that matters: not customers, not employees, not the community or the country or... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

01 Jun 2015
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Ink

is poorly understood—we’ve known that for a while—it’s how surprised they are. I think what’s going on is this: Most executives, when they think about strategy focus on communication, and they measure communication in terms of the numbers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Apple; Microsoft; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

14 Dec 2009
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Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

personal rapid transport, or PRT for short, has been percolating since the mid-1950s and is finally gaining ground, according to HBS professor Benjamin G. Edelman. Business and communities small and large are increasingly aware of PRT as... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

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14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

(MBA 1988) is cofounder and COO. She is also the founding CEO of Mediva, the company’s consulting arm. Platanus clinics share overnight resources and electronic medical records, so their combined 2,500 at-home palliative care patients... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

and Toby Stuart Abstract The corporate staff is central in theories of the multi-business firm, but empirical evidence on its function is limited. In this paper, we examine the high-level role of two units of a corporate staff through analysis of View Details