Matching With Contracts - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2019
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Making Eco Easy

formulated, concentrated products that consumers reconstitute with water in Blueland’s reusable acrylic spray bottles—tinted pink for bathroom cleaning, yellow for multisurface, and blue for glass or mirrors. The company also recently... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 1996
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Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur

is that the School dramatically increased its investment in research and course development: from $10 million in 1980 to more than $50 million in 1995. HBS faculty members cite the former Dean's long-term vision, his skill at matching... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green

two oil fields, have contracts to manage as much CO2 as is produced by a small city, and we have the financial backing to finish the job," Dawe says. "That's about as tangible as it gets." Dawe is the president and cofounder of Berkeley,... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

22 Feb 2022
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A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs

studies in America, is used to overcoming challenges. “When we founded the company, the economy was contracting and no one wanted to take any risks. As it returned to some semblance of normal, people started feeling better about risks and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

04 Sep 2019
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A Wide Screen Approach

some vocal support on social media, has led to a change in how they position their women wrestlers. The WWE has put its female Superstars, formerly named “Divas,” on par with the male performers—meaning more View Details

15 Dec 2015
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Lovepop Woos The Sharks

Between two matching bids, the Boston-based company—which creates cards that open to reveal intricately designed 3D structures—chose Shark Kevin O’Leary’s $300,000 offer for 15% of the company. We talked to Rose about pitching the Sharks,... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change

unprecedented challenges, she and classmate Amina Edwards (MBA 2020) launched “MBAs Fight COVID-19” to match distressed business owners with students offering pro bono consulting help. “MBAs across the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

25 Feb 2020
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Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy

destructive to all parties.” With the students’ assistance, Sucher wrote two background notes on best practices for layoffs. They also produced a series of video interviews with laid-off employees to capture... View Details

Keywords: April White; Telecommunications; Information

01 Mar 2009
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Gazprom Goes Global

confirmed the fears of many in the West that the wounded Russian bear, smarting from its diminished role in the post-Soviet era, could be a cruel and dangerous troublemaker. With about one-quarter of the world’s reserves of natural gas,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

01 Jun 2000
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Q & A: Gustavo Herrero

Gustavo A. Herrero (MBA '76) heads the Latin American Research Center (LARC), located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The School's third off-campus research facility, the LARC will officially open in August with a research conference in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

16 Dec 2021
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A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic

to community needs due to the pandemic. —Taru Kapoor (MBA 2015) general manager, Tinder & Match Group. To address the pandemic-induced mental health crisis among its millions of young users, Tinder partnered View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2016
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Ink

“Three-Box Solution”—has been his model for 35 years, spanning work with more than 100 CEOs. “It’s really my life’s work,” says Govindarajan, a longtime professor at Dartmouth who rejoined the HBS faculty as a Marvin Bower Fellow this... View Details

13 Apr 2022
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New School

could have the biggest positive impact in education. When Waldron joined Curriculum Associates, the company had already been doing just that for almost 40 years. The owner asked Waldron to make a long-term commitment to those same ideals and sign a View Details

01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

system of Asian currency pegs that some commentators dubbed “Bretton Woods II.” In 2006 Chinese holdings of dollars almost certainly passed the trillion dollar mark. (Significantly, the net increase of China’s foreign exchange reserves almost exactly View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

1960s—but its most influential product might just be its model of entrepreneurship: disruptive, asset-light and capital-intensive businesses with a scale-at-all-cost mentality and no fear of failure. But now something is threatening to... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall

question the wisdom of using its own stock to hedge merchant investments rather than contracts with bona fide counterparties. It failed to monitor the conflicts of interest that the board itself had approved... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

20 Oct 2016
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Smart Moves

contracts with more than 200 government agencies in 40 states in the US and 60 countries worldwide. Its overseas business includes offices in a dozen countries, mostly in Europe, as well as in Asia and the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

had been the beneficiary of people who cared. And they cared by creating programs that were designed to help the less fortunate, they cared by creating programs that were designed to help Black people who came from poor impoverished communities from which I came. And... View Details

24 Oct 2018
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Exploring the Future of Work for Women

managers to convene with experts and scholars to explore what the future holds for working women. The conference was organized by the HBS Club of India in partnership with the HBS-India Research Center.... View Details