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Introduction - The Collection - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Collection: Data Analysis Photography has the capacity for accounting for things seen in the visual world with an exactitude for their differences which no... View Details

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Banking industry: overviews & statistics

Where do I find information on banks and banking? Banking Information and Regulation (Federal Reserve) provides information on U.S. proposed and actual banking regulations. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation features statistics and View Details

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The Reinvention of Kodak | Information Technology

their case analysis with more depth. As they near the end of their EC year, students crave new learning methods. One remarked, 'Media cases are a breath of fresh air, requiring full attention and enhancing my preparation.'" This approach... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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Research Brief: Political Capital

of campaigns, helping a candidate establish a lead that has him or her coasting, advertising can be the determining factor. “In a close election, advertising alone can be a difference maker.” “The Air War Versus the Ground Game: An View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

18 May 2011
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U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?

Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

James H. Goodnight

Goodnight created the initial SAS (statistical analysis system) application as part of his doctoral program. Though the software was initially used to analyze agricultural data, it was soon applied to a variety of business situations.... View Details

Keywords: Services

24 Jan 2025
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The Network Effect

Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details

16 Mar 2018
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Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967)

sat back and observed before finally taking the leap and getting into the mix.” He grew to enjoy the classroom discussions and learning how to verbalize the analysis and arguments that he was comfortable making on paper. “HBS taught us... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Delivering the Power to Dream Big

leadership skills he honed at HBS, including how to "motivate teams, communicate effectively, and create a clear agenda for an organization that you're building from scratch. Studying 500 cases also gave me that balance of analysis and... View Details

Keywords: solar power; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

growth during the three years preceding financial busts, downturns, and crises from 1940 to 2014, the analysis finds. Once a boom cycle begins to bust, it’s corporate debt that accounts for the vast majority of unpaid loans. What’s more,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Mar 2018
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March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

an in-depth analysis of the opportunities and challenges, both traditional and contemporary, of doing business in India. Great Service Made Simple by Frederic B. Sargent (OPM 2) (The Sustainable Service Institute) A short story with... View Details

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Movies: statistics

Where can I find statistics about movies and movie theaters? S&P Capital IQ Pro: Select Industries - Technology, Media & Telecommunications for data... View Details

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Television: overview & ratings

Where can I find an overview of the TV industry, and also TV ratings? S&PCapital IQ Pro: Select Industries --> Technology, Media & Telecommunications... View Details

08 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

(with Sumantra Ghoshal), Michael Porter, and Pankaj Ghemawat. “I enjoy the variety and intellectual challenge of the problems that managers confront” More seasoned managers seeking pragmatic guidance on day-to-day decision making can turn to the book's extensive View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

21 Dec 2016
Blog Post

The Best Little Secret of the Harvard MBA

this is a business school). But there is always a story that goes with the numbers. Students are expected to read these cases (usually two to three a night, each 8-15 pages long) and do analysis so that they can take a position in the... View Details

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Evan Rachlin

New therapies, especially those in biotechnology, are very exciting to Evan Rachlin. In his first business-related internship, Evan examined the economic side of life science at Pfizer in New York City. There, he cooperated with the portfolio and decision View Details

17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

consumer surplus by making the gray market less competitive domestically. Under certain circumstances, the domestic welfare destruction arising from this erosion dominates the domestic welfare gains that accompany a shift to arm's length transfer pricing. Finally, the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

August 2019
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Bark Gift Shop Ltd.

By: Susanna Gallani, Jan Bouwens and Peter Kroos

This case describes a setting in which the CFO of Bark Gift Shop Ltd., a gift items retailer, discovers an undesired pattern in the performance data suggesting that her shop managers that perform well during the first part of the year, purposely reduce their effort in... View Details

Keywords: Data Analytics; Employees; Behavior; Performance; Management; Goals and Objectives; Motivation and Incentives; Analysis

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Supply chain relationships

Bloomberg, Capital IQ and FactSet report current and recent supply chain relationships (customers, suppliers, and strategic partners). Bloomberg - To display the suppliers and customers of a company, enter the company ticker followed by SPLC <GO> to... View Details

27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27

Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA)? Empirical analysis shows that developing countries serving on the board can expect more than double the funding from the IBRD as countries not on... View Details