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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

community. She was recently appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Economic Stabilization Trust by Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. The Trust provides direct loans and guarantees to manufacturing businesses. She is a member of the... View Details

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Events & Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

value-based health care. January 11-13, 2023 January 2023 MGB Residents & Fellows Course HBS Campus, Boston, MA The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness works in collaboration with the program directors at Massachusetts General... View Details

23 Apr 2024
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Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

and Agribusiness Industry ; Consumer Products Industry ; Motorcycle Industry ; Technology Industry ; Education Industry ; United States ; Massachusetts ; Maryland ; Tennessee ; District of Columbia Citation Educators Purchase Related... View Details

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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Learning Dartmouth University Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning Harvard University MIT Teaching and Learning Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Searle Center for Teaching Excellence Northwestern University Stanford... View Details

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MOC Network reaches 20 year milestone - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

manufacturing capabilities in the U.S., as a Special Assistant to President Biden for Manufacturing and Economic Development from March 2021 to September 2022 and most recently as a member of the Massachusetts Advanced Manufacturing... View Details

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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Faculty Archie Jones Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Emily McComb Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Brian Trelstad Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Partners Abry... View Details

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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

York back to her home state of Massachusetts to attend Harvard Business School. “HBS opened up my global perspective,” said Leahy. “It allowed me to see the world through the international platform HBS provides, but also opened my way of... View Details

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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

pedestrians could fall victim to the violent force of locomotive trains running at unprecedented speeds or to the hazardous sparks they emitted. In 1841 a tragic collision of two trains on the Western Railroad in Massachusetts killed a... View Details

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NVC Regions - Alumni

Matthew Hagen , GMP 27 2019 John Reichenbach , MBA 1986 Andrew Knott , OPM 24 Jason Schrank , Staff lead Northeastern US Boston States Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont Northeastern US/New York - HBS Club... View Details

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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Initiative Julliard School Junior Achievement KaBOOM! Kresge Foundation LA's BEST After School Enrichment Program/Mayor's Office L.A. Unified School District Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Mass Challenge Mass IT Massachusetts Bay... View Details

19 Jan 2023
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What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

LISH senior research scientist Michael Menietti; Katherine C. Kellogg, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Luca Vendraminelli, who is affiliated with LISH and a post-doctoral fellow at the Politecnico di Milano.... View Details

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Team - Case Method Project

History , and has held fellowships from Yale University and the Massachusetts Historical Society. Dean has published widely on American history and is the author of American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism (2003), which won... View Details

October 2022 (Revised May 2023)
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Ginkgo Bioworks vs. Scorpion Capital: The Debate Over Related-Party Revenues

By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese, Suraj Srinivasan and Annelena Lobb

Ginkgo Bioworks, a synthetic biology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, faced divergent views on its revenue possibilities and accounting practices. After a report emerged accusing it of fraudulent accounting and lack of innovation, its share price plunged. But... View Details

Keywords: Fraud Allegations; Revenue; Reports; Accounting Audits; Innovation and Management; Investment; Biotechnology Industry; Boston

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04 Apr 2023
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Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology

May 2016 (Revised March 2020)
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Fasten: Challenging Uber and Lyft with a New Business Model

By: Feng Zhu and Angela Acocella

Fasten, a new ridesharing start-up in Boston, entered the scene in September 2015 hoping its unique vision of transparency for both driver and passenger and strategy to keep riders' fares low and charge drivers a flat $0.99 fee per ride as opposed to the 20-30%... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Transportation; Business Startups; Business Model; Transportation Industry; Boston

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The Chao Center: The Heart of HBS Executive Education

student center for the MBA program. The hours of operation are Monday through Friday, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The large COOP in Harvard Square at 1400 Massachusetts Avenue also should not be missed. Can I pick up a COVID test at the Chao... View Details

15 Sep 2022
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Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

with Stanford University Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, Professor Sinan Aral of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and two LinkedIn employees and recent Stanford and MIT Ph.D. graduates Karthik Rajkumar and Guillaume Saint-Jacques,... View Details

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01 Dec 2019
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Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and Special Advisor to Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker for technology and innovation competitiveness. Most recently, he was Secretary of the... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time

1918, half of all cars on the road were Fords, but by 1930, three out of four cars and trucks were bought “on time,” most of them from other manufacturers. 24 A rare surviving collection of papers from a dealership in Plymouth, View Details

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