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Automobile and motor vehicle industry

in Stamps Reading Room) -- Gives monthly production and sales activity by country and manufacturer. Ward's Motor Vehicle Facts and Figures (Ref. HD9710.U5 M63a in Stamps Reading Room) -- Gives North American production,... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

Brazil Banks on Experience

of Goi ás as a member of a party that opposed Lula’s Workers Party. “Despite being a member of the outgoing governing party and making his career in international finance, Mr. Meirelles won points with Mr. da Silva partly because of his pioneering social work,” the... View Details

Keywords: Finance

September 1989 (Revised June 1993)
Case

Depreciation at Delta and Pan Am

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

Depreciation policies of Delta Air Lines and Pan Am Corp. are compared and contrasted against a summary of operating data from each airline. Questions with the case require projection of future depreciation on a new aircraft using the policies of each company. View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting; Management Systems; Economic Growth; Policy; Cost; Financial Strategy; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Activity Based Costing and Management; Air Transportation Industry

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22 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Hedge Fund as Activist

share of most public firms, mutual fund companies have been reluctant to engage in any form of activism (the same firms that are performing poorly may also be mutual fund clients). The Activist Arena Unlike mutual funds, the sole... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act

common for most companies are the slow, incremental shifts that smart managers do see coming down the road. Why then aren't they better at shifting gears? According to Sull, most top managers are far sighted and methodical, active and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

November 2007 (Revised October 2009)
Case

Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

In an activist role, the hedge fund Third Point LLC has three board seats and an ownership stake of 9.5% in Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company. Third Point believed that Ligand had a strong drug portfolio and pipeline but that it was... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Governing and Advisory Boards; Bids and Bidding; Ownership Stake; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

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15 Apr 2014
News

Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names Deans' Health & Life Sciences Challenge Prize

Dean Nitin Nohria has announced that the Bertarelli Foundation of Switzerland, cochaired by Ernesto Bertarelli (MBA 1993), has established the Bertarelli Foundation Health & Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Fund with a generous gift to Harvard Business School. The fund... View Details

Keywords: i-Lab; Harvard Medical School; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Jun 2008
News

Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work

Nearly half of HBS’s 82 clubs and associations sponsor social enterprise programs that put alumni management and leadership skills to work on behalf of local communities and the School, according to a recent survey. Club activities fall... View Details

Keywords: alumni clubs; Centennial; Educational Services

01 Feb 1998
News

C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe

systems were retrenching; and his encouragement of faculty to compete more actively for outside grants and contracts, with growth in those areas rising annually from $175 million in 1986 to more than $500 million in 1997. But Spangler's... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne

01 Oct 2000
News

New Global Initiative Director Takes Broad Outlook

of staff for Tufts president John DiBiaggio and another five years coordinating one of the Fletcher School's academic programs with activities in Japan, China, Korea, Canada, and Russia. "Coming to the Global Initiative was a natural... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Services

08 Jan 2019
Blog Post

New Year, New Career Goals: Coaches Offer Advice for 2019

inbound requests from friends, colleagues, and other jobseekers can often be impactful as well. It's a great way to give back to students at HBS or your undergraduate institution. It's also a great opportunity to practice telling your career journey to a captive... View Details

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Plymouth Motor Corporation Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Collections Site Credits Plymouth Motor Corporation Photograph Collection, ca. 1935 Chassis Sub-Assembly Line , ca. 1940. Mss: 534 1935 P738 2 boxes, approx. 70 photographs Collection Guide The images in this collection, depicting manufacturing View Details

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2013 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

symposium is part of a series of activities taking place this academic year to commemorate the 50th anniversary of women’s admission to the traditional two-year MBA program at HBS. The symposium will be held on the Harvard Business School... View Details

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Outdoors Club | MBA

Arc’teryx, and adidas Outdoor. Annual Events Boston-area exploration opportunities Day and overnight trips in the Northeast Education and skills development sessions International treks during winter and spring breaks Social activities... View Details

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Clubs - Alumni

events and outreach programs, and participate in pro-bono consulting and mentoring. We encourage you to find out more about alumni activities in your region or area of interest by visiting https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/clubs/ . Make a Gift... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Measuring Impact

Nearly 40 percent of Harvard alumni from across all schools have founded for-profit and nonprofit organizations—launching more than 146,000 active ventures with an estimated $3.9 trillion in annual revenues and creating 20.4 million jobs... View Details

Keywords: April White

24 Apr 2014
News

Boutique workouts brought to the busiest people, at home

convenient online platform. “I’d love to create the official fitness platform for the Lean In generation, people want to stay active but have very little time,” says Kumar. In just her first two months of operation, with almost no... View Details

18 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 18

objectives. First, this format allowed us to combine the active student orientation typical of case-based approaches with the systematic construction of cumulative theoretical frameworks more characteristic of lecture-based methods.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

manage a company's resources. But many executives who have tried to implement ABC on a large scale in their organizations have found the approach limiting and frustrating. Why? The employee surveys that companies used to estimate resources required for business View Details