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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
and Santiago, Chile For-profit conservationists David Blood (MBA 1985) Generation Investment Management London, New York, and Sydney Investment management that integrates sustainability factors and traditional equity research Scott Bolick... View Details
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
cannot prove this, my suspicion is that in many cases, the groups are less effective in reshaping the processes and systems of these companies, stemming largely from the fact that they have worked with management for so much shorter a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
compounds owned by struggling biotechs. Williams usually calls Tracy once or twice a day, with about a dozen emails back and forth daily. Things are moving. Long term, the Secklers see stem cell or gene... View Details
- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
The Case For Corporate Support There are many reasons why far-sighted executives should be interested in supporting the concept of a World Development Corporation. The idea that corporate legitimacy stems from the satisfaction of... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
wavebreakmedia Last month, the venerable organization Coca-Cola publicly announced that a project to hire more Black employees that stemmed from the settlement of a 2000 discrimination lawsuit had failed to achieve its objectives. Along... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
private equity fund invests in distressed businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, and Dozie soon found himself responsible for a coffee cherry washing station in the volcanic hills of western Rwanda. Up until that point, Dozie’s only sense of distress around the region’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
transpires, she argued, not due to the govern- ment's desire to control, but the market's own need for stability. Spar's research on this topic includes the maritime trading boom of the 17th century and the development of the telegraph,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
1997 Placement Data Reflect January Cohort's Success
of students accepting jobs in each industry, as did their 607 classmates who entered in September. The similarities stem from a combination of many factors, from the admissions process (which admits all students from a single applicant... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
the observer’s perspective, leaving the perspective of the observed to the realm of scholarly methodology courses and philosophical debates on privacy. I suggest how the literature on transparency and related literatures might be improved with View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
moved its chief technical officer from the United States to China. Because most of its large customers are now in China, Taiwan, and South Korea, it makes sense for the company to do its research close to the factories that use its... View Details
- Web
Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy... View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
discovered that many of these problem contracts were not very profitable," says Healy. The results were more stark for Montreal-based engineering and construction firm SNC-Lavalin, which Healy is researching for an upcoming case study. In... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration (photo by Stu Rosner) MIKE LUCA, Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration (photo by Stu Rosner) Not long after, the pair discussed the tragedy in Newtown. As View Details
- 05 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Developing Black Talent for Leadership
each, while the state allocated the HBCUs North Carolina A&T and Fayetteville State $7,800 per student, according to research cited in a University of Pennsylvania study. HBCUs also receive significantly less federal View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance". Her research on more than seventy audit and consulting teams—combining survey data, hundreds of interviews, and direct observation at meetings—reveals insights into... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
pass two California initiatives, one funding $3 billion in stem cell research and the other resulting in $23 billion for public schools. The biggest source of personal pride is... View Details
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
look at how maturing technology companies make the transition to the next generation of products. But as he did research and talked to tech companies, he came to an inescapable conclusion: Technology was about to get exciting again.... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
eight plants in a row, a new variety begins and each week a new ripe cluster of tomatoes is harvested. Research teams collect data throughout this process via sensors and measurements, such as the volume of tomatoes grown per plant per... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
responsible" investments as well as some consumers, activists, and potential employees. Unfortunately, there is little evidence about the validity of these ratings. We examine how well two of the most widely used ratings—those of Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne