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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

business management, organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, and strategy. He reached many students and researchers, but he reached a lot of businesspeople as well. I'm struck by how many executives have read what he wrote and how much... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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MBA Program at Harvard Business School - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: Harvard Business School About Faculty & Research MBA Doctoral Executive Education Alumni Building the Foundation: Business Education for Women at Harvard University: 1937-1970 Baker Library Home The... View Details
  • March 2017
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Cantel Medical

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Cantel Medical Corporation provided infection prevention and control products and services for patients, caregivers, and other healthcare providers. In 2016, Cantel generated sales of $665 million and net profits of $60 million, double the levels of five years earlier.... View Details
Keywords: Cantel; Charles Diker; Furniture Industry; Matrix Organization; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Chemicals; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Business History; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development; Opportunities; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Information Technology; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Health Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; New Jersey
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    John C. Mulliken

    Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor.  Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

    John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details

      Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)

      The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details
      • 26 Nov 2001
      • Op-Ed

      Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

      Corporate budgeting is a joke, and everyone knows it. It consumes a huge amount of executives' time, forcing them into endless rounds of dull meetings and tense negotiations. It encourages managers to lie and cheat, lowballing targets and... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
      • November 2019
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      Hapag-Lloyd AG:Complying with IMO 2020

      By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney
      A new environmental regulation known as IMO 2020 was creating what one industry analyst called “the biggest shakeup for the oil and shipping industries in decades.” According to the new regulation, all ocean-going ships would have to limit their sulfur emissions by... View Details
      Keywords: Valuation; Ship Transportation; Strategic Planning; Game Theory; Pollutants; Supply Chain; Corporate Accountability; Capital Budgeting; Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governance Compliance; Shipping Industry; Transportation Industry; Germany
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      • August 2019
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      Twiggle: E-Commerce with Semantic Search

      By: Shane Greenstein and Danielle Golan
      Four years after being founded, in 2014, by former Google executives Amir Konigsberg (CEO) and Adi Avidor (CTO), Twiggle had developed a search enhancement that plugged into an online merchant’s existing framework. The company utilized advanced structuring and... View Details
      Keywords: Search Technology; Customer Acquisition; Internet and the Web; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Technology Industry; Israel
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      • 24 Jan 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

      ability to tease apart behavioral mechanisms in a way that earlier work (which often used self-reports or surveyor observations of hand hygiene) could not do. Researchers set out to discover whether they could induce households to develop... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • 22 Feb 2022
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      A World of Difference

      organization, teach them how to be more inclusive.” “If you want to skyrocket performance in any organization, teach them how to be more inclusive.” Francesca Gino: We can divide leaders out there into three buckets. The first bucket is View Details
      Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
      • 28 Feb 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: Feb. 28

      http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-071.pdf Short-Termism, Investor Clientele, and Firm Risk Authors:Francois Brochet, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract Using conference call transcripts, we measure the time horizon that senior View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

      involvement with outside organizations). back to text Faculty appointments covered by this policy include teaching and research faculty members, visiting faculty members, Professors of Management Practice, Baker Foundation Professors,... View Details
      • 13 Oct 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

      sitting on a rare opportunity, and they must be systematic in how they take advantage of it if they want to make positive changes," says George, a Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic,... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 01 Mar 2023
      • News

      Step Change

      their own priorities, was a time-consuming challenge for Enan, he recalls. “It was a real exercise in navigating various congressional committees and the general power structure in Washington,” Harmon says. “Enan’s ability to relate to... View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
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      Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

      work done in less time. But only under certain circumstances! There two basic ways to use multiple cores: implicit parallelism built in to your application or library, and explicit parallelism that you program and manage yourself.... View Details
      • 06 Feb 2013
      • What Do You Think?

      Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

      exceeding the optimal point of inequality and descending into an era of a vanishing middle class and, with it, the spending power and inclination with which it fuels an economy? A growing number of observers are saying yes, pointing to the fact that investors and View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 26 Nov 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Best Practices of Global Innovators

      managers from 20 firms to gather best practices of the companies that do collaborative innovation correctly. They also charted how global teamwork can misfire. The research built upon expertise developed in Wipro's own collaboration... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 26 Mar 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

      iStock In the 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross, an executive played by Alec Baldwin presents a unique motivational scheme to a trio of down-on-their-luck real estate salesmen. There will be a new contest, he tells them, to see who can bring... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
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      Rafaella Sadun | About

      , the Executive Time Use Study , and the first large scale management survey in hospitals, MOPS-H , conducted in partnership with the US Census Bureau. Her work has helped uncover the extent to which the... View Details