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James A. Farrell
While head of United States Steel, Farrell increased the steel output of the company from 6 million tons to 29 million tons. Upon his retirement, United View Details
Keywords: Metals
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
option to her online consignment ceramics offerings, Giridharadas recouped about half of her investment within four months. Now she sees a bigger opportunity: Party supply rentals were a $5 billion industry in the United View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk
about the project. Why did HBS launch the project? Rivkin: Many of us at the School have come to believe that the ability of firms in the United States to be competitive in the world economy and to support... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
produced in the United States is never eaten; 3.8 million gallons of fuel are wasted everyday from unnecessary idling. The nonprofit’s investment strategy is far less typical. Sustainable America makes... View Details
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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
engineering to sales. 32 Labor Practices: Slider United States Steel Corporation. Paths of Opportunity in U.S. Steel. [New York?]: United States... View Details
- 17 Sep 2021
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
When Xiao Wang (MBA 2014) and his parents immigrated to the United States from China three decades ago, the process was a difficult and expensive one. The family spent the equivalent of five months’ rent on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Taking That Hill
sought challenging environments, and I get a lot of pleasure when people say they want to take that hill, and we take that hill together.” As PPG’s growth surges internationally, it’s overseas where new and different hills are increasingly popping up. As the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
that keep executives awake at night. But before you can do that, you have to find out what keeps them awake at night. Who did you talk to? At this point, my research associates and I have interviewed over 250 people in the United View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
projects that it will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by the end of 2014. But as the Great Wall exemplifies the great feats of Chinese unity, so too does it reflect a tradition of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Play's the Thing
with his own family." The play, Baron's first, had its off-Broadway premiere in 1997 with Eli Wallach in the title role, and has since been widely produced in the United States and performed in translation... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
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Matthew Wyble
the group’s understanding If ranking 7th in the United States can be considered a failure, Matt “failed” and indeed, he did not make the Olympic team. But the experience ultimately strengthened him.... View Details
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Juliane Schwetz
Many HBS graduates will manage brands; few, however, will be responsible for a brand as storied – and as important – as the one that will be under Juliane Schwetz’s care: the United States Military Academy... View Details
William Nickerson, Jr.
Nickerson founded and led the first African American life insurance business established in the state of California. Under his leadership, Golden State expanded to other states... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Minor says it was illuminating to use “regular” subjects as opposed to undergrads, who aren’t necessarily representative of a broad swath of the United... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
emission reductions than the current regulatory approach. To keep the United States competitive with other countries, the plan would include a simple provision to impose the fee at the border on any energy... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
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Rosita Najmi
I have two heroes: Tahereh and Tahirih. 1848: The state of women in Iran was dire – being a woman meant suppression, servitude, and violence. Then came Tahirih – erudite and brave, a poet and scholar. In that year, at a large gathering of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
In June 2000, when the National Commission on Terrorism released its report, the commission's chairman, L. Paul ("Jerry") Bremer III (MBA '66), issued a warning. "There's a chance terrorists will try to stage a catastrophic event in the View Details
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SimplyAnalytics | Baker Library
SimplyAnalytics Generates tables and maps based upon desired United States data, including population, age, race, income, employment, and education. Read More Generates tables and maps for the View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity
by venture capital in the past decades, there were many failures. But collectively, the companies that did succeed represent a significant fraction of the private-sector jobs in the United States today. The... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
As Harvard Business School professor Laura Phillips Sawyer sifted through historical documents to trace the history of competition policy in the United States, an interesting figure emerged: Edna Gleason, who became known as the “mother... View Details