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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the ports of Mobile and New Orleans, Montgomery provided an ideal base for the cotton trade. According to the 1860... View Details

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

delivering health, water, energy, and agriculture services to economic base of the pyramid in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. As CIO, he was a... View Details

30 Oct 2017
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How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA

I graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 2005 and started working in a chemical manufacturing plant that same year. On my first day on the job, with limited technical competence and organizational awareness, I was assigned... View Details

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1.20 Joint Degree Programs - MBA

alleged violations. Based on the factual findings, each School will determine whether a violation of its policies occurred and assign sanctions (when appropriate) in a matter... View Details

February 2006 (Revised September 2006)
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Sippican Corporation (A)

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Presents a time-driven version of the Wilkerson Co. activity-based costing case (101092). Faced with declining profits, Sippican Corp. is struggling to understand why it is encountering severe price competition on one product line. The controller collects data that... View Details

Keywords: History; Business Model; Strategic Planning; Cost Accounting; Motivation and Incentives; Resource Allocation; Activity Based Costing and Management; Profit; Business Strategy; Budgets and Budgeting

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Economic Development in Inner Cities - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Shared Value Almost all big companies have active charitable programs and give to social service organizations. But they rarely grasp that helping revitalize their local communities can enhance their competitiveness. Such strategies should be View Details

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1.4.4 Elective Curriculum (EC) - MBA

Academic Progress 1.14 Academic Review/Academic Withdrawal 1.15 Official Transcripts/Certificates of Attendance 1.16 Student Educational Records 1.17 Field Based Learning/Independent Projects 1.18 FIELD... View Details

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Shah, M.D.e, Thomas W. Feeley, M.D.f, Neema Navai, M.D. Objectives: Patients undergoing radical cystectomy represent a particularly resource-intensive patient population. Time-driven activity based costing (TDABC) assigns time to events... View Details

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Research Staff Services - Faculty & Research

warrant hiring a contractor based outside the Boston area, while another manages all hourly and temporary agency hires. The director oversees and actively engages in View Details

16 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Advice on Advice

article in Harvard Business Review, The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice, which is based on research and discussions with advice experts. The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Sep 2023
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

saw the cultural differences while developing marketing concepts for Ellie Care, a technology platform based in Buenos Aires providing health and emergency-response monitoring that enables seniors 65+ to... View Details

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Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online

. Complete the year-long CLIMB program to earn a Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business. 7 Courses Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in... View Details

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Course Overview - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

some adjustments based on the actual mix of participants and their circumstances: Defining a strategic direction - setting appropriate corporate goals - defining View Details

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

joining investment funds/vehicles. Note for founders: see "Application Process for Founders" section below for details about limitations on capital raised and revenue. Your job is based in Africa (one of... View Details

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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

student demand and funds available. We expect that you will receive a percentage of your request, based on student demand and funds available. Organizations can find more information about posting an... View Details

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Fair Algorithms for Learning in Allocation Problems

By: Hadi Elzayn, Shahin Jabbari, Christopher Jung, Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zachary Schutzman

Settings such as lending and policing can be modeled by a centralized agent allocating a scarce resource (e.g. loans or police officers) amongst several groups, in order to maximize some objective (e.g. loans given that are repaid, or criminals that are apprehended).... View Details

Keywords: Allocation Problems; Algorithms; Fairness; Learning

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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

have examples of interns taking on discrete pieces of work that worked out quite well based on their specific background, for example, in public policy or in government.” That... View Details

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Keywords: Banking, Telecom, Financial Services

20 Oct 2015
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What to Expect Your First Year at HBS

haven’t read the case, you feel like you’re letting your section down. 50% of your grade will be based on participation, so being engaged and making relevant, thoughtful... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Preparing Global Leaders

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi The importance HBS places on fostering a global perspective among its students, program participants, and faculty members is evident when one looks at the numbers: During the past academic year, 52 percent of HBS cases published were... View Details

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