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  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

could fit in two 40-foot intermodal shipping containers. The UPower reactor was designed to serve the need for "off-grid" electric power. These off-grid customers were in remote locations such as mining operations, military... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

their own risks like the risks of not acting, of failed initiatives, or of alienating shareholders focused on short-term results? Bower and Paine: Those are very different risks. The risk of not acting when the threat is a weakened dam is financial and moral. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

companies that depend on migrant workers such as the mining industry must consider the social dynamic created by men working away from their families many months out of the year. The sex trade in which those men participate has been... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

to accomplish the following: mine your sales data to identify "homerun" products you're missing; reinvent your forecasting and pricing strategies; build end-to-end agility into your supply chain; establish incentives that align... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

Target's general merchandise stores outweigh the associated challenges? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510016-PDF-ENG Vale: Global Expansion in the Challenging World of Mining Tarun Khanna, Aldo Musacchio, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jan 2018
  • Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

“And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. So, I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

of big data. Rather than relying on artistic vision, Peck wanted the company to use the mining of big data obtained from Google Analytics and the company’s own sales and customer databases to select the next season’s assortment. Peck was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

often sought some equity in mining and other foreign investment projects, but as shareholders they have rarely gained what they anticipated. Only in special cases might the benefits to governments outweigh the risks and often... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance (Harvard Business Press). As a practical guide, The New Science of Retailing helps retailers mine their sales data to identify and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

Vavilov, who had co-founded Bitfury and expanded it substantially from its bitcoin mining roots, felt a blockchain-driven makeover of this sort would take place not just in Georgia's government but also around the world. It was not a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 5, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207059 Texas Gulf Sulphur: The Timmins Ontario Mine Harvard Business School Case 204-114 Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

state-owned China Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Corporation, to illustrate China’s growing interest and involvement in the African continent. While many in Africa welcome the substantial Chinese investment, resentment over labor abuses, low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

objectives in case method learning. One challenge for case method instructors is the assessment of students' class participation, particularly in large classes. This article offers a solution that mines the practices of peer-to-peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

but Bill still wondered if they were a fluke of the data, a result of data mining rather than the reflection of a true market anomaly. He wanted to discuss several possible explanations of the phenomenon and to decide whether Martingale... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718019 Harvard Business School Case 718-029 ArcelorMittal and the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia During the summer of 2014, Alan Knight, general manager of corporate responsibility at the integrated steel and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

world's leading iron mining company. Regulatory obstacles and unexpected costs have placed the project in jeopardy. Outside Brazil, however, Baosteel has been growing rapidly, and market trends favor an overseas plant. Baosteel must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2015
  • Book

The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile: Business Enterprises and Entrepreneurship

By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch
This book compares the effects of globalization on two Latin American countries, Argentina and Chile, over time. The chapters examine the impact of multinationals, the growth of business groups, and the conflicted relations between business and government. The book... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Business Groups; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Globalization; Growth and Development; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Latin America; Argentina; Chile
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  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

Weapon", was originally published on Harvard Business Review's faculty blog on April 19, 2010.) Spring brings April showers, May flowers—and a flurry of annual reports. Mine have been arriving in the mail, and I am always interested... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 24 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

understood and the design space is mined out. But "mining out" is not inevitable. Some design spaces—for example, in computers, information technology, and entertainment—seem to have boundless capacity to engender new,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

WhiteHarvard Business School Case 713-015 For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms-inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit, and growing dependence on China. Between... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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