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27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

President George W. Bush expanded the FBI’s mission with a single question for Mueller: What was the FBI doing to prevent the next terrorist attack? And just like that, the brand-new director of the FBI had to figure out how to transform the organization from a law... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Stephen A. Greyser

Stephen A. Greyser is Richard P. Chapman Professor (Marketing/Communications) Emeritus, of the Harvard Business School, specializes in brand marketing, advertising, corporate communications, the business of sports, and nonprofit management. A... View Details

Keywords: sports

2016
Working Paper

Entrepreneurs and the Co-Creation of Ecotourism in Costa Rica

By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora

Between the 1970s and the 2000s, Costa Rica became established as the world’s leading ecotourism destination. This working paper suggests that although Costa Rica benefited from biodiversity and a pleasant climate, the country’s preeminence in ecotourism requires more... View Details

Keywords: Tourism; Latin America; Business History; Sustainable Strategy; Sustainability; Nonprofit; Entrepreneurs; Environment; Entrepreneurship; History; Environmental Sustainability; Tourism Industry; Costa Rica

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13 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 13

examines non-price competition among colleges to attract highly qualified students, exploiting the South Korean setting where the national government sets rules governing applications. We identify some basic facts about the behavior of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

American Chicle Company, 1899–1922 Kenneth S. Adams Phillips Petroleum Company, 1938–1951 Terrence E. Adderley Kelly Services, 1967–Present Howard F. Ahmanson H. F. Ahmanson & Company, 1927–1968 Lester M. Alberthal, Jr. Electronic Data Systems, 1986–1998 Winthrop W.... View Details

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Placement - Doctoral

Shaping Organizational Outcomes through Management Control Systems: Evidence from the Field Advisors: Dennis Campbell (Chair), Tatiana Sandino , and Susanna Gallani Jihwon Park Accounting & Management, 2020 Placement: CUNY, Baruch... View Details

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

now give to the overall benefits of globalization. As practiced today, Ricardo's classic system results in win-win exchanges when both trading partners are either (1) industrialized nations with modern impulse/check/balance governments,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

01 Sep 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

In the half-century since his graduation, Theodore Roosevelt IV (MBA 1972) has earned widespread respect as both a forward-thinking investment banker and an influential activist through his efforts to address climate change and preserve public lands. For much of that... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

Langnese; and Sunlicht. The name "Unilever" was not used in operating companies or in brand names. Lever Brothers and T. J. Lipton were the two postwar U.S. affiliates. These national operating companies were allocated to either... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail

30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

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Team - Case Method Project

working in historical interpretation and education with the National Park Service to Case Method Institute. She received her B.A. in History and B.A. in International Relations from University of California,... View Details

19 Sep 2023
Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

software, Spectra. Nabig's role prior to HBS was a Graduate Developer at Cal-Adapt Analytics Engine, a data platform for analyzing climate change impacts in California. Rhea Choudhury (MBA 2024, Section F), Summer Internship: Business Management Consultant, View Details

05 Jul 2023
News

GCC Alumni Celebrate Grand Opening of New Club Center

Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council recently marked the grand opening of "The House"—a new permanent club headquarters and collaborative space located in Dubai and open to all HBS alumni living in or visiting the Gulf region. According to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

increase Matt Parke 16 Jan 2019 | Working Nation New Research Reveals Caregiving for Elders Impacts Employee Performance 16 Jan 2019 | Senior Safety Reviews New Hampshire, Vermont Governors Pitch Two-State,... View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

History NY Aaron Sparrow Baruch College Campus High School New York, NY MA Danielle Spencer Madison Park Technical Vocational High School Boston, MA Subjects: U.S. History 2 (1877-Present) NY Anthony Staccone Tutorial House, United View Details

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The Caring Company

caregiving burdens increase Matt Parke 16 Jan 2019 | Working Nation New Research Reveals Caregiving for Elders Impacts Employee Performance 16 Jan 2019 | Senior Safety Reviews New Hampshire, Vermont... View Details

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Partners - Case Method Project

School Park Ridge, IL IL 22 of 34 Jane Mizzi Kenwood Academy Chicago, IL IL 23 of 34 Ed Noel Benet Academy Lisle, IL Subjects: AP U.S. Government, College Prep/Honors U.S. History IL 24 of 34 Christina O’Leary Carver Military Academy... View Details

07 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

exemption based on different criteria than the federal regulations. In these states, there was not the same explosion of made-up sounding management titles at the $455 threshold. Cohen also looked at the practices of companies with regional and View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

29 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 29

European economic integration slackened in the 1960s. National markets for goods, most services, and labor were not being integrated because they were not really being liberalized. The exception to this rule was financial services, one of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

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