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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

on Managing the Future of Work and co-PI of the Digital Reskilling Lab. Her research focuses on managerial and organizational drivers of productivity and growth in corporations and the public sector. She co-founded several large-scale... View Details

17 Mar 2008
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The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

overview of business history research worldwide aimed at both researchers and practitioners, addressing challenging issues such as globalization, entrepreneurship, corporate governance, technology and innovation, and economic theory and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1625503 The Determinants of National Competitiveness Authors:Mercedes Delgado, Christian Ketels, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern Abstract We define foundational competitiveness as the expected level... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Lehman Brothers Collection Resources Baker Library Collections Corporate Reports Collection R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports HBS Cases Baker Old Class Collection Related Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits... View Details

06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

control this risk, the authors write, but you can and should plan for it. They offer three steps to help you survive a corporate scandal. 1. Be forthright. Transparency and full disclosure are key to overcoming the stigma. Executive... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Dec 2010
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Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

shores which nature has decreed to be most vital to our national safety, not to mention our prosperity." Q: You describe the US involvement in the construction and administration of the Panama Canal as a "successful American... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

22 Aug 2005
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Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

United States in a uniquely powerful position. While Europe and Asia had experienced extensive destruction and loss of life, no battles had been fought on the soil of the United States. The U.S. dollar became the world's major reserve currency. U.S. View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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

15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice Authors:Robin Greenwood, Jeremy C. Stein, and Samuel Hanson Abstract We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2013
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Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960

Cofounder and Chairman Emeritus, The AES Corporation Download Sant profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1931 Born, Los Angeles, California 1955 Earns BS, Business Management, Brigham Young University 1955... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

May 2008 (Revised December 2010)
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Chi Mei Optoelectronics

By: Willy C. Shih, Chintay Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Ho Howard Yu

Chi Mei is a Taiwanese industrial group that makes a major diversification into the technology intensive TFT-LCD flat panel display industry. Because the diversification is far away from its core competence in petrochemicals, it is an opportunity to examine how the... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Supply Chain; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Information Technology; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry; China; South Korea; Taiwan

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19 Apr 2004
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Birth of the American Salesman

"The development of modern sales management is an uniquely American story." Why do you think this is? Walter Friedman: In the early nineteenth century, many nations, certainly all the European ones, had traveling peddlers and peddling networks. But no View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

09 Apr 2007
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Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

self-declared programs: You claim to have adopted it, and so you have. Even fairly famous codes are structured this way, including the CERES Principles and the United Nations Global Compact. A decade ago, self-declaring that your firm has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2009
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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

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Lehman Brothers Collection Resources Baker Library Collections Corporate Reports Collection R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports HBS Cases Baker Old Class Collection Related Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits... View Details

25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

Sloan Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract Many people today in the information technology world and in corporate boardrooms are talking about "big data." Many believe that, for companies that get it right, big data will be... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

General Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) Leadership and Corporate Accountability In this course, students learn about the complex responsibilities facing... View Details

04 Jun 2020
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It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

missing link. Senz: How do these efforts intersect with corporate strategy and culture? Frei: When companies get bigger, leaders don't get to micromanage. Employees are making decisions that their bosses are unaware of. When that happens,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

24 Feb 2016
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Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

students’ performance on standardized tests.” Published in the February 15 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study was authored by Hans Henrik Sievertsen, a postdoctoral researcher at the Danish View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

government-introduced business lending and corporate bond purchase programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast to the classic lender-of-last-resort thinking, the authors argue that an effective policy response to the... View Details

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