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  • November 2003 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

Union Corrugating Company (B)

By: Paul W. Marshall and Julia Stevens
Lauri Union, president of Union Corrugating Co., has successfully transformed her family's corrugated steel roofing and siding manufacturer into a successful enterprise. Reviews how Union turned the struggling company around and also considers the management structure... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Competition; Work-Life Balance; Success; Change Management; Management Systems; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Boston; North Carolina
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  • 02 Sep 2021
  • News

Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs

to bringing the right type of HR and systems and finance systems to those companies. And finally, really helping them raise capital. “Capital is really looking to enter Ethiopia as it opens up as we speak.... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

clients' campaigns. This practice was institutionalized by an arrangement known as the "recognition system" between agencies and publishers, and administered by a set of trade associations. Among other things, the system supported... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 29 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

organizations. Ndidi Nwuneli is working to spur a systemic response through interviews and op-eds in Business Day Nigeria and Business Africa Online, and is writing a book called African Entrepreneurs Nourishing the World. Sahel... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • Web

Impact Stories - Business & Environment

will be brought to market by a combination of pure start-ups and large multinational energy corporations." Charley Cummings MBA 2011 | Addressing Climate Change through Agriculture "The great thing is that in addition to making systems... View Details
  • 14 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Dec 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Oral History and Writing the Business History of Emerging Markets

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
  • Article

When Seeking Help, Women and Racial/Ethnic Minorities Benefit from Explicitly Stating Their Identity

By: Erika L. Kirgios, Aneesh Rai, Edward H. Chang and Katherine L. Milkman
Receiving help can make or break a career, but women and racial/ethnic minorities do not always receive the support they seek. Across two audit experiments—one with politicians and another with students—as well as an online experiment (total n = 5,145), we test whether... View Details
Keywords: Support; Marginalized Communities; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality; Identity; Race; Gender; Communication Intention and Meaning
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Public Displays of Alignment: Firm Speech in Autocratic Regimes

By: Joris Mueller, Jaya Y. Wen and Cheryl Wu
Political speech by firms is increasingly common around the world. This paper examines the government as an important, yet understudied, audience for such speech, focusing on how Chinese firms rhetorically align with the state. We introduce novel, general, and... View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Economic Systems; Power and Influence; Government Administration; Policy; China
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  • June 2018 (Revised November 2018)
  • Case

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement

By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris
In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues.... View Details
Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership
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  • February 2017 (Revised December 2018)
  • Case

From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem (Abridged)

By: Elie Ofek and Margot Eiran
In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “start-up nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Economy; Equality and Inequality; Israel
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  • May 2001 (Revised August 2001)
  • Teaching Note

Jumpstart TN

By: Allen S. Grossman
Teaching Note for (9-301-037). View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Nonprofit Organizations; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Growth and Development; Success; Education Industry
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  • Profile

Tim Nicolette

the social sector. Does any particular class have special relevance for you? In my 1st year, I took Entrepreneurship in Education Reform—and it was transformative. In case after case, we saw systemic injustice in so many US cities, school... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit; Nonprofit / Government
  • 07 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

of information among doctors, hospitals, patients, and providers; standardization of that information; evaluation of adjustments for the severity of illness of the patient; changes in the tax system to avoid discrimination against the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • Web

Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

and develop a deeper appreciation of how legal systems operate and how to operate within the boundaries of legal systems. In response to increased student interest in private equity, a module of the course focuses on contracts and... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2023
  • News

How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

shortage—which the National Education Association estimates to total some 300,000 vacancies. In this excerpt, Dwinal-Palisch discusses the problem set that the American education system is facing—and how she and Reach are tackling those... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • Web

Lavinia Teodorescu | MBA

and undocumented individuals can live safely during these difficult times. As a founding member of ImmigrationHelp, I was able to provide access to humanitarian legal services for low-income people, using the power of technology. I have worked on creating a step by... View Details
  • Web

Grace Kim | MBA

engineering towards effective and innovative solutions that benefit our society. I would like to build the knowledge and expertise within fields intersecting robotics, aerospace, and autonomous systems to reach my eventual goals of... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2020
  • News

Educating the Whole Student

“We knew the education system was broken,” says Meredith Liu (MBA 2010) of her first meetings with Priscilla Chan, who founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic organization that she founded with her husband, Facebook CEO... View Details
Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 21 Dec 2017
  • News

Finding Opportunities to Grow and Lead

don't have to make all your own opportunities. There are some that we've made for you. You can depend that they are there. And let's reward the organizations that have really moved forward. “You have to pay it forward. Always. And that's the virtuous circle. People... View Details