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  • January 2008
  • Article

Entrepreneurship and Urban Success: Toward a Policy Consensus

By: Zoltan J. Acs, Edward L. Glaeser, Robert E. Litan, Lee Fleming, Stephan J. Goetz, William R. Kerr, Steven Klepper, Stuart S. Rosenthal, Olav Sorenson and William C. Strange
Like all politics, all entrepreneurship is local. Individuals launch firms and, if successful, expand their enterprises to other locations. But new firms must start somewhere, even if their businesses are conducted largely or exclusively on the Internet. Likewise,... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Business Startups; Development Economics; Economy; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Taxation; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Business Processes; Expansion; Internet
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  • November 2000 (Revised September 2014)
  • Case

J. Perez Foods (A)

By: John A. Davis and Kacie LaChapelle
Examines the tensions that occur in family shareholder groups and how to prepare for them and manage them. View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Management Practices and Processes; Family Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Business and Shareholder Relations; Family and Family Relationships; Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 29 Mar 2022

HBS College Programs Information Session at Michigan State University

Do you know where an MBA can take you? HBS offers four programs for college students that could be of interest to you including three preview experiences (Peek, Virtual Venture into Management, and the Summer Venture in Management Program) as well as the 2+2 deferred... View Details
  • 23 Mar 2022

HBS College Programs Information Session at California State University, Fullerton

Do you know where an MBA can take you? HBS offers four programs for college students that could be of interest to you including three preview experiences (Peek, Virtual Venture into Management, and the Summer Venture in Management Program) as well as the 2+2 deferred... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2022

HBS College Programs Information Session at Smith College

Do you know where an MBA can take you? HBS offers four programs for college students that could be of interest to you including three preview experiences (Peek, Virtual Venture into Management, and the Summer Venture in Management Program) as well as the 2+2 deferred... View Details
  • 28 Feb 2022

Harvard Business School x OxWIB: An Evening with MBA Admissions

Do you know where an MBA can take you? HBS offers two programs for internationally-based college students that they can take advantage of - Peek, a virtual MBA preview experience, and 2+2 our deferred admissions process for college... View Details

    Walter H. Wheeler, Jr.

    diversification program that produced the first mass-market postage meter and a complete line of integrated mail processing equipment. Many of Pitney-Bowes’ machines set the standard for the United States Postal Service. View Details
    Keywords: Computers & Electronics

      William B. Bell

      Bell diversified American Cyanamid, developing the company into the 5th largest producer of chemicals in the U.S., manufacturing over 5,000 products. Bell developed new processes for the commercial production of prussiate of soda,... View Details
      Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
      • 2008
      • Report

      Survey Questionnaire on Environmental Management Practices: Summary of Results by Industry and Practices

      By: Magali Delmas and Michael W. Toffel
      This document provides a summary of the results of a survey on Environmental Management Practices (EMP) conducted by the University of California at Santa Barbara during October and November 2003. The survey was sent to 3255 facilities in 8 industrial sectors: pulp,... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Sectors; Surveys; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Non-Governmental Organizations
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      • September 1999 (Revised September 1999)
      • Case

      Convergys Corporation

      By: Stephen P. Bradley and Kelley Porter
      Focuses on the important issue of capturing the synergies between the two sides of the business, Information Management Group (IMG) and Customer Management Group (CMG). In addition, the case also addresses strategic issues from each of the individual businesses. For... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Information Industry; Service Industry
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      • March 1999 (Revised November 2001)
      • Case

      Honda-Rover (B): Honda Draws the Line

      By: Ashish Nanda, James K. Sebenius and Ron Fortgang
      Supplements the (A) case. View Details
      Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Joint Ventures; Alliances; Knowledge Sharing; Strategy; Contracts; Negotiation Process; Change Management; Negotiation Tactics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Auto Industry; United Kingdom
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      • July 1991 (Revised June 1993)
      • Background Note

      Conflicting Responsibilities

      By: Joseph L. Badaracco
      Presents a framework for resolving issues in which managers' responsibilities--to shareholders, employees, other stakeholder groups, and to their own values and commitments in life--conflict with each other. The framework analyzes these issues in terms of duties,... View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Personal Development and Career; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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      • 01 Jun 2005
      • News

      Marked Managers

      Higgins: Some organizations create much stronger imprints than others. How the early years on the job make a lasting imprint Associate Professor Monica Higgins’s interest in the relational context in which careers are shaped led to her study of the career paths of over... View Details
      Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
      • 16 Jun 2023
      • Blog Post

      Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

      School, along with actions you can take now to make a lasting difference. What is Unconscious Bias? Unconscious or implicit bias is the term for the mental processes that cause a person to act in ways that reinforce stereotypes even when... View Details
      Keywords: All Industries
      • 11 Jun 2014
      • Blog Post

      Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Joe…

      technologies, performing due diligence on prospective investments, conducting deep dives into new spaces and developing investment theses, helping our existing portfolio companies as a board observer, and supporting the firm’s fundraising View Details
      Keywords: Technology
      • Profile

      Inessa Lurye

      build and how to build it," she explains. "It's about breaking a big vision into smaller portions we can execute on a daily basis." To do her work, Inessa frequently draws upon lessons learned at HBS. "The business I'm in is so much in the View Details
      • 03 Mar 2014
      • HBS Case

      Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato

      Consumers in the United States are so increasingly into fresh, local, and carbon neutral that if someone figured out how to grow a tomato that could walk itself to the grocery store, they'd be a millionaire. So why is Mutti S.p.a., a tomato View Details
      Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Food & Beverage; Retail
      • 18 Dec 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: December 18

      relationships when it instead primarily encourages newcomers to express their personal identities. In a field experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing company, we found that initial socialization focused on personal... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel

        Arthur V. Davis

        Davis was at Alcoa when Charles Hall invented the process for producing commercial aluminum. While Davis was head of Alcoa, the company continued to discover new uses for aluminum, most notably in the field of aviation. Davis manufactured... View Details
        Keywords: Metals
        • 12 Nov 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: November 12

        by systematically increasing the rigor in the procurement process. Still skeptical, Sophia runs the process of systematically analyzing and comparing the competing firms' bids. This case also describes the View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne