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March–April 2024
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Case Study: Navigating Labor Unrest

Paulo Ferreira, the president of Luna Brazil, has an ambitious plan to turn around the dismal performance of the plant he oversees in Campinas. The wrinkle is, he needs the buy-in of the powerful local union, which is still smarting from a 10-year-old labor conflict... View Details

Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Layoffs; Manufacturing; Labor and Management Relations; Labor Unions; Negotiation Tactics; Conflict and Resolution; Performance Improvement; Corporate Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Brazil

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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Island United Nations World Food Programme United Negro College Fund U.S. Department of Education WGBH Educational Foundation Whitney Museum Of American Art Women's Educational and Industrial Union World Economic Forum World Wildlife Fund... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

world. Hoa's route to the head of Galaxy has been a circuitous one. After high school, she lived in the former Soviet Union while attending the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. "In college, I read 54 books by Lenin, 25... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

St. Louis. 2012 Benjamin C. Esty : Received the 2012 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the graduating class's HBS experience. Benjamin C. Esty : Received the 2012 Trailblazer Award from the HBS African American Student... View Details

19 May 2023
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Creating and Nurturing a Sense of Belonging at HBS

these groups make up the core of my community at HBS: The African American Student Union (AASU) plays the largest part of my community. AASU really fosters togetherness by centering its programming around the Black experience at HBS –... View Details

November 2016 (Revised March 2018)
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Brexit

By: Laura Alfaro, Jesse Schreger and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason

After more than 40 years of membership in the European Union, the United Kingdom voted via referendum to separate from the EU on June 23, 2016. Following the surprise verdict (termed Brexit), a political upheaval followed, with many ministers, including Prime Minister... View Details

Keywords: Voting; International Relations; Government and Politics; System Shocks; United Kingdom; European Union

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16 Dec 2020
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My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

stretched financially. My parents went through the transition in 1989 from the Soviet Union and lost their savings overnight. Fortunately, I had a great education. I was on scholarship in high school and then moved to Canada at age 18 for... View Details

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Events - Private Capital Project

Andrew Stern (President Emeritus, Service Employee International Union (SEIU), and Senior Fellow, Economic Security Project), Greg Jania (Global Co-head of Private Equity, APG Asset Management) and Peter Stavros (Co-Head of US Private... View Details

06 Dec 2017
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Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

markets. Both groups generally consider themselves advocates of capitalism. In recent years the European Union has perhaps been more aggressive in enforcing restrictions on market power than the US., assessing large fines on domestic and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

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James Sharpe | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Transcript (PDF) James “Jim” Sharpe, HBS 1976, spent the early part of his career at General Electric, where he eventually had P&L responsibility for $15 million in sales and 100 employees. He then joined Hoover Universal, where he had P&L responsibility for $30... View Details

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

“There are about 7,000 known rare diseases and collectively, about 1 in 10 people (or 30 million people) in the U.S. have a rare disease,” according to the NIH. Other countries may have their own definitions. For example, the European View Details

11 Jul 2019
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Meet the MBA Class of 2020

Union (AASU), Women's Student Association (WSA), Harbus Foundation, Social Enterprise Club Melcolm Ruffin “I DISCOVERED THERE WAS A BUSINESS SIDE TO SPORTS AND A PATH TO A CAREER.” HOME REGION Chicago, IL UNDERGRAD EDUCATION University of... View Details

April 1996 (Revised May 2008)
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Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1983 Negotiation, Local 190 Confidential Information

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Victoria Medvec

Includes a series of three negotiation exercises portraying management/labor relations at ABC over a period of seven years. ABC, initially a family-owned business, had prided itself on its cooperative relationship with its union, Local 190. With the skyrocketing... View Details

Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Compensation and Benefits; Labor Unions; Wages; Working Conditions; Negotiation Process; Labor and Management Relations

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18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

Earlier this month, the US Treasury Department presented to President Biden what it called a “framework” for overseeing digital financial assets across the government and internationally, while the European Union and European Parliament... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

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Melcolm Ruffin

attended not one, but three African American Student Union (AASU) conferences at HBS. "It was a very inspirational experience to see incredible Black leaders speak to the community they've built here. They recharged me... View Details

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Roosevelt; Averell Harriman, a banker whose interests included the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads; J. P. Morgan, a banker and financier; and the investment banks Kuhn, Loeb & Company and Schroder, Rockefeller & Company,... View Details

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A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni

fellowship funding, and more. 1978 The George P. Baker Minority Fellowship is established to honor Dean Baker’s contributions to increasing African Americans’ access and admission to graduate business schools, and specifically to HBS, during the 1960s when the... View Details

12 Feb 2021
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

page turner in terms of how we were going to escape the claws of this hostile predator who in fact, had bought Lincoln Savings in New York and Union Oil in Canada. And within a year or two from the time that we were successful in terms of... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

15 Jun 2007
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Remembering Alfred Chandler

And what a body of scholarship it was! Al did not invent the subdiscipline of business history so much as he established it as a rigorous and thriving enterprise. He was not the flashy George McClellan of the Union Army, meticulously... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

May 2016
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The Inexorable Rise of Walmart? 1988—2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

In October 2015, Walmart surprised investors by announcing that it expected flat sales growth for 2015 and growth of only 3% to 4% over the coming three years. Profits would also fall due to significant investments in people and technology. The company’s stock price... View Details