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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

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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

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Benjamin C. Esty : Received the 2012 Trailblazer Award from the HBS African American Student Union and the African American Alumni Association for contributions to the Harvard community and the summer venture in management program (SVMP).... View Details

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

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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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

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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

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

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

than 200,000 people in the US. “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

March 2018
Case

EKOL Logistics: Thinking Outside the Box

By: Willy C. Shih and Esel Çekin

This case describes Ekol, an intermodal transportation and logistics company, and how it manages capacity planning. Its busiest routes linked motor vehicle assemblers in Germany and Turkey with many of their parts suppliers, but it had also developed key links in... View Details

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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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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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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

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

credit card, you may do so at any time. If you have selected an alternative payment method, please allow additional time for processing: Western Union - 3 business days Domestic wire - 5 business days International wire - 14 business days... View Details

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

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

01 Nov 2019
What Do You Think?

Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

are subject to non-compete agreements. Because laws regarding NCCs represent a patchwork among states, a question continually arises about their enforceability across state lines. One solution advanced by unions and public advocacy groups... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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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

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

Cherokee, as well as those born into unions of the two groups. The Freedmen had struggled for decades to establish their rights as Cherokee citizens, and briefly gained those rights in 2006; in 2007, however, the Cherokee Nation held a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

Golden Age of Black Business 1 “African-American Student Union Marks 25 Years at HBS.” Harvard Business School Bulletin , June 1994, 36. 2 Washington, Booker T. The Negro in Business . Boston: Hertel, Jenkins & Co., 1907. 3 W. E.... View Details

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

payment method, please allow additional time for processing: Western Union - 3 business days Domestic wire - 5 business days International wire - 14 business days Loans - 12 business days Could you tell me a little more about the AI... View Details

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