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28 Feb 2023
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Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

African American Student Union (AASU), First-Gen Club, Latino Student Organization (LASO), and PRIDE. WHAT DOES BEING FIRST-GENERATION, LOW-INCOME (FGLI) MEAN TO YOU? Norquata Allen, Class of 2023 Being a first-generation college and... 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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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

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). Stuart C. Gilson : Winner of the 2012 Distinguished Paper... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

to the Payment & Financial Aid page . What are my payment options? HBS Online offers a variety of payment methods to provide flexibility, including: Credit and debit cards (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and AMEX) PayPal Wire transfers Western View Details

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Payment and Financial Aid - HBS Online

Payment Methods Loans Grants Payment Methods HBS Online offers a variety of secure payment methods to provide flexibility, including: Credit and debit cards (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and AMEX) PayPal Wire transfers Western Union Bank... 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

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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

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

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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01 Mar 2013
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Sweet Deal

administration's rescue and restructuring of General Motors, spent months trying to save the bankrupt company from dissolving. But the bakery workers' union ultimately refused to accept a proposed deal. "Given the historical... View Details

Keywords: Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2008
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You Only Thought You Were Republican

You were right all along. From being a left-wing-dominated party, we have become a centrist-dominated party. OK, maybe we remain one or two clicks to the left of you, but still pretty darn close. (And, yes, a lot of us agree the teachers’ View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias; national debt; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

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

Keywords: Asda; Costco; David Glass; Convenience Stores; Discount Retailing; Dollar Stores; Doug McMillon; E-commerce; Online Retail; General Merchandise; Grocery; Lee Scott; Mike Duke; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Neighborhood Market; Sam Walton; Sam's Club; Store Formats; Supercenter; Supermarket; Warehouse Clubs; Merchandising; Walmart; Wal-Mart; Globalized Firms and Management; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Units; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Film Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Banks and Banking; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Global Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Business History; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Wages; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Management Succession; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Distribution; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Expansion; Segmentation; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Web; Web Sites; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Distribution Industry; Banking Industry; United States; Arkansas; Bentonville

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

California, Berkeley, 2017. 2016 Boris Groysberg : Received the 2016 Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching. Summer R. Jackson : Recipient of an MIT Presidential Fellowship in 2016. Lakshmi Ramarajan : Winner of the First Annual African American Student... View Details

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Harvard Business School

served as senior vice president and chief financial officer at Medtronic from 1993-2005. Before joining Medtronic, he was vice president and CFO at Union Texas Petroleum Corporation. From 1975-1982, Ryan was a vice president at Citicorp,... View Details

12 Oct 2017
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Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

as the School’s first Goldman Sachs Fellow, and was elected copresident of the African American Student Union (AASU). “I had never taken an accounting or finance class before I went to HBS,” he notes. “The AASU study groups and community... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2003
News

Flex Time

Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company required more time on-site in North... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor

Silvers (MBA ’95) illustrates a one-sided picture of the real world of union organizing. This is especially apparent in Silvers’s response to the question, “What’s wrong with secret ballot elections?” According to Silvers, the proposed... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers

freshman year at Harvard, where he worked part-time in a student dining hall and took an interest in the workers’ ongoing contract negotiations. When he started wearing a union button to work, “it just changed the relationship I had with... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

EU regulations were in step with sound international practice. Remainers, on the other hand, have spent little time explaining what the UK can do better within the European Union to address the very real competitiveness challenges Great... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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