Basics Of Corporate Taxation - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

cultures, all organizations cultivate career imprints. The strength of career imprinting depends upon both the people a firm hires as well as an organization's environment (factors having to do with people and place). Regarding place, for... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

active medium. Larger ads become part of the user's experience, because they allow for much richer information delivery." Glaser: Surfers Will Pay RealNetworks, which achieved ubiquity on personal computers around the world by giving... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

28 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

Verlag, 2010 Abstract From small start-ups to global corporations, family-owned businesses were the main pillar of West Germany's economic growth after World War II. They continue to shape the corporate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2014
News

Ready for Takeoff

is now an absolute focal point, meaning that flights typically serving leisure or corporate travelers—the latter accounting for more than 50 percent of current air travel in the country—will be reduced in... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Air Transportation; Transportation

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What are the top resources for nonprofit company/sector research?

target="new">Chronicle of Philanthropy: Our subscription to the online product includes access to articles, a jobs section, and interactive features. A Facts and Figures section includes data on donors, charities & foundations,... View Details

20 Jan 2015
News

Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized

lifetime in investment banking, met with health industry and digital record experts to learn how to make the industry more efficient. Thus, Health Record Corporation (HRC), parent company of MedKaz, was... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Equipment Corporation (DEC) that would change the course of computer technology. DEC was the brainchild of Kenneth H. Olsen and Harlan Anderson. A US Navy veteran, Olsen was... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Steve Schwarzman

still some of that today. A lot of investors were not as familiar with private equity, so we needed to basically spend time just trying to explain what was going on.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

24 Apr 2014
News

Clean water that provides a trickle-down effect

As chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation, Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (AB 1981, MBA 1987) is enhancing the quality of life of more than six million people, approximately... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

In 1947, Professor Myles Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, introduced a unique offering into the MBA curriculum called The Management View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

tremendous analogies here to corporate innovation. Q: The case describes tension between a driving creative passion and the lure of easy work. How did Paul Robertson and the group manage that conflict? A:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

Profile

Lara Hodgson

Lara O’Connor Hodgson thought she’d found the entrepreneurial dream while running Nourish, the successful startup she launched in 2009. But it was Nourish’s very success that triggered Hodgson’s next and even more successful venture, NOWaccount Network View Details

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

Working PapersA Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions Authors:Malcolm Baker, Xin Pan, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract The use of judgmental anchors or reference points in valuing View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2004
News

Books

dominance of corporate icons such as Heinz, Coca-Cola, General Motors, NCR, and Procter & Gamble. Chapters on the 20th century consider how mass production, mass media, and technology have influenced the way... View Details

Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

and strategy with an emphasis on environmental management, Reinhardt recently shared his expertise with HBS alumni during reunion weekend. His talk, titled "Down to Earth: Applying Basic Business Principles to Environmental... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

GoodMark from General Mills is just part of his story. His experiences in the corporate world and as a husband, father, philanthropist, and community leader are examples of how... View Details

24 Aug 2017
News

Unlocking Potential

Reset is focused on a couple of basic truths about most people in prison, Anderson says. First, prisoners will get out someday. The majority of US inmates are serving sentences... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2003
News

Andrea Silbert

Photo courtesy Andrea Silbert As a child growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, Andrea C. Silbert (MBA/MPA 1992) never hesitated when asked what she was going to be when she grew up. Like her parents, she and her three siblings expected to be doctors. But things... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

02 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 2

medical schools continue to focus on the basic sciences, to the exclusion of such managerial topics as running effective teams. The approach to executing reform appears to assume that practice managers and... View Details