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Plymouth Motor Corporation Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Collections Site Credits Plymouth Motor Corporation Photograph Collection, ca. 1935 Chassis Sub-Assembly Line , ca. 1940. Mss: 534 1935 P738 2 boxes, approx. 70 photographs Collection Guide The images in... View Details

09 Apr 2024
Research & Ideas

When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details

Keywords: by Glen Justice

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

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Corporate Reports Collection | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Lehman Brothers Collection Resources Baker Library Collections Corporate Reports Collection R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports HBS Cases Baker Old Class Collection Related Archival Collections Bibliography View Details

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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Visit & Contact Us Special Collections Baker Library Search Search Search U.S. Steel Exhibition Shaping the Corporate Image... View Details

January 2010 (Revised January 2014)
Case

Twitter

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, David Chen, Bill Heil and Aaron Smith

Twitter is a micro-blogging company that allows users to send short text updates to others. The site is used by people, including celebrities, government officials, and businesses. It helps to raise money for non-profit organizations and provides first-responders with... View Details

Keywords: Blogs; Revenue; Information Publishing; Growth and Development Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Web

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Multinationale et fermetures de filiales : les conséquences sociales et politiques de décisions économiques

By: Sabine Pitteloud and Leo Grob

À travers l’analyse détaillée de deux cas de fermeture de filiale dans les années 1970, cet article s’intéresse aux conséquences sociales et politiques multiples des décisions de désinvestissement des sociétés multinationales. La première étude de cas porte sur la... View Details

Keywords: Multinationals; Labor Relations; Corporate Citizenship; Business ＆ Government Relations; Disinvestment; Multinational Firms and Management; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

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16 Nov 2016
HBS Seminar

Ben Shiller, Brandeis University

01 Jun 2005
News

South Asian Women at Work

MBA degree from the University of Karachi, suitcases full of all my saris from my dowry, and an enormous amount of confidence — I’d almost say of naive confidence — in my ability to secure a corporate job at an entry level.” For three... View Details

Keywords: sari; dress code; corporate attire; women

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Letter from Frank C. Ayres to W. J. Filbert, U.S. Steel Corporation - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 next Letter from Frank C. Ayres to W. J. Filbert, U.S. Steel Corporation September 28, 1932 Explore the full size image Letter from Frank... View Details

July 1996
Case

Edmund's--www.edmunds.com

Edmund's publishes an automobile price guide in books (600,000 units per year) and over the Internet (16,000 users a day and growing). The site can be visited at www.edmunds.com. In the marketplace, it makes money selling books. In the marketspace, they make their... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Information Publishing; Information Industry; Auto Industry

March 2012 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Boston Children's Hospital: Measuring Patient Costs

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski and Jessica A. Hohman

The case describes two pilot projects on applying activity-based costing to measuring the cost of treating patients. It presents process maps and financial data relating to the processes used during (1) an office visit to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Costing; Hospitals; Activity Based Costing and Management; Mathematical Methods; Health Industry

14 Jun 2011
News

Digital Flirting — Easy to Do and to Get Caught

29 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Bloom Energy

opportunities, be sure to visit our job board. What recruiting tactics have you found most successful in engaging with students and/or alumni at HBS? Our most successful recruitment tools have been on-site View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

August 1988 (Revised August 1989)
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Poletown Dilemma, The

By: Thomas R. Piper

Senior management of General Motors must select a site for a new assembly plant to replace two plants located in Detroit. The economics strongly favor a site in an adjacent state. However, a relocation would have substantial, negative impact on the existing work force,... View Details

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Offices; Management Teams; Restructuring; Economics; Auto Industry; Michigan

30 Jan 2018
Blog Post

HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship: Making a Difference in Africa

worked at Kenya Commercial Bank, one of the largest banks in the country, touring different divisions within the bank. There, I got to see and understand what corporate life was like and compare it with my previous experience working at... View Details

2011
Interview

Creating Shared Value: Connecting Business, Societal Value and Opportunity

By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer and Jane Nelson

Michael Porter, Mark Kramer and Jane Nelson discuss creating shared value and give examples from HP, Nestlé and Novartis on how corporations can put this approach into practice. For more more information on creating shared value, visit www.fsg.org View Details

Keywords: Creating Shared Value; Value Creation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations