by Robert Gibbons - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit

Photos by Scott Clark Kim Riether Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) has an easy laugh. It erupts when the opera-trained singer and accomplished martial artist is asked whether hitting a high C helps power her fist through a stack of boards. “I... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations

25 Jun 2014
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A Man on a Mission

domestic worker who had completed fourth and eighth grades, respectively. "They were not uneducated; they were self-educated," he says today. Influenced by the father of a friend and by teachers in school,... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; NASA; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

24 Oct 2017
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Sixteen Harvard Business School Faculty Named Top 40 Bestselling Case Authors by Case Centre

01 Dec 2011
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A Modest Tax Proposal

profits, as most industrialized countries use.Â In a pure territorial system, the profits of multinational companies based in the United States would be taxed only by the country in which the profit is earned. But none of our major... View Details

Keywords: Robert C. Pozen; tax holidays

14 May 2014
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(Re)moving the Needle

2009), the company's cofounder and CEO. The device, which is powered by an electric motor, is highly customizable across a variety of medical, animal, agricultural, and cosmetic applications. One major market, says Anquetil, is diabetes... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; medical technology; Scientific Research and Development Services

24 Feb 2014
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A Capital Idea for Small Business

Callaghan McGee Photos by Tracy Powell (Editor's Note: Brad McGee passed away in November 2015.) John Callaghan (MBA 1984) and Brad McGee (MBA 1987) became close friends while growing up in the small town of Carmel, NY. Their friendship... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; crowd-funding; online communities; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

18 Feb 2014
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Stick with Plan A

markets, mobile money is designed to leapfrog plastic by going from cash directly to digital. Because the global economy is increasingly digital, billions of cash-based buyers and sellers are currently excluded from global commerce. These... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Waleed Iskandar (MBA 1993); Telecommunications

01 Aug 2001
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Reunions to Remember

Once again the early days of June brought hundreds of alumni back to Soldiers Field to reconnect with familiar faces, make some new friends, get a close-up view of the newest developments on campus, and catch up on the latest research by... View Details

Keywords: Harvey V. Fineberg; Robert C. Clark; Wake Smith

27 Sep 2023
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Harvard Business School Announces 2023-2024 Kaplan Fellows

30 Jun 2022
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Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

01 Sep 2012
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An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance

Civilization (1933) and Roethlisberger’s Management and the Worker (1939) document. 1948 Research Center in Entrepreneurial History launched at HBS by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole. 1953 More than 30... View Details

Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services