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01 Sep 2004
News

Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)

statistical norm of two children. Her in-laws were appalled when she went back to work when her youngest started school; no one blinked when I went back to work after an eight-week leave. Her career options were nurse, teacher, librarian (her choice); View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

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Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society

and Julia Comeau. Harvard University and urban mining industries: Decarbonizing the supply chain By Shirley Lu and Robert S. Kaplan Monsters in the machine? Tackling the challenge of responsible AI By Paul M. Healy and Debora L. Spar... View Details

05 May 2003
What Do You Think?

Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?

reactions, often unknown even to them, are "unlocked" through concepts based on neuroscience and psychology. That is one conclusion that can be drawn from Professor Gerald Zaltman's thought-provoking new book, How Customers Think. Why not View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

Mining for Growth in an Economic Crisis Gary P. Pisano, Elena Corsi, and Elisa FarriHarvard Business School Case 610-021 In December 2008, Gianluigi Nova, CEO of Tenova SpA, a technology and equipment supplier to the metals and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2011 (Revised July 2011)
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By: David F. Hawkins

IASB proposes new defined benefit plan accounting standard. View Details

Keywords: International Accounting; Governance; Compensation and Benefits; Standards; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry

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08 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

describes the growth of Guggenheim Brothers as one of the largest mining companies in the world in the early twentieth century. Global expansion led the firm to Chile, first in copper and later in natural nitrates. Chile's economic growth... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2017
Teaching Note

The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Daniel P. Gross and Lauren G. Pickle

In September 2014, Tom Montgomery (SVP of strategic initiatives at the De Beers Group) and his team launched a pilot program in the United States to explore $1 billion diamond market for pre-owned (recycled) diamonds. According to Montgomery, the motivation for the... View Details

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06 Jun 2014
News

Alternative Fuel Changing the Energy Industry

Keywords: Diesel; Power Solutions International; Mining; Mining; Mining; Mining

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

companies that depend on migrant workers such as the mining industry must consider the social dynamic created by men working away from their families many months out of the year. The sex trade in which those men participate has been... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy

according to Alexa Internet. The business-oriented social network has more than 300 million members, all of whom list their educational and professional achievements on the site in the name of professional networking. Of course, these virtual CVs are also View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Dec 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

world's economies. And its borders extend far beyond the US. Everyone has an opinion about Walmart. Mine is influenced by my only visit to Bentonville, Arkansas 20 years ago. Even then it was a big company. The Saturday morning management... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

more favorable coverage when spills were reported—the researchers performed a textual analysis of the newspaper stories, mining the text with software that ranks the tone of the words used in a given story. When they added up the scores,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

01 Dec 2014
News

Case Study: Growing the Family Business

partial corporate funding could then be sold to prospective investors as a way to kick-start things. — HBS Senior Lecturer Jeff Bussgang I do like the idea of offering an upfront prepay deal. Like your business, mine (different industry)... View Details

Keywords: childcare; Finance

20 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 20

Target's general merchandise stores outweigh the associated challenges? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510016-PDF-ENG Vale: Global Expansion in the Challenging World of Mining Tarun Khanna, Aldo Musacchio, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

advantage of the gold mine of qualified women in a host labor market that traditionally has excluded women from middle- and upper-level management. "What surprised me was that the multinationals seemed to be hiring differently in the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Michael R. Bloomberg

career plan. “I was supposed to go to Vietnam,” Bloomberg recalled during a recent Bloomberg TV interview. “But at the last minute they wouldn’t take me because I had flat feet. A friend of mine said to `Go to Wall Street.’” Bloomberg... View Details

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

mainstream research would accept the data source. I’m sure tons of others will now begin to mine them. The other striking thing is the importance these iconic entrepreneurs give to a sense of purpose, some sort of higher motivation that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2015
News

Carbon Neutral

1979), Minnick is pressing for a simple solution to curb emissions by putting a tax on carbon that would be assessed where the carbon enters the market, at the mine mouth or oil refinery, and then passed on to the consumer. “You want it... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding

28 Apr 2020
Blog Post

A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business

return home to Queens, NY, to both complete her first-year MBA studies online, and launch an e-commerce site to help her parents’ small business, Bean&Bean Coffee Roasters, stay afloat. “It’s been surreal. This morning, I had a Finance class on a View Details

26 May 2015
Blog Post

5 Ways the Case Method Changes How You Learn

on outside sources to supplement. When there are concepts that are more difficult to understand, there are always resources to help out (discussion groups, tutoring, section mates, professors, assistants, etc.). Discussion groups are diverse for a reason; View Details

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