Chicago - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jan 2001
What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

latest manifestation of a lecture given 68 years ago by Ronald Coase, now professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Law School. Prof. Coase set forth a theory designed to help set limits on organizational boundaries. He proposed... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 1997
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A Message from Dean Clark

Research and Course Development in California's Silicon Valley in order to provide a base of operations for our faculty who are studying and developing cases on the rapidly growing, dynamic enterprises in that region. In Chicago next... View Details

20 Apr 2016
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Steps to Success

B,” she recalls. With Goldberg’s help, Ruhr got a summer job working for General Mills in its Stockton, California, regional grain office. Upon graduating, she went to work for the company, first on the trading floor at the Chicago Board... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

February 2011
Exercise

Pitch Your Project!

By: Thomas Steenburgh

No matter what you do later in your career, you are going to have to learn how to pitch ideas. Perhaps you will want to convince a venture capitalist to invest in your new business idea. Perhaps you will want to convince your company to develop an innovative product.... View Details

Keywords: Business Plan; Change; Venture Capital; Governing and Advisory Boards; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Product Development; Interests; Complexity; Chicago; New York (state, US)

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01 Dec 2019
News

Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change

finance, product, policy, or legal, there is a way to tackle part of this big problem,” he says. Caroline Quazzo (MBA 2017), a founder within Exelorate Growth, the internal incubator of Exelon, the leading provider of zero-carbon energy in the US, attended the events... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers

01 Mar 2004
News

HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania

HBS alumni excursion was organized by Global Adrenaline, an adventure travel company based in the Chicago area. The overwhelming response to the trip allowed Nancy Collins (MBA ’99), our trip leader and Global Adrenaline’s founder and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

28 Mar 2019
News

California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change

the urgency.” Webster said the BEI’s Climate Change series for alumni launched with a roundtable discussion in San Francisco last year, followed by events in Miami, Washington DC, New York, and Boston. Future events are planned for View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

offered filers the option of investing part of their refunds in savings bonds at fifteen H&R Block offices north of Chicago in March and April 2006. This pretest was designed to pave the way for more substantial experimentation this... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

01 Jan 2006
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Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969

view is better when you’re closer to the precipice.’ ” MMG (Multinational Management Group) was launched in London, Paris, and Chicago in early 1972, but with Great Britain’s economy then bogged down with state-owned enterprises, high... View Details

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Terrance McGuire

“I just felt compelled to hang with these guys who I thought were doing important things,” McGuire said. After his stint in Chicago at GTCR, McGuire headed back to Boston to join another successful venture firm, Burr, Egan,... View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

Heinz, of the famous food company; Marshall Field, the Chicago retailer; Estée Lauder, who created one of the largest cosmetics companies in the world; Howard Schultz, of Starbucks Coffee Company; and Michael Dell, of Dell Computer... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Bibliography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School Case 555-001, 1955. Buse, Peter. The Camera Does the Rest: How Polaroid Changed Photography . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Butters, J. Keith, and John Lintner. Effect of Federal Taxes on Growing... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

Steven Rogers

Steven Rogers (MBA 1985) Before his 14th birthday, Steven Rogers (MBA '85) was already learning a lot about business. He had delivered newspapers and milk in his Southside Chicago neighborhood, bused tables at a downtown hotel,... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Retail Trade

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

19 Aug 2021
News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

Foundation in Chicago did a one-hour speech. And the one-hour speech was imploring the audience in one of the prominent business clubs in Chicago to support financial reparations to the Black community. I'd... View Details

11 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

the problem, not one that most economists would prefer." Not In My Backyard The influence of politics becomes clear in "Reading Energy," a case focusing on the travails of entrepreneur Tom Cassel, who wants to build an electric power plant in View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Bruce. “The Public.” Printers’ Ink , December 12, 1935, 17–20. Bogart, Michele H. Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Brown, Elspeth H. The Corporate Eye: Photography and the... View Details

01 Jan 2003
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James E. Burke, MBA 1949

Greatest CEOs of All Time." "I was glad to see that the article focused on Johnson & Johnson's values," he observes. Fortune praised Burke for reaffirming the corporate principles and values that later led to his decision in 1982 to pull Tylenol off the shelves after... View Details

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

impact on the organizations they lead. Hunting the High-Impact Leader From Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter By Gautam Mukunda In the middle of May 1860, delegates to the Republican National Convention met in Chicago to choose the... View Details

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Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Art of Photographic Advertising: The 1934 National Alliance of Art and Industry Exhibition The photographs in this collection were part of an exhibition that displayed in Rockefeller Center, New York City and The Lakeside Press Studios in View Details

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