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Judith Prior Lawrie Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

teaching. So a friend of mine from high school was at Cornell, and through a friend of hers had heard of the Radcliffe Program. And so I probably heard about it that winter or spring of my senior year. So I applied to the HRPBA program.... View Details

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

or prejudice? These are collective failures where we all bear a responsibility. Fixing them is going to take a long time, but we should have the objective clear in mind. Katy DeCelles, James M. Collins Visiting Associate Professor of Business Administration: A friend... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down

The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was considered the most logical path for... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Mining; Mining; Mining; Mining

25 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

have to be, say, United Airlines to take advantage of these tools. Managers can now purchase off-the-shelf products that can mine Twitter or Yelp and develop a detailed analysis of how sentiment is changing in real time. “It has basically... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology

01 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

When Do Alliances Make Sense?

To answer one of the oldest business quandaries—is it better to partner or go solo on a project—John Beshears looked for answers in an unusual place: the oil and gas drilling industry in the Gulf of Mexico. But instead of mining for... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities

23 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 23

http://hbr.org/product/AmazonFresh--Rekindling-t/an/615013-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-026 Asia Optical: The Myanmar Decision No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Asia-Optical--The-Myanmar/an/714026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2010
News

Sole Mates

well-known multinational mining companies such as Rio Tinto and Ivanhoe Mines to develop the Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine, one of the largest recently discovered such deposits in the world. The business... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

buy-outs. To vanquish a problem, we have to understand it. "I thought I was going to live, work, retire, and die in New York City," said Chu. "Then a friend of mine invited me to join the board of a nonprofit, ACCION... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Remote Work Extends to Factories and Farmlands | Working Knowledge

visualizing, and interpreting data. This upside of digital twin technology is particularly relevant for jobs that have traditionally required the presence of human workers in unsafe and faraway places, like mining and on offshore oil... View Details

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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

sharp, detailed portrayals of mining pits, factory operations, research laboratories, and expansive plants that reveal the human as well as technical aspects of the steel-making process. Fritz Henle. Tin plate inspection, Columbia Steel... View Details

13 Oct 2016
News

Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

biotech companies—as a function of cost, time, and failure modes—tend to risk pivot on one program, one clinical trial, one outcome,” he observes. “Our company is the leader in mining muscle biology for drug discoveries that translate... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2004
News

American Dream

passing motorists. Hustead acquired the T. rex, for example, to drive demand for the fossils, rocks, and dinosaur-related products for sale in the Wall Drug Mining Company, one of 21 separate retail departments that generate over $12... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue By: Rashid, Faaiza, Amy C. Edmondson, and Herman B. Leonard Abstract—Three years ago, when a cave-in at the San José mine in Chile trapped 33 men under 700,000... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

full advantage of its growing product portfolio. Students debate the merits of going after new customers by building an enterprise sales force or mining the existing customer base with an inside sales force that already has a lot on its... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Mar 2023
News

Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey

services via aid organizations." One subsidiary of FIBA—a mining company—deployed 230 miners trained in search and rescue to the affected region, and worked there for two weeks, saving 30 people. A real estate subsidiary was able to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

28 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

environmental concerns (for example, water treatment and usage) that a company needed to pay more attention to. The goal was to work with portfolio companies to improve their ESG ratings. By doing so we believe they could potentially improve valuations over time.... View Details

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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Purchase

06 Jun 2014
News

Alternative Fuel Changing the Energy Industry

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

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Prita Kumar

connections here and there in market. It’s just incredible. But they don’t just come naturally. You have to really mine your alumni database and figure out where people are, use LinkedIn and other resources available to you. But the good... View Details

09 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community

There were certain parameters and goals for the role, but it was ultimately mine to own and shape (which was part of the appeal). In retrospect, taking this role was a bit of a risk! What I didn’t know far exceeded what I did know. Note:... View Details

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