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01 Jun 2002
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Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago

the Ansley Consulting Group — the two are glad to share the position. “I travel, Molly travels,” says Mott. “What happens if I'm out of town on the day of a club board meeting? We know that one View Details

Keywords: Amy Burton

January 2020
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SK Group: Social Progress Credits

By: George Serafeim, Ethan Rouen and David Freiberg

SK Group was one of the largest companies South Korea. A family-run conglomerate consisting of around 120 subsidiaries and employing more than 100,000, SK was tightly knit into the fabric of Korean society. SK viewed their future success as contingent upon the strength... View Details

August 1996 (Revised May 1997)
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Delta & Pine Land: Measuring the Value of Transgenic Cotton

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Charlotte A. Tasker

Discusses the joint venture between two companies with different capabilities: 1) technology provider and 2) transportation agent. Discusses how to capture value from joint venture and biotechnology: 1) who are winners and who are losers; 2) how much value can/should... View Details

Keywords: Agribusiness; Joint Ventures; Marketing Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Performance Consistency; Information Technology; Transportation; Valuation; Biotechnology Industry

2019
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The Consequences of Invention Secrecy: Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War II

By: Daniel P. Gross

This paper studies the effects of the USPTO's patent secrecy program in World War II, under which over 11,000 U.S. patent applications were issued secrecy orders that halted examination and prohibited inventors from disclosing their inventions or filing in foreign... View Details

Keywords: Invention Secrecy; Invention Disclosure; Trade Secrecy; Secrecy Orders; Cummulative Innovation; Wold War 2; Patents; National Security; History; Innovation and Invention; Outcome or Result; Intellectual Property; Policy; Commercialization; United States

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Young and No Money? Never Mind: The Material Impact of Social Resources on New Venture Growth

By: Mukti Khaire

Although growth is a desirable outcome for new ventures due to the many advantages of large size, most new firms fail to grow, largely due to their limited resources and adaptability. This paper addresses the question of how new ventures grow despite their limited... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Status and Position; Advertising Industry; Chicago; New York (city, NY)

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Statement of Activity & Cash Flows - Financial Report 2018

Financials Statement of Activity & Cash Flows 11ms Revenues IN MILLIONS for the Fiscal Year ended June 30... 2018 2017 2016 MBA Tuition & Fees $ 138 $ 133 $ 127 Executive Education Tuition 207 191 176 Publishing 240 221 217 Endowment... View Details

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Statement of Activity & Cash Flows - Annual Report 2019

Financials Statement of Activity & Cash Flows 2ms Revenues IN MILLIONS for the Fiscal Year ended June 30... 2019 2018 2017 MBA Tuition & Fees $ 140 $ 138 $ 133 Executive Education Tuition 222 207 191 Publishing 262 240 221 Endowment... View Details

01 Oct 2014
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Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat

Keywords: by Paul Novosad & Eric Werker

February 2008
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Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

This article constructs a theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms in a productive system. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks, in which tasks-cum-agents are the nodes and transfers—of material, energy and... View Details

Keywords: Boundaries; Production; Market Transactions; Supply Chain; Management; Cost; Theory; Performance Productivity; Information Management; Complexity

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05 Jan 2017
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Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs

a long list of adjectives and verbs as masculine or feminine then scanned a popular job site to look for those words. They found that job ads in male-dominated fields (like software programming) tended to View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Statement of Activity & Cash Flows - Annual Report 2017

Financials Statement of Activity & Cash Flows 3ms Revenues IN MILLIONS for the Fiscal Year ended June 30... 2017 2016 2015 MBA Tuition & Fees $ 133 $ 127 $ 120 Executive Education Tuition 191 176 168 Publishing 221 217 203 Endowment... View Details

August 2003 (Revised August 2024)
Case

Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and John McDonough

Many health care innovations appear successful; but fail. This is the first case in the Innovating Health Care course that investigates how to create successful health care innovations. It is part of the first module in the course. This module focuses on how to... View Details

Keywords: Three Pillars; Industry Analysis; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Medical Specialties; Health Industry

15 Jun 2021
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Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

that have ignited her confidence over the years. Now she is sharing that confidence boost with others by using 20 years of experience, a lot of grit, and a heart full View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

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Statement of Activity & Cash Flows - Annual Report 2020

Financials Statement of Activity & Cash Flows 3ms Revenues IN MILLIONS for the Fiscal Year ended June 30... 2020 2019 2018 MBA Tuition & Fees $ 136 $ 140 $ 138 Executive Education Tuition 146 222 207 Publishing 262 262 240 Endowment... View Details

23 Jun 2021
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How I Sourced My Internship Outside of the US: Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu

Nyantekyi-Owusu. “I heard this recommendation from my personal mentors as well but spending the summer in the US didn’t set me on fire. It didn’t give me that buzz. My intuition told me to look for opportunities with startups in Africa,... View Details

06 Jan 2010
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Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

called "context," namely the competitive environment, whether it is due to legal, social, regulatory, or other kinds of change. For example, the rise of hackers changed the "context" in... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

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Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction... View Details

June 2015
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Beacon Group of Hong Kong: Finding Light in the Shadow Education Industry

By: Christopher Marquis, Qi Li and Guy Leung

After more than 25 years of operation, Beacon Group had grown from having 3 small classrooms on the fourth floor of a commercial building, to a network of 21 centers across Hong Kong with over 60,000 students enrolled per year. The key long-term challenge for the... View Details

Keywords: Online Education; Education; Tutoring; Incentives; Hong Kong; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Family Business; Education Industry; Hong Kong