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14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

numbers in mind, several of the planet's top city planning and environmental business experts gathered at Harvard Business School earlier this month to discuss how to support the inevitable population... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Case Services - Faculty & Research

agreements, ensuring the confidentiality of information entrusted to HBS faculty during their case development and other research. Experienced editors are available to faculty for either copyediting or developmental editing. Case Services also provides View Details

27 Feb 2023
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How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards

The retail business is not for the faint of heart. Turning a consistent profit requires navigating many variables, such as hiring capable staff, ordering the right products at the right time, and complying with a litany of regulations.... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Retail

27 Apr 2016
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How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

organization that not only solved crimes but also prevented attacks. “He thought he was signing up to run a law enforcement agency. He ended up with a job he didn’t sign up for. And God bless him, he pulled it off” Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2024
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Case Study: Testing the Waters

Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

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Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry

By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn

U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While... View Details

Keywords: Public Sector; Science-Based Business; Research and Development; Sovereign Finance; Pharmaceutical Industry

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March 2014
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Babcock International Plc

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin

In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering services provider in the UK with sales of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Change; Strategy And Leadership; Diversification; United Kingdom; Military; Nuclear Power; Nuclear; Engineering And Construction; Conglomerates; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom

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17 Dec 2007
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The Rise of Medical Tourism

What used to be rare is now commonplace: traveling abroad to receive medical treatment, and to a developing country at that. So-called medical tourism is on the rise for everything from cardiac care to plastic surgery to hip and knee replacements. As a recent Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

29 May 2006
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Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

"Is talent management portable?" That's the question asked and answered in a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing issues surrounding how top managers can transfer their skill sets to a new company. The... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

08 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

be strongly immersed in quantitative training and have a disciplinary orientation. The social science disciplines in particular were economics, sociology, and psychology. Quantitative reasoning eventually took precedence. Q: What choices... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

education and training have too often reinforced barriers between working and learning, rather than bridging the worlds of education and employment. This is an opportune moment to re-evaluate the country’s fundamental approach to human... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

27 Sep 2006
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Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

philanthropic efforts but more often helping communities through core business practices, such as gaining flexibility to hire and fire from the union by raising wages and increasing training or helping... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Jan 2013
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The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

Caitlin C. Rosenthal didn't intend to write a book about slavery. She set out to tackle something much more mundane: the history of business practices. But when she started researching account books from the mid-1800s, a period of major... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

20 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

of the trap is the subject of the new book, Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It, by Max H. Bazerman, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Ann E. Tenbrunsel, a professor of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

Most managers think the legal department is that office down the hall where they go to keep out of trouble or write a binding patent agreement. And that's shortsighted, says Harvard Business School professor Constance Bagley. A company... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

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2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Smitha Das (MBA 2018) - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details

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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

ready. Taking a Step Back Even the most ambitious and accomplished of HBS professionals will want, or need, to step back from business commitments to address more personal concerns, such as: Childcare and family growth Elder care and... View Details

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Indoor Spaces | About

Indoor Spaces Many indoor spaces inside the buildings of the Harvard Business School campus have been named in honor or in memory of donors, alumni, faculty, and friends of HBS. Anderson Classroom The Franklin R. Anderson Classroom,... View Details

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Team - Case Method Project

is the staff assistant for the High School Case Method Project where she works with teacher support and survey processing. Prior to working with the Harvard Business School, she assisted with a fellowship that View Details

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The U.S. Job Search for International Students - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

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