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  • November 2022
  • Case

GE: A New Way Forward?

By: David J. Collis and Haisley Wert
One of the most iconic American companies, General Electric (GE) was founded in 1892 in New York state. Named among the original dozen companies on the Dow Jones index in 1896, it was the list’s most tenacious holdout, maintaining its “blue chip” stock status for over... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; GE; Conglomerate; Conglomerates; Corporate Strategy; Management; History; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Change Management; Transformation; Strategic Planning; Value Creation; New York (state, US)
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  • February 2016 (Revised October 2017)
  • Case

The Jungle and the Debate over Federal Meat Inspection in 1906

By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
In early June 1906, the House Committee on Agriculture heard testimony from two investigators appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to verify allegations of unsanitary conditions at Chicago slaughterhouses that had appeared in Upton Sinclair's recent novel, The... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Governance Compliance; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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  • 22 Apr 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
  • 18 Apr 2017
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CRC Companies LLC

happen across a full spectrum of services. How long has your organization been recruiting at Harvard Business School and what roles do you hire for? Our organization has a long history of recruiting at HBS. In fact, the leaders of several... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

knowledge and value creation are distributed across many actors. We propose a theory of IP modularity based on value maximization net of transaction and agency costs. We then use case examples to extend the theory into practical settings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

take the ideas from our MBA social entrepreneurship course, which has been taught at HBS for many years, beyond the walls of the HBS classroom. The book is geared toward students with whom we would not otherwise have the opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Second Chance: Life with Less Student Debt

By: Marco Di Maggio, Ankit Kalda and Vincent Yao
Rising student debt is considered one of the creeping threats of our time. This paper examines the effect of student debt relief on individual credit and labor market outcomes. We exploit the plausibly random debt discharge due to the inability of National Collegiate,... View Details
Keywords: Student Debt; Private Student Loans; Legal Settlement; Mobility; Debt Collection; Debt Relief; Borrowing and Debt; Personal Finance; Outcome or Result; United States
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  • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Sep 2014
  • Career Events

Returning to Work After a Break

As a "relauncher" herself, Carol Cohen (MBA 1985) understands the challenges of returning to work after multi-year career breaks. She has also engaged with hundreds of hiring managers to understand their biases and the risk they associate with hiring people who are... View Details

    Building A Culture of Health

    This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a robust model, rooted in organizational and scientific knowledge, for companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four... View Details

    • 2021
    • White Paper

    The Future of Boston's Workforce: The Path Forward from COVID-19

    By: Will Dorsey Eden, Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
    In response to the unprecedented disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic on Greater Boston’s economy and workforce, the Boston Foundation, Skillworks, and the Project on Workforce at Harvard partnered to convene workforce leaders from across the region to address how might... View Details
    Keywords: COVID; COVID-19; Workforce; Pandemic; Labor Market; Health Pandemics; Labor; Employment; Organizations; Cooperation; Strategic Planning; Boston
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    • 05 Jul 2023
    • HBS Case

    What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment

    insights gleaned from teaching his MBA course, Leadership: Execution and Action Planning (LEAP), and from classroom observations of mid-career managers in executive education. Over the past decade, Raffaelli has asked hundreds of students... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • Article

    Why Leadership Training Fails—and What to Do about It

    By: Michael Beer, Magnus Finnström and Derek Schrader
    U.S. corporations spend enormous amounts of money—some $456 billion globally in 2015 alone—on employee training and education, but they aren't getting a good return on their investment. People soon revert to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership Development; Organizational Design; Employees; Business Processes; United States
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    • 2019
    • Chapter

    Origins and Development of Global Business

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This chapter explores how business enterprises have been powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism between 1840 and the present day. Emerging out of the industrialized Western economies, global firms created and co-created markets and ecosystems through their... View Details
    Keywords: Global Business; Multinational; Globalization; Business History; Strategy; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; Oceania
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    • 10 Jan 2017
    • Blog Post

    From Product Development to Business School

    I sat there silently screaming. Eyes flitting across the room at the faces sitting around the table gathered for a Brita leadership team meeting. They couldn’t possibly do it, I thought to myself, clutching my 3D-printed prototype like a... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Manufacturing; Consumer Products / Retail
    • Web

    Global

    Understanding a rapidly changing, Dynamic world Global Research MBA 2025 Denver, CO Julia Siegel 38% of our Class of 2024 MBA students are international. The MBA Experience... View Details
    • 21 Aug 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: August 21

    across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near Pittsburgh led that city to specialization in industries, like steel, with significant... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    An Empirical Study of the Spillover Effects of Workload on Patient Length of Stay

    By: Jillian Berry Jaeker and Anita Tucker
    We use two years of inpatient data from 243 California hospitals to quantify the relationship between hospital-level workload and patient length of stay (LOS), and its "spillover" effects across patient types. Patients are categorized as medical or surgical, and the... View Details
    Keywords: Workload; Processing Times; Healthcare; Working Conditions; Performance Productivity; Time Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; California
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    • 17 Jul 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    A Replication Study of Alan Blinder’s “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?”

    Keywords: by Troy Smith & Jan W. Rivkin
    • August 2012 (Revised November 2012)
    • Case

    Viterra

    By: Ray A. Goldberg and Matthew Preble
    As Mayo Schmidt's tenure as CEO of the Canadian-based agribusiness Viterra wound down before its sale to the Swiss-based commodity company Glencore, he reflected on his tenure, which had seen the firm grow from a Canadian-focused agricultural cooperative to an... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Vision; Strategy And Execution; Growth Strategy; Organizational Change And Transformation; International Business; Farm Cooperatives; Agribusiness; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Canada; Australia; Asia; North America; Europe
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