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  • January 2011 (Revised July 2011)
  • Supplement

Caterpillar, Inc. (B)

By: David F. Hawkins
Analyst must identify role of management and actuarial judgment in measuring corporate post employment benefit obligations and assets. View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Compensation and Benefits; Resignation and Termination; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Thinking Green

As part of the cross-University program Harvard Thinks Big, in December six professors from different Harvard schools offered their thoughts on climate change. University Professor Rebecca Henderson and Professor of Management Practice Robert Kaplan joined colleagues... View Details
Keywords: awards; Mining; Mining; Mining; Mining; Mining; Mining; Mining; Mining
  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

reporting, while strengthening vigorous enforcement of environmental laws. “This workshop was a gold mine of new contacts, information, and studies,” he says. One paper that Silberman found particularly interesting looked at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

WhiteHarvard Business School Case 713-015 For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms-inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit, and growing dependence on China. Between... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

objectives in case method learning. One challenge for case method instructors is the assessment of students' class participation, particularly in large classes. This article offers a solution that mines the practices of peer-to-peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

could fit in two 40-foot intermodal shipping containers. The UPower reactor was designed to serve the need for "off-grid" electric power. These off-grid customers were in remote locations such as mining operations, military... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2017 (Revised May 2018)
  • Case

The Flint, Michigan Sit-Down Strike

By: Tom Nicholas, Christopher T. Stanton and Matthew Preble
For roughly six weeks between late December 1936 and February 1937, a major strike at several critical General Motors (GM) plants in Flint, Michigan, essentially halted the corporation’s U.S. production and resulted in significant gains for the nascent United... View Details
Keywords: Industrial Unionism; Craft Unionism; Welfare Capitalism; General Motors; Labor; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Wages; Working Conditions; Government Legislation; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Community Relations; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; United States; Michigan
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  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

to accomplish the following: mine your sales data to identify "homerun" products you're missing; reinvent your forecasting and pricing strategies; build end-to-end agility into your supply chain; establish incentives that align... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

advantage of the gold mine of qualified women in a host labor market that traditionally has excluded women from middle- and upper-level management. "What surprised me was that the multinationals seemed to be hiring differently in the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Profile

Michael R. Bloomberg

career plan. “I was supposed to go to Vietnam,” Bloomberg recalled during a recent Bloomberg TV interview. “But at the last minute they wouldn’t take me because I had flat feet. A friend of mine said to `Go to Wall Street.’” Bloomberg... View Details
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

Vavilov, who had co-founded Bitfury and expanded it substantially from its bitcoin mining roots, felt a blockchain-driven makeover of this sort would take place not just in Georgia's government but also around the world. It was not a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2019
  • Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

families like mine have the same opportunity to succeed. My time at the Obama White House and on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has been dedicated to that cause. But, more than ever, that vision of America is under attack. I will... 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
  • Web

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
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Terms of Use | HBS Online

computer equipment or networks connected to any of the Services through hacking, password mining or any other means; (c) obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information on or via any of the Services not intentionally made... View Details
  • 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
  • Web

Past Issues - Alumni

professor change how American history is taught in high schools? The New Space Race Touting everything from asteroid mining to shoebox-sized satellites, a new generation of space entrepreneurs is taking the search for the next big thing... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

but Bill still wondered if they were a fluke of the data, a result of data mining rather than the reflection of a true market anomaly. He wanted to discuss several possible explanations of the phenomenon and to decide whether Martingale... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Lesson from the Fall

"...But the good news is your old Enron stock has become a high-priced collectible." © 2008 www.cartoonstock.com Nearly seven years after its collapse, Enron continues to fascinate those interested in corporate leadership and governance. The latest chapter of the Enron... View Details
Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Mining; Mining; Mining; Mining
  • 07 Oct 2013
  • News

Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

Keywords: Mining; Mining; Mining; Mining