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12 Jun 2012
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Study finds that safety inspections save lives, billions in workers’ comp costs

31 May 2012
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It’s official: OSHA overstates claims of study on inspections

11 Jun 2012
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When Business Competition Harms Society

07 Dec 2012
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Apple CEO’s Pledge to Make Macs in the U.S. Seen Adding 200 Jobs

18 Nov 2010
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The Psychology Behind The Best Business Strategies

17 Oct 2023
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Case Study: How Should We Diversify Our Supply Chain?

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Exploring the Duality Between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis

By: Alan MacCormack, Carliss Y. Baldwin and John Rusnak

A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that the organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are... View Details

Keywords: Organization Design; Architecture; Modularity; Open Source Software; Communication; Design; Governance; Management Practices and Processes; Open Source Distribution; Product Design; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Performance; Problems and Challenges; Behavior; Software

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What Do Nongovernmental Organizations Do?

By: Eric D. Werker and Faisal Z. Ahmand

Nongovernmental organizations are one group of players who are active in the efforts of international development and increasing the welfare of poor people in poor countries. Nongovernmental organizations are largely staffed by altruistic employees and volunteers... View Details

Keywords: Non-Governmental Organizations; Growth and Development; Welfare or Wellbeing; Poverty; Service Delivery; Crime and Corruption; Social Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Resource Allocation; Product Development; Framework

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17 Jan 2012
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Abstract Trying to operate two business models at once often causes strategic failure. Yet LAN Airlines, a Chilean carrier, runs three models successfully. Casadesus-Masanell, of Harvard Business School, and Tarziján, of the Pontificia... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity

worldviews and ways of operating are directly informed by the circumstances of our lives. Many employers have facilitated implicit bias tests that help team members understand the deeply entrenched nature of our interpersonal... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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Navigating the Populism Phenomenon

they’re able to destroy countries that were relatively successful. And that’s certainly true around the world. How does this trend affect businesses? RDT: The rise of populism affects the business environment even in places where the government itself is not populist.... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jan 2005
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

company's long-term viability. The strategy paid off, with sales jumping well over 50 percent in the first year alone. Under intense scrutiny, Gerstner then reversed a plan to split IBM into independently operated "Baby Blues," choosing... View Details

Leonard A. Lauder

Well before he officially assumed the CEO title, Lauder was the “man behind the scenes,” shunning publicity and acknowledgment to perpetuate his mother’s image. While his mother, Estee Lauder, tended to external relations, Leonard built an efficient and productive... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

Jules S. Bache

Bache took over his uncle’s brokerage business and built it into one of the premier financial services firms in the early decades of the twentieth century. His operation helped to facilitate the reorganization of the American Spirits... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets. We wanted to know in what ways forces within capitalism itself might create... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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HBS Course: Starting a Private Investment Firm

Factiva, type rst=priest in the search box or click on Source and type in title. Private equity operational due diligence: tools... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Case Study: Tip the Scale

photos courtesy of Walden Local Meat In 2014, Walden Local Meat founder and CEO Charley Cummings (MBA 2011) crisscrossed New England in a company truck to personally deliver orders of chicken, pork, lamb, and beef—all pasture-raised on small-scale New England farms.... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence

illustration by Taylor Callery illustration by Taylor Callery Artificial intelligence is not a replacement for the human brain. At least not yet. “That is decades away,” says Rudina Seseri (MBA 2005), answering one of the most common questions she hears. As cofounder... View Details