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Brass billets into rods - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection View Details
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Taking temp during pouring - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

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  • February 2013
  • Case

Diamond Foods, Inc.

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Tim Gray
The Diamonds Foods, Inc. case describes the major accounting blow up at the company in late 2011 that was triggered by a report by Off Wall Street, a prominent short selling research firm. Diamond Foods, a high flying growth company in 2011, grew from a walnut farmers'... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Restatements; Accounting Scandal; Accounting; Financial Analysis; Financial Statement Analysis; Short Selling; Revenue Recognition; Board Of Directors; Audit Committees; Auditing; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Agribusiness; Accrual Accounting; Earnings Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Revenue; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; California; Cambridge
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  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

HBS Celebrates Launch of New Legacy Society

Maxson) HBS celebrated the official launch of the new John C. Whitehead Society in New York City in December. Nearly 150 alumni and friends gathered View Details
  • 12 Aug 2021
  • News

Remote Interns Who Created Virtual Water Cooler Moments with Managers Significantly Boosted Their Chances of Getting Hired, a Study Shows

  • January 1994
  • Case

ABC Sales and Service Division: A Case Study of Personal and Organizational Transformation

By: D. Quinn Mills, Brock W. Orwig, Janet M. Pumo, Todd C. Stilson and Richard C. Wei
In the midst of dramatic changes in the information systems industry and declining profits at the ABC Co., the vice president in charge of the sales and service division, Jeff, and his managers attempt to transform their division. The transformation gets off to a good... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation; Motivation and Incentives; Resignation and Termination; Communication; Business or Company Management; Information Technology Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources

experts granted the privilege of sharing her knowledge, Henderson used her time, she says, "to tell him everything I know about business, energy, and the environment."... View Details
Keywords: Dalai Lama
  • July 2017
  • Article

What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us About Earnings Surprises and Post-announcement Returns?

By: Kenneth A. Froot, Namho Kang, Gideon Ozik and Ronnie Sadka
We develop real-time proxies of retail corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within quarter) and the period between that quarter's end and the... View Details
Keywords: Announcements; Business Earnings; Sales; Retail Industry
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  • 31 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

purchases. This approach would not only insure more people, but could lead to more innovative, less costly approaches to generating medical breakthroughs, the team says. Chandra, who is the Henry and Allison... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health
  • 25 Jun 2018
  • Blog Post

The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”

equity with Berkshire Partners, Aaron came to HBS “to gain an understanding of how businesses function from a perspective beyond the financial analysis and View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • 02 Feb 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?

doers at the senior levels of management." Advice to leaders in formulating decisions was provided by Keith Pinto, who opined that "Encouraging mavericks, risk... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • April 2016 (Revised June 2017)
  • Teaching Note

Dollar General Bids for Family Dollar

By: Jonas Heese, Paula A. Price and Suraj Srinivasan
In spring 2015, Dollar General CEO Rick Dreiling was looking ahead to retiring at year's end but worried about ensuring continued growth for the company he had built since 2008 into a market leader in the U.S. discount retail world. Dollar General operated over 11,500... View Details
Keywords: Dollar General; Family Dollar; Dollar Tree; Antitrust; Board Of Directors; Activist Investors; Federal Trade Commission; Acquisition; Valuation; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Private Networks of Managers and Financial Analysts and Their Externality on a Firm's Information Environment

By: Zengquan Li, T.J. Wong and Gwen Yu
When emerging market firms raise external capital, they face a tradeoff where greater transparency may lead to a lower cost of capital but at the cost of revealing proprietary information in their relational business practices. We find that firms overcome this... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Market; Financial Analysts; Information; Emerging Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Corporate Governance
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  • 17 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future

activities. Last year, Deckers was named one of the Top 100 ESG companies by Investor’s Business Daily, a ranking based on both ESG performance... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Spring greetings to all HBS alumni! The arrival of April signals the start of intense planning for spring events View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Web

Texaco: A Picture Story - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

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  • 13 Jun 2014
  • Op-Ed

World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention

ads, billboards, and sponsorships in a month. In other words, this would make FIFA the seventh largest business in the world, after Britain's BP and before Japan's Toyota, when... View Details
Keywords: by Thales Teixeira; Sports
  • Web

General Electric distribution transformer - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

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Saco-Lowell no. 2 condenser - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

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  • 09 Mar 2021
  • News

Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

Sara Enright (MBA 2004) speaks with students at the Community College of Rhode Island. Courtesy Sara Enright When former Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo came into office... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie