James Baker - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

self-sufficient while not being self-sufficient ourselves?— Alfred Wise,Share Our Strength The session, led by HBS professor James E. Austin, featured three managers whose experiences highlight the challenges and benefits of thinking... View Details

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December 2015 (Revised May 2017)
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Corning, 2002

By: Malcolm Baker

Corning, with large investments in fiber optic technology, was hit particularly hard by the collapse of the telecommunications industry in 2001. With over $4 billion in debt, the firm's survival appears to rest on raising additional equity capital. James Flaws, the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Financial Condition; Financial Instruments; Valuation; Capital; Public Equity; Stock Shares; Business or Company Management; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry

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September 2022
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Blake Sports: Evolution of the CEO and the Executive Team

By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

Cameron (Cam) Barker, CEO and Founder of Blake Sports Apparel, sat in his office at his company’s headquarters in Birmingham, England, feeling stunned and disappointed. Only a few minutes prior, he had wrapped up a meeting with CFO James Ryan, a highly-respected star... View Details

Keywords: Leadership And Managing People; Leadership Skills; Team Dynamics; Team Effectiveness; Team Leadership; Team Management; Leadership Style; Leadership; Management; Management Skills; Management Style; Talent and Talent Management; Groups and Teams; United Kingdom

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Purchase

Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry

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Business Economics - Doctoral

Stantcheva Jeremy Stein James Stock Ludwig Straub Tomasz Strzalecki Lawrence H. Summers Elie Tamer Winnie Van Dijk David Yang Current HBS Faculty Laura Alfaro Samuel B. Antill Brian K. Baik Malcolm P. Baker... View Details

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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

Welcome Address 10:00–10:30 a.m. EST Speakers: Srikant Datar , Dean of the Faculty, George F. Baker Professor of Administration and Robin Ely , Baker Foundation Professor and Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of... View Details

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Stories

Kelley 29 Oct 2024 Alumni Stories A Fearless Fighter Honored Bravery of WWII veteran James Holt Green (MBA 1935) recognized in Slovakia 23 Oct 2024 HBS Alumni News Running Man Lessons in resilience from 77-year-old ultramarathoner Eric... View Details

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

1966–1980 Sewell L. Avery Montgomery, Ward and Company, 1936–1955 B Earl D. Babst American Sugar Refining, 1915–1937 Jules S. Bache J. S. Bache & Company, 1892–1944 Leo H. Baekeland Bakelite Corporation, 1909–1939 Melvin H. Baker National... View Details

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Finance Faculty - Faculty & Research

Finance Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Unit Head Victoria Ivashina Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration Anne and James F. Rothenberg Faculty Fellow Unit Head, Finance... View Details

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Lifelong Learning - Alumni

Rounding the Bend New technologies offer new hope for a circular economy in the apparel industry Re: Emily Bolon (MBA 2007); James Reinhart (MBA 2009); Christopher Homer (MBA 2009); Maria McClay (MBA 2006); By: Jen McFarland Flint 537 01... View Details

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Organizational Behavior Faculty - Faculty & Research

Organizational Behavior Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Unit Head Joshua D. Margolis James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration Unit Head, Organizational... View Details

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Accounting & Management Faculty - Faculty & Research

Campbell Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Business Administration Aiyesha Dey James R. Williston Professor of Business Administration Trevor Fetter Senior Lecturer Henry B. Arthur Fellow Susanna Gallani Tai Family Associate Professor... View Details

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

Mount Sinai Medical Center, as well as the board of directors of the 92nd Street Y. August earned an MBA from HBS as a Baker Scholar and a BS from Cornell University. Professor James E. Austin (MBA 1968, DBA... View Details

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Faculty - Faculty & Research

Assistant Professor of Business Administration Jerry R. Green David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy John Leverett Professor in the University Brian J. Hall Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration Leslie K. John James... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

thousands of companies, and millions of managers around the world. The case method teaches students how to learn: to practice drilling down to the root cause of issues, asking questions, and listening to others’ viewpoints. A new website , an exhibition by View Details

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General Management Faculty - Faculty & Research

Administration Michael S. Kaufman Senior Lecturer of Business Administration John Jong-Hyun Kim Senior Lecturer of Business Administration William C. Kirby T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration Nancy F. Koehn View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

Alex Riolo and James Blume October 2024 | Case | Faculty Research Citation Educators Related Vallee, Boris, Alex Riolo, and James Blume. "ADU It Yourself: Unlocking Housing Potential in San Diego." Harvard... View Details

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Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center | About

Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center Dr. Chao, daughters and their families with Harvard University President Drew Faust and Harvard Business School Dean, Nitin Nohria Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center was made possible through the support of a Dr. James... View Details

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Indoor Spaces | About

experience. de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room, located in Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, was made possible through the support of the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Foundation and is named in honor of the... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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The Burden Legacy

1953, MBA 1955). William A.M. Burden Sr. made a mark at Harvard as First Marshal of his graduating class and captain of the football team. Returning to his native New York, he launched a career on Wall Street with the firm James D. Smith... View Details

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