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Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

American Heart Journal Are Cost Advantages from a Modern Indian Hospital Transferable to the United States? by R. S. Kaplan, F. Erhun, V.G. Narayanan, B. Mistry and K. Brayton, et al We use time-driven activity-based costing to estimate... View Details

02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History

be well suited for the study of history. In 2006 he began developing the elective Creating the Modern Financial System, to examine the intersection of the financial sector and government in shaping financial history through a series of... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi

disparity, and the need for government to modernize itself and not impede the business process. "As a society, we recognize that the private sector is our most dynamic, innovative, and capable institution," Checchi asserts. "To continue... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

source. Poor “play[ed] a major role in the development of one of modern business’s most important ancillary services, the provision of reliable information,” Alfred Chandler notes in his biography Henry Varnum Poor, Business Editor,... View Details

08 Apr 2010
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Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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Teele Hall | About

Education administrative offices. Formally renamed Teele Hall in 2000 in honor of Dean Stanley F. Teele (1906–1967), the modern brick, concrete, and glass structure was designed by Goody & Clancy and constructed in 1985. The... View Details

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Philippe Rival

birthplace of Louis XIV. It is also a modern international hub in the suburbs of Paris, as illustrated by the school I attended there: the Lycée International. Located just outside the first-ever NATO command base, it was created to... View Details

November 2024
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Group AMANA: Built to Last

By: Hise Gibson and Fares Khrais

"The case chronicles the Bsaibes brothers’ journey in founding and operating Group AMANA; a contracting business founded in 1993, based in the United Arab Emirates with operations across the Middle East. Over the years, the business found itself grappling with major... View Details

Keywords: Construction Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates

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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

stocks, padding construction costs, and accepting bribes for political favors. 22 When financial markets collapsed, the railroads exercised their considerable political influence and the state forgave loans or renegotiated payments. Richard White maintains that “the... View Details

15 Jul 2019
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Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

ecosystem to demystify what capital markets are doing. The key to understanding these varied players is to first understand that financial markets are trying to solve the deep underlying problem of modern capitalism. When owners are no... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Business School, 1908-1945. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987. Full text available as a networked resource (valid Harvard ID required). Gabor, Andrea. The Capitalist Philosophers: the Geniuses of Modern Business: Their Lives,... View Details

30 Jul 2012
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How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

prior to the era of colonization. They measured the level of technology adoption for more than 100 countries in three periods: 1000 BC (pack animals, vehicles, and pottery, for example), AD 0, and AD 1500. They also tracked technology adoption in the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

opportunity, despite negative stereotypes of Africa; and how they tailored their strategies for the unique challenges presented by uneven modernization across the 54 countries, government bureaucracy, and infrastructure gaps. “Going to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

08 Mar 2004
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Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

Wal-Mart's and Microsoft's dominance in modern business has been attributed to any number of factors, ranging from the vision and drive of their founders to the companies' aggressive competitive practices. But the performance of these two... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

06 Jul 2011
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Are You a Level-Six Leader?

of the modern world's greatest Opportunists. Also of this genre, although somewhat lesser known, is Jeffrey Skilling, the Enron CEO who sold off tens of millions of dollars of stock just before Enron filed for bankruptcy, claiming he had... View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

01 Sep 2007
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

Matsushita. That volume was followed in 2005 by Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. “Such science-based industries have had as much impact on this... View Details

06 Jun 2007
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Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

to function effectively in our day-to-day lives. "Our perceptual shortcuts are often out of place in modern capital markets," Baker says, "but we wouldn't be able to drive to work without them." View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

28 Jun 2022
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The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Mar 2005
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Turkish Delight

transform Turkey into a successful, modern country — and I have a lot of faith in his ability to pull that off — the relationship between the West and the Muslim world will look very different.” Byford’s interest in politics dates back to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

historical view of economics as an entirely secular product of the Enlightenment, religion exerted a powerful influence from the outset. The foundational transition that led to our modern thinking about capitalism, beginning in the 18th... View Details

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