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  • 23 May 2019
  • News

Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

the map in the United States,” says Cohen. “The three of us created a business plan. Tracy executed it absolutely brilliantly.” “I tilt toward doing, rather than planning,” says Palandjian of building Social Finance from an idea into a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • Web

Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, providing aid to postwar Europe and Asia. From 1949 until 1957, he represented the state of New York in the U.S. Senate, working tirelessly to protect... View Details
  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

direction, resulting in an excessive number of brands and factories organized nationally in a Europe undergoing economic integration, and a virtually autonomous business in the United States. There were... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

2018 Northamption, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

They came to the United States with nothing but a great work ethic and a great attitude." As Martin Klinzing put it, "Essentially this discussion boils down to the fact that you can teach someone anything except to care."... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
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Aldrich Hall | About

Jr. was a noted philanthropist who believed that wealth should be “an instrumentality of constructive social living.” In that spirit, he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation, funded the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg, purchased the Manhattan acreage that... View Details
  • May 2024
  • Article

Housing Policies and Energy Efficiency Spillovers in Low and Moderate Income Communities

By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Olga Churkina, Becky D. Rafter and Kira E O'Hare
Housing policies address the human dimensions of increasing urban density, but their energy and sustainability implications are hard to measure due to challenges with siloed civic data. This is especially critical when evaluating policies targeting low- and... View Details
Keywords: Energy Efficiency; Public Policy; Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Policy; Income; Environmental Sustainability; Real Estate Industry; United States
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  • 21 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

welfare. We attempt to insert the desires of "regular" Americans into these debates by asking a nationally representative online panel to estimate the current distribution of wealth in the United... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2024 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

Target Malaria: Editing Mosquitoes through Gene Drives

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
Target Malaria, a non-profit research consortium, is exploring the application of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology to combat malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its approach uses gene drives, a revolutionary tool, to suppress the population of malaria-carrying... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Strategy; Genetics; Ethics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States; United Kingdom; Burkina Faso; Africa
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  • January 2007 (Revised May 2008)
  • Case

Henry Luce and the American Century

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Logan Wilcox
Henry Luce, founder of the publishing company which produced Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, created the largest media company in the world by the mid-20th century. Luce's flagship magazine, Time, was able to gross over $20 million in sales during its... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Leadership Style; Emerging Markets; Publishing Industry; United States
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  • Profile

Adriann Dolphin

What’s the best thing about your hometown? I’m originally from Palm Beach, FL, but I consider Washington, DC my adopted hometown. I loved being at the center of history in DC. I’m a big history and architecture nerd, so I loved going to see the monuments and museums in... View Details
  • 14 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

psychology at the University of British Columbia. She co-authored the study with colleagues Hanne K. Collins, now a research associate at Harvard Business School; Ashley V. Whillans, now an assistant professor in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

History NY Aaron Sparrow Baruch College Campus High School New York, NY MA Danielle Spencer Madison Park Technical Vocational High School Boston, MA Subjects: U.S. History 2 (1877-Present) NY Anthony Staccone Tutorial House, United View Details
  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

to second-line drug regimens, 3.8% had died, and only one patient had been lost to follow up. A costing analysis done by the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative suggested that the model could feasibly be spread to other districts. Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, Executive Director of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Language Wars Divide Global Companies

company called by the pseudonym GlobalTech, based in Germany, with mixed nationality teams working in the United States, Germany, and India. Two years before the study, GlobalTech standardized on English as... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • February 2013
  • Case

New Earth Mining, Inc.

By: William E. Fruhan and Wei Wang
New Earth Mining is one of the largest producers of precious metals in the U.S. While the firm operates mines primarily in the U.S. and Canada, it has also made substantial investments in gold exploration projects in Australia and Chile. New Earth has been very... View Details
Keywords: South Africa; Capital Budgeting; International Business; Return On Investment; Mining; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Valuation; Investment; Diversification; Mining Industry; Australia; South Africa; Chile; Canada; United States
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  • 13 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

Private equity buyouts are a polarizing financial prospect. One need only look at the name of the recent bill that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced to regulate private equity in the United States—the “Stop Wall Street Looting... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
  • 08 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

management," says Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School. "But far fewer confront a basic fact: Companies typically spend much more money and hire many more people,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Musculoskeletal Integrated Practice Unit Teams Course Trains New Army Musculoskeletal Integrated Practice Unit Teams WOMACK ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, FORT BRAGG, NC: After launching the Musculoskeletal Center of... View Details
  • 10 Feb 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Hong Luo of Harvard Business School and Julie Mortimer of Boston College, Department of Economics