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What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives

grassroots activists influence business leaders, public officials, and other decisionmakers. Educate yourself about anti-Black racism to supplement your business school education. Read essays from “The 1619 Project” in the New York Times... View Details

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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

taught courses that include Business, Government and International Economy and Managing International Trade and Investment. A prolific writer, Spar's books including Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos and Wealth from the Compass... View Details

June 2019 (Revised October 2019)
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Note on the Future of Commerce

By: William R. Kerr, Daniel O'Connor and Nathaniel Schwalb

In 2019, the retail and consumer product industries were undergoing a significant transformation. Over the past 50 years, what was once a highly fragmented industry began to consolidate, digitize, and increase convenience while lowering costs. The winning enterprises... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Demand and Consumers; Demographics; Transformation; Global Range; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Model; Leading Change; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

three-color printing processes. In general, color printing was more complicated and expensive than black and white, and its results less reliable and “realistic.” Trade journals essentially considered black and white “preferable to lurid... View Details

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

party and governmental elite and among a new class of entrepreneurs. Surprisingly, Chinese mercantilism is also widening the income gap in Western trading partners. For example, Wal-Mart, the largest and... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

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Cotting House | About

students, MBA fellowships, and faculty development each year. Cotting belonged to the fourth generation of a venerable New England family that figured prominently in the early development of Boston as a city and business center. Through... View Details

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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

more beautiful and artistic a card or plaque is . . . the longer it will be kept in sight and talked about.” 12 Trade Catalogs National Markets 5 “In Printer’s Ink the Secret,” New York Times , 14 October... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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From Retail to Real Estate

traded national chain and generations-long family enterprise—until it was acquired by Walmart for $1.6 billion in 2009. As reported in the Bloomberg story, “Harvard Grad Solves His Family’s $1.6 Billion Liquidity Problem,” Ibañez was... View Details

December 2008 (Revised February 2017)
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Olam International

By: David E. Bell and Mary Shelman

In 20 years, Sunny Verghese had built Singapore-based Olam International from a small Nigerian export company into a $5 billion global leader in agricultural commodities with a core competence in Africa. Olam's growth had come by pursuing product and geographic... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Trade; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply Chain; Expansion; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Singapore

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08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

pervasive impact, it remains only a small part of the computing ecosystem. Keystones can increase ecosystem productivity by simplifying the complex task of connecting network participants to one another or by making the creation of new... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

18 Nov 2022
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What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

professionals with an existing track record.” New employees relocate to Baltimore, where the firm is based. Investment teams are composed of generalists, not specialists, which maximizes knowledge sharing. The approach breaks with the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

hinder its transnational efficiency.” Farah commented, “Bitcoins are useful for trading currencies internationally seamlessly in real time—something current banks lack ” According to Kueth Duany, they are “proving to be another... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

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Industry Information - Alumni

and news on emerging designers, disruptive technologies and global brands in the fashion and luxury goods industries. United States Census Bureau: Retail Trade Provides the industry monthly sales and... View Details

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

painfully." “Lean startups don't try to scale up the business until they have product market fit, a magical event-more easily recognized in retrospect than in the moment-when they finally have a solution that matches the problem.” Eisenmann has developed a View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

vulnerable to superior service alternatives. Along the way, we also show that firms trade off price and service quality and that when the incumbent offers relatively low service quality in a local market, it is susceptible to the entry or... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jan 2012
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Cole, and Jeremy Tobacman Publication:Journal of Marketing Research 48 (October 2011) Abstract Recent financial liberalization in emerging economies has led to the rapid introduction of new financial products. Lack of experience with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27

far more attention. In this compelling and authoritative new book, the authors document a rising chorus of concerns about business schools gleaned from extensive interviews with deans and executives as well as from a detailed analysis of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

to divert search for an information intermediary who enables buyers (consumers) to search affiliated sellers (stores). We identify two original motives for diverting search (i.e., inducing consumers to search more than they would like): 1) View Details