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Ralph Johnson

banking were not the right roles for me. Specifically, the African-American Student Union and the Management Consulting Club were really helpful. The latter had a panel of people who had not initially gotten the consulting internships... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
  • June 1995
  • Case

Polaroid Corporation: European Distribution System

By: Janice H. Hammond and Afroze A Mohammed
Describes distribution operations in Polaroid Europe. In the late 1980s, Polaroid senior management in the United States proposed moving from a system of 12 decentralized warehouses to a centralized distribution system in which all inventory for European retailers... View Details
Keywords: Distribution; Operations; Risk Management; Distribution Channels; Logistics; Transition; Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Industry Structures; Consumer Products Industry; Europe; European Union; United States
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  • 22 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

firms invest in when emissions are costly? With the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme in the EU, California's Assembly Bill 32, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in the northeastern US, and now Australia's Clean Energy Bill,... View Details
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Blog Post

My Misperceptions about HBS

at HBS.  As a student on campus, I felt even more welcomed by becoming an active member of various affinity groups including the African-American Student Union (AASU) and the Africa Business Club (ABC), who had reached out to me before... View Details
  • 06 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)

choice after a campus visit—the casual classroom environment and enthusiastic, welcoming students from the African American Student Union (AASU) and the Latin American Student Union (LASO) made her certain... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Getting Security Right

government will lead to heightened tensions with the United States and allies such as Japan and Taiwan by 2020. What about Europe? The European Union poses a less immediate challenge, but a real one nonetheless. There is an element of the... View Details
Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 14 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

cooperation among countries, as we've seen in some of these post-Soviet cases. Q: You've written about how different countries in the former Soviet Union have reacted toward or against Russia. What about Russia and its own orientation and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World by Jeremy Friedman (University of North Carolina Press) The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but... View Details
  • 2015
  • Article

Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World

By: Jeremy Friedman
This article seeks to understand the motivations behind the People's Republic of China's attempt to present an alternative development model for the post-colonial world and challenge Soviet leadership in the international communist movement in mid-1960s. When the wave... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Business and Government Relations; China; United States; Soviet Union
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Laura Arjona

Jointly sponsored by HBS MBA Admissions, the African-American Student Union (AASU), the Latino Student Organization (LASO), and the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), PSD is an opportunity for members of these communities... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change

influence can equal any government’s. Based in Switzerland, UBS is a financial services company with no obligation to comply with the Kyoto Accord or European Trade Union restrictions on carbon emissions. It has a strong internal culture... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance
  • 09 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

couple of decades, however, there's been growing pressure to separate the two jobs in the interest of more effective checks and balances. This comes mostly from the big state employee pension funds like CalPERS, some of the big union... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

A Matter of Opinion

dominant culture becomes, the more our perspective is limited.” As for business, Navasky thinks it too has a conventional wisdom that holds, for example, that all taxes, regulation, and labor unions are always bad. “Those kinds of... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

at the Highest Levels By: Groysberg, Boris, and Deborah Bell Abstract—The article examines the gender gap that is present in boardrooms in U.S. corporations and internationally in 2013 as more women attempt to reach executive-level positions. Countries in the European... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 15 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review

Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letters to my Classmates Series Members of the HBS African American Student Union have written a series of Letters to our Classmates in an effort to elevate this message: “On behalf of your Black... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Business Answers the Call

education issues, traveling to nineteen states, visiting more than one hundred schools, and speaking with federal and state officials, union representatives, and education think tanks. “I talked to anybody and everybody,” Nielsen recalls.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 2015
  • Report

Decoding the Iran Nuclear Deal: Key Questions, Points of Divergence, Pros and Cons, Pending Legislation, and Essential Facts

By: Gary Samore, Graham T. Allison, Matthew Bunn, Nicholas Burns, Shai Feldman, Chuck Freilich, Olli Heinonen, Martin B. Malin, Steven E. Miller, Payam Mohseni, Laura Rockwood, James K. Sebenius and William Tobey
On April 2, 2015, the EU (on behalf of the P5+1 countries) and Iran announced agreement on "key parameters" for a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran. The EU-Iran Joint Statement is buttressed by unilateral fact sheets issued by the U.S. and Iran, which provide... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; International Relations; Iran; United States; European Union
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  • 10 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

homer making suggests many nuances surrounding the practice, one in which judgment is anything but hasty. All participants find incentives to engage in or cover up for homer making, yet when openly disclosed their participation could be typecast in a very different... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • 16 Nov 2017
  • News

The Business of Social Justice

leadership role and I was never going to run a bank,” Brooks says of her decision to join the Schott Foundation. “Long-term, intangible work was new to me,” Brooks says, adding the work of the foundation—partnering with teachers’ unions... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
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Sekou Calliste

groups, such as the African American Student Union (AASU) and the Latino American Student Organization (LASO). Our annual conference is the only recognized HBS conference not held on campus. Last year, we held the Caribbean MBA Conference... View Details