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- 01 Aug 2014
- News
A closer look at the industry of beauty
entrepreneurial imagination: the ability to understand values and trends and to shape them into brands people want," says Jones. Jones describes how, as the industry gained momentum, it played a significant role in standardizing beauty... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
the United States. That trend will continue, they contend. Despite many of the recent excesses in the venture industry and the slide in the economy — and more specifically in the venture-drenched tech sector — Gompers and Lerner assert... View Details
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Collecting Strategy | Baker Library
Collecting Strategy Digital Equipment Corporation catalog, 1968-1969. Kenneth H. Olsen collection. Special Collections & Archives is vigorously building its archival and historical collections to support emerging trends in contemporary... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
into a New England institution and one of the leading consumer banks in the nation. Responding to demographic trends and consumer demands in the mid-1970s, Crozier moved quickly to launch a ubiquitous network of automated teller machines... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
entrepreneurial communities and four recent trends in entrepreneurial activity. The characteristics that make entrepreneurship thrive, said Stevenson, include: resource mobility; reinvestment in the community; joy in the success of... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
entrepreneurialism to preserve a community logic of banking and maintain local control banking infrastructures. We discuss how our study contributes to the emerging synthesis of ecological and institutional perspectives, entrepreneurship, and our understanding of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Industry reports and equity analysis, especially on trends related to the Challenges: View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?
is powerful,” Shaich told the Boston Globe. “Forty percent of America will tell you in a survey that they’re trying to eat more plants.” It’s a trend Shaich followed himself as he hit age 60. “I hired a trainer and ended up becoming much... View Details
- 25 Jul 2014
- News
Fostering connections with business leaders in India and South Asia
to South Asia through executive education programs, a lecture series, and the University's South Asia Initiative," explains Raina, a former Citibank senior executive. She facilitates research into emerging trends and business issues... View Details
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Teaching Resources - Business History
from the past as they build their future careers. Historical Data Visualization The Historical Data Visualization project provides geographic maps of historical data on broad economic, social and political trends both globally and within... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Just Rewards
workforce, streamlined operations, and grown business. At Greggs, his policy of putting employees first was initially criticized by shareholders, but the approach yielded positive results for all and illustrated the benefits of investing in workers. Darrington also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising
Public Health) found that the agreement has had little effect. In their article in the New England Journal of Medicine last August, King and Siegel analyzed trends in expenditures for advertising between 1995 and 2000 by examining fifteen... View Details
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Business of Ideas - Course Catalog
expertise are cultivated and understood. It will interrogate how and why ideas rise and fall, and how this process is linked to broader sociopolitical trends like populism, the rise of a “new oligarchy,” the democratization of idea... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
and the United States survey the evolution of multinational banks and offer a framework by which this development can be understood. They analyze the multinational banking strategies of selected countries and institutions from the early 19th century to the late 20th... View Details
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Introduction - The Worker - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Affirming the role of the employee, then, became part of a growing trend in management as a way to inspire collaboration and reduce alienation experienced in the repetitive nature of standardized working conditions. Elton Mayo, professor... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Great Priority Reset
1998), CEO of the global airports and travel retail group daa plc since 2017. (He starts a new role as CEO of UK-based food manufacturer Greencore this fall.) This idea of “travel with intention” is a key trend in the industry that... View Details
- 04 Nov 2019
- News
A Home for Startups
Ankit Samdariya (MBA 2013) is CEO of The Hive, a collaborative workspace firm in Chennai, India. In this video, he discusses how the company is serving the rapidly growing trend toward collaborative work among Indian startups and small... View Details
Keywords: work space
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
styles are resonating with consumers. By monitoring data such as social media chatter, shared images, and Google searches, Trendalytics can identify specific trends that a brand can then use to guide everything from the product mix to... View Details
- July 1991 (Revised September 1995)
- Case
Eastman Kodak Co.: Managing Information Systems Through Strategic Alliances
In January 1988, Colby Chandler, Kodak CEO, created the Corporate Information Systems (CIS) and appointed Katherine Hudson head. She at once became the first head of IT and first woman corporate vice president in the company. Throughout 1989, Hudson inaugurated a... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Partners and Partnerships; Organizational Structure; Success; Trends; Information Management; Service Operations; Manufacturing Industry
Applegate, Lynda M. "Eastman Kodak Co.: Managing Information Systems Through Strategic Alliances." Harvard Business School Case 192-030, July 1991. (Revised September 1995.)
- Mar 2012
- Article
The Looming Challenge to U.S. Competitiveness
suffering not only from a deep cyclical downturn but also from underlying structural threats to its long-term competitiveness. The authors cite evidence of structural problems in trends that predate the recent recession. These concerns... View Details