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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
transcontinental [railroad] became.” 36 Regulation supported the abilities of companies in other industries to become larger corporations as well, and companies sometimes subsumed other organizations with related functions required for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
stuck with him. He talked to local organic farmers to learn more about the nuts and bolts of planting, watering, and harvesting. Hundreds of miles to the northwest, at the Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron, Nebraska, he found indigenous... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Authors:Joseph Rhatigan, Sachin H. Jain, Joia S. Mukherjee, and Michael E. Porter Abstract The care delivery value chain is a framework that can help conceptualize the organization and structure of care delivery for medical conditions. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
Business Development at SunPower. Chrissy Kahn (MBA 2023, Section J), Summer Internship: Strategy Intern at Montauk Seaweed Supply Company Montauk Seaweed Supply Company is a start-up working to transform New England-area farmed seaweed... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance
Great Depression, when foreclosures on residential properties soared alongside farm foreclosures. Scholars still know relatively little about the American real estate industry before World War II. The U.S. Commerce Department did not... View Details
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
he went so far as to write 10 to 20 handwritten personal notes to employees at all levels of the organization each day to recognize those who were performing well. During his 10-year tenure as CEO, that added up to over 30,000 notes to... View Details
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Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season
Street to people-watch on a warm summer evening. Spend an afternoon on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Take advantage of food trucks, fountains, beer and wine gardens, and an oasis of organically maintained plantings—running right through the... View Details
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
work safety movement Influence: Low 10 1910 s 19 Sedition Act Prohibition begins Red Scare Race riots Influence: Medium-High 20 1920 s 19 Social divisions arise between rural and urban areas Women's suffrage Harlem Renaissance Rampant bootlegging and View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
recent years, we have learned that applying standard formulae to corporate transformations is, at best, ineffective and, at worst, dangerous. What's needed is a new approach that enables executives to transform organizations proactively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
response to it, particularly in the developed economies, fits this description. Environmentalism, as we have known it since the 1960s, has been grounded in the physical sciences, law, economics, and public policy. Advocates for strong environmental policies arose... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
and training, as well as organ transplantation, is limited. Researchers disagree about how to increase the number of whole-body bequeathals, citing a shortage of donations from the one group perceived as most likely to donate from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26
PublicationsCommentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization Authors:Allen, William T., Reiner Kraakman, and Guhan Subramanian Abstract This fourth edition is completely updated throughout. It now includes excerpts from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
smallholder farmers capitalized on existing infrastructure to farm rubber around the edges of established groves, creating a rubber supply parallel to that produced by the foreign direct-invested estates. This increase in supply drove... View Details
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Paul Leonardi. Ryan L. Raffaelli : Runner-up for the 2024 Best Entrepreneurship Paper Award from the Academy of Management, Organization and Management Theory Division, with Ryann Noe. Ryan L. Raffaelli : Runner-up for the 2024 Wyss Award... View Details
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
value-added products like yogurt. The entry of large multi-brand retailers like Walmart and Carrefour in the Indian market threatens to squeeze Amul's margins and undermine its low-cost distribution network. India's large young rural population is shying away from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
Avery, it is essential for organizations diving into digital not to give in to the temptation to farm out blogging and social media to outside companies. "You have to be confident that whoever is... View Details
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
in Central New Jersey before it was populated in the '1940s and '50s. Once I went away to school, that sort of got left behind. When Judy and I bought a farm in Vermont, that rekindled both of our interest and desire to just be on that... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
Heifer International, the anti-poverty organization perhaps best known for its livestock donation program. “We can do this by building businesses. We are putting families in commerce. They are not just growing vegetables in a garden. They... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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The Natural Advantage
farm in Dorset, England. As he worked the property, Heeks realized that principles of sustainable development and sound organic farming could be applied to the successful... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
Nicholas Tiller (MBA 1998) grew up in a farming community, but it was his experience in hedge-fund management in the food and energy sectors that led him to establish Sustainable America, a nonprofit with the aim of reducing US oil... View Details