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01 Apr 2002
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Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

International. Saturday's discussion panels examined four main themes: restructuring and economic reforms, humancapital development, industry adaptation in Asia, and multinational corporations and entrepreneurship. A plenary panel on... View Details

Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog

zero, and the need and ways to build a sustainable future. Students will explore the balance of maintaining basic development goals, such as improving infrastructure, reducing poverty, energy access, housing, transport services, water,... View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson

covered everything from the state of the U.S. stock market, to work-life balance, to international capital markets. The spirited conversation was one of two sessions held on campus that aired on the Charlie Rose show in the spring. Rose,... View Details

Keywords: Goldman Sachs; Finance

February 2000 (Revised October 2000)
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CarPoint in 1999

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Gillian Morris

Updates events in Microsoft CarPoint through the end of 1999, focusing on CarPoint's strategic alliance with Ford and on competitive developments. View Details

Keywords: History; Business Model; Transportation Networks; Alliances; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Auto Industry

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17 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

in emissions is enVerid’s Sorbent Ventilation Technology. Commercial buildings contribute 17 percent of US carbon emissions, and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) is responsible for 36 percent of commercial-building energy... View Details

27 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

Cases & Course MaterialsDesign: More Than a Cool Chair Harvard Business School Note 607-026 This introduction to the Design industry includes definitions, and industry statistics, as well as descriptions... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Frances Dixon

learn leadership.” She chose the Air Force because it had the highest percentage of career fields open to women. After two years stationed in Florida, Frances then spent six years in Nevada working with remotely piloted aircraft (RPAs or... View Details

29 May 2006
Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

one of America's best-managed companies. By the 1990s, GE's Appliance and Lighting businesses required careful attention to costs given mature industries and highly unionized labor forces. Its Aircraft Engines, Power Systems, View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

April 1998 (Revised May 2001)
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Acquisition of Consolidated Rail Corporation (B), The

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Lori A. Flees and Mathew M Millett

Eight days after CSX announced it was going to buy Consolidated Rail (Conrail) for $88.65 per share, Norfolk Southern made a hostile $100 per share bid for Conrail. Over the next several months, the potential acquirers upped their bids while exchanging criticism in the... View Details

Keywords: Law; Valuation; Rail Transportation; Bids and Bidding; Governance Controls; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Corporate Finance; Rail Industry; United States

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30 Jan 2006
HBS Case

The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand

Patterson, and book clubs. In nineteenth-century agricultural marketing, farmers transported their crops to market and waited for people to buy them, much as the publishing industry today ships books to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

17 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers

behavior would not sit well at the annual industry association meeting and your holier-than-thou superiority claim might tempt fate and attract a terrorist attack. If anything, safety is downplayed as pre-flight instructions to airline... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation

15 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

itemizes what it spends on cotton, cutting, sewing, dyeing, finishing, and transporting each shirt, consumers become more attracted to the brand and more likely to purchase. “By unpacking the costs, you have the opportunity to explain... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

01 Mar 2005
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Job Interviews

important; the rest of the meeting often serves to confirm an initial judgment made very early on.” That confirmation process frequently begins with an open-ended question such as, “Tell me about yourself,” which Butler views as a prime opportunity for applicants to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

23 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 23

several concrete managerial prescriptions for the selection problem based on this trade-off. Finally, we demonstrate the value of our framework in a case study that considers air traffic management. Ethnic Innovation and U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

sustained success. Source: “Deflategate” HBS case study; image created by Micaela Brody “Whether they take the air out or no you will have to do the analysis for yourself but what we can say is that this is an organization that’s taken a... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports

01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future

aired (to an extent often absent even in today’s energy conversation). Energy Future also has this pertinent warning: “A large, sudden increase in oil prices would have serious indirect effects. It would exacerbate inflation, place... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

27 Mar 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Driving India's EV Future: Insights from Ather Scooter and Exponent Energy

across the country. This January, as part of Harvard Business School's lmmersive Field Course (IFC) in India on "Decarbonizing While Developing," we had the privilege of exploring how various industries are tackling the dual challenges of... View Details

02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

percent since before the industrial revolution. And that carbon dioxide stays in our air for hundreds of years. It will continue to warm the globe. So not only do we have to decarbonize our economy, we have... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right

predicted that his expertise in the business of flight would one day take him beyond the stratosphere and into cyberspace, and to an important role in the e-commerce revolution. After working in nearly every facet of the airline industry... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

15 Aug 2005
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Classic Cases Live On at HBS

happens, the Lincoln Electric Company is now a thriving multinational—and its Cleveland plant remains as successful as ever." Good Wrap, Bum Wrap Case: Sealed Air Corporation Written: 1982 Copies Sold: 234,629 In 1971, T.J. Dermot... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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