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Jana Kierstead | About

Jana Kierstead Bio Jana Pompadur Kierstead is the Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations at Harvard Business School. She brings over 25 years of experience to this role, with more than 20 View Details

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Micom Caribe (A)

By: David M. Upton and Joshua D. Margolis

Describes the Puerto Rican manufacturing plant of a transnational company. The award-winning plant has dramatically improved the quality of flexibility of its operations, by taking a radical approach to manufacturing. The methods center on the use of specific... View Details

Keywords: Business Plan; Multinational Firms and Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Product Launch; Production; Performance Improvement; Quality; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry

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Chip Bergh is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, Chip served as president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) from September 2011 until January 2024. He also served on the Company’s Board of Directors... View Details

11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

18 Jun 2024
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Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

retailers raised prices more frequently, passing the increases to consumers at a quicker pace than before the large shock. The frequency of price adjustments rose across the board, more than doubling globally and across sectors, from an... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

26 Mar 2007
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Learning from Failed Political Leadership

information for all companies striving to succeed in today's global economy. The book identifies two much-loved illusions that pervade today's mass media: a) the conviction that all of the world's economic systems, including China and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Feb 2002
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How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

political system is very short sighted, Hayes said. American politicians, who only look two years down the road to the next election, try to "placate the electorate" with short-term benefits at the expense of long-term... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Apr 2023
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Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

companies. Portfolio managers and analysts have been using the Global Industry Classification Standard, or GICS—a taxonomy of 11 sectors, 25 industry groups, and additional subsets—to compare stocks since 1999. Periodically, Standard... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework premised on an organization's operational mission, scale, and scope. Not all organizations should... View Details

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

Difference This course will teach you the fundamentals of financial accounting from the ground up. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes. Description of silent animated video above: Assets equals liabilities and owner's equity Get social... View Details

09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That month, Michel raised a Series A round of venture funding and established a partnership with Monster, which he had sold Military.com to. Within its first... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Mar 2023
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What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

The bank run that led to the stunning collapse of Silicon Valley Bank late last week continues to send shivers through the American financial system. SVB, the Santa Clara, California-based bank that catered to the tech industry, was the biggest US lender to fail since... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

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Academics - Health Care

MBA Experience Academics Why HBS for Health Care? Harvard Business School The first-year “required curriculum” (RC) incorporates health care cases and topics in many courses ranging from Marketing and Finance to Entrepreneurship and Strategy. Roughly ten percent of the... View Details

23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

rich and poor. We find evidence that for wealthy Germans, and for the rich half of European nations, higher levels of per capita income don't buy greater happiness. The reason appears to be adaptation. However even for the rich half of European nations such habituation... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Jan 2016
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Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

good corporate citizen at the end of the day, not only do they make it a nicer place to work, but they also help the profitability of the firm compared to those who are at the other extreme,” says Minor, who’s visiting from Northwestern... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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Research Staff Services - Faculty & Research

department, hiring approximately 350 researchers each year. The current RA population is comprised of a group of highly qualified people ranging from recent undergraduates to those with over fifteen years of related work experience. They... View Details

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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

companies navigate African investment opportunities,” Nneka explained. “We're at the forefront of thinking about how we are going to drive global prosperity because without prosperity, there can’t be peace in the long run.” As a... View Details

04 Aug 2023
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Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture

more than 1°C above where they were in the late 19th century. Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are greater than at any time in the last 800,000 years. As a result, the climate scientists noted, global sea levels rose an average of three... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

half-dozen global companies have successfully piloted the method, and a new HBS case written about Harvard University’s potential use of the method to quantify the benefits from sourcing a low-carbon concrete mix for new building... View Details

13 Jul 2020
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Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

As chairman and CEO of the leading vaccine producer in the world, pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., Ken Frazier has one of the highest-profile positions in global business. But Frazier, who is leading one of the firms on a charge to... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

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