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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Gradient Ventures Lauren Taylor Wolfe , Cofounder & Managing Partner, Impactive Capital This panel will highlight how we can effectively build the governance mechanisms for climate action. Thousands of companies have publicly announced... View Details

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Contact Us - Research Computing Services

remote (and using a VPN), include job IDs for your submitted jobs, and any error logs. Name* Email* Describe the Issue* Use 5 W's as your guide: who, what, where, when, and why. * Required field Live Demos Stay tuned for announcements... View Details

March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
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WeightWatchers: Promoting Weight Health

By: Ranjay Gulati, Cynthia A. Montgomery, Ashley Whillans, Allison Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean

In December 2023, the 60-year-old weight management industry stalwart WeightWatchers announced the launch of WeightWatchers Clinic, which incorporated GLP-1s , a new class of prescription weight-loss medications, into the company’s portfolio of products and mobile app... View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)

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01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small

announced $16 million in Series A funding from investors, which it will use to expand its platform and offer more products and services to customers. Shruti likens the current phase of her entrepreneurial journey to “being on a hike where... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

28 Jun 2022
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The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Aug 1998
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Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

as his daughter Anna and her husband, Thomas C. Nelson (MBA '88), are graduates of the School. In addition, Spangler has been deeply involved in a broad range of HBS activities and was a 1988 recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award. An HBS professorship also bears... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Competitiveness Partner to Develop Value Measurement Tool for Hospitals Washington, DC (July 18, 2019): Leaders from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness gathered on Capitol Hill today to... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

market participants and the financial press. Monetary policy announcements are analyzed word by word for clues to the central bank's future actions. Such scrutiny seems inconsistent to interest rate setting models in which policy makers... View Details

12 Oct 2021
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Apollo Hires Legendary Banker Bill Lewis (MBA 1982) to Boost Top Ranks

article announcing the move in Bloomberg. Before that, he spent 24 years at Morgan Stanley, becoming the firm's first African-American managing director in 1989. Lewis was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Harvard Management... View Details

May 2010
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Is Delaware's Antitakeover Statute Unconstitutional? Evidence from 1988-2008

By: Guhan Subramanian, Steven Herscovici and Brian Barbetta

Delaware's antitakeover statute, codified at Section 203 of the Delaware corporate code, is by far the most important antitakeover statute in the United States. When it was first enacted in 1988, three bidders challenged its constitutionality under the Commerce Clause... View Details

Keywords: Courts and Trials; Opportunities; Bids and Bidding; Laws and Statutes; Decisions; Change; Acquisition; United States

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

Strategy ; Announcements ; Decisions ; Music Entertainment ; Values and Beliefs ; Borrowing and Debt ; Geographic Location ; Global Range ; Governance ; Employee Stock Ownership Plan ; Management Style ; Organizational Culture ;... View Details

28 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

up a task force to determine the extent of the problem and evaluate proposed fixes, some of which Luca had recommended and described in a Harvard Business Review article coauthored with Ray Fisman. The company has since made a series of View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service

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Corporate Governance

By: Charles C.Y. Wang

The characteristics and structure of boards of directors have important implications for firm performance. Professor Wang has found that firms with well-connected boards whose members have strong network connections provide economic benefits that are not immediately... View Details

06 Jul 2016
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How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

decision was announced captures the despair and anger of the workers to be displaced. It also captures a management team trying to act reasonably by giving workers a rare one-year notice of the move—but doing so with a tin ear. For... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing

01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

forward, I will speak only in English,” he announced at his weekly asakai—the company-wide staff meeting. Within two years, he declared, all employees would be required to demonstrate proficiency in English. The motivation for... View Details

28 Sep 2023
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Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive

director in Sarah Stockwell. “I’m delighted to announce that Sarah Stockwell has joined the Alumni Relations team as the new Director of Alumni Clubs & Associations,” says Gold, adding that Stockwell’s arrival this month completes a team... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; community service

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

of the mediator, he opened discussions by announcing that the eventual outcome was obvious and that he was prepared to make a final offer: 3 percent, the most he could have offered. The union's leadership was pleased by this offer—yet... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

17 Jun 2017
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Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

01 Mar 2024
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On the Radar

In 2023, the United Kingdom announced its intent to build a real-time biothreat radar, and the US Department of Defense released its first-ever biodefense review, calling for an early warning system. Still, “this is very much an education... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

announcements such as "Tom Cruise dropped out of Cold Mountain" and "Angelina Jolie is attached to star alongside Brad Pitt in Mr. and Mrs. Smith," and matched those to their corresponding MovieStocks on HSX. To... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

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