Professor James E. Austin - Publications - Faculty & Research

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People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Senior Associate Dean, Faculty development and research Robin is the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School and the Anne and James F. Rothenberg Faculty Fellow. He is the... View Details

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Cash House | About

Cash House James I. Cash, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus Cash House is named to honor the legacy and... View Details

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

Building on the Legacy Thought Leadership Andrew F. Brimmer James I. Cash Jr. Linda A. Hill David A. Thomas HBS Faculty Members HBS Doctoral Students Alumni Profiles Research Links Essay on HBS Thought Leadership Early AASU documents... View Details

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Utilizing time-driven activity-based costing to determine open radical cystectomy and ileal conduit surgical episode cost drivers by Janet Baack Kukreja, M.D., M.P.H.a,b, Mohamed A. Seif, M.D.a, Marissa W. Mery, M.D.c, James R.... View Details

October 2002 (Revised May 2004)
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Starbucks and Conservation International

By: James E. Austin and Cate Reavis

Starbucks, the world's leading specialty coffee company, developed a strategic alliance with Conservation International, a major international environmental nonprofit organization. The purpose of the alliance was to promote coffee-growing practices of small farms that... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Production; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Alliances; Nonprofit Organizations; Food and Beverage Industry; Mexico

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06 Dec 2022
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Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers

described exactly the same way.” Garcia-Rada is lead author on a new working paper about the study, co-written with Leslie John, the James E. Burke Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products; Retail

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

Emergency Savings." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 14, 2024). More Publications Faculty V. Kasturi Rangan George Serafeim Michael W. Toffel Rosabeth M. Kanter James E. View Details

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

Publications Faculty Michael E. Porter Regina E. Herzlinger Robert S. Kaplan Robert S. Huckman Amy C. Edmondson Richard G. Hamermesh John A. Quelch Alvin E. Roth Amitabh... View Details

25 Aug 2014
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Starbucks Reinvented

untested arenas that define the company as it exists today. "This case distills 20 years of my thinking about the most important lessons of strategy, leadership, and managing in turbulence in the frame of a very relevant company," says Koehn, the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni

broader issues at hand: when and how should corporate leaders respond to societal crises? How can they best prepare their organizations to deal with urgent and often unpredictable calls for action from employees, customers, or other stakeholders? View Details

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AASU50 - Alumni

conferred from 1997-2001. Bert King Award for Service Kenneth A. Powell, MBA 1974 Nancy Lane, PMD 29 Clifford E. Darden, MBA 1969, DBA 1982 Lillian L. Lambert, MBA 1969 Carla Harris, MBA 1987 Ann M. Fudge, MBA 1977 View Details

December 2005 (Revised January 2007)
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Ben & Jerry's: Preserving Mission & Brand within Unilever

By: James E. Austin and James Quinn

In the months after Ben & Jerry's was acquired by Unilever, Ben & Jerry's head social mission faces challenges and opportunities unique in the company's history, including: how to manage employee morale; whether to include synthetic ingredients to meet consumer... View Details

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Problems and Challenges; Mergers and Acquisitions; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Management Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards; Value Creation; Corporate Governance; Employee Relationship Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Retail Industry; United States

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Ann Dewitt (MBA 2009), The Engine Unpacking the Supply Chain Mess with Some First Principles and Common Sense Willy C. Shih, Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business... View Details

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

“Hesper Silver” I was cold-called by Professor Jim Austin to open the case in our first class, on the first day of our first year. I had read the case but had no idea how to analyze it. I was a deer caught... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Team - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

by Professor Michael E. Porter and is based in the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. Faculty and staff engaged in research and education in value based health care form... View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

U.S. Government and Politics, College Prep/Honors U.S. History WA Alexandra Baker Inglemoor High School Kenmore, WA Subjects: Civics MD James Baker Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Baltimore, MD CA Randy Baker Terra Linda High School San... View Details

02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History

Photographed by Webb Chappell In March 2010, the 1787 drafting of the United States Constitution became breaking news. The members of the Texas State Board of Education had convened in Austin to review the state’s history and other social... View Details

Keywords: April White

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1929: The Great Crash - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

securities legislation of 1933–1934 and subsequent founding of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) have been regarded as a successful chapter in financial regulation. These efforts bear the stamp of Harvard Professor of Law View Details

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Partners - Case Method Project

Government IN 8 of 9 Katlyn Smolar Donald E. Gavit High School Hammond, IN Subjects: AP U.S. History, Civics Honors, American History Honors IN 9 of 9 Jeff Swisher Donald E. Gavit High School Hammond, IN... View Details

01 Dec 2000
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A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

Faculty Advisory Group, served as cochair of the conference with Professor James E. Austin. Stevenson noted that the entire project has been a key element of the School's... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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