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- 01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good
activities during his years in the Deanship, but he made a few exceptions. For example, he agreed to join the board of Cabot Corporation in 1990, continuing in the tradition of HBS professors (including C.... View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
up in Atlanta, Georgia,where he was student body president in his high school. He comes by his passion for community engagement and activism honestly; his grandfather and stepmother were both ministers, his... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
Illustration by Robin Jareaux "Giving back" is an important activity for the vast majority of HBS alumni, and the Class of 1976 is no exception. Among the entities benefiting from the class's expertise and... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
readied 19 students for pre-college programs and 14 seniors for college. Minds Matter starts working with low-income high school students in their sophomore year. The students are identified as high... View Details
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Feeley, M.D.f, Neema Navai, M.D. Objectives: Patients undergoing radical cystectomy represent a particularly resource-intensive patient population. Time-driven activity based costing (TDABC) assigns time to events and then costs are based... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
for designing better plastic products. In software, a number of companies let people add custom-designed modules to their standard products and then commercialize the best of those components. Open-source software allows users to design,... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Joining Together for HBS
Judy (MBA 1983) and Steve (MBA 1982) Pagliuca Harvard Business School has an extraordinary legacy of educating and empowering leaders who make a positive impact on business practices and societal problems. This legacy exists today because of past alumni View Details
- 01 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs
engineer for the 767 tanker and 787 Dreamliner. She was particularly taken with the Dreamliner, Boeing’s only fully composite plane, and became curious about what happened to the aircraft after it left the factory. So Shodiya transitioned... View Details
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Is AI Coming for Your Job?
applications present opportunities for job creation by broadening the scope and scale of a company's product portfolio. Conversely, internal-facing applications are more likely to affect knowledge workers' jobs. "AUTOMATING THESE TASKS... View Details
- 04 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees
We often expect corporate executives to conform to certain extroverted CEO stereotypes: C for charismatic, E for effusive, and O for outgoing. To wit: Virgin Group chairman... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
The Rich Get Richer: Enabling Conditions for Knowledge Use in Organizational Work Teams
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
specialist who is in charge of the privatization process for nearly two hundred Iraqi state-owned businesses, excluding the country’s oil industry and large utilities. HBS Students with Military Service in View Details
- May 2016 (Revised September 2017)
- Case
Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern
By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
In December 2015, Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) has just made its third bid to acquire Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC), one of the largest railroads in the United States. Having rejected the prior offers, NSC’s CEO James Squires and the NSC board must now value... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Financial Strategy; Investment Activism; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Offer; Corporate Strategy; Rail Transportation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; United States; Canada
Esty, Benjamin C., and E. Scott Mayfield. "Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern." Harvard Business School Case 216-057, May 2016. (Revised September 2017.)
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Frameworks - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
differently than rivals. The Value Chain A tool for disaggregating a company into its strategically relevant activities in order to focus on the sources of competitive advantage. Creating Shared Value... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
Marshall Plan for Africa. This would require government expenditures. But there's also a tremendous opportunity to match the activities of philanthropists-I know many of our HBS alums are very generous and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
support value-based care is essential. A value-enabling IT platform must organize data around conditions. February 2020 2020 TDABC Starter Kit by Professor Robert Kaplan and Dr. Syed Shehab This article is designed View Details
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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About
office branch, and a barbershop, was repurposed several times as faculty and administrative office space before its extensive renovation and rededication as the hub of the School’s entrepreneurial education activities in 2003. Today, the... View Details
- October 2017
- Teaching Note
Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern
By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Teaching Note for HBS No. 216-057. View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
“Crises offer rare opportunities to make major changes in an organization because they lessen the resistance that exists in good times.” "Leaders must be willing to ask for help," he continues. "They should rely on a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
definition of capitalism. Strategy for Philanthropic Organizations Foundations have traditionally focused on doing good by providing funding to worthy social enterprises. Instead, foundations should set the higher goal of creating social... View Details