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01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint

appear on the goods it delivers. But nearly every major retailer, from Liz Claiborne to Walmart, depends on Li & Fung to stock its shelves. The firm is the quintessential middleman between manufacturers, now... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

was beginning to take hold in the 1920s. Chains and department stores opened across America, using volume sales to offer lower prices on a variety of goods. Gleason encountered competition from these chain stores as well as “pineboards,”... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

28 Jun 2016
First Look

June 28, 2016

raise funds from outside investors. The relationship appears not to be causal but instead driven by selection effects across heterogeneous teams with varying degrees of inequality aversion. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51237 2016 The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Research in Black and White | Baker Library

earliest Polaroid film, Type 40, produced sepia-toned prints that had limited tonal range. Morse and her lab would next focus on producing black-and-white images that exhibited greater detail, a wider tonal range, and a color palette more... View Details

11 Apr 2018
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The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)

song with the Vietnam War heavy on his mind, and spent much of his life as a social justice advocate who fought for prison reform, Native American rights, and for opportunities for children born into... View Details

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Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library

called the case system. 1922 Universities Adopt HBS Casebooks One or more of the first five HBS casebooks have been adopted at 93 universities, signaling increasing popularity of discussion-based teaching in business education. 1922 Case... View Details

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rock the workplace with no end in sight, leaving business leaders to struggle with a wide variety of challenges, including keeping staff members happily engaged—and employed. To make sense of the pandemic’s impact View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

adaptability of socialism. Author Jeremy Friedman traces the socialist experiment over 40 years through the experience of five countries: Indonesia, Chile, Tanzania, Angola, and Iran. These countries would become Cold War battlegrounds... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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The Levitt Brand

started a school newspaper; in high school and later, after serving in World War II, Levitt worked as a reporter and sportswriter for the Dayton Journal Herald, where he helped Bombeck get a job (she would go View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 1999
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From the Editors

as did reports on the expansion of Baker Library's collection, the continuing development of the case method, and, farther afield, the gathering of war clouds over Europe. Early in 1940, new Bulletin editor... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

05 May 2020
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“Walking a Tightrope”

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “Who's actually putting those groceries on the shelves still and who's driving the truck to get that food that... View Details

05 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

2005 on business solutions for alleviating poverty. The work combines chapters from a variety of perspectives—business, academic, government, nonprofit—to examine the nature of poverty, how the poor can become producers as well as... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built

entrepreneurship, neither really understanding it nor teaching or researching it in a committed fashion. To its credit, from the School’s earliest years on, Deans Gay, Donham, and David had encouraged research on the importance of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates

Africa; its importance to the country is as great as the threat to its existence. Illegal logging fueled Liberia’s recent civil war: “Blood timber” financed the violence, just as blood diamonds have in other African conflicts. The civil View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

01 Sep 2017
News

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

Denmark known as Bjergsen. Several thousand people are watching him play LoL, as the game is known, right now on the streaming service Twitch, and tens of thousands more will watch the video of the game later. To guarantee that Bjerg, a... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

One of the country's most renowned venture capital firms, for nearly four decades Greylock has emphasized building businesses rather than stocks, providing hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs, and helping companies contribute new... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

spoke about the importance of getting back on track. Three weeks after the attacks, General Motors president and CEO G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. (MBA '77), told the Wall Street Journal, "The best way we can respond to acts of View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

15 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

World War I, where she engaged with relentless competition in the upscale cosmetics market with her rival Elizabeth Arden. The case examines how Rubinstein created a luxury brand and enables a discussion of the impact of such brands View Details