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- 01 Mar 2014
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Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
(MBA 1994) "For a pioneering intermediary like Gazelle, there are in principle two ways (not mutually exclusive) to sustain its advantage over the late but numerous entrants. One is to create network effects by moving to a marketplace... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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Where Conservation Means Business
spent a lot of time on lately is removing amber-colored dried tape anchoring the corners of early 20th-century photos from the United Fruit Company archives. Seventy-five photo albums document decades of social and business history across... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
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About Baker Library | Baker Library
integral partners with 21st century scholars. History of Baker Library Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Baker Library is named after Harvard Business School's first benefactor, George F. Baker. The Bloomberg Center extension and south-facing entrance is named to honor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
that "will revolutionize the Web," according to the start-up's four founders, Robert Rosin, Sarah Boatman, Robert Dreyer (all MBA '00), and Tim Tuttle, an MIT Ph.D. The first-place team received the Dubilier Prize -- established in honor of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
FUNDRAISER FOR HOMELESS VETS: HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association members, including Jon Redmond and Kate Kohler (both MBA '06), took turns spending three days and two nights in late March camped out on Spangler Lawn to help raise... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure
September the faculty approved a formal review of the nondisclosure policy. The committee of faculty and administrators charged with this task, led by MBA Program Chair Rick Ruback, unanimously recommended the policy change, as did the broader faculty in a View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
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NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
Ted Johnson, a linebacker with the New England Patriots. “This is a great setting for learning how to make a smooth transition.” Players admitted to being pleasantly surprised by how hard they worked. “People have been up late talking... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
military’s shooting down of a Russian military airplane over the Turkish-Syrian border. The incident threatened to undermine the countries’ political and economic ties, and starting from late 2015, the dialogue between Ankara and Moscow... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
response to changes in global supply and to better meet the needs of a new multi-channel retail environment. The case, set in late 2013, covers the development of Tesco Group Food and identifies future opportunities and challenges.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2014
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Family Values
HBS is committed to ensuring that its learning model provides a powerful, integrated curriculum. A major new gift from the family of the late William F. Connell (MBA 1963) will help this effort as the School continues to prepare leaders... View Details
Fred M. Gibbons
first high-flying tech-based IPOs. In the late eighties, Gibbons introduced Harvard Graphics which soon dominated the market for high-end graphic presentation software on multiple platforms. Though Software Publishing was later eclipsed... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Sep 2009
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Back to School
Photographs By Stuart Cahill, Neal Hamberg, And Matt Stone Reunions in late May drew upwards of 1,000 alumni and their families and gave participants a chance to hear more than two dozen HBS faculty present their latest research during a... View Details
Joe C. Thompson, Jr.
Though Southland was quite a successful block ice retailer in the 1920s, when home refrigerators became popular, the company suffered and was forced into bankruptcy in 1932. Seeing the budding success of the retail grocery store business that had begun as a small side... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Jun 2003
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Fellowships Celebrated
donors and recipients gathered on campus in late April for the third annual Fellowship Dinner. The event brings together those who support financial aid at HBS and the students who benefit from their generosity. This year’s student... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
meaningful. Moreover, there is no evidence of a deterioration of returns over time, despite the growth of the buyout market: RLBOs performed strongly in the late 1980s, the mid-1990s, and the 2000s." For example, RLBOs created a raw... View Details
- 15 Nov 2001
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Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
numerous imitators, as often was the problem in the late 1990s, when the funding of "me too" firms became commonplace. Q: Is the nature of the venture capitalist changing? That is, if Arthur Rock and John Doerr each represent... View Details
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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Photography.” Corporate Patronage of Art & Architecture in the United States, Late 19th Century to the Present , ed. Monica Jovanovich and Melissa Renn. New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc., 2019, 63–76. Elson,... View Details
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Vanity and Virtue: Allegories on the Pursuit of Riches - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
(1553–1619), after Marten de Vos (ca. 1531–1603). Published by Hieronymus Cock, "Aux .4. Vents." [Antwerp, late 16th century]. 29.8 x 32.5 cm, image CF b9 xxx A narrative in two parts. At left, a pious man receives riches from heaven; at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
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In My Humble Opinion: Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990)
highlight: Watching chairman Sean Combs launch the network from the front stoop of the late Notorious B.I.G.’s home on St. James Place in Brooklyn. Five words on Sean Combs: Incredibly market savvy, beautifully unreasonable. On... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
active gateway to entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world; and to evangelize about entrepreneurial management and thinking. Those priorities are evident in events such as the Rock 100 Entrepreneurs’ Summit, a gathering held earlier this year of roughly 140 alumni... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna