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24 Jul 2014
Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

in restricting the ability of firms to locate where it makes sense for them to be, but rather to create tax reform that makes US firms more competitive. Chairman Wyden, Ranking Member Hatch, and Members of the Committee, it is a pleasure... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical

13 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

Business School Case 308-072 As it entered its seventh academic year, Codman Academy, an expeditionary learning charter school located in Dorchester, Massachusetts, was reflecting on its successes and challenges. The school had succeeded... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Portrait Project

Daniella Yacobovsky

Visiting has become harder as his memory slips away. First short-term memory faded, and then long-term memory followed, and finally my name has joined that list of items just beyond his cerebral grasp. His warm smile recognizes my face, but he cannot seem to View Details

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Ludcke - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About the Institute About the Institute Contact Us Faculty & Staff Institute Associates Ludcke FAQs Ludcke History of Ludcke House The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness is located in Ludcke House, a historic building on... View Details

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HBS Club of Chicago Charitable Fund: Working with Chicago Children’s Choir | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

HBS Club of Chicago Charitable Fund: Working with Chicago Children’s Choir Josephine Lee Job Title President & Artistic Director, Chicago Children’s Choir Location Chicago, IL, USA Topics Nonprofit Strategy & Governance More Impact... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Map Quest

use your GPS to locate the brand-new Map & Atlas Museum at 7825 Fay Avenue. Or better yet, unfold a crinkly old paper street map to find it. Mike Stone (MBA ’88) might find that latter method more appropriate. A couple of decades ago,... View Details

Keywords: maps

01 Jun 2016
News

Community Building

The Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center opened this month, providing a vibrant hub of activity for the more than 10,000 senior executives who attend the School’s Executive Education programs each year. Located at the eastern terminus of Harvard... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Entrepreneurship flourishes in the Bayou

former managing director of State Street Research to become COO at Idea Village, also located in New Orleans, where he worked with more than 300 startups until 2013. “I’m an entrepreneur at my core,” explains Wilkins. Idea Village works... View Details

November 2006
Article

The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies

By: Raghuram G. Rajan and Julie Wulf

Using a detailed database of managerial job descriptions, reporting relationships, and compensation structures in over 300 large U.S. firms, we find that firm hierarchies are becoming flatter. The number of positions reporting directly to the CEO has gone up... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Change; Business Ventures; Compensation and Benefits; Rank and Position; Wages; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Jobs and Positions; United States

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01 Sep 2011
News

Green Day

her yard. Interested in a “green” career post-HBS, she found it difficult to locate the alumni and networking opportunities that would provide a leg up on the job hunt, so she joined forces with Fishman to create an alumni organization to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

May 2017
Case

ATH Technologies: Making the Numbers

By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard

An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) relocation process, and 5) takeover by new management. At each stage, students must... View Details

Keywords: Balancing Innovation And Control; Performance Evaluation; Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Risk Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Profit; Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Innovation and Invention; Management Succession; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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Navigating a Career in Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

allows me to use my strengths to make a real difference. Katherine Cunningham Job Title COO, Families for Excellent Schools Location New York, NY, USA Topics K-12 Education More Impact Stories A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations Mizuho Kanai... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

All in Good Time

percentage of revenues as well. Potential employees can post their résumé and use the Mom Corps job bank at no charge; they can also pay a fee to have their résumé revamped. The challenge of maintaining Mom Corps’ sense of identity and level of service at every... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; staffing agencies; parenthood; Accounting, Tax, Bookkeeping, Payroll Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 1998
News

Booting Up

presenting informative photo displays of the latest large-size footwear, the Web site (www.designershoes.com) offers a special service to locate and ship hard-to-find items. "We get e-mails from people searching, say, for size 13AAA boots... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Jun 2003
News

Strategic Networking

making contacts have an outside perspective that can be informative for someone who has been working at one job for any length of time. That’s a valuable asset, too.” Alumni Career Services is located in Teele Hall, 230 Western Ave:... View Details

Keywords: Networking

06 Dec 2012
News

New Thinking on Healthcare Reform

written of his personal experience with the healthcare system. Cue MinuteClinic, located in 640 CVS stores across 25 states. Staffed with nurse practitioners and physician assistants, it provides on-the-spot care for routine ailments such... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

you decide to put together this collection of articles? Porter: In retrospect, my work divides into three major areas. The first has to do with how firms compete in industries and gain competitive advantage. The next focuses on locations... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

13 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing

on-campus networking portion, which allows students and the HBS alumni who represent your company to get to know one another. If the panel date doesn’t work for your team, and you have a location within driving distance, invite students... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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Energy data sources: consumption and efficiency

site to locate needed information.) You may also use the key reports such as: World Energy Outlook by International Energy Agency (IEA) Energy Economics by BP.com (This site provides rich data and reports.) View Details

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U.S. Competitiveness Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the U.S. economy. The Looming Challenge to U.S. Competitiveness In a March 2012 article of the Harvard Business Review , Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin outlined the looming challenge to U.S. competitiveness. The United States is a competitive View Details

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