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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
In a previous study of companies in Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States, Deshpandé and colleagues from Tuck found that the most successful firms in these diverse countries had remarkably similar corporate... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
from corporations and boardrooms to national magazines to a project to elect a woman President of the United States. Upon graduation, Fudge went to work for General Mills and advanced from marketing... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
HBS Association of Ireland: Connecting at Home and Abroad
while for Irish alumni to find their way back to the Emerald Isle — most graduates live and work in the United States or England for a few years before returning to their homeland. Barry himself was no exception. Born and raised in Cork,... View Details
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Related Archival Collections | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
https://www.archive.barclays.com Columbia University The Herbert H. Lehman Collections at Columbia University include material documenting the personal and political life of Herbert H. Lehman, who served as lieutenant governor, governor, and senator of New York, and as... View Details
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Louise Bourgeois Eye Benches II 1996-1997 | About
quality of your eyes and the strength of your eyes that are expressed here. Nobody is going to keep me from seeing what is instead of what I would like.” In 1982, Bourgeois was the first female artist to have a retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In 1993,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
like budgeting, should be part of the annual governance cycle. Whenever plans are changed at the enterprise or business unit level, executives likely need to realign the organization with the new direction. The alignment process, of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
to create. But life in America, which began when he left Iran as a one-year-old, taught him about the qualities that immigrants bring to the country—perseverance, entrepreneurialism, a willingness to adapt to new cultures—that made it possible, he says, for the View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
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Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Mind in Action . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953. Dobbin, Frank. Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Dunlavy, Colleen A. "Organizing... View Details
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
collaboration, and international investment in industry. The United States and Germany are represented as partners in both the railroad and imperialist expansion. In such images of “manifest destiny” that clearly transcended View Details
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
million to $5 million, with most of that money coming from grants from institutions like the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Funding can be canceled with the stroke of a pen.” The NIH allocates money to researchers whose proposals... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
even harder to help those in need. Lu, who began doing volunteer work at an early age, has a deep-seated interest in public-sector work. Rather than pursuing the traditional private-sector path the summer after her first year at HBS, Lu chose to serve as a financial... View Details
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
in applications, although just how many students shy away from applying depends largely on how widely the incident is reported in the media. The June research paper The Impact of Campus Scandals on College Applications shows that a college with a scandal splashed... View Details
- 30 May 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?
Summing Up Does IP Ownership Belong in International Trade Deals? Intellectual property (IP) regulation remains an active issue in trade negotiations between the China and the United States. The most straightforward element of the... View Details
- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
their doctor is also a woman, the study published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows. Researchers looked at about 582,000 census records of patients admitted to Florida emergency rooms from 1991 to... View Details
- July 2022 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
Building a Mishap-Free U.S. Navy
In 2021, Kevin “Bud” Couch, a retired Navy captain who was now working as a civilian employee of the Navy Safety Center, was trying to determine how best to reduce the risk of Navy mishaps. The Navy had experienced a series of major mishaps in 2017 that had led to a... View Details
Keywords: National Security; Safety; War; Ship Transportation; Risk Management; Operations; Singapore; Tokyo; San Diego
Edmondson, Amy C., Herman B. Leonard, Michael W. Toffel, and Michael Norris. "Building a Mishap-Free U.S. Navy." Harvard Business School Case 622-116, July 2022. (Revised November 2022.)
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
of familiarity, cultural gulfs and local differences often remain hidden. Amid these conflicting realities, however, HBS alumni report anecdotal evidence that a youthful and growing cosmopolitan business class is bringing these different worlds closer together. Despite... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
constraints on the autonomy of firms. The book has several case studies that explore this issue. The instances when firms could really dictate to governments, as when the United Fruit Company orchestrated the CIA overthrow of the... View Details
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Bibliography - The Human Factor - – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
1998. Mayo, Elton. The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization. New York: Macmillan, 1933. National Industrial Conference Board. Employee Magazines in the United States. New York: View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges “Water is a human right. It’s shocking that the United States did not sign on to the 2010 United View Details
- 11 May 2020
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Better Than Cash
partnership is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BMZ, Flourish, Mastercard, Norad/Vipps, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the US Agency for International Development, and Visa, and hosted by the View Details