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- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
value for the program participants.” Groysberg’s leadership of the W50 celebration in 2013, marking 50 years of women’s admission to the full-time MBA Program at HBS, combined with his recent case study on the rand* construction company... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
repository of lost opportunities" that serve neither end users nor channel partners very well. Why is this? A: That is because most channels are constructed from the supplier out, rather than from the customer in. In other words, the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
sustainable building. According to the United Nations, buildings and their construction account for 39 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. It was the measurable impact of the work that attracted her. “I had used a lot of analytical tools... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
Group had transformed itself in two decades from a small welding material factory in 1989 to a leading global construction equipment manufacturer with 5 industrial parks in China; 5 R&D and manufacturing bases in America, Germany,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
he notes, “but I’m in a place where I can influence really important decisions every day, and that’s just where I’ve always wanted to be.” — DB Pushing the Ball Forward: As director of strategic initiatives, Jennifer Houston is overseeing View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Moving Mountains
What's it like to be a woman in the "old-boy" construction business of the South? "It's a lot of fun," says Kathy L. Barco (23rd OPM), president of Barco-Duval Engineering, Inc., the Jacksonville, Florida, earth-moving company founded in... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- May 1994 (Revised November 2001)
- Case
Concord Center
By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.
A major shopping center developer and an insurance company form a joint venture to develop a 900,000 square foot super-regional shopping center. Describes the nine-year struggle to deal with market, regulatory, and financial issues to get the project ready for... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Joint Ventures; Construction; Partners and Partnerships; Governance Controls; Market Entry and Exit; Projects; Equity; Corporate Finance; Retail Industry
Poorvu, William J., and John H. Vogel Jr. "Concord Center." Harvard Business School Case 394-200, May 1994. (Revised November 2001.)
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details
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Catherine Neale
into construction management, dealing with subcontractors, inspectors, materials and utilities." In her final year with the organization, Catherine served as liaison for the executive director, managing government and international... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
between ideas from unrelated fields; challenging common wisdom; scrutinizing the behavior of customers, suppliers, and competitors to find new ways of doing things; constructing interactive experiences and provoking unorthodox responses... View Details
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The Moral Leader - Course Catalog
develop the skills, courage, and perseverance to use power, money, and influence in constructive ways." The course readings for this course come from many countries, they include novels, short stories, plays, and excerpts from classic... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-128.pdf PublicationsExtreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States Authors:Paul A. Gompers, Joy Ishii, and Andrew Metrick Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
Abstract Focusing empirically on how political and economic forces are always mediated and interpreted by agents, both in individual countries and in the international sphere, Constructing the International Economy sets out what such... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Gallery - The Art of American Advertising
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
consortium inhibited competition. The FCC finally approved the new cable in July 1999, and also announced that it would launch a broad inquiry into the undersea-cable business. Global Crossing's carefully constructed lobbying campaign... View Details
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Lynda Benglis Cloak-Wave Pedmarks 1998 | About
felt a deep connection to water. These works explore patterns of flow and movement, and function not unlike fountains. The sculptures were initially formed in wet clay that Benglis hand cut and pounded into rectangular, square and triangular sheets. She then affixed... View Details
- June 2013
- Supplement
Union Corrugating Co. (Video Supplement)
By: Jim Sharpe
This is the Video Supplement for Union Corrugating Company(A) and (B) (HBS Cases 803065 and 804003). View Details
Keywords: Family-owned Business; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Entrepreneurs; Sales Force Management; Salesforce Management; Operations Management; COST Control; Gender; Careers; Turnaround; Turnarounds; Supply Chain Management; Restructuring; Entrepreneurship; Customer Focus and Relationships; Supply Chain; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; North Carolina; United States
Sharpe, Jim. "Union Corrugating Co. (Video Supplement)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 813-724, June 2013.
- December 2012 (Revised November 2014)
- Case
W.R. Grace & Co.: Dealing with Asbestos Torts
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
A manufacturer of building products and specialty chemicals, W. R. Grace & Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 in response to a flood of lawsuits alleging that its products contained asbestos, and had caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy Reorganization; Business Failures; Environmental Regulations; Class Action Lawsuits; Natural Environment; Valuation; Health Disorders; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Lawsuits and Litigation; Chemicals; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Legal Liability; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; United States
Gilson, Stuart C., and Sarah L. Abbott. "W.R. Grace & Co.: Dealing with Asbestos Torts." Harvard Business School Case 213-046, December 2012. (Revised November 2014.)