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- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
women, by founding the temporary-staffing agency Tempstaff and lobbying to strike down laws that stifled the temp industry. Tempstaff now has approximately 3,300 employees and is a public company. For the past nine years, Shinohara has been on Fortune's list of the 50... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
university chancellor, he's set his sights on solving a few more issues for aboriginal Canadians and for the world. Last fall, the University of Saskatchewan announced the creation of the Institute of Global Food Security—the first of its... View Details
- Profile
Shaun Miller
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Earning an MBA has been a career aspiration of mine since my undergraduate studies - I had always looked forward to the idea of not only expanding my technical skill set, but also learning... View Details
- September 2022 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Trade and Genocide in U.S.-China Relations
By: Jeremy Friedman and David Lane
On June 21, 2022, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) went into effect, requiring companies to prove that goods imported from the People’s Republic of China were not made with forced labor. The bill was a reaction to reports of products being made with... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Legislation; International Relations; Labor; Wages; Law Enforcement; Law; Rights; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Business and Government Relations; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; China; United States
Friedman, Jeremy, and David Lane. "The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Trade and Genocide in U.S.-China Relations." Harvard Business School Case 723-001, September 2022. (Revised November 2022.)
- Profile
Ben Faw
more private-sector experience. Through a friend of a friend, he found an opportunity at Tesla Motors, where he worked on global supply-chain coordination. “I was impressed by what Elon Musk was trying to do to disrupt the auto industry... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
working out of eight global offices. Clients include the Ghanaian government, UNICEF, the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Against Malaria Foundation. In Ghana, for example, members of IDinsight embedded with the... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- Profile
Ben Faw
more private sector experience. Through a friend of a friend, he found an opportunity at Tesla Motors where he worked on global supply chain coordination. “I was impressed by what Elon Musk was trying to do to disrupt the auto industry... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
markets, mobile money is designed to leapfrog plastic by going from cash directly to digital. Because the global economy is increasingly digital, billions of cash-based buyers and sellers are currently excluded from View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
growing: There are now nearly 1,000 space companies worldwide according to industry analyst NewSpace Global, and they are touting revolutionary (and mostly unproven) new concepts in rockets, space tourism, and even space services, ranging from orbital refueling to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
can benefit from the 'cool' aura around our product," notes Grubman. "You don't have to play football to become a fan." But HBS associate professor Juan Alcacer, coauthor of a case titled "The Globalization of the NFL," forecasts... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
2018, Keller left his position as global president of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company to become CEO of Peet’s Coffee; in January, he was named CEO of JDE Peet’s, a merger that added a portfolio of coffee and tea brands represented in more... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
drugs, and will they be less expensive?' My answer is, 'I don't know, and probably not.' Lechleiter was one of several panelists to discuss, "Breaking the Genetic Code: The Business of Life Science in the 21st Century" at the 2001 View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
design, competing interests, global health, personalized medicine, residential care, and concierge medicine, among others—and structures what has been a highly fragmented research area into a coherent scientific discipline. The Handbook... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
article has changed minds, but I do hope it encourages people to open their minds to consider new possibilities. Things that were once seen as relatively safe are now understood as likely to be quite dangerous, such as coal burning's contribution to View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
biotech companies—as a function of cost, time, and failure modes—tend to risk pivot on one program, one clinical trial, one outcome,” he observes. “Our company is the leader in mining muscle biology for drug discoveries that translate... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
implement a “cap-and-trade” framework—capping the total amount of emissions and allowing companies to trade permits to pollute on the open market—fell apart in the midst of partisan bickering. As Washington fiddles, the world suffers under the increasingly undeniable... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
establishment does—you’re going to be looking at those startups.” —Professor Matthew Weinzierl But the salience of space to global national security has only grown as military services and civilian economies alike have become more... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
assumptions that countries can accumulate reserves and borrow internationally using their own currency. As opposed to traditional sovereign-debt models, asset-valuation effects occasioned by currency fluctuations act to absorb global... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
expected to work for a big company like Kodak for my entire career." Arthur D. Little, 1968-76 Becton, Dickinson and Co., 1976-94 Why HBS? "I learned that an engineer whose desk was close to mine at Kodak had been accepted by the School.... View Details