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01 Sep 2017
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Starting Lineup: Power Plays

Venture Competition, is currently in use by more than 1,500 companies. Callida Energy CEO Raphael Carty (MBA 1983); Founded 2013 Reducing energy waste in commercial buildings and improving comfort through app-based surveying and learning... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Mar 2012
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In Memoriam

Business History, Emeritus, Tom McCraw, “Dick was a model for how to live both the life of the mind and the human spirit: the rare combination of a tough, critical intellect and an upbeat temperament.” The George Gund Professor of View Details

Keywords: obituraries; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

March 2005
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Henkel Iberica (A)

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem

In 2002, Esteban Garriga, customer service director at Henkel Iberica, questions whether Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR) would help manage retail promotions and limit their impact on the stock-outs and obsolete inventory. Describes the... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Forecasting and Prediction; Price; Distribution Channels; Strategic Planning; Commercialization; Valuation; Rail Industry; Germany; Spain

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Theobald Gathering Spaces | About

Spaces A 1995 Alumni Achievement award recipient and commercial banking leader, Tom Theobald (MBA 1960) was a past member of the Alumni Board of Directors, Board of Dean’s Advisors, HBS Visiting Committee and also served as Chair of his... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Big Turnout for Business Plan Contest

27. The winner of the business venture track, OsComp Systems, is commercializing an innovative technology that forces natural gas through pipelines at lower cost and with greater efficiency. The social venture track winner, Urban Water... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

December 2009 (Revised April 2012)
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Neoprene

By: Tom Nicholas and Felipe Tamega Fernandes

In 1931, during one of the worst economic crises in U.S. history, Du Pont announced the discovery of an innovative rubber synthetic product—neoprene. Yet at the time of the announcement, Du Pont did not have any neoprene to sell. Manufacturing facilities were still... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Business History; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Chemical Industry; United States

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Fair Access to Insurance Requirements (FAIR) legislation which has been adopted by 26 states. Over the years, Procope dramatically expanded her business to include commercial lines of coverage and in the process secured business from over... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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American Business History Records | Baker Library

German-born financier Henry Villard (1835-1900) played key roles in the financing of the transcontinental railroad and development of the electrical industry. R.G. Dun & Co. Credit Report Volumes Credit reports created by America's first View Details

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The NAAI Exhibition Opens - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

organizers paid homage to Alfred Stieglitz in a reception dedicated to the "dean of American photography." By the 1930s a new generation of photographers with a modernist sensibility pursued commercial photography as both an artistic... View Details

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Introduction - The Product - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

breakfast cereals. In the industrial photograph collection, business school students could study techniques of commercial photographers who exploited the dual nature of the medium: photographic realism (or the illusion of it) within a... View Details

25 Jun 2018
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Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’

water businesses and water policy from around the world to solve a particular water challenge, and then accepts the best ideas into an accelerator to advance them and help them reach commercial viability. We've had over 650 companies come... View Details

22 Feb 2017
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Funding Solar’s Future

SolarCity, Vivint and their ilk install individual solar projects on commercial and residential roofs, Barcott and McCready wanted to address the financing needs of the utility-scale solar developers, which provide power directly to the... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business of Babies

commercial business," Spar said. "I think this is wrong. The demands of the parent will outweigh political and moral opposition." However, those who want to succeed in the market need to fight to shape property, privacy,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

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Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research

module on LSEG Workspace check out our Learn with Baker Library LSEG Workspace Introduction. Preqin
Information on PE & VC firms, funds, private companies, and deals. REIS
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Bibliography - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Related Collections Site Credits Bibliography Crossman, Carl L. The Decorative Arts of the China Trade: Paintings, Furnishings and Exotic Curiosities . Woodbridge, Suffolk [England]: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1991. Downs, Jacques M. The Golden Ghetto: The American... View Details

18 Dec 2014
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Turnaround & Restructuring Club Conference Recap

Advisory Management Panel featuring Robert Himmel (Co-President, Commercial & Industrial Division, Gordon Brothers Credit Partners), Patrick Lahaie (Partner, McKinsey & Company) John J. Monaghan (Partner - Holland & Knight),... View Details

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Karen Mills | Working Knowledge

investments in growth capital. Additionally, Mills’ efforts helped small businesses create regional economic clusters, gain access to early-stage capital, boost exports, and tap into government and commercial supply chains. She is the... View Details

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Introduction - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

photography between the World Wars, extensive photographic records of the United Fruit Company in South and Central America, advertising images from automobile manufacturers in the 1930s and 40s, nineteenth-century commercial and city... View Details

07 Oct 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight

own businesses and is now director of the Auckland International Airport and chair of Spark, New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital services company. “Measuring performance in charity is as important as in a commercial... View Details

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Biotech, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals: Business and Management focused topics

Where can I find articles on business & management focused topics in the industries of biotech, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals? Topics such as IP strategies, commercialization process, manufacturing process, start-up business... View Details

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