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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit, Information, and the Courts
publications could be prosecuted, and at least a dozen rival firms came and went by the end of the century. Merchants themselves were more apt to sue if the Agency gave them advice about prospective trading partners that turned out to be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn
capitalist by day. I teach entrepreneurship with the Middlebury Institute for International Studies. I often ask my students where they think the root of venture capital is. They'll often tell me they think it's Silicon Valley. The... View Details
- 07 Jul 2010
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that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non-economic factors and heuristics rather than existing industrial conditions. Relocating firms increased the likelihood of incumbent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) . 1994 New MBA Elective Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector is introduced. 1993 HBS pioneers the concept of social enterprise with the founding of its Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), led View Details
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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
1957, Olsen and Anderson submitted a four-page, typewritten business proposal to ARD, followed in May by a nine-page proposal. 43 ARD offered the two entrepreneurs $70,000 in equity financing for a 70 percent share and an additional loan... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
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The World at a Click
Like so many dot-com businesses these days, the Internet travel industry is, well, taking off. Among the e-travel elite are Travelocity.com, known for the depth of its travel content and bolstered by distribution relationships with... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly
- 01 Jun 2015
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Leadership on a Global Stage
over the mountain and a white dove flying in a circle. That was the day I turned the corner.” Jefferson would ultimately move forward with his vision and get his life back on track. First, however, he needed an inspiring combination of purpose and direction. “I took a... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2013
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The Long View
PROFESSOR DAVID MOSS As a graduate student in history and economics at Yale, John G. McLean Professor David Moss struck up a friendship with the late Nobel laureate James Tobin that changed his perspective. Again and again, Professor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
outfox the competition, impress their customers with unexpected value, and achieve new levels of professional success. Repeatability: Build Enduring Business for a World of Constant Change by Chris Zook and View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
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Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise
New Schools; and Marc Sternberg (MBA ’00), founder and principal of the Bronx Lab School, each received the club’s Social Enterprise Award for their work in public education. HBS professor James Austin, cofounder and former chair of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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Inside Executive Search
How do executive search firms work? It’s well known that most senior management, CEO, and board positions are filled by these organizations, but given the confidential nature of their work, they often conduct their business with utmost... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector Describing his organization's mission as one focused on issues of poverty and equity, World Bank president James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59) addressed the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
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Teaching Teachers
Making friends, exchanging ideas: CPCL participants Roberto Zentgraf of Brazil's IBMEC; Zbigniew Turowski,Warsaw University of Technology Business School; HBS professor emeritus James Heskett; Tania Casado, University of São Paulo School... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
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How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
Gerstner (left) and Bob Haas look on while President Clinton salutes them and their companies at February's White House ceremony.(photograph by Dotti Stone) Ron Brown Award honorees Lou Gerstner (left) and Bob Haas look on while President... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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LA Reid’s Song
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Edited by April White Record producer LA Reid’s (AMP 154, 1998) first book, Sing to Me, is a memoir of his 25... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
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George C. Lodge
Business Administration (INCAE). After enlisting in the U.S. Navy at the age of 17 during World War II and graduating with honors from Harvard College in 1950, Lodge began his career as a reporter with the Boston Herald. A 1954 interview with then Labor Secretary View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
Business. Written by Timothy Butler and James Waldroop, director and associate director, respectively, of the School's MBA Career Development Programs, the book presents a business-focused, step-by-step... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
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Policy - Business & Environment
Research Institute, 1968. Produced for American Petroleum Institute (API). Document posted by Center for International Environmental Law . James Black, “ The Greenhouse Effect (pdf) ,” Exxon, June 6, 1978. “... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Farming for Fuel
with senior researchers James Weber and Mary Louise Shelman, examines the complex political and economic underpinnings of the ethanol industry and the dilemma facing the farmers of Mid-Missouri Energy (MME). The farmers must make major... View Details
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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising
for consumer goods.” James D. Norris, Advertising and the Transformation of American Society , 1865—1920, 1990 52 Advertising reached consumers through wholesalers and retailers as well as traveling salesmen who operated as middlemen... View Details