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Events - Business & Environment
policy leaders, shaping a skilled workforce to drive cost-effective, sustainable, and healthy food and agriculture policies. Food Policy Pathways supports students, early-career professionals, and career shifters pursuing impactful roles at the federal, state, and... View Details
- 03 Aug 2023
HBS Information Session in Montevideo
Join us for an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions presentation and the opportunity to... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kate Kleinsman
“You can always come back home” said my mum as we lugged my suitcases into my college dorm room in the big city. ‘Why would I?’ I thought to myself. I come from a small town where a new bakery opening makes the local paper and you run... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922
described the register for the first time and explained how it would prevent theft and give an accurate account of the day's receipts. The goal of this stage was to schedule a demonstration of the machine in a nearby hotel where the salesman had set up a display, or,... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
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Jean Luo
things and see how I liked entrepreneurship.” As early as November in her RC year, Jean began Outdoor Pass, an application that uses machine learning and social graphs to help users identify and participate in local activities with... View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
to Compensation Changes: Evidence from a Sales Firm (pdf) , Management Science, 2021. With Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, and Nathan Seegert. The Gig Economy Beyond Local Services and Transportation (pdf) , CESifo Forum, 2020. With... View Details
- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
reinforcing the central role of the scorecard in Mobil's management system. Inspired and dedicated middle managers can sustain quality improvements, local process improvements, and many other change programs. Middle managers can also... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
employees), deliver personalized customer service, and maintain a close connection to the local community. In addition, McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts had emerged as serious competitors, offering their own lines of specialty coffee... View Details
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
on impromptu performances in the hallways, and panels interspersed with local singers and dancers giving mini shows, we attended a panel on the future of environmental sustainability. There, a senior leader from a major oil and gas... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 09 Aug 2023
HBS Information Session in Brasilia
Join us for an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions presentation and the opportunity to... View Details
- 05 Jul 2023
- News
GCC Alumni Celebrate Grand Opening of New Club Center
located at the Park Hyatt Dubai Creek, Golf, and Yacht Club. "It epitomizes the city's modernity and grandeur and captures the essence of Harvard Business School through its elegant design," Lootah says. More than 90 people attended the grand opening on May 23,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
business revenues declined by 40 percent, largely driven by national factors rather than local infection rates or policies. However, the pass-through of revenue losses to owner consumption was limited: each dollar of revenue loss resulted... View Details
- 24 Jan 2024
HBS Information Session in Kigali
Join us for an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions presentation and the opportunity to... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
teamed up with partner organization ReFood, and Ghose liked the model: repurposing surplus food from restaurants to feed the local community, with hyperlocalized food drives run by local volunteers. He... View Details
- 15 Aug 2023
Harvard Graduate School Information Session in Washington, D.C.
This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Law School. Candidates with an interest in pursuing a joint degree between two of these schools are particularly encouraged to attend. The... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
2018 London: Bloomsbury Academic Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World By: Beckert, Sven, and Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds. Abstract— In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Modernization Regimes
Professor Fabbe is currently conducting fieldwork for a book project that focuses on how societies respond to crisis and how states seek to use modernization initiatives to strengthen social resilience and cohesion. Towards this end, she is researching local... View Details
- 2013
- Teaching Note
The COFCO Group (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao
COFCO was China's sole legitimate window for agricultural foreign trade before 1987. The reform of China's foreign trade system beginning in 1987 cost COFCO its monopoly position. Subsequently, the SOE giant capitalized on its foreign trade expertise to strategically... View Details
McFarlan, F. Warren, Zheng Xiaoming, and Ziqian Zhao. "The COFCO Group (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2013.
- January 2008 (Revised March 2011)
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Henry J. Kaiser and the Art of the Possible
By: Anthony J. Mayo, Mark Benson and David Chen
From his humble beginnings as a local salesman in New York, Henry J. Kaiser rose to become one of the leading industrialists of 20th century America. Though he had no technical engineering training, Kaiser mastered the management and execution of plans for several... View Details
Keywords: History; Mission and Purpose; Transition; Management Practices and Processes; Construction; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Business History; Business Growth and Maturation; Civil Society or Community; Business Strategy; Planning; Construction Industry; Shipping Industry; United States
Mayo, Anthony J., Mark Benson, and David Chen. "Henry J. Kaiser and the Art of the Possible." Harvard Business School Case 408-072, January 2008. (Revised March 2011.)
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Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
extend locational advantages takes on equal weight with R&D process management. Locational advantages - rooted in proprietary information flows, special relationships with local companies, and preferential access to View Details