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15 Nov 2016
News

HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking

McKay Professor of Applied Physics, and Vicki Sato, Professor of Management Practice at HBS, discussed their partnership furthering the commercialization of science. Befitting the symposium’s setting in Aldrich Hall, the daylong event... View Details

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

strong history of commercial development. Pictured is the Bund in Shanghai, the city's financial district along the Huangpu River, in 1899. "After people read this book, they should not be negative on China—we're not negative on China,"... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

question this raises is which lenders, nations or commercial institutions? Shann Turnbull, citing some of his own work on the subject, argued that the risks of allowing insolvency "can no longer be reliably managed because they have... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

of trusted appointees (known internally as the "Dutch Mafia"), whose understanding of Philips technology, commercial objectives, and overall strategy provided the major link between the parent company and its dispersed national... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

04 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

demonstration reactor test sites, and facilitating commercial power purchase agreements. But private investors—not the world’s taxpayers—need to provide the capital, face the risks, and reap the rewards of proving that new nuclear power... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology

01 Feb 2000
News

The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum

prison" and becomes easily accessible by less complicated means and is accepted "as just being out there, like the electricity system." As for achieving commercial success through the Internet, writer and computer industry observer Esther... View Details

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WRDS - Wharton Research Data Services | Baker Library

copyrighted material on the WRDS system is only for internal or academic research. You may not use data downloaded from WRDS for any commercial endeavor. In addition, you may not reveal, disclose, transfer, or share username and password... View Details

02 Apr 2020
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Patriots Plane Delivers a Million Masks from China

traditional commercial air transport.” Which is eventually how, on April 2, a plane owned by the New England Patriots flew from China to Logan International Airport, carrying more than a million N95 respirator masks that the Baker... View Details

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Arjun Goyal

a scientific eye for identifying precise populations in which therapies are effective, with a commercial appetite for successful drugs that need more time and money to prove their potential.” As part of a four-person clinical development... View Details

July 2006 (Revised August 2007)
Case

The Mozilla Foundation: Launching Firefox 1.0 (A)

Explores the Mozilla Foundation's decisions leading up to the launch of Firefox 1.0, including its default browser, managing corporate partnerships, managing product development, and moving toward a revenue-based model. Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Commercialization; Open Source Distribution; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Social Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry; United States

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February 2005
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Mahindra & Mahindra: Creating Scorpio

By: Tarun Khanna, Rajiv Lal and Merlina Manocaran

Details the emergence of a private sector automobile manufacturer in India that has created globally competitive and cheap versions of an SUV commonly available worldwide. Asks us to think about the parent corporation's next steps in leveraging this success. In... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Global Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Commercialization; Expansion; Auto Industry; India

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01 Dec 2009
News

Education Revolution

COMPTON: Making the case on film that America’s education system is falling short globally. “I don’t even talk about education reform any more, I talk about education revolution,” documentary filmmaker and venture capitalist Bob Compton (MBA ’84) told the Memphis View Details

Keywords: charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2003
News

Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships

particular politics that surround the commercialization of reproductive technologies. Her recent publications include a book of cases on managing international trade and investment and Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and... View Details

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

25 May 2010
News

Commencement and the Winds of Change

private-equity firm, asserted his belief that business and commercial ties can bind old enemies together and form the basis for rapprochement between Israelis and Palestineans. To help do just that, Cohen has founded the Portland Trust,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance

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Vivian Scalfi

market research stint and five years with General Electric, where she progressed through the commercial leadership rotational program in health care, oil and gas, and power, Vivian shifted into consumer goods with a role at Diageo... View Details

Keywords: CPG

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

Technology, and Work in America's Age of Mass Production. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Brown, Elspeth H. The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture. Baltimore and London: John... View Details

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Charles Ellis | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Transcript (PDF) Charles “Charley” Ellis, HBS 1963, founded Greenwich Associates, a strategy consulting firm focusing on financial institutions, in 1972. The firm’s clients include commercial banks, investment banks, securities dealers,... View Details

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U.S. Healthcare Strategy - Course Catalog

conceptual insights with practical applications to develop a nuanced understanding of healthcare strategy. Cases are selected to reflect important subsectors in the U.S. healthcare industry, including commercial insurers, health care... View Details

23 Oct 2019
News

Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program

technical expertise and gain the business skills needed to commercialize an idea or lead a tech venture. They practice design thinking, build prototypes, and pitch their ideas to potential investors. During the summer, they work on their... View Details

Keywords: University Collaborations; MS/MBA

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Printed Collections

Collection Guide to Using the Collection The Baker Old Class collection contains rare and ephemeral books, pamphlets, trade periodicals, and corporate publications relating to retail credit, credit rating, commercial credit, and financial... View Details

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