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- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
challenging the modern supermarkets. Since its founding in 1995, BIM has adhered to a business model based on a relentless focus on costs and operational efficiency, built on private labels and an unswerving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
flying high in the sky and low to the ground, over water and below the treeline. I led organizations ranging in size from 17 soldiers to 120, in missions both operational and maintenance support. Yet one consistent theme throughout all of... View Details
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Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library
aim to support the research and curriculum of the Harvard Business School today and into the future. Collection activities focus on the career and professional development needs of our MBA students and alumni, as well as on access to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
that I think of as the eternal challenges. And those are around things like time management, handling guilt and feelings about being a working parent. But what the pandemic did was focus us on getting through the day to day, getting... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
In the Business of Flexibility
Employers will come to us and say, ‘we’ve gotten the impression that we need to get our arms around this in some way. Our competitors are doing it.’” Prokanga’s unique recruiting focus encourages employers to consider flexibility as part... View Details
- Profile
Jenny Tison
interest in business. But Jenny's internship with The Boston Consulting Group brought focus to her aspirations. “I saw consulting as a chance to help people improve,” she says. All told, Jenny spent three years with BCG in Chicago and... View Details
- 09 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)
evaluating ways to better support their nonprofit partners across the country, specifically by improving knowledge sharing across their nonprofit partners and identifying focus areas where City Fund can provide additional guidance. Why... View Details
- Fast Answer
Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change
environmental sustainability, agriculture, health and education sector. It prefers to make equity investments for-profit companies operating in the affordable education services across the world with a focus... View Details
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Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners - Recruiting
Partners (ACP) as a Summer Associate in New York. ACP, a philanthropy-backed investment firm, dedicates itself to catalyzing climate-related infrastructure projects in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). The firm operates... View Details
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Kanwaljit Bakshi
seem, sex traffickers operate a lot like businesses," she says. "You see these fascinating informal networks of organized criminals sort of collaborating through different aspects of the human trafficking supply chain, so to... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
A core feature of youth service programs, namely their dual identity of helping others (i.e., service beneficiaries) and helping oneself (i.e., participants), might partly explain the mixed outcomes. We find that participants focus on one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
sacrificing his health or family life. In this article he presents six of them. Know your comparative advantage. Focus not on what you do best but on what your organization most needs from you-and don't spend too much time on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Man, and operates ships that travel around the world. In analyzing the choices he faces, students must consider how the initial capitalization of Navigator contributed to its financial distress, evaluate several restructuring plans from a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
attention and energies on maximizing profit and financial value. This exclusive focus on profit and shareholder value maximization has led to environmental destruction and the concentration of wealth and power within the hands of a few.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
began with a review of the case, which was focused on two decisions facing asset management firm BlackRock, Inc.: Should the company license its Aladdin operating system? And should it acquire Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM)?... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
and focus it up the supply chain and let the market forces determine which of the growers, processors, and distributors are going to succeed and be responsive to these market opportunities,” says Kendall. One major opportunity, he says,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
medical schools continue to focus on the basic sciences, to the exclusion of such managerial topics as running effective teams. The approach to executing reform appears to assume that practice managers and entrepreneurs can undertake the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
firms to a size that sufficiently improves their chances of survival and success. The issue of growth in young firms is also interesting from an academic perspective. There is less research on growth of young firms, compared to survival of young firms. Moreover, a... View Details
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
217-082 Cambridge Franchise Partners Two partners commence a rollup in the quick-service restaurant segment. They focus on operating improvements and spinning-off real estate. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
analyses of data covering 69 two-digit SIC industries at two points in time, 1991 and 1999. In both years, approximately half of advertisers of all sizes operated an in-house agency. Across industries, we find that the likelihood of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne