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- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
legacy by promoting economic development. Past experience in the construction and coffee industries and former postings as Colombia’s ambassador to West Germany, and CEO of the Agricultural Bank of Colombia, convinced Ospina that South... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Levitt Brand
it gets assigned all the time.” Commenting on the status of globalization today, Levitt views overseas reaction against some American products as validating the notion of globalized markets. “To some people, it looks like a foreign intrusion on domestic View Details
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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship
States Census Bureau - Demographic characteristics, total population, social, and economic census data useful for determining market size. American View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Future Source
applicants the most in-demand programming languages and provides living expenses in exchange for contracted developer time with client organizations. Its acceptance rate is less than 1 percent, but the open source Andela Learning View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- September 2011 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
The K-Dow Petrochemicals Joint Venture
By: Guhan Subramanian, James K. Sebenius, Phillip Andrews, Rhea Ghosh and Charlotte Krontiris
In 2007, the Dow Chemical Company and the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation announced plans to launch a multibillion-dollar joint venture. Later known as K-Dow Petrochemicals, it would be one of the largest manufacturers of chemicals and plastics in the world. Analysts... View Details
Subramanian, Guhan, James K. Sebenius, Phillip Andrews, Rhea Ghosh, and Charlotte Krontiris. "The K-Dow Petrochemicals Joint Venture." Harvard Business School Case 912-002, September 2011. (Revised September 2013.)
- June 2001 (Revised November 2001)
- Case
Lucent Technologies: The Future of the New Ventures Group
Lucent Technologies' New Ventures Group has created innovative ways to commercialize Bell Labs research. The success of this approach now forces the group to evaluate whether to stay inside Bell Labs or become an external venture capitalist group. View Details
Keywords: Communication Technology; Commercialization; Research; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Telecommunications Industry
Chesbrough, Henry W., and Anthony Massaro. "Lucent Technologies: The Future of the New Ventures Group." Harvard Business School Case 601-102, June 2001. (Revised November 2001.)
- February 1978 (Revised September 1986)
- Case
AT&T -- Long Lines Department National Account Selling (A)
Shapiro, Benson P. "AT&T -- Long Lines Department National Account Selling (A)." Harvard Business School Case 578-119, February 1978. (Revised September 1986.)
- 2012
- Other Unpublished Work
Managerial Control of Business Press Coverage
By: Eugene F. Soltes and David H. Solomon
The business press plays a significant role in distributing firm news to investors. We investigate the extent to which managers can influence their firm's level of coverage in newswires and newspapers. We consider three choices under managerial control: press release... View Details
Keywords: Announcements; Governance Controls; News; Communication Strategy; Journalism and News Industry
Soltes, Eugene F., and David H. Solomon. "Managerial Control of Business Press Coverage." October 2012.
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
months, three of the four tire manufacturers there ceased to exist as independent corporations. In this excerpt from "From Community of Innovation to Community of Inertia: The Rise and Fall of the Akron... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Feedback
experience, so I quit the Air Force and came to HBS to get my credentials in preparation for a career in business. I pray that attitude in industry has been overcome today. The Marine captain [Maura Corby Sullivan (MBA/MPA 2009)]... View Details
- Forthcoming
- Article
The Effect of a System for Sharing Best Practices Within Pre-existing Peer Networks
By: Shelley Xin Li and Tatiana Sandino
Peer networks, such as enterprise social networks (ESNs), can facilitate knowledge transfer across employees. However, such systems can also lead to information overload or difficulty in finding useful information. We examine data from a natural field experiment where... View Details
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BiGS Research | Institute for Business in Global Society
world. Research Projects The Green Industrial Strategy Project A partnership between the Institute for Business in Global Society and the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative, The Green Industrial... View Details
- 15 Mar 2022
- News
History’s Future
that will balance the demands of a rapidly growing tourism industry with a commitment to environmental sustainability and inclusive growth. That means both a commitment to preserving the region’s environment and to supporting the local... View Details
- February 2016 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Regulating Radio in the Age of Broadcasting
By: David Moss, Marc Campasano and Colin Donovan
When the Titanic tragically sank on April 15, 1912, potentially life-saving help was delayed as a result of failures in radio communication. In part as a result, Congress moved swiftly to regulate radio, passing the Radio Act of 1912 four months later. Although at... View Details
Keywords: Radio; Regulation; Communication Technology; Government Legislation; History; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
Moss, David, Marc Campasano, and Colin Donovan. "Regulating Radio in the Age of Broadcasting." Harvard Business School Case 716-043, February 2016. (Revised March 2017.)
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Michael Alan Williams Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer in Community Development Michael Alan Williams 30... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
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What's Cookin'
homemade specialties such as sweet plantains, black beans, and fried yucca in mouthwatering detail. “Typical industry practices like ‘boil in the bag' and ‘freezer to fryer' have resulted in commodity-like, homogeneous food.” "When you... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Reducing special-interest influence over government regulation
When regulated industries exert undue influence on (or “capture”) their governmental regulators, problems that are all too familiar may result. And while scholars have investigated regulatory capture, deregulation has been the most... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
Fortune magazine's "Fifty Most Powerful Women in American Business." Why has Lucent performed so well since its divestiture from AT&T? We have been growing globally faster than our markets. Our ability to focus on the hottest growth segments in the View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
a profit-making opportunity and a legitimate part of the financial-services industry, this scale constraint was lifted. "Only when an economic activity generates above-average returns can it become an industry," says Chu, "and only an View Details