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Conflict of Interest HBS strives to adhere to the highest standard of integrity, ethics and respect in a manner consistent with HBS Community Standards. To view the staff policy, please refer to this page about Conflicts of Interest . The... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Addressing roadblocks to innovation in health care

convenes health care management educators to develop and implement new curricula for health care management education. She also recommends policy changes, such as standards for health care IT and transparency to consumers on the price and... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Fast Casual

electrical engineering, who designs the procedures and logistics that ensure smooth, efficient operations. Of PRG and its husband-wife leadership team, Peggy said, “We had to standardize everything from recipes to kitchens.... I think... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

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Designing Sustainability at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA Experience

By: Kellie McElhaney, Michael W. Toffel and Natalie Hill

This case study describes how an industrial design company developed a sustainability management system (SMS) standard, designed and implemented an SMS throughout its business, and then became the first company in the world to achieve third-party SMS certification by a... View Details

Keywords: Design; Governance Compliance; Management Practices and Processes; Standards; Environmental Sustainability; Auto Industry; United States

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Swearingen took over the inefficient Standard Oil of Indiana in 1960. He streamlined its operations and aligned its business units while expanding Standard’s exploration of both domestic and foreign oil. By the end of his tenure, he had... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

February 2008
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Blonde and Blue-eyed?: Globalizing Beauty, c.1945–c.1980

By: Geoffrey Jones

This article examines the globalization of the beauty industry between 1945 and 1980. The industry grew quickly. Firms employed marketing and marketing strategies to diffuse products and brands internationally, despite business, economic, and cultural obstacles to... View Details

Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Markets and Industries; Product Marketing; Standards; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

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01 Aug 2014
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A closer look at the industry of beauty

entrepreneurial imagination: the ability to understand values and trends and to shape them into brands people want," says Jones. Jones describes how, as the industry gained momentum, it played a significant role in standardizing beauty... View Details

01 Jan 2013
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Five Receive 2013 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

School has selected a number of outstanding men and women to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. Throughout their careers, these distinguished graduates have contributed significantly to their companies and communities while upholding the... View Details

Keywords: awards; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Retail Trade

Walter J. Kohler

Kohler is responsible for many plumbing innovations that are part of everyday life. He invented the one-piece, double shell and built-in bath. His plumbing innovations became standard elements in the burgeoning construction industry. View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

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Resources on Indian Business History - Creating Emerging Markets

Conferences Lessons from History Lessons from History Video Clips & Discussion Questions Resources on Indian Business History Standard Reference Works Feb 2004 New Delhi: Oxford University Press Oxford History of Indian Business Dwijendra... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Ideas

universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the “fundamental implications of those decisions were getting the start-ups into trouble down the road.” More Case Study: Good as Our Word For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Manufacturing

24 Apr 2014
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Multiple generations of computing

Palm Computing to found Handspring, creator of the Treo smartphone, a handheld device that set the standard for next-generation smartphones. They teamed up again in 2005 to found the software company Numenta, to become the catalyst for... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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The American Dream

LAWSON: Campaigning for Congress, a probusiness entrepreneur who advocates for the middle class. An IBM engineer, Stacey Lawson (MBA 1996) noticed that a number of her colleagues, though surrounded by technology, still used pencil and paper for designing View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

August 2010 (Revised September 2011)
Background Note

Retiree Pension and Health Benefits

By: David F. Hawkins

Note on accounting for retiree pension and health benefits under IFRS and U.S. GAAP. View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; Standards; Retirement; United States

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Purchase

Johnson brought Band-Aid, an adhesive bandage, to the market. The product developed in 1920 soon became a standard in first-aid kits and one of the staples in the J&J family of products. James Johnson was also responsible for the... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

14 Oct 2014
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Banking on social impact by brokering public-private partnerships

Maureen Harrington (MBA 2001), director of the International Development Group of Standard Bank, describes the role of a traditional bank in providing funding to social impact projects in developing countries, including supporting... View Details

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Southern Responses to Gold Certification: Cooperate, Compete, Reject, Revise

By: Kristin Sippl

Artisanal gold mining is a Southern subsistence livelihood posing both challenges and opportunities for sustainable development. In 2011, Fairtrade International launched a certification program to address sustainability problems in the sector. Southern activists,... View Details

Keywords: Eco-labeling; Extractive Industries; Emerging Economies; Fair Trade; Environmental Sustainability; Standards; Programs; Governance Compliance; Competition; Adaptation; Mining Industry

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December 2010
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Implications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive Research in Accounting

By: S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna and Douglas J. Skinner

Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and stewardship) and that verifiability and conservatism are critical features of a GAAP shaped by market forces.... View Details

Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Standards; International Accounting; Financial Markets; Financial Reporting

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