Value-Based Business Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade

common issues most Latin American countries are dealing with. It's a factor that constrains business strategy across the region." Latin America's equity markets are thin and capital is scarce, Ghemawat says,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good

retired Dean of the Harvard Business School. John Hector McArthur was born in 1934 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up somewhere between the right side of the tracks and the wrong side of the tracks in a suburb called Burnaby,... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

01 Sep 2024
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Ink: Framing the Full Picture

Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero

from a franchise on the brink of leaving town in 1992 to toast of the town in 2010 is the stuff of Hollywood scripts. And indeed, when the lanky, loquacious executive talks about his lifelong history with the team, his reminiscences are captivating. Baer’s career in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2015
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Leading Boston and Beyond

Koh’s fifth floor office, cooking up a communications strategy ahead of the looming Boston winter. “We want to avoid what happened last year,” warns Koh, Chief of Staff to Mayor Marty Walsh. Last winter, the Hub’s snowiest on record, left... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

03 Sep 2018
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Moving Pictures

Hannah and directed by Steven Spielberg, is a riveting case analysis of business leadership in action through the lens of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham’s decision to publish the then classified Pentagon Papers—a decision that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2017
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The Middle Way

canoes, dwellings, and totem poles. A road now bisects the hill and the coast, with a busy logging facility operating just off the water. Hulking yellow vehicles relocate felled trees around a dirt lot, navigating stacks of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

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