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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Programs & Events HBS Entrepreneurship Summit NOV 4-5 4-5 NOVEMBER 2022 HBS ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT: LEADING HIGH-GROWTH VENTURES IN AN UNPREDICTABLE WORLD Brought to you by the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Alumni Relations... View Details

01 Jan 2012
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E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974

incredible students with the best experience possible,” Stamps explains. One of Stamps’s most rewarding activities is selecting and getting to know the scholars. Each school recommends a pool of candidates,... View Details

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Find institutional holdings using Thomson Reuters

Choose Database Select Thomson Reuters Under Institutional (13f) Holdings - s34 on left select s34 Master File Step One: Date Range Set Beginning Date month and year Set... View Details

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Managing Processes

David A. Garvin is examining the nature and use of managerial and organizational processes—the means by which work is accomplished—including strategic processes that chart corporate direction, resource allocation processes that distribute funds,... View Details

05 Jul 2006
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The Accidental Innovator

Companies spend many hundreds of billions of dollars on R&D each year, but the microwave oven was conceived from a melted candy bar, saccharin from an accidental chemical spill, and the Daguerre photo process via a shattered... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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For Organizations - Business & Environment

opportunity to engage with students who might be a fit for your organization. In past BEI Independent Projects, student teams have helped develop a commercial plant site selection plan for silicon wafer manufacturer 1366 Technologies, a... View Details

29 Nov 2017
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How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

In what could be considered the first business how-to book, an Italian merchant from the 1400s advises leaders to be charitable, ethical, and treat people fairly; be modest; look for the right qualities in a wife; be View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)

By: Rakesh Khurana

In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale... View Details

26 Jun 2017
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How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

“The illustration of the eyes as well as the advertising rhetoric in the text helped promote the importance of appearance in selecting foods.” Advertisement for DuPont Cellophane, 1945. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Advertising... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising

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Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies

By: Tatiana Sandino

Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details

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Fortune 500 / Fortune 1000 lists

Where can I access Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 annual rankings of the largest US corporations? MSCI Ratings via WRDS (from 2001): In WRDS, select the MSCI (formerly KLD View Details

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Delimiters - Research Computing Services

appropriate columns, select the entire column by click on the column header A Within the DATA tab at the top, click on Text to Columns In the new window, Convert Text to Columns Wizard , on Step 1 you should View Details

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Bloomberg Research Portal

What information is available from the Bloomberg Research Portal? The Bloomberg Research Portal (BRC) is a gateway for accessing aggregated research from over 1,500 providers, including brokers, market research firms, and... View Details

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

Compute Cluster Software Tools 3ms A variety of applications and libraries are supported on the cluster by default . Additional software, including older versions of software, can selectively be "turned on"... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Many innovations in modern medicine have come about due to cutting-edge drugs—advances that required both a scientific leap and a willingness to take risks. View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

18 Aug 2008
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How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

courseware initially. And rather than being "pushed" into classrooms through a centralized selection process, they will be pulled into use through self-diagnosis—by teachers, parents, View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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IPOs (initial public offerings)

add any additional screening criteria. In LSEG Workspace: Click on the Search Tools tab and select Companies. In the text box where it says Add Filters type in ‘IPO’ View Details

18 May 2023
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India's New Money Managers

experiences came together for Gupta. A project for her business strategy class asked her to select a business and create a go-to-market strategy for it. Gupta and her team... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Mar 2005
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Turkish Delight

and demand working for me — so I picked Turkey, because I thought it would become a more in demand, important part of the world. The other side is supply; as it happens, Turkey is a very understudied place.” A native Londoner, Byford had... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

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For Recruiters - Health Care

challenges—and have the insights and experience to navigate today’s complex health care industry. To ensure that your company has a broad selection of talent, please consider listing internships, independent... View Details

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