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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

2019. 52 McLaine in Henderer, A Comparative Study of the Public Relations Practices in Six Industrial Corporations: United State Steel Corporation, Aluminum Company of America, The Westinghouse Corporation,... View Details

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

public within five to seven years of its initial financing, will be able to pursue research that will not have a payoff for fifteen, twenty, or even more years in the future. (But it's not impossible—after all, venture capital has played... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

24 Apr 2014
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Leading a battle against corruption, a force that slows economic development

corporate anti-corruption efforts on business performance, determining that high anti-corruption efforts pay off. Healy compares the world’s largest companies to each other on self-reported attempts to combat corruption (with collaborator... View Details

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Robert E. (Ted) Turner

Taking over his father’s outdoor advertising company in 1963, he immediately began expanding it beyond its core billboard business, acquiring Atlanta television’s Channel 17. Securing programming from national networks, showing “light... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

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Student Proposed Fellowship Program - Resources for selecting your organization

to filter for organizations using criteria such as subject, location, and classification. Capital IQ - Profiles of public and private companies and nonprofit organizations. Screen for companies and... View Details

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Resources for Harvard Economics Students

markets, and public and private companies. Used in the financial sector for financial data and modeling. Orbis This company database is unique in its breadth of geographies and extent of View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?

firms hold twice as much cash in reserve, on average, as large, privately held firms. To come to his counterintuitive conclusion, Farre-Mensa analyzed 4,259 public firms and 25,477 private ones—the latter through a new collection of... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

21 Mar 2014
Blog Post

East Asia MBA Market Update

about 800 companies waiting to go public as a result of the moratorium, but it’s likely that China’s stock markets will see only mid-sized companies with little name... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

Albert D. Lasker

Lasker was a pioneer of hard-hitting advertising. He directed campaigns for such products as Palmolive Soap, Quaker Oats, and Pepsodent Toothpaste (he helped to found the latter company and was one of its directors for many years). He was... View Details

Keywords: Services

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Jeffrey Noonan

Jeff enjoys helping students better understand the different stages of investing and pursue the stage that is right for them. Having considered post-MBA careers across VC, growth, PE, and public markets Jeff is well versed in the... View Details

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Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research

href="https://www.library.hbs.edu/find/databases/capital-iq" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Capital IQ A range of public and private company and industry information worldwide. Includes View Details

03 Sep 2020
Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

prices reflect substantially all publicly available information, and buyers can see which companies provide good value for the money. By establishing trust in the information, this system has lowered the cost of capital and enabled better... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

my bet is that 2037 will be very different as well. And this will be due to entrepreneurs, not private equity funds or public company boards." This may be linked, as D. R. Elliott suggested, to the rise... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Use and Permissions | Baker Library

Use and Permissions Publishing Materials from Special Collections & Archives We want to know about your research. Special Collections & Archives is interested in learning more about the impact of our collections. Please complete our Use and View Details

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Introduction - The Audience - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

contributions. Companies that responded to the Business Historical Society’s request for images also found a home for publicity photographs at Harvard Business School, where human relations was becoming a... View Details

Leonard A. Lauder

Well before he officially assumed the CEO title, Lauder was the “man behind the scenes,” shunning publicity and acknowledgment to perpetuate his mother’s image. While his mother, Estee Lauder, tended to external relations, Leonard built... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

21 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

business that is creating economic opportunity for marginalized communities in the United States. McClain, who also completed a master’s in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, will serve as chief of staff at BrightUp, a... View Details

27 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

like? Doesn’t sound possible, but South African company Vitality is doing just that. How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural HaitiWhat happened when a pioneering cost accounting system examined wide variances in Haiti's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

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AllWorld Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

scaling growth and job creation. Winning companies will go public and become icons known around the world. Governments will benefit from real-time research on leveraged policy interventions. An expanding... View Details

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