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- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
state-owned firms. This article examines how the founder of the Koç Group, Vehbi Koç, formulated his business model and analyses how his firm evolved into a diversified business group. Although the case supports prevailing explanations of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and the founder of the Tang dynasty, Taizong’s chief accomplishments were on the battlefield. He defeated the descendants of Attila the Hun, opened up the Silk Road trading route, created a golden age of prosperity and cosmopolitan...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
field. Business really didn’t have anything like that. So as part of our work for the Leadership Initiative, Nitin and I compiled a list of 1,000 founders or CEOs who led U.S.-based companies for at least five years between 1900 and 2000....
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- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
abstinence, are the best-known way for women to protect themselves from HIV. The researchers randomly chose a sample of 1,222 stylists (who were unaware of the experiment) and divided them into four incentive groups. The control group...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a...
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Banu Özkazanç-Pan Banu Ozkazanc-Pan is Professor of Practice at the School of Engineering and Academic Director of the IE Brown EMBA program. She is also the Founder and Director of the Venture Capital Inclusion Lab at the Nelson Center...
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- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
particularly for women who have below median decision-making power in the baseline, and we find this leads to a shift toward female-oriented durable goods purchased in the household. Read the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
hopes to have funded 1,000 internships by the fall. JUNE 25 Piersten Gaines (MBA 2018), founder and CEO of Pressed Roots, a dry bar for women of color, was recently featured in a “Black in Business” series...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
indexing to make their portfolio stronger and more profitable. The Pie Life: A Guilt-Free Recipe For Success and Satisfaction by Samantha Ettus (MBA 2001) (Ghost Mountain Books) Ettus wants to change the way you think about work/life balance. The Pie Life tells the...
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- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
Walker, who has been credited as the first self-made African-American woman millionaire, created a hair-care empire after years spent as a laundress in St. Louis, Missouri. Decades before the Civil Rights movement, her company gave employment to thousands of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
infertile women to conceive. Excess fertilized eggs are routinely discarded by clinics at the conclusion of the in vitro process. Opponents say such practices are immoral because they destroy human life; advocates assert it is immoral to...
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Garry Emmons
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
social messages focused on the fate of the common man in a world of social injustice. The case discusses how women were depicted in Kapoor’s films and enables a discussion of the role of cinema in propagating gender stereotypes and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
value proposition to maximize value creation for both consumers and the luxury brands that supported the business model. The jury was still out on whether a rental model could attract higher income women who could afford to buy luxury...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
thirty-five staff positions were filled during 2018–2019, including 77 research associates. In total,the HBS workforce comprises approximately 1,100 FTEs, of whom 65% are women and 21% are minorities. Turnover at the School is 16%,...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
discussed the question with Marcela Sapone (MBA 2015), who had just launched Whitespace, a venture lab and startup incubator. The women then recruited fellow first-year MBAs Mike Chang (MBA 2014), Jessica Beck (MBA 2015), and Okalo Ikhena...
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Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
juniors, seniors, and recent graduates, Peek Weekend was launched to help young women understand what business school is all about—at a time when they’re thinking about the next steps in their lives. Peek Weekend has expanded to include...
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- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
is widely accepted that the conflict women experience between family obligations and professional jobs’ long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this “work-family narrative” is partial at best:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
ventures. Specifically, we argue and show that although cultural beliefs that disassociate women from commercial activity may result in female social venture founders being less likely to use commercial...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
women, by founding the temporary-staffing agency Tempstaff and lobbying to strike down laws that stifled the temp industry. Tempstaff now has approximately 3,300 employees and is a public company. For the past nine years, Shinohara has been on Fortune's list of the 50...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
says. Sundance Institute. Founder Robert Redford's contribution in legitimizing indie films is akin to what James Beard did for American food. Sundance made indies and the different stories depicted in the genre more acceptable by...
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