Country Of Origin Effects - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

people. I have been working with them for the last 70 years of my life,” says Bermek, who has worked as a human rights activist in the country and the region for the last twenty years after a long career in... View Details

05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

first step was figuring out how to most effectively grow lettuce in climate-controlled shipping containers in this former root beer plant. “We’re doing this in a very logical, road-mapping way. We’re not trying to bend the laws View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

"Soul." "Spirit." A host of organizations - among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines - have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond

to be the next caretaker. He enrolled at Harvard Business School in 1933 at the depths of the Great Depression, but left in January 1935 to return to the family business in the chaotic aftermath of the... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

09 Sep 2016
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MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Bill Tai (MBA 1987) has built a whole professional community—that notably includes the likes of Richard Branson and Elon Musk—around the sport View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices

that the system is today less popular than it once was. There are other reasons, as well, that could be covered in a different, longer speech. But we should all keep in mind that the benefits of capitalism are not so obviously and... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes After HBS, DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010) immediately launched a startup: The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, a credit-testing firm for small businesses in emerging markets. But after seven years View Details

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

asking businesses who are apolitical to suddenly become political,” Lewin says. “This is asking businesses that are already very effective political actors to use some of that influence, not just on behalf... View Details

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

telecommunications." McFarlan, in fact, was involved in overseeing one of the earliest regular uses of computers in the MBA Program when the "Business Game" became an annual exercise for generations View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

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