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- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
fight for “what was right and good” in books he’d read as a child, like Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. It was a way of seeing the world Singer absorbed from his parents and the synagogue they attended as a family in suburban... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Equifax Examining the cause of and response to the 2017 data breach at Equifax that exposed the information of over 145 million consumers. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/118031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-036 North Forty:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Founded in December 2010, NOW, based in Atlanta, Georgia, was serving clients in nine states. With 2013 year-to-date revenue of roughly $100,000, NOW was financed with $2.5 million of founder as well as friends and family equity. NOW's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
that priming relevant networks (e.g., family or friends) makes products associated with those networks more attractive. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/anik norton.pdf The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
Personal loans from family or friends After a multiyear trial, MBA Financial Aid no longer considers personal loans as eligible for the three HBS loan assistance programs. This type of loan has proven difficult to both authenticate and... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
211-044 Magna International, Inc., a Canadian-based automotive parts manufacturer, is considering whether and how to unwind its dual-class ownership structure. A family trust controlled by the founder owns a 0.65% economic interest in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
Taiwanese businessman and philanthropist, passed away in 2008. He left behind an estate worth U.S. $5.5 billion but did not leave a will. The case discusses the potential motivation for Wang and uses it to study succession planning for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
pitches from anywhere in the country. Similarly, as accelerators and conferences move online, they are more accessible to entrepreneurs whose financial or family situation limits travel. The Female Founders Alliance embraced the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
and entrepreneurs can deliver their pitches from anywhere in the country. Similarly, as accelerators and conferences move online, they are more accessible to entrepreneurs whose financial or family situation limits travel. The Female... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
clients may be served by separate organizational units that are under common control and/or ownership. Second, a family of hybrid conflict polices has evolved that feature elements of the split account system long practiced in Japan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
debt choice is more pronounced for firms with high financial distress risk, firms that are informationally opaque, and firms that are family controlled. Moreover, this effect is weakened by the presence of multiple large owners and in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
before (as Apple did with its iPod and iTunes electronic entertainment delivery system), or serve an entirely unaddressed customer base (as Tata Motors is doing with its Nano—the $2,500 car aimed at Indian families who can't afford any... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
side so that empire can make its way. The Native family is not only cast aside but aligned with a felled tree, signifying an obstruction cleared. Such depictions, however, ignore the Native resistance to westward expansion in the US,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
fly and see what that looked like. That sent chills down my spine. And Star Wars, my best friend at the time was named Danny Andrews. I remember going to see Star Wars with him and his family and his brothers, and then how we went to see... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
course, pay bills. Kourouma also notes that eliminating cash removes the security issues that go with it, especially for families overseas trying to send money back home—an increasingly large part of his company's business. "Now you can... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
many four-person trailers installed there. We had AC most of the time, showers, and good food. It gave me tremendous respect for our soldiers, men and women who have left their families and jobs behind and who enjoy very few comforts.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Alumni Books Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi (AMP 82, 1979) (Penguin UK) Until May 7, 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was the Saudi oil minister (and an OPEC kingpin), a position he held for 20 years. As global oil’s... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
something” Khaire: In the literature it is called a "blending strategy." The idea is there are multiple worlds in our society, and people are judged differently in each world. Take any individual and she behaves differently and has different values in the... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
School Case 510-033 Woolf Farming Company, a privately owned family farming business in California's Central Valley, found its business threatened by a lack of water, brought on by a combination of drought, poor quality well water, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
family time is one of the most valuable and precious things on earth. Time with the kids is perhaps the best thing to come out of what has otherwise been such a trying time. There are blessings even in challenges.” —David Aron Levine (MBA... View Details