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Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group - Race, Gender & Equity
experiences. Elizabeth Linos Elizabeth Linos is the Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor for Public Policy and Management, and Faculty Director of The People Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. The majority of her research focuses on how to improve...
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Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling
was Singer Sewing Machines. Singer’s machines were neither the best nor the cheapest products on the market. But the firm’s innovative credit plan, inspired by piano showrooms near company headquarters, tripled sales in just one year....
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- 15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared...
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Margie Kelley
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Dillon House | About
Dillon House C. Douglas Dillon Dillon House was made possible through a gift from Clarence Dillon (Harvard 1905), and honored his son, C. Douglas Dillon (Harvard 1931), a US treasury secretary. Home to the MBA Admissions Office, Dillon House was designed in the...
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Research - Private Capital Project
that over the past half century innovative disruptions were central to understanding corporate defaults. In a given year, industries experiencing abnormally high VC or IPO activity subsequently see higher default rates, higher segment exits View Details
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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online
serial entrepreneur John Osher, Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman, and Intuit founder Scott Cook. Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professors View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Taylor Callery Scroll the main story to read all alumni submissions or jump to a specific case here: “Suzuki Samurai” Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) “Johnson &...
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The Essential Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative The Essential Porter The Essential Porter Michael Porter is the Bishop View Details
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Elective Curriculum. Charlotte L. Robertson : Received the 2023 Charles M. Williams Award for Teaching Excellence. Charlotte L. Robertson : Received the 2023 HBS Student Association Faculty...
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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
immersive cohort-based learning experience with a diverse global network. 1 year, 5-9 hrs/week Apply by January 9th $15,000 (four installments of $3,750) Credential Entrepreneurship Essentials Professor View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
The Time for Hope," HBS No. 310-070. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/313010-PDF-ENG CSN Stores William A. Sahlman and Neil TolaneyHarvard Business School Case 812-044 In March 2011, CSN Stores...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2008 (Revised July 2012)
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Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Strategy
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
By 2008, a number of the firm's early cleantech investments were showing promise, and the companies were starting to need significantly more money to create the massive scale required in the energy sector. As Khosla thought about the hundreds of millions of dollars...
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Entrepreneurial Marketing;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
New Product Development;
Partnerships;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Venture Capital;
Strategy;
Partners and Partnerships;
Renewable Energy;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment Funds;
Environmental Sustainability;
Product Development;
Biotechnology Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, William A. Sahlman, and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 809-004, September 2008. (Revised July 2012.)
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Contemporary African Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
eight works in this online exhibition—by artists Philip Kwame Apagya, William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland, Tuli Mekondjo, Zanele Muholi, Muluneh, and Yinka Shonibare CBE RA—can encourage questions, foster conversations, and create...
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- February 1998 (Revised December 2000)
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Nantucket Nectars
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman and Jon Biotti
The founders of Nantucket Nectars are trying to decide whether to sell their company. The case describes how the founders started the company and grew the Nantucket Nectars brand name.
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Business Exit or Shutdown;
Entrepreneurship;
Brands and Branding;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, William A. Sahlman, and Jon Biotti. "Nantucket Nectars." Harvard Business School Case 898-171, February 1998. (Revised December 2000.)
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
gathering tasks. We use the framework and examples of successful research studies in the nancial reporting literature to clarify how data-gathering choices affect a study’s ability to achieve its goals and conclude by showing how the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 2013
- Working Paper
Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled...
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H-1B;
Firms;
Scientists;
Engineers;
Inventors;
Age;
Employment;
Competency and Skills;
Immigration;
United States
Pekkala Kerr, Sari, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln. "Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms." Working Paper, February 2013.
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Benjamin C. Esty : Winner of the 2002 Best Paper Award at the Conference on International Corporate Governance for “Creditor Rights, Enforcement, and Debt Ownership Structure: Evidence from the Global Syndicated Loan Market” with William...
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- October 2015 (Revised August 2019)
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Higher Education in China: Internationalization in Turbulent Times
By: William C. Kirby, Joycelyn W. Eby and Yuanzhuo Wang
The rapid growth in quantity and quality of universities in China since 1978 is the most recent evolution in a long history of higher education. From as early as the Tang Dynasty, academies existed to prepare scholars for the civil service examination, but by the...
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Non-profit Management;
University Administration;
University Faculty;
University Curriculum;
Education Reform;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Management;
Higher Education;
History;
Governance;
Education Industry;
China
Kirby, William C., Joycelyn W. Eby, and Yuanzhuo Wang. "Higher Education in China: Internationalization in Turbulent Times." Harvard Business School Background Note 316-066, October 2015. (Revised August 2019.)
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Goldfaden Land, who studied physics, and Harry Land, who ran a scrap metal and real estate business in Connecticut. In high school at the Norwich Free Academy, Land excelled in physics and became enthralled with the classic Physical Optics View Details
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How to Make Remote Monitoring Tech Part of Everyday Health Care
By: Samantha F. Sanders, Ariel Dora Stern and William J. Gordon
Remote patient monitoring is a subset of telehealth that involves the collection, transmission, evaluation, and communication of patient health data from electronic devices. These devices include wearable sensors, implanted equipment, and handheld instruments. During...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Information Technology;
Analytics and Data Science;
Technology Adoption
Sanders, Samantha F., Ariel Dora Stern, and William J. Gordon. "How to Make Remote Monitoring Tech Part of Everyday Health Care." Harvard Business Review (website) (July 2, 2020).