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Content & Community for Students | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
know they want to pursue social enterprise careers the support and resources they need to do so. Second, encouraging students who have an interest in social enterprise but aren't sure of their career path to seriously consider this space,...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Opening Minds Through Expanded Learning Opportunities
programs, graduate business study has not been a natural leap. PRIMO is one way to change that." Tami Kim was a rising senior concentrating in government at Harvard College in 2011 when she participated in the inaugural session of the...
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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Competitiveness Recruit Alumni Recruiting MBA Recruiting Recruiting Resources Alumni Bulletin Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Business History Review Harvard Business Publishing Harvard Business Review HBS Working Knowledge Close Harvard...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
people to help you in areas, work with resource providers, and so forth. So, there’s a natural dovetailing between HBS’s focus on general management and entrepreneurship. Even if students are not going to...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
production requires massive capital investment," Esty says. And as natural resources are tapped out in developed countries, it becomes necessary to explore geographic areas that may not have an...
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by Julia Hanna
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Moving to the U.S. With a Family - MBA
quickly found out that I have 900+ classmates to call on as a resource when faced with almost any challenge – 90 of which are section mates who constantly offer their assistance when I need it. I will share a few anecdotes from our time...
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- 01 Aug 2001
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Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
emphasizes the importance of intellectual property rights, and the "fairly transparent and efficient" nature of the FDA. Maintaining this competitive advantage, he noted, requires the reversal of two alarming trends: a decline in the...
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- 11 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Recap of the 4th Annual Women in Investing Summit
finance. With my curiosity sparked, I found my first internship at a search fund (largely thanks to my Yorkshire Terrier’s networking skills, but that’s another story ) Over subsequent summer internships, investing felt like a natural...
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- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
numerous imitators, as often was the problem in the late 1990s, when the funding of "me too" firms became commonplace. Q: Is the nature of the venture capitalist changing? That is, if Arthur Rock and John Doerr each represent...
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- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
for growth. During the nineteenth century, most multinational investment in developing countries went into natural resources and related services. These were often enclave investments, like mining towns,...
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- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020....
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Competitiveness Recruit Alumni Recruiting MBA Recruiting Recruiting Resources Alumni Bulletin Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Business History Review Harvard Business Publishing Harvard Business Review HBS Working Knowledge Close Harvard...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- Op-Ed
The Real Duty of the Board of Directors
We routinely hear board directors, CEOs, and CFOs of publicly-listed corporations refer to shareholders as owners of the corporation. Under this thinking, it is natural to conclude that the board’s duty is to its shareholders. Contrary to...
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by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
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India - Industry specific research
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Pricing Paradise
True Cost of the Iraq Conflict. “The mission of the National Park Service is to protect these resources in perpetuity, but that’s difficult to do when you don’t have a total economic value for that resource.” Previous attempts at...
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Julia Hanna
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother
Massachusetts Water Resource Authority, installing and maintaining renewable energy systems across the state. I also worked for a non-profit think tank, the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), on renewable energy policy and convening of...
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- May 2024
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HarvEast
By: Jeremy Friedman and Natalie Kindred
In late 2023, Dmitry Skornyakov, CEO of Ukrainian agribusiness HarvEast, was navigating the turmoil caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that began in 2014 and escalated into full-scale war in February 2022. Before the full-scale invasion, HarvEast managed 127,000...
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Goods and Commodities;
Natural Resources;
Food;
Problems and Challenges;
Adaptation;
Innovation and Management;
Crisis Management;
Logistics;
Supply Chain;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Loss;
Trust;
Human Needs;
War;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Chile;
South America;
Latin America;
Ukraine
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
Specifically, we examine the impact of the annual July turnover of residents in American teaching hospitals on levels of resource utilization and quality relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. We find that, despite the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
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Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs
By: John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr and Fan Zhao
Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also government policies supporting a rival technology. Wen Yibo has used engineering expertise and political savvy to build a major privately...
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Private Sector;
Public Sector;
Service Delivery;
Business and Government Relations;
Environmental Sustainability;
Wastes and Waste Processing;
Urban Development;
Utilities Industry;
China
Macomber, John D., Chad M. Carr, and Fan Zhao. "Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business School Case 211-086, February 2011. (Revised September 2013.)
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
depleted of their self-regulatory resources are more likely to "impulsively cheat" than individuals whose self-regulatory resources are intact. We report results from four experiments that describe...
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Sean Silverthorne