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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Henry worked for his father, Abraham, a cattle dealer. When he came to America, he started as an itinerant peddler of household and farm goods around Mobile, Alabama. [1] He then settled in Montgomery, Alabama’s capital, where he opened a... View Details
- July 2009 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana
By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
A U.S. government agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), provides aid to developing countries, focusing on poverty reduction through economic growth. It measures results through an economic rate of return based on increases in farmer incomes anticipated... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Investment Return; Measurement and Metrics; Welfare; Ghana; United States
Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana." Harvard Business School Case 310-025, July 2009. (Revised May 2010.)
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
"What we want from a company today is not the same as 10 years ago. But the principles are the same." Companies need to do a better job of earning trust, the authors say. The Edelman Trust Barometer, an annual survey of 34,000 people in... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 21 Feb 2014
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Why myRa is not the way to save for retirement
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
Government and the International Economy Pakistan at 75: When Will the "Nazuk Mor" End? Singapore: "From Third World to First" Thailand: Red Shirts, Yellow Shirts, and a Green Revolution Data Science for Managers Arla Foods: Decarbonizing... View Details
- 14 Mar 2018
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The 2+2 Program: Finding the Freedom to Take Risks
graduation, Jevta worked as an interim executive director for a small education non-profit followed by joining L’oreal Canada. From Jevta’s senior year in college he knew that he wanted to pursue a master’s degree and stumbled across the... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
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Obama’s effort to build a legacy
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Past Issues - Alumni
from chaos, affect performance, and ascribe meaning to the mundane details of our personal and professional lives Quantum Leap Quantum computing has revolutionary potential, but it’s been stuck in the lab. John Levy thinks his startup has a way to make it View Details
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Data - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
linkages or externalities across industries that give rise to clusters. Data on the composition, by cluster, of state, regional, and metropolitan economies in the U.S. has been collected and analyzed for each year from 1998 through to the... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
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Bonuses Aside, Tax Law’s Trickle-Down Impact Not Yet Clear
- 26 Apr 2022
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What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose
principles into every aspect of the organization. This purpose serves as a compass to guide all decisions, but also as an operating system that shapes all facets of the business, including its strategy, culture, and its public relations.... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
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Strategy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students More Local Events Local Community Events Harvard Wyss institute- upcoming events Berkman Center for Internet and Society- upcoming events Harvard Innovation Lab- upcoming... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
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Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley
late 2010s, Professor Paul Gompers started noticing clusters of entrepreneurial ecosystems popping up in places around the world not known for such activity: Kenya, Pakistan, the Philippines. What was driving their emergence? What could other developing View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 01 Sep 2023
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Preparing Global Leaders
to offer need-based scholarships that encourage a diversity of thought in the classroom. The support that alumni and friends provide plays an essential role in HBS’s efforts to deepen the worldview of all members of its community. Global... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
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Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
- 18 Aug 2017
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American business leaders break with Donald Trump
- 20 Jul 2021
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America's Medical Debt Is Much Worse Than We Think
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
here . Related Themes: Global Crisis & Debt Data More Info Does Reserve Accumulation Crowd Out Investment By: Carmen Reinhart, Vincent Reinhart & Takeshi Tashiro MAY 2016 In this paper, Reinhart, Reinhart, and Tashiro study nine Asian View Details
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