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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence

By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper provides a business history perspective on debates about the Great Divergence, the rise of the income gap between the West and the Rest, and the more recent Great Convergence, which has seen a narrowing of that gap. The literature on the timing and... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Economics; History; Wealth and Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth
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  • 26 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program

Fellows Program? The Leadership Fellows Program was launched at Harvard Business School in 2001. The program was designed to provide social-sector organizations with access to... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
  • October 2022
  • Exercise

Shanty Real Estate: Confidential Information for iBuyer 1

By: Michael Luca, Jesse M. Shapiro and Nathan Sun
Shanty is a simulation in which students inhabit the role of either a traditional home buyer or an iBuyer, both bidding on the same condo. The traditional home buyer has access to a “comp sheet” of similar properties that have recently sold, and has done a walkthrough.... View Details
Keywords: Algorithm; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decision Making; Measurement and Metrics; Market Timing
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  • October 2022
  • Exercise

Shanty Real Estate: Confidential Information for Homebuyer 3

By: Michael Luca, Jesse M. Shapiro and Nathan Sun
Shanty is a simulation in which students inhabit the role of either a traditional home buyer or an iBuyer, both bidding on the same condo. The traditional home buyer has access to a “comp sheet” of similar properties that have recently sold, and has done a walkthrough.... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Decision Making; Measurement and Metrics; Market Timing
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  • TeachingInterests

Investing for Impact

By: Archie L. Jones

The Field Course: Investing for Impact was born out of the efforts of HBS students and faculty in the spring of 2020 and offered for the first time in fall semester of 2021.

This course seeks to help students understand why certain... View Details

  • 01 Aug 2023
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Business Transform Primary Health Care Across Africa?

Keywords: Re: Regina E. Herzlinger; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • April 2005 (Revised August 2011)
  • Case

Berkshire Partners: Bidding for Carter's

By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn
A five-member team from Berkshire Partners must recommend a final bid and financial structure for a leveraged buyout of William Carter Co., a leading producer of children's apparel. Investorcorp, a global investment group, has put the company up for auction. Goldman... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Capital Structure; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Valuation; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • 25 Mar 2022
  • Video

Omobola Johnson

Omobola Johnson, the former Minister of Communication Technology in Nigeria, discusses her transition into a venture capital career and highlights how venture capital enables young Nigerian entrepreneurs to address local challenges. View Details

    Reza R. Satchu

    Reza Satchu is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurship Management Unit at the Harvard Business School where he teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager, The Founder Mindset and Founder Launch. He is also the Founder, Managing Partner and majority shareholder of... View Details

    • September 2023 (Revised June 2024)
    • Case

    CyberArk: Fearlessly Forward in a Digital World

    By: David B. Yoffie and Daniela Beyersdorfer
    CyberArk was a leader in privileged access management and was an emerging leader in security identity. This case explores strategies in cybersecurity and whether big bets are needed to become a global leader. View Details
    Keywords: Cybersecurity; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Technology Industry
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    • Video

    Amina Laraki Slaoui

    Amina Laraki Slaoui, President of AMH Group, recalls the life-changing accident which left her paraplegic and explains how she observed a lack of accessibility for people with disabilities upon her return to Morocco. View Details
    • 04 Mar 2025
    • Blog Post

    WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley

    Building on a Legacy Decades in the Making For decades, WesTrek has been a flagship professional trek at Harvard Business School, giving students direct access to the heart of the tech industry. This year’s... View Details
    Keywords: Technology
    • 16 Jun 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Does Diversification Create Value in the Presence of External Financing Constraints? Evidence from the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis

    Keywords: by Venkat Kuppuswamy & Belén Villalonga
    • Video

    WAVE - 2013 HBS New Venture Competition Student Social Enterprise Track Runner Up

    • 08 Feb 2021
    • Working Paper Summaries

    In the Red: Overdrafts, Payday Lending, and the Underbanked

    Keywords: by Marco Di Maggio, Angela Ma, and Emily Williams; Financial Services
    • January 2024
    • Article

    Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China

    By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Bo Li and Ernest Liu
    We study the demand for government participation in China’s venture capital and private equity market. We conduct a large-scale, non-deceptive field experiment in collaboration with the leading industry service provider, through which we survey both capital investors... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Business and Government Relations; Entrepreneurship; China
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    • 2012
    • Chapter

    Creating Leaders: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model

    By: Michael C. Jensen, Werner Erhard and Kari L. Granger
    The sole objective of our ontological/phenomenological approach to creating leaders is to leave students actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By "natural self-expression" we mean a way of being and acting in any... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Development; Attitudes; Behavior; Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Acquisition
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    • April 2025
    • Article

    The Impact of Minority Representation at Mortgage Lenders

    By: W. Scott Frame, Ruidi Huang, Erica Jiang, Yeonjoon Lee, Will Liu, Erik J. Mayer and Adi Sunderam
    We study links between the labor market for loan officers and access to mortgage credit. Using novel data matching the (near) universe of mortgage applications to loan officers, we find that minorities are significantly underrepresented among loan officers. Minority... View Details
    Keywords: Household Finance; Demographic Economics; Financial Institutions; Diversity; Prejudice and Bias; Mortgages; Personal Finance
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    • Research Summary

    The Politics of Consumer Credit

    By: Gunnar Trumbull
    A combination of factors has dramatically increased consumer access to and reliance upon credit across the OECD. These factors include financial liberalization and deregulation, improvements in consumer credit information and its analysis, and a growth in debt... View Details
    • April 2002
    • Case

    Ocular

    By: Paul A. Gompers, Gregor M. Andrade and Jonathan Man
    Concerns the decision of Ed Kennedy, co-founder of Ocular Networks, as he decides what financing strategy his firm should take. The venture capital and public markets for telecommunications start-ups had dried up and Kennedy must decide whether to cut costs and raise... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Business Startups; Decisions; Venture Capital; Cost Management; Business Strategy; Telecommunications Industry
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