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Private Capital Project

the strategic use of private capital is inextricably tied to Harvard Business School. The first modern PE fund, American Research and Development, was designed and led by Professor Georges Doriot in the years after World War II at HBS.... View Details
  • 06 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

(R-NV) resigned after covering up an extramarital affair with monetary payoffs. Lee B. Farkas, former chairman of giant mortgage lender Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, in April was found guilty for his role in one of the largest bank fraud schemes in View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • Web

Partners - Case Method Project

Adler-Ivanbrook Novato High School Novato, CA CA 2 of 65 Randy Baker Terra Linda High School San Rafael, CA Subjects: American Government CA 3 of 65 Leslie Bartlett Chaparral High School El Cajon, CA CA 4 of 65 Brian Bezner Rancho... View Details
  • Web

Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

culture, American companies can prepare themselves for the looming care crisis. The economics of care are misaligned in most companies. Employees don’t get the support they need for their caregiving responsibilities and employers pay the... View Details
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The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade

— John Heard referring to the hong merchants, from his diary, 1891 10 The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System During the period known as the Canton trade system (1757–1842), hong merchants acted as exclusive liaisons between View Details
  • 2008
  • Other Unpublished Work

From Public Purpose to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Business Education; Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Chicago
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  • 15 Apr 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Raymond Fisman, Columbia Business School

  • 09 Mar 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Katja Seim of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

  • Research Summary

Managing International Trade and Investment

By: Debora L. Spar
Introduced by Debora Spar in 1995, Managing International Trade and Investment is an elective course that prepares students to deal with the distinct set of management challenges that face cross-border businesses. Building on experience that suggests that what works... View Details
  • August 2022
  • Case

Meaningful Gigs

By: Brian Trelstad and Rachel Philbin
In October 2020, just a year after founding their company Meaningful Gigs, founders Ronnie Kwesi Coleman and Stephanie Nachemja-Burton prepared for a vital investment meeting with Rethink Education. They had already reached $400,000 in annually recurring revenue (ARR)... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Revenue; Education Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; United States
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

How Rupert Murdoch Outfoxed Larry Tisch: Ten Enduring Lessons from the Negotiations that Wrested the NFL from CBS

By: James K. Sebenius
A remarkable 1993 negotiation rocked the world of American football with aftershocks that have directly shaped today’s entertainment and media landscapes and even our polarized politics. In December of that year, Rupert Murdoch’s fledgling Fox Network unexpectedly... View Details
Keywords: Bargaining; Football; Negotiation; Sports; Media; Negotiation Tactics
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Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Innate Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-based Taxation

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl
U.S. survey respondents' views on distributive justice differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax research. When expressing their preferences over allocations in stylized, hypothetical scenarios meant to isolate key... View Details
Keywords: Optimal Taxation; Welfarism; Luck; Benefit-based Taxation; Taxation; Equality and Inequality; Attitudes
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  • Fall 2014
  • Article

Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing

By: Matthew Weinzierl
The price indexation of Social Security benefit payments has emerged in recent years as a flashpoint of debate in the United States. I characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees who differ in their initial wealth at... View Details
Keywords: Retirement; Compensation and Benefits; United States
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  • March 2008 (Revised March 2009)
  • Case

Transforming AMFAM

By: Rakesh Khurana, Rajiv Lal and Cathy Ross
On a winter day in December 2007 at the American Family Mutual Insurance Company (AMFAM) headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, Dave Anderson and Jack Salzwedel remained in the conference room after the senior management meeting had concluded. Anderson, CEO of AMFAM since... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Governing and Advisory Boards; Marketing; Mission and Purpose; Strategic Planning; Insurance Industry; United States
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  • 11 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park
  • 30 Sep 2019
  • Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

Black Experience, co-edited by Mayo, University of Virginia Professor Laura Morgan Roberts, who is a visiting scholar at HBS, and David A. Thomas, president of Morehouse College and a former professor at HBS. “These African American... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Jan 2017
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?

various comments on this web page is desperation when it comes to government. It seems like many Americans are just starting to give up, which is the absolute wrong approach.” Citing the Glass-Steagall Act in banking as well as actions... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
  • Web

Research - Global

Deshpandé , Dante Roscini and Elena Corsi In June 2024, Roberto Vedovotto, CEO of Kering Eyewear, prepared to discuss the future of the recently acquired brands LINDBERG, a Danish optical eyewear brand, and Maui Jim, an American... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2022
  • What Do You Think?

How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?

think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: William D. Cohan, Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon (Portfolio/Penguin, 2022) David Gelles, The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Industrial Products; Media & Broadcasting; Medical Devices & Supplies; Manufacturing
  • 21 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2023

As we bid farewell to another incredible year, it's time to reflect on the moments that resonated most with our readers. Let's revisit this year's highlights of the MBA Voices Blog! FROM HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL TO SPOTIFY: FOUR LESSONS IN MY JOURNEY TO LAND MY DREAM... View Details