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Courses - Entrepreneurship
examine how individuals convert knowledge, aspiration, and insight into action. Second Year (Elective Curriculum) During the second year students choose from a range of elective courses, enabling them to integrate the functional skills learned in the first year into an... View Details
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52435 CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Pratt, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in Brazil, France, Germany,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2024
- In Practice
Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year
high-value ideas that blend human ingenuity with AI’s efficiency and analytical power. As we look ahead, it is clear that the competitive edge belongs to those firms that embrace this partnership. Picture a scenario where AI serves as the... View Details
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
- 28 May 2024
- In Practice
Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible
industry- or function-specific in focus, while other firms concentrate on small or family businesses, the public sector, and even private equity. By limiting your focus to the major strategic firms, you will... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Strategy - Faculty & Research
that Mitsui look like?” 2025 Working Paper The Extent and Drivers of Internal Agglomeration of U.S. Multi-Unit Firms By: Juan Alcácer and Jasmina Chauvin This paper examines the extent and determinants of internal agglomeration—the... View Details
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Senior Executive Leadership Program—China
including: Large, established companies, either private or state-owned Entrepreneurial ventures—either new companies or new ventures within established companies Growing family businesses Multinational firms... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
Generational Changes In The Family Business Board The board of directors in the family firm usually changes over generations and as the ownership of the View Details
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Finance Curriculum - Faculty & Research
of material: Advanced valuation—valuation of levered firms and projects. Advanced valuations—options as a metaphor for flexibility. Financial choices of firms—financing, distributing funds to shareholders, managing risk. Integrated... View Details
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
How do companies survive not just for years, but for decades? For centuries even? During a global pandemic, researchers are studying anew what makes companies resilient, agile, and enduring. After all, Japanese construction firm Kongō... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
holding group], for example, runs his companies closely and is planning to pass the leadership of his firms to his two sons. Similarly, the heads of some of America's largest firms, both publicly held and private, are the scions of the... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
by overseas Chinese in China. Our paper takes advantage of a large dataset—over 50,000 firms over a period of eight years—that is comprised of two types of foreign firms with investments in China—those owned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Europe - Global
Teaching Material SWEN Blue Ocean: Impact Investing Goes to Sea By: Vikram S Gandhi and David Allen Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 325-013 June 2025 Case (Family) Size Matters: Nico Oprée and the Decreasing Power of Family Unity over Time... View Details
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The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Morgan and George F. Baker. 1 U.S. Steel Corporation Finance Committee, featuring George F. Baker (third from left) and J.P. Morgan (fifth from left), 1926. Baker Family Papers, Baker Library, Harvard Business School (olvwork642542). Show... View Details
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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care
builds on groundbreaking discoveries from Professor Omer Yilmaz’s Lab at MIT, where Joe completed his PhD. As a Blavatnik Fellow, Joe will lead Adeno toward clinical proof of concept in both familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) and... View Details
- September 1998 (Revised July 1999)
- Case
Spyder Active Sports, Inc. and CHB Capital Partners (A)
By: John A. Davis, Louis B. Barnes and Peter K. Botticelli
After establishing a small but profitable skiwear business, an entrepreneur decides to sell a minority stake in the firm to outside investors. His goal is to acquire the capital needed to grow the business, even though this will entail a substantial transformation of... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Equity; Family Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry
Davis, John A., Louis B. Barnes, and Peter K. Botticelli. "Spyder Active Sports, Inc. and CHB Capital Partners (A)." Harvard Business School Case 899-084, September 1998. (Revised July 1999.)
- 07 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook
capital.” What is a competitive advantage? Some industries, such as airlines, may have low profit margins, while others, such as pharmaceuticals, have higher ones—but within each of those industries, some firms are better at generating... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Research - Global
Family Unity over Time By: Lauren Cohen , Octavian Graf Pilati, Dominik V. Eynern and Sophia Pan Nico Oprée, a fourth-generation (G4) member of his family’s heavy manufacturing business, found himself reflecting on how the View Details
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
result, there are meaningful externalities in the mutual fund industry due to cash management. A fund family may coordinate the liquidity management efforts of its funds in order to minimize volatility spillovers from fire sales. Related... View Details
- March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
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China: To Float or Not To Float? (C)- Esquel Group and the Chinese Renminbi
By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
In July 2005, China revalued its currency by 2.1% and adjusted its exchange rate regime toward a more market-based system. Esquel Group, a family-run, privately held textiles firm specializing in high-quality cotton shirts with its most significant manufacturing base... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Currency Exchange Rate; Private Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Value Creation; China
Alfaro, Laura, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Ingrid Vogel. "China: To Float or Not To Float? (C)- Esquel Group and the Chinese Renminbi." Harvard Business School Case 706-023, March 2006. (Revised November 2006.)