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William A. Sahlman

William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

Debora Spar is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and technology, and the interplay between... View Details

Keywords: biotechnology; broadcasting; communications; entertainment; federal government; health care; information; internet; music; pharmaceuticals

Howard H. Stevenson

Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry

June 2017 (Revised December 2017)
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CJ E&M: KCON Goes Global

By: Elie Ofek and Michael Norris

In January of 2017, CJ Entertainment & Media (E&M) proudly announced that it will be holding its first ever KCON in Mexico City just two months later. CJ Group Chairman Jay Lee and Vice Chairwoman Miky Lee are pleased at the progress that KCON, a Korean-oriented music... View Details

Keywords: Music Entertainment; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Food; Music Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

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Adriana Garcia Ceja

Adriana Garcia Ceja initially planned a career in international relations, following the inspiration of her mother, a diplomat in the Mexican consulate. But while attending Columbia University to study political science, she heard a presentation from a Latin American... View Details

W. Carl Kester

Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)

11 Apr 2024
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Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

compounded by the effects of climate change.” This past February, NPR offered additional explanations for Mexico City’s water crisis: “The reservoirs that supply around 20% of water to the city's 22 million residents are drying up. They... View Details

15 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

©iStockphoto Here's some heartening news for working mothers worried about the future of their children. Women whose moms worked outside the home are more likely to have jobs themselves, are more likely to hold supervisory responsibility at those jobs, and earn higher... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Hiring International Students

Free Trade Agreement Individuals from: Canada (TN) Mexico (TN) Australia (E-3) Singapore (H-1B1) Chile (H-1B1) No limit on the amount of time a person can work in a TN or E-3 status A total of 6 years permitted for H-1B1 professionals L-1... View Details

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NVC Regions - Alumni

California Maya Krish , Staff lead Eli Busen , MBA 2015 Vince K Lane , OPM 37 Western US - HBS Association of Southern California Joseph Grimes , MBA 1988 Candace Ng , MBA 1996 Western US States Alaska Arizona California Colorado Hawaii Idaho Montana Nevada New View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

measures reduce US dependence on supply chains linked to China? And what should we do with prices of imports from Vietnam and Mexico on the rise? Paper on Global Supply Chain Great Reallocation CASE STUDY Acquiring and Engaging Talent for... View Details

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Request the Data - Leadership

Mexico Monaco Mongolia Mozambique Myanmar (Burma) Namibia Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Nigeria Northern Ireland Norway Oman Pakistan Palestine Panama Paraguay Peru Phillippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Saudi Arabia... View Details

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Events - Business History

Jones and Kwelina Thompson Seminar meets on Zoom. Oct 16 16 Oct 2023 Business History Seminar: Business, Society, and the Environment Christy Thornton (Johns Hopkins University), "Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of... View Details

August 2020 (Revised August 2023)
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Nubank: Democratizing Financial Services

By: Michael Chu, Carla Larangeira and Pedro Levindo

Nubank, a wholly-digital solution created to disrupt Brazilian banking, with 6 million clients and a $4 billion valuation after five years, must decide whether to expand to Mexico. The company was founded in São Paulo in 2013 by Colombian-born David Vélez to seize what... View Details

Keywords: Fintech; Financial Inclusion; Digital Banking; Credit Cards; Banks and Banking; Disruption; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; South America; Brazil; North America; Mexico

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Ernesto Sterling

Coming to HBS is like... A dream that I thought was never going to happen. Coming to class is one of the most precious gifts I get every morning. Rushing past my section mates as I take my seat and when class is about to start, I can’t help but take a deep breath and... View Details

25 Jun 2020
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Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

that’s my number one leadership takeaway.” HOME REGION Mexico City, Mexico UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Columbia University PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IGNIA, Home Depot, Houlihan Lokey, Inc., Bank of America Merrill Lynch... View Details

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Eduardo Avalos

your most memorable classroom moment? HBS has a section tradition called Flag Day in which we deliver small presentations on each country represented our classroom. I am a dual citizen of Mexico and the U.S. I proudly represent two... View Details

06 Jul 2023
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Home Economics

In a remote village in the Mexican state of Chiapas, 13 women gather in an open-air community space. Each has arrived at their weekly meeting with a small deposit for El Banco—“the bank”—as the women have named the savings club they’ve formed with the assistance of... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Jul 2016
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How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

Carrier’s leaders probably didn’t anticipate this when they decided to take an action that others had taken before them—moving 1,400 jobs from the US (in this case, Indiana) to Mexico to reduce labor costs by nearly sevenfold and remain... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing

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