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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

that vision to investment banks and investors. Lomtadze provided a twist ending for the case. Kaspi.kz had decided to put the IPO on hold. The company felt that its business model had not been explained properly by its advisors and... View Details

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The Panama Canal

The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy. It makes three general arguments. First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details

04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

unnamed commercial bank in Asia between 2015 and 2018, Cullen and Perez-Truglia found that male employees advanced further and faster when they reported to male managers. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/j7qgnGnkPPjsnT2zdhza][/div] Two... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Jun 2021
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Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

coming into the HBS | HKS Joint Degree program. “My goal was to help individuals better invest their money – that was my North Star,” he said. Fast forward ten years, and Reed is living out that vision managing the asset allocation for the oldest continually operating... View Details

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Kiran Gandhi

don’t plan on working for a bank or for Ideo after school, but I want to apply the design skills I learn to the music industry in the long term. What might people find surprising about you? That I was a math major in college. I guess... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

04 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

and mistakes made by employees in two different branches of the same bank that implemented different policies on Internet use over the course of three months. "It would be relatively easy to do, and have very clear implications for... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Nov 2013
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The Real Cost of Bribery

The World Bank estimates that the equivalent of $1 trillion is offered in bribes every year. In the age of globalization, it's easy to see how giving into bribery might be competitively advantageous. In fact, research by Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Sep 2017
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Christopher Harland (MBA 1984)

Christopher Harland (MBA 1984) Christopher Harland (MBA 1984) A graduate of Harvard College, Christopher Harland (MBA 1984) spent three years at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City before returning to Boston to enroll at HBS. “Harvard... View Details

26 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

school’s piggy bank in his paper, How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics, forthcoming in Management Science. “Some of the top schools make enormous amounts of money—just extraordinary, close to $200 million,”... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

09 Aug 2021
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OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

achieving its mission, including PepsiCo, Walmart, Bank of America, Johnson & Johnson, and Verizon. “If you have those kinds of four-year degree requirements, you are unintentionally excluding 78 percent of African Americans who don’t... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg

26 May 2003
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When Silence Spells Trouble at Work

analyst at an investment bank who carefully keeps his opinions to himself when he's around his superiors. "It comes down to the hierarchical nature of the bank," he says. "Basically you're just trying to make the person... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

01 Dec 2015
Blog Post

What is the HBS FIELD Program?

Vice President at Wells Fargo Global Banking Group, Ariana was interested in attending business school to develop herself personally, hone her critical thinking through the case study method, grow her network, and think long and hard... View Details

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

allow you to go off-roading (curb? no problem!). Plus, exercising with my daughter saves time, and she has a blast going fast on runs. Alice Liu | Class of 2021 Little(s): Mia (1) Pre-HBS Industry: Technology Investment Banking at J.P.... View Details

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
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Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

Wasserman. "They have a lot of senior people at the top and very few junior people below them. Several other industries that started out that way - such as investment banking and consulting - have evolved into big, pyramid-shaped... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

30 Jun 2021
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

banks and to fast-food establishments such as Starbucks. Some outlet mall operators, like Value Retail, do a tremendous job in this area as well. In a development to take note of, both Best Buy and Sears have recently announced that they... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

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Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online

and password. Educational Information such as student identification number, courses taken and currently registered for, course progress, and course grade. Employment Information such as your job title and employer. Transactional Information such as View Details

22 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'

credit market dynamics—and investor behavior. HBS Working Knowledge spoke with Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School, about the role markets may play in shaping economic conditions.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Banking

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Roosevelt; Averell Harriman, a banker whose interests included the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads; J. P. Morgan, a banker and financier; and the investment banks Kuhn, Loeb & Company and Schroder, Rockefeller & Company,... View Details

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