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Building the Foundation: Business Education for Women at Harvard University, 1937-1970
Executive Education Participants Friends of Executive Education More HBS LinkedIn: Alumni Executive Education Company Page Executive Education Participants Friends of Executive Education Harvard Business School Leadership Fellows HBS... View Details
- Jul 2014
- Working Paper
The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game
Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation's private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
The story of how nonprofit start-up Montage Entertainment came about would be familiar to many past participants in the HBS Business Plan Contest. “Some friends and I were sitting in the café at Shad, discussing film and the way women and... View Details
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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series View Details
- August 2011 (Revised October 2015)
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Boardroom Battle Behind Bars: Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings—A Corporate Governance Drama
By: William C. Kirby and Tracy Yuen Manty
Despite widespread news of the incarceration of Gome Electronics' CEO, Huang Guangyu, Bain Capital felt they carefully undertook due diligence before making a significant investment in the company. The venture capital firm was confident that it and the current... View Details
Keywords: China; Legal Aspects Of Business; Corruption; Risk; Corporate Governance; Crime and Corruption; Power and Influence; Risk Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Venture Capital; Ethics; Governing and Advisory Boards; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Values and Beliefs; Private Equity; China
Kirby, William C., and Tracy Yuen Manty. "Boardroom Battle Behind Bars: Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings—A Corporate Governance Drama." Harvard Business School Case 312-025, August 2011. (Revised October 2015.)
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Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity
Framework for Leading Classroom Conversations about Race Harvard Business School Publishing 15 JUN 2020 | Stephanie Creary Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience 3 SEP 2019 |... View Details
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A Broad Spectrum of Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
A Broad Spectrum of Opportunities Background Over the summer, I was a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow at Victory Schools, an education management organization that partners with and manages charter and public schools in New York,... View Details
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Films & TV | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
mills in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania. Full film available at: https://www.filmpreservation.org/sponsored-films/screening-room/steel-man-s-servant-1938 Unfinished Business (1948) This postwar film follows Jim... View Details
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Weekend Sprint: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series View Details
- 01 Aug 1981
- Conference Presentation
The Development and Transmission of New Workplace Structures: Organizational and Market Characteristics of Innovating Corporations
By: R. M. Kanter
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business
Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core... View Details
- March 1991
- Article
Engines of Progress: Designing and Running Entrepreneurial Vehicles in Established Companies: Raytheon's New Product Center, 1969-89
By: R. M. Kanter, J. North, L. Richardson, C. Ingols and J. Zolner
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business or Company Management; Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing Industry
Kanter, R. M., J. North, L. Richardson, C. Ingols, and J. Zolner. "Engines of Progress: Designing and Running Entrepreneurial Vehicles in Established Companies: Raytheon's New Product Center, 1969-89." Journal of Business Venturing 6 (March 1991): 145–163.
- 2019
- Working Paper
Who Should Select New Employees, Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain
By: Carolyn Deller and Tatiana Sandino
We examine how changing the allocation of hiring decision rights in a multiunit organization affects employee-firm match quality, contingent on a unit’s circumstances. Our research site, a US retail chain, switched from a decentralized hiring model (hiring by business... View Details
Keywords: Control; Selection; Decentralization; Company Values; Retail Chains; Decision Making; Economics; Geography; Employees; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Design; Situation or Environment; Retail Industry
Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino. "Who Should Select New Employees, Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain." Harvard Business School Series in Accounting and Control, No. 16-088, January 2016. (Revised August 2019. Forthcoming in The Accounting Review.)
- 26 Jan 2021
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A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time
A novel approach to repaying debt could help consumers free themselves from crushing credit card balances faster, according to new research. Rather than asking borrowers to make payments toward their total balances, Harvard View Details
- 28 Oct 2024
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It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School
may be dizzying for anyone, but for Mitkevicius it’s all part of the job. Mitkevicius is part of the Harvard Business School team that organizes and oversees field courses for MBA students: the MBA Program Global Experience Office, or... View Details
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including well known artists such as Russell Aikins, Fritz Henle, Fred Korth, and Robert Yarnall Richie. Collection guide: https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/bak00245/catalog View the Gary Works Photograph Album Baker Old Class Collection American Steel & Wire. Welcome.... View Details
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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Slider Selection of springs made by U.S. Steel, American Steel & Wire, Waukegan, Illinois. U.S. Steel Annual Report, 1951. Corporate Reports Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Douglas A. Fisher. Steel Serves the Nation,... View Details