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11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

In this excerpt taken from the chapter entitled "From Trade to Investment," HBS visiting professor Geoffrey Jones traces the transition of the British trading companies from purely trading companies in the 1870s to "business groups" that View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

06 Jan 2021
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

opportunity that would help me meet more likeminded people? Is this something I could do only while at HBS and no other time in my life? As I imposed that framework on my decisions, I found myself saying no to many of the more expensive View Details

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

investments. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

2023 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Financials From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financials From the CFO... View Details

09 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

leaders grappling with improving racial equity in the workplace, important changes need to go beyond actively recruiting, hiring, and promoting more minority employees—and toward implementing workplace policies that challenge the... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

01 Mar 2024
News

Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

Facebook and Google, for example, own user data and keep 100 percent of profits with advertisers. In Web3, companies share revenue with users. “This is a new way to organize economic activity and incentivize humans,” Wu says about the... View Details

Keywords: April White

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

these outreach programs, which included opportunities to interact with students at a nearby middle school through tutoring and field trips, and a Saturday morning athletic program at the School. HBS alumni clubs and associations around the world also sponsored hundreds... View Details

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

the service ended and the rest of the family started walking down the hill, I happened to turn around and saw that my son had lagged behind at the gravesite. I immediately knew exactly what he was going to do, and as everyone else turned around to look, he pressed the... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

04 Nov 2009
What Do You Think?

What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?

capitalism there is a place for government, and economists, in the capitalistic system, but in this case less is more." Gerald Nanninga suggested that we "limit government's role to defining capitalistic criminal activity and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

well as financial analysis. In a world in which companies are expected to behave as moral actors that conform their activities to certain ethical requirements, financial tests of acceptability alone are insufficient. In the book, I spell... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

best is yet to come for innovation at Harvard as Allston activates further. We couldn’t be more excited. Harvard Innovation Labs Located along Harvard’s evolving Western Avenue innovation corridor, the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

05 Sep 2014
News

Keeping Education in Check

public and the government, it was considered an after-school activity for privileged children. So he teamed up with David MacEnulty, president of the David MacEnulty Chess Foundation and inspiration for the 2005 TV film Knights of the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Data Privacy Statement (MENA) - Global

relating to activities in Turkey. The Center collects personal data of alumni of Harvard Business School primarily for notifying such persons of events and activities that may be of interest to them. This... View Details

01 Jan 2004
News

D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

says. As a senior member of McKinsey, Daniel remains active both inside and outside the firm, serving as a resource to other partners and associates and adding new names to the list of nonprofits he wants to help. He also intends to spend... View Details

Research Summary

Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920

Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details

Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

date, the Climate Circle is cultivating the next generation of climate entrepreneurs who are actively uncovering new, unexpected ways to take on climate change. View Details

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

swipe left and it will stop insuring it. You don't have to do all the activities you normally would do with a traditional insurance company. You don't have to talk to an agent, look at the policies, list the things you own, pay for the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

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Certificates, Credentials, & Credits | HBS Online

the Digital World, Design Thinking and Innovation, Digital Marketing Strategy, and Winning with Digital Platforms—plus all peer learning activities and a capstone project. Participants must complete the Credential of Digital Innovation... View Details

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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni

both business and civil society. The goal here is to broaden our conversation from the urgent demands firms often face to a longer-term consideration of how they can best address the expanded role that society is asking them to play. Economists have long recognized... View Details

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