Family And Friends - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 May 2013
Blog Post

Perks of the LVMH Family

Confession: I had no idea that Sephora was part of LVMH until I interviewed. Most of that is strategic: LVMH wants to make sure that its brands feel distinct and authentic, but this internship definitely exposed me to the broader... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

15 Feb 2020
News

Hedge fund fuels ‘concerns for our friends at Evergy’

02 Dec 2010
News

Facebook Seeks Friends in Washington as Privacy Concerns Mount

December 1996
Case

Family Assistance Plan, The (A)

By: Bruce R. Scott and Paul Bastone

Keywords: Welfare or Wellbeing

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23 Nov 2010
News

Resolve an Ownership Dispute in a Family Business

08 Apr 2011
News

Investing in the Family Brand

Keywords: Real Estate

21 Jun 2016
News

Rescuing Families from ISIS-Led Genocide

partner of a tech firm in Winnipeg to help Yazidis leave refugee camps in Syria and Turkey to start new lives in Canada. Five hundred members of this ancient ethno-religious minority were killed by ISIS in the 2014 onslaught. Women View Details

August 2022 (Revised December 2022)
Case

Iluméxico: For Every Family to Have Power

By: Brian Trelstad, Isa Oliveres and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago

In 2022, Manuel Wiechers, the CEO of Iluméxico, a for-profit social enterprise that provided off-grid solar energy services in rural Mexico, was finalizing his presentation for the company’s upcoming board meeting. In the 12 years since Wiechers had co-founded... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Energy; Energy Policy; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Business and Government Relations; Equity; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Energy Industry; Mexico; Latin America

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Friends or Foes? Examining Platform Owners' Entry into Complementors' Spaces

By: Feng Zhu

As platform owners continue to expand their ecosystems, many of them have started to provide consumers with their own complementary applications. These moves position the platform owners as direct competitors to their complementors. This paper surveys empirical studies... View Details

Keywords: Platform; Complementors; Digital Platforms; Market Entry and Exit; Competition

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Friends in High Places: Structural Discrimination in Salary Negotiations

By: M. D. Seidel, J. Polzer and K. Stewart

Keywords: Negotiation

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December 2024
Supplement

Trust and Family at Fuwei (C): Bringing Back Ethan Yang

By: Letian Zhang, Wenjie Ma and Jiaqi Jin

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20 Jun 2022
News

Indian Multi-Generational Family Businesses: Why It’s a Rare Phenomenon

29 May 2015
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The 24/7 Work Culture’s Toll on Families and Gender Equality

21 Jan 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

One of the highlights of my year is in November, when teams of enterprising families meet for the Executive Education program I founded and still lead at Harvard Business School, View Details

Keywords: Retail

September 2020
Case

Keeping It in the Family at the Hayden Saw Company

By: V.G. Narayanan and John Masko

In 2019, Board Chair and third-generation shareholder Helen Fullerton was preparing for a meeting to discuss Ohio-based Hayden Saw Company’s (Hayden) future as a family business. As the company entered its fifth decade, the Hayden family was dealing with three distinct... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Corporate Governance; Family Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Family and Family Relationships; Governing and Advisory Boards; Construction Industry; Ohio; United States

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