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- 23 Jan 2024
- Book
More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World
Two years after non-fungible tokens (NFTs) captured the attention of artists, celebrities, and brands, debate still rages over their value. But NFTs could be poised to make a comeback in 2024, argues Scott Duke Kominers, the Sarofim-Rock Professor of View Details
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MBA Experience - Health Care
centers. This program provides a glimpse into the front lines of health care delivery. Mixers & Small Group Dinners Provide networking and community building opportunities with alumni, students, and the broader Harvard community. “ The... View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
Mills is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School and a leading authority on U.S. competitiveness, entrepreneurship, and innovation. She served in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet as the Administrator of... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
Publications International Marketing Review Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different Are Japanese and American Founders? By: Deshpandé, Rohit, Amir Grinstein, Elie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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General Management Faculty - Faculty & Research
General Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Unit Head Debora L. Spar Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean, View Details
- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
About the Authors Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School. Ann... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
- 11 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits
social media. “In any organization, you want to make the moral and material coexist.” In a recent paper, Lakshmi Ramarajan, associate professor of business administration at Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- Teaching
Overview
Ryann has extensive teaching experience in varied instructional settings. She was appointed the Qualitative Advisor for the Harvard University Sociology Department senior thesis writers in 2015-2016, and supervised two senior thesis writers in prior years. She served... View Details
- Blog
Take Control of Your Personal Brand
Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is also faculty chair of the new... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Firm Visibility and Acquisition Likelihood: Evidence from Seeking Alpha Coverage
By: Pu Gu, Benjamin Yost and Yuan Zou
This study investigates whether social media coverage influences a firm’s likelihood of being acquired. Specifically, we hypothesize that coverage of a firm on the Seeking Alpha platform raises its visibility to potential acquirers and M&A advisers (i.e., investment... View Details
Gu, Pu, Benjamin Yost, and Yuan Zou. "Firm Visibility and Acquisition Likelihood: Evidence from Seeking Alpha Coverage." Working Paper, July 2023.
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Laws versus Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950
By: Aldo Musacchio
This article examines some of the institutional conditions that facilitated the development of equity markets in Brazil. A critical factor was the addition of protections for investors to corporate bylaws, which enabled relatively large corporations in Brazil to... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Equity; Financial Markets; Investment; Governance Controls; Business History; Ownership Stake; Brazil
Musacchio, Aldo. "Laws versus Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950." Business History Review 82, no. 3 (Fall 2008): 445–473.
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
home in Dallas to his parents’ place in Ruston, Louisiana, the small town of about 22,000 where he grew up. While there, the kids, then two and three years old, started running a fever, which would eventually register around 104 degrees.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 2011
- Book
Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar
By: Chet Huber
Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details
Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry
Huber, Chet. Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011.
- October 2013 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
Cyprus (A)
By: Eric Werker, Sebastian Berardi, Stelios Elia, Omar Muakkassa and James Zumberge
Cyprus is a small Mediterranean island located at the cross-roads of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Since its 1974 split, Cyprus has grown real GDP more than fivefold—in large part because of its development as an "international business" center. The country... View Details
Werker, Eric, Sebastian Berardi, Stelios Elia, Omar Muakkassa, and James Zumberge. "Cyprus (A)." Harvard Business School Case 714-010, October 2013. (Revised March 2015.)
- 13 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Welcome to the BEI Blog!
Is business the answer to the climate crisis? Here at the Business & Environment Initiative, we believe that it is the responsibility of business to lead on confronting... View Details
- December 2006 (Revised August 2008)
- Case
Pervasis Therapeutics, Inc.
By: Robert F. Higgins and Virginia Fuller
In May 2005, Steve Bollinger was about to become president and chief operating officer of Pervasis Therapeutics, a small cell therapy start-up in Cambridge, Mass. If proven successful, Pervasis' product, Vascugel, could change the way vascular disease is treated and... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Health Industry; Cambridge
Higgins, Robert F., and Virginia Fuller. "Pervasis Therapeutics, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 807-026, December 2006. (Revised August 2008.)
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
Administrator, US Small Business Administration Download Mills profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1953 Born, Boston, Massachusetts 1977 Joins... View Details
- 20 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com
promotion of independent bookstores. But then a funny thing happened. While pressure from Amazon forced Borders out of business in 2011, indie bookstores staged an unexpected comeback. Between 2009 and 2015, the ABA reported a 35 percent... View Details