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October 2020 (Revised April 2021)
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Women Entrepreneurs and Tech Ecosystems: One City, Two Realities, and Four Diverse Women

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim

Four diverse women entrepreneurs launched their ventures in a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem that was part of a shift to a creative technology-driven economy for Miami. Although Miami was rated the #1 U.S. city for startups in 2017, the region contained structural... View Details

Keywords: Female Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Inclusion; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Racism; Sexism; Start-up; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Diversity; Gender; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Innovation and Invention; City; Culture; Miami

November 2017 (Revised September 2020)
Supplement

Miami's Tech Future (C): Reaching Another Miami

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The effects of Miami’s startup scene have not reached many “left-behind” lower-income Black communities, which are disproportionately affected by problems such as segregation and racial discrimination, lack of transportation access, crime, education quality, government... View Details

December 2013
Case

Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (A)

By: James K. Sebenius

Isolated by the KGB in Moscow, Harvard graduate student Bruce Allyn faces high-pressure negotiation tactics to recruit him for the Soviet spy agency. At the tense height of the Cold War, with CIA agents systematically being exposed and executed in Russia, Allyn was... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Bargaining; Hard Bargaining; KGB; Espionage; Spying; War; National Security; Alliances; Ethics; Negotiation Tactics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Offer; Cambridge; Moscow; Soviet Union

08 Dec 2017
News

Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits

After a tumultuous year in US politics, more than a dozen recent alumni have thrown their hats into the ring to launch careers in public service. “More and more people are feeling they need to step up and that they can, because they have the right skills to solve the... View Details

Keywords: politics

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Her book The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop published by NYU Press won of the 2007 Alan Merriam Book Prize awarded by The Society for Ethnomusicology, which contributed to the emergence of black... View Details

09 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 9

for Auditor Independence Yet? Authors:M.H. Bazerman and D.A. Moore Publication:Accounting, Organizations and Society (in press) Abstract Well before the collapse of Enron and Arthur Andersen, we argued that the auditing system had been... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

such an in-demand course and pursuit for recent MBAs? A: I don’t think there’s an easy answer. Things in society tend to be popular or unpopular at different times, and student enrollments tend to reflect that. There was a lot of interest... View Details

Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking

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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Business Historical Society. “Industrial Pictures and Their Relations to Business History.” Bulletin of the Business Historical Society 8 , no. 3 (May 1934): 42. Cotter, Arundel. The Gary I Knew.... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

Naina Lal Kidwai

in society different in India than in the West? Expectations concerning business are becoming more like those in the West. Indeed, there is probably a greater requirement of business in India to be engaged in its immediate environment, to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

Geographic Society (Abridged) David A. Garvin and Annelena LobbHarvard Business School Case 312-120 In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Kine Seck Mercier

value for her. “I love the way the case study allows us to learn from each other’s experiences,” says Kiné. “It builds off the spontaneity of Americans. In the beginning, I was overwhelmed by it. But now, I enjoy the positivity.” As the co-president of the Harvard... View Details

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Note on January 6 Events at U.S. Capitol | About

we also should be deeply concerned. The rule of law, the separation of powers, and trust in institutions are the foundations on which thriving societies are built. They also are a bedrock of business. As my colleague Rebecca Henderson... View Details

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HBS - From The Dean

Action Week, welcoming alumni and other private and public sector leaders for a day of discussions on the role of business in driving solutions to the climate challenge. The Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society introduced... View Details

March 2007 (Revised December 2007)
Background Note

Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Laura Winig and Kerry Herman

Provides successful models of private-public sector cooperatives in alleviating poverty and malnutrition. View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Nutrition; Cooperative Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Poverty; Welfare

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June 2013
Teaching Note

A Politician in a Leather Suit and the Paradox of Japanese Capitalism

By: Karthik Ramanna

Two lost decades later, capitalism in Japan embodies peculiar contradictions—preserving wealth and social stability in the face of declining economic power. Scant transparency in Japanese corporate practices plays an important role in this phenomenon. Sometimes... View Details

Keywords: Japan; Tokyo; Economic Systems; Corporate Accountability; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Crime and Corruption; Civil Society or Community; Corporate Governance; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Tokyo

November 2024 (Revised December 2024)
Case

Moonfare and the Democratization of Private Equity

By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu

Founded in 2016, Moonfare headquartered in Europe, was a pioneer in the “democratization” of private equity investments. Historically, private equity was accessible only to institutional investors like pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, and large family... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Customers; Wealth; Business Strategy; Segmentation; Technological Innovation; Product Launch; Financial Services Industry; Europe

July 2007
Teaching Note

Rwanda: National Economic Transformation (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter and Michael Patrick McCreless

Teaching Note to 706491. View Details

Keywords: Economy; Problems and Challenges; Development Economics; Policy; Poverty; Transformation; Performance Evaluation; Political Elections; Rwanda

November 1998 (Revised July 2000)
Case

Deere & Company: Sustaining Value

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Marlowe Dayley

The question facing Deere & Co. is whether or not to adopt some of the organizational technologies of private equity investors (decentralized equity holdings, use of leverage to control the disposition of cash flows, the externalization of the capital budgeting... View Details

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cash Flow; Private Equity; Wealth; Adoption; Manufacturing Industry