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- Teaching Note
Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Yang Siqun and Shen Meihua
Microfinance is introduced into China in the 1990s. It had gone through 3 phases since the beginning, namely the pilot phase when all Microfinance practices are sponsored by charity funds based on projects, the promotion phase when the government subsidized some... View Details
McFarlan, F. Warren, Yang Siqun, and Shen Meihua. "Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2014.
- 08 Dec 2012
- News
Apple CEO's Pledge to Make Macs in the U.S. Seen Adding 200 Jobs
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
early-stage challenges with an eye toward scaling operations after graduation. “The cases in Globalization and Emerging Markets were about View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Web
Ripple Effect | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
CEO, Jeff Dunn... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara 2015 Patricio “Pato” Bichara (MBA 2015) learned something important in the summer between his first and second years at HBS: He loves to View Details
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
commercial hindrance. A recent study of more than 500 biomedical startups suggests that ventures rooted in the core research of their founders have a more challenging time... View Details
- Web
Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
particularly volatile century of economic history. These four crises were so far-reaching that they affected virtually everyone involved in the U. S. market economy. Yet each was so complex that their causes... View Details
- 11 May 2023
- News
How FOMO Became a Fixture
book, do a TED Talk, and create a podcast, all about how FOMO shapes decision-making in business and life. "Given the power of the term, I knew... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Strength In Numbers: Andrew Rosenthal, Jess Bloomgarden, and Dan Rumennik of the HBS Start-Up Tribe, a student-led group with the goal of increasing the number of successful new... View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 22 Feb 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Consumer Demand for Prize-Linked Savings: A Preliminary Analysis
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
agency’s COO. Explains Cohen, “The department was underfunded, its buildings overseas were not in good shape, it couldn’t even communicate by open Internet overseas, and the personnel system needed changes.... View Details
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Digging Into Data: Making A Career Change
interesting and innovative data solutions that impact CPD’s approach to employer relations and marketing initiatives. When I first stepped into my position in March 2015, I got the opportunity to launch... View Details
- Web
Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
partner at Lehman Brothers, assumed leadership of the firm in 1969, the first non-family member to do so. The investment house suffered a decline in View Details
- January 2000 (Revised April 2000)
- Case
StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
By the fall of 1999, StarMedia had sprinted to a sizable lead in the race to acquire Latin American Internet users. Its pan-regional, horizontal portal was the first to target Spanish- and Portuguese-language speakers on the Internet, registering 1.2 billion page views... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; History; Risk Management; Business Cycles; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; Media; Emerging Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Web; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Jon K Rust. "StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 800-166, January 2000. (Revised April 2000.)
- 23 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia
Before arriving to Harvard Business School, I had built my career around bringing crazy ideas to life at Google in a variety of operations, strategy, and design roles. I was... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
When Clinkscales received three thousand subscription cards back - an unheard of response rate in the magazine business - he knew he had found a niche that needed to be... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
Companies If there is hope for crowdfunding, says Nanda, it may be to help local companies, where individuals have a direct connection to the business and are invested in the... View Details
- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
strongly rewarded for a positive result," says John, now an assistant professor of marketing at Harvard Business School. This system can drive researchers to bend the... View Details
- 27 Sep 2017
- News
Will a Corporate Tax Holiday Give Workers Anything to Cheer?
- January 2010 (Revised October 2010)
- Background Note
News in the Digital World: Who Pays?
By: Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy Bartlett
Models to monetizing news in the digital landscape, which is real-time, searchable, sharable, multi-sourced, anytime, and any screen, were emerging in 2010. Could content creators get people to pay for what they watched, read, listened to, and shared online? Were news... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Newspapers; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Online Technology; Journalism and News Industry; Publishing Industry
Bradley, Stephen P., and Nancy Bartlett. "News in the Digital World: Who Pays?" Harvard Business School Background Note 710-456, January 2010. (Revised October 2010.)