Paris - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

Eastern agreements. These include the opening to China after decades of mutual hostility with the United States; détente and the first nuclear arms control treaty with the Soviets at the height of the Cold War; the Paris peace treaty with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

traditionally disenfranchised. For this study, Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France, co-written with Guillaume Liegey, the researchers canvassed eight cities in the suburbs of Paris... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

In 1995, the Vatican dismissed an outspoken French bishop named Jacques Gaillot. Arguing that Gaillot had been far too liberal for the Church's doctrine, Vatican officials removed him from his diocese outside Paris and sent him to... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

01 Jun 2025
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Guide to Very Long-Term Investing By Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) Wiley In just 10 short, accessible, and inviting chapters, Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Book on Very Long-Term Investing presents... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Fair Trade

accelerated flow of creative talent into the United States, primarily New York, reinforcing that city’s status as a hub of talent, fashion, and retailing to match Paris. Helena Rubinstein took advantage of the American citizenship of her husband and fled from View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

12 Mar 2014
News

10 Harvard Business School Startups You Should Know

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade; Personal Services

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

national who has worked in London with United Technologies (in a department whose fifteen members represented seven countries) and in Paris with Bain, is currently in Moscow with BCG (Boston Consulting Group). "People are willing to... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library

Woodward Family Collection. back to text The name Meroë comes from an ancient city located on the Nile. Morse was a distant relative of Samuel Morse (1791–1872), the inventor of the telegraph and Morse code. Samuel Morse met Louis Jacques-Mandé Daguerre in View Details

01 Jun 2005
News

Do You Speak Business?

who has worked in London with United Technologies (in a department whose fifteen members represented seven countries) and in Paris with Bain, is currently in Moscow with BCG. “People are willing to adjust their behavior to facilitate... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

27 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 27

public market. Explores at the corporate level the tension between Edison's effort to generate profits while achieving excellent educational outcomes. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/813113-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-078... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2002
News

Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

Seated in his office near Boston's Public Garden, he recollects sunlit summers in Maine (where his love for the natural world flourished) and his family's four-year sojourn in Paris (where, as a teenager, he received state-of-the-art... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

March 2021
Case

Founders Factory

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and James Barnett

In January 2020, Founders Factory (FF) Executive Chairman Brent Hoberman and CEO Henry Lane Fox were considering FF’s expansion strategy. FF operated as a venture capital (VC) fund built around an accelerator and incubator, and organized around sectors within... View Details

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01 Apr 2000
News

A Place in the Sun

with items such as sportswear and sunglasses. This spring, "Club Med World," the first of a number of urban entertainment centers worldwide, will open in Paris. Humble Beginnings From his Paris office, Giraud directs sales support for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

27 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

company successfully produces and positions a trash bin so that it is regarded as an "art object" (and which has been displayed as such in the Paris Louvre). Though it is a tangible product, a Vipp bin's price cannot be even... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

presence," reports Martha B. Achenbaum, associate director of MBA Admissions. "For example, the HBS Club of Paris has been hosting an information reception for many years, and these sessions are very well-attended," she says. Achenbaum... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

Georges Viana surveyed a factory floor filled with silent, outdated machinery. Then, a quick, scuttling movement caught the corner of one eye: rats. He hadn’t known what to expect when he arrived in the city of Caen, 150 miles west of his View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

01 Jun 2009
News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

cross-cultural learning aspect to it that you can’t duplicate in the classroom, which is very much a part of being a global business school. That doesn’t mean putting a U.S.-born student in the Paris office of Goldman Sachs. It’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

22 Aug 2019
News

Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

of faces, people wearing different outfits. It was just ... It's like a deer in the headlights. I'm looking around, just staring. I also remember thinking to myself, "This is not going to work." My first three months were horrible. I arrived in View Details

19 Jun 2017
News

How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe

surprisingly, those teams are located not in the big cities but in small towns. So you don't have a team in Italy in the first league in Rome. I don't know that there ever has been. You don't have a team in Paris that plays in France.... View Details

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

to Ovia Health In late 2016, Paris Wallace, the CEO of Ovia Health, and the rest of the company’s co-founders faced a difficult decision about the best way to grow Ovia Health’s revenue. Founded in 2012, Ovia Health specialized in mobile... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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