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January 2019 (Revised January 2022)
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Chinese Infrastructure Investments in Sri Lanka: A Pearl or a Teardrop on the Belt and Road?

In 2015, a surprise presidential election result seemed to imperil Chinese investments in Sri Lanka, which were associated with China’s Belt and Road Initiative to build global infrastructure. In the previous decade, China had undertaken two major projects in the... View Details

Keywords: Belt And Road Initiative; Investment; Infrastructure; China; Sri Lanka

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25 Sep 2019
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Video: Tackling the Housing Crisis One Renovation at a Time

Tawan Davis, MBA 2006, Founder and CEO of The Steinbridge Group, along with COO Sacasha Brown, MBA 2006, is defying the odds and creating a positive ripple effect for working View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Class Day, Commencement Mark New Beginning for Newest Alumni

Class Day speaker Jamie Dimon (MBA ’82) Photos by Stuart Cahill Overcast skies, but no stormy washout: That bad news/good news scenario for last June’s Class Day ceremonies seemed to reflect View Details

Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 Apr 2020
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Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (MBA 1999) and Mezuo O. Nwuneli (MBA 2003) to be Harvard Business School’s Class Day Speakers

January 2010 (Revised December 2012)
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Knight the King: The Founding of Nike

By: Noam Wasserman and Kyle Anderson

It had taken Phil Knight 16 long years to build Nike into the number one athletic-shoe company in the country. When Knight had first conceived of the company for an MBA class project, Adidas had had more than 80% market share, but Knight's marketing approach had... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Initial Public Offering; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Apparel and Accessories Industry

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06 Aug 2021
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Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

31 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

Debates over the pluses and minuses of immigrant entrepreneurs on the American economy are white hot, but one thing seems stubbornly lacking from... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Planning a Class Session - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching by the Case Method Planning a Class Session Preparing to Teach Getting Started Developing Instructor Style Shaping the Learning Environment Knowing Your Students... View Details

2014
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Models of Caring, or Acting as if One Cared, About the Welfare of Others

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

This paper surveys the theoretical literature in which people are modeled as taking other people's payoffs into account either because this affects their utility directly or because they wish to impress others with their social-mindedness. Key experimental results that... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving

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11 Aug 2020
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Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time

Shrey Kapoor and Chrys Nikopoulos are students at Harvard Business School, Class of 2021. Shrey and Chrys co-founded FinGig, a volunteer initiative which has helped over 500 self-employed Americans access federal aid View Details

January 2009 (Revised November 2010)
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The Dojima Rice Market and the Origins of Futures Trading

By: David A. Moss and Eugene Kintgen

In 1730, Japanese merchants petitioned shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune to officially authorize trade in rice futures at the Dojima Exchange, the world's first organized (but unsanctioned) futures market. For many years, the Japanese government had prohibited the trade of... View Details

Keywords: Futures and Commodity Futures; Price; Food; Business History; Market Transactions; Business and Government Relations; Japan

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21 Apr 2023
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Raymond J. McGuire (JD/MBA 1984), Current President of Lazard, Former Vice Chairman of Citigroup, to Be Harvard Business School’s 2023 Class Day Speaker

31 Jul 2020

Get to Know HBS Series: Reflecting on the HBS Experience

Join Chad Losee, Managing Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, as he moderates a panel of sectionmates from the Class of 2015 to see where they are 5 years after HBS! You will get to hear this group... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

leaders in society, and the ed-ucational priorities that are behind the most ambitious fundraising effort ever undertaken by HBS. Looking back on View Details

30 Jun 2022
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Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

classes left us energized, refreshed, stronger, and ready to take on anything,” Foley explained in Peloton’s 2019 registration filing with the Securities and Exchange... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

It was a dramatic contrast on our screens last week. As Hurricane Dorian unleashed nature’s fury on the Bahamas and danced with a wide swath of View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

28 Jun 2011
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Retsinas Says Jobless, Foreclosures Weighing on Housing

13 Apr 2022
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Robert L. Ryan (MBA 1970), Former CFO of Medtronic Inc. and Union Texas Petroleum, to be HBS' 2022 Class Day Speaker

20 Feb 2018
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Apple’s Overseas Cash Isn’t The Win The GOP Says It Is

2008
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On Competition

By: M. E. Porter

Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many ﬁelds of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation

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