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    Samuel B. Antill

    Samuel Antill is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Finance II course in the MBA required curriculum.

    Professor Antill’s research interests are in corporate... View Details
    • March 2005 (Revised May 2011)
    • Course Overview Note

    Conceptual Overview of Real Property

    By: Arthur I Segel and Ann Winslow
    Real estate represents the largest asset class in the world. Businesses in the United States have over $8.6 trillion of real estate assets on their balance sheets. Excluding housing--worth $16 trillion in the United States--and corporate-owned real estate, there is... View Details
    Keywords: Property
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      James W. Riley

      James Riley is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.

      Professor Riley is an economic sociologist. He conducts ethnographic research to... View Details

      • 27 Oct 2015
      • News

      The Role of Business in Collective Impact

      • June 2023
      • Case

      Tractor Supply Co

      By: David L. Ager and Michael A. Roberto
      In February 2023, Hal Lawton, CEO of Tractor Supply Co, the largest farm and ranch retailer in the United States reflected on the company’s 70% growth between 2019 and 2022. Economists had begun to predict an economic downturn and experts were predicting softening... View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Demand and Consumers; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Retail Industry
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        Marlous van Waijenburg

        Marlous van Waijenburg is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches in the MBA required curriculum.

        Professor van Waijenburg’s main... View Details

        • 2012
        • Article

        Global Policy for Local Livelihoods: Phasing Out Mercury in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining

        By: Kristin Sippl and Henrik Selin
        This article uses a behavioral economics lens to identify the challenges the United Nation's Minamata Convention is likely to face in addressing the problem of mercury pollution from gold mining. View Details
        Keywords: Mining; Pollutants; Problems and Challenges; Policy; Global Range
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        • 15 Apr 2016
        • News

        How America Grew

        • 21 Dec 2015
        • Op-Ed

        Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google

        immigrants who have made innumerable contributions to the technological and economic success of the United States. Outsiders keep our commercial markets vital by offering perspectives that differ from the... View Details
        Keywords: by Shane Greenstein; Information Technology
        • Article

        We Have a Rare Opportunity to Create a Stronger, More Equitable Society

        By: Shai Davidai, Martin Day, Daniela Goya-Tocchetto, Oliver Hauser, Jon M. Jachimowicz, M. Usman Mirza, Nailya Ordabayeva, L. Taylor Phillips, Barnabas Szaszi and Stephanie Tepper
        Income inequality in the United States was at historic levels before the coronavirus hit. Now, as the disease—and the social and economic implications it brings—spread across the country, it is likely to create even deeper fissures between the poor and rich. View Details
        Keywords: Socioeconomic Status; Coronavirus; Inequality; Work; Income; Equality and Inequality; Health Pandemics; Gender; Money; Policy; Race; Society
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          Meg Rithmire

          Meg Rithmire is the James E. Robison Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. Professor Rithmire holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a... View Details

          Keywords: real estate
          • 28 Dec 2019
          • Working Paper Summaries

          Tech Clusters

          Keywords: by William R. Kerr and Frederic Robert-Nicoud
          • 29 Nov 2012
          • News

          What Washington must do now

          • Mar 2012
          • Article

          Fixing What's Wrong with U.S. Politics

          dirty word. This take-no-prisoners approach, which came into sharp relief during the debt-ceiling debate, threatens to cripple the best-of-both dynamic. Revitalizing America's culture of democracy--where the health of the nation comes first, above View Details

            Lauren H. Cohen

            Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

            Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
            • July 2020
            • Case

            Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics

            By: Steven Rogers, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Alterrell Mills
            The co-founders (Black HBS alumnae) of an e-commerce beauty startup explore the unmet needs within the beauty industry. This case study examines the entrepreneurial opportunities that come from identifying an underserved market, specifically within the Black community... View Details
            Keywords: Brands and Branding; Competition; Customers; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Distribution Channels; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Macroeconomics; Marketing; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Product Design; Product Development; Product Positioning; Sales; Social Issues; Social Marketing; Business Startups; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Venture Capital; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Advertising Industry; Public Relations Industry; Chemical Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
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            • April 2005 (Revised February 2007)
            • Case

            American Outsourcing

            By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Alexander Veytsman
            Covers the phenomenon of outsourcing jobs from the United States. Reviews the evolution of Mexico's Maquiladoras, manufacturing special economic areas in China, and information technology and service-sourcing in India. Also reviews exports/imports, exchange rates,... View Details
            Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employment; Emerging Markets; Wages; Trade; United States; Mexico; China; India
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              Dafna Bearson

              Dafna Bearson is a doctoral candidate in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research interests lie at the intersection of strategy and innovation. Specifically, her research focuses on intellectual property commercialization strategy in startups... View Details

              Keywords: biotechnology; pharmaceuticals; high technology
              • November 2012
              • Article

              The Organization of Firms Across Countries

              By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
              We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to local... View Details
              Keywords: Decentralization; Social Capital; Theory Of The Firm; Firm Objectives, Organization, And Behavior; Business Economics; Management Of Technological Innovation And R＆D; Technological Change: Choices And Consequences; Diffusion Processes; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Trust; Technology Adoption; Multinational Firms and Management
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              • 11 Apr 2024
              • In Practice

              Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

              Almost one-third of Americans consider immigration the most important “problem” that the United States faces, according to a new Gallup poll. And yet, companies say they need far more workers than the current system allows. Some business... View Details
              Keywords: by Rachel Layne