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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

through credit. 26 London merchant banks such as Baring Brothers & Co. provided Heard & Co. with credit, and the China trade in turn brought a significant increase in banking profits. 27 “With the sophistication of credit instruments, it... View Details

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The Essential Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Creating Shared Value See all frameworks “Professor Porter has been, and still is, the most influential global thinker on strategy. His contributions are numerous and as relevant today as when he first developed them.” — Costas Markides, Robert P. Bauman Professor of... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

London School of Economics. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and recently served on the International Finance Corporation’s Advisory Panel on Sustainability and Business and the Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)... View Details

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Burroughs Wellcome and AZT (A)

By: Willis M. Emmons III

Burroughs Wellcome Co., developer of AZT, the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), finds itself under siege in September 1989 by AIDS activists and various segments of the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Ethics; Business and Government Relations; Communication Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Monopoly; Intellectual Property; Research and Development; Price; Pharmaceutical Industry; London

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09 May 2023
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Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

that, we are also clearly not, at the other extreme of remote work, seeing a universal type of practice that every firm is going to apply.” Sadun co-authored the paper with Stanford University’s Nick Bloom; The University College of London’s Stephen Hansen; Peter John... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

investors in London and New York? Kaspi.kz’s business model is one that is unlikely to have developed elsewhere, says Victoria Ivashina, the Lovett-Learned Professor of Finance and the faculty chair of HBS’s Middle East and North Africa... View Details

John C. Mulliken

Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor. Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details

01 Apr 2013
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First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

this tendency to shut off the new and basically transfer the corporate culture over to the new employee," says Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard Business School who cowrote the paper with Daniel M. Cable of London Business... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

the globe after seeking opportunities abroad. While she welcomed international exposure, traveling to Europe and the United States for higher education and professional growth, Nneka felt she could make a significant impact at home. After obtaining her degree in... View Details

07 Jan 2019
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The Better Way to Forecast the Future

Real-Time Data and Machine Learning, that puts many of these principles into practice. That paper, coauthored with Xiaojia Guo and Bert De Reyck of the University College London School of Management, details a project with Heathrow... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Apr 2000
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Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities

With interest running high in areas such as entrepreneurship, technology, new media, and the Internet, HBS student career "treks" to venues like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and London have become all the rage during the holiday break.... View Details

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Our Team - Social Impact Collaboratory

Representatives providing policy analysis and constituent management. Jonah earned his BA in Political Science from Westmont College, graduating in 2.5 years with Pi Sigma Alpha Honors, and his Masters of Science in Politics from the View Details

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

board member in the New York offices of Bridges Fund Management, a global impact investment firm based in London and New York. Brian has over 15 years of impact investing experience, having served until 2012 as the Chief Investment... View Details

04 May 2020
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6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

only will have a better and more authentic application, but you’ll get to know yourself that much better. Taniel and Matt graduated from the joint degree program in May 2017. Taniel returned to Bain & Company in London where he did... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

spent four years in London as cohead of the firm's European operations before resigning in 1996 to found Compass Partners International, a privately held investment banking advisory and investment firm that manages a large European... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

London, and as various companies subsumed these and other lines, they came to dominate a geographic area. Companies competing for territory would sometimes build duplicate tracks, resulting in an inefficient system of surplus lines. By the 1860s, as the View Details

January 2021
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Egon Zehnder: Beyond Search?

By: Ashish Nanda and Margaret Cross

In 2019, Egon Zehnder chair Jill Ader and CEO Edilson Camara faced a critical question: how should the global executive search firm approach its burgeoning advisory service offering? Since 2003, the firm’s advisory practice had grown as a conglomeration of grassroots... View Details

Keywords: Professional Services Firms; Executive Search Firms; Professionalism; Partnership; Executive Coaching; Leadership Development; Expansion; Decision Making; Strategy; Switzerland; London

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25 Apr 2011
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What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

chooses to spend his or her time has much more of an effect on a company's success or failure than if a middle manager spends a half hour more at lunch. With that in mind, Sadun and three colleagues-Oriana Bandiera and Andrea Prat of the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Feb 2022
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Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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