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2013
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Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World

This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making of the modern world. In recent years economists, historians, and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty,... View Details

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19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

Financial, LLC was a modern merchant bank that provided high quality advisory services and capital to small- and mid-sized inner city businesses. Next Street was a for-profit business that aimed to increase the growth, profitability, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Earlier in her career, Julia worked in investment banking at firms including JPMorgan and Credit Suisse. Steven Hochberg MBA ’89, Harvard University; BS, Business Administration, University of Michigan Steve Hochberg is a co-founder and... View Details

04 Jun 2013
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Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, and the Bank of England, were causing significant and detrimental spillover effects, such as currency appreciation, declining exports, and rising inflation, in less developed economies. Conversely,... View Details

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. IBM, 1993–2002 Jean Paul Getty Getty Oil Company, 1956–1976 Amadeo Peter Giannini Bank of America, 1904–1936 Lawrence M. Giannini Bank of America, 1936–1952 Fred M. Gibbons Software... View Details

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Employment Data Trends

Health-Related Services 3% 2% 3% 3% 3% Investment Banking 3% 4% 3% 3% 5% Investment Management / Hedge Fund 7% 8% 8% 6% 6% Manufacturing 4% 4% 5% 6% 5% Aero / Auto / Transport Equipment 1% 1% 1% 2% 1% Cleantech 0% <1% <1% <1% <1% Energy /... View Details

March 2025
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The Changing Climate on Wall Street

By: Clayton S. Rose, Maxim Pike Harrell and Michael Norris

Increasing and conflicting regulatory requirements and political pressures regarding climate change tested the leaders of U.S. financial institutions, as they struggled to determine how best to comply while managing their business and its risks. In October 2024,... View Details

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01 Jul 2008
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translating TD-Canada Trust's service model of "comfortable banking" into operational terms. In 2000, in a banking market where consumers and regulators were typically hostile to mergers and acquisitions, Canada's fifth largest... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Rosabeth M. Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

08 Jun 2010
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partly a result of poor corporate governance. We also provide evidence of a channel through which the benefits of ownership concentration outweigh its costs. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-100.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBank of America:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2012
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benefits from racial diversity but that diversity is a liability when society's negative stereotypes about racial minorities' competence inhibit such interactions. We analyze two years of data from 496 retail bank branches to investigate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

case study on JP Morgan Private Bank to learn about and debate these issues and consider the future of the ESG investing. Managing a Polarized Workforce Professor Francesca Gino + More Info – Less Info One of the toughest challenges... View Details

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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... View Details

10 Jun 2014
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examines the evolution of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. It focuses on two companies, Bayer and Henkel, that have been identified as "green giants," and traces... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

West Coast investment banking division. Levitan serves on the board of directors of The Motley Fool, drugstore.com, Quellos Group, Potbelly Sandwich Works, and Cranium, and has acted as a consultant to... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Good Jobs Strategy 5 hrs Module 5 Mastering Productivity Explore why some companies are more productive than others, the power of economies of scale, and opportunities to share value with your suppliers. Highlights Fixed and Variable Costs How Big View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Dellenbach Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up Reducing unemployment among Palestinian youth and helping small businesses in the West Bank by establishing a cell-phone based job matching service. Business... View Details

31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

A. Schwarzman (MBA 1972) Reshma Kewalramani MD, FASN (GMP 18, 2015) CEO and President, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Big move: “I was almost 12 when we flew from Bombay to the United States. My impressions of the West came from the movie Grease... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

West and Southwest Influence: High 90 1990 s Immigration tops 9 million (largest number since first decade) Baby boomers age Hispanics become fastest-growing minority Population grows from 250 million to 281 million Influence: Medium-High... View Details

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Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World

First Look: April 19

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Employment Data Trends

The Changing Climate on Wall Street

First Look: July 1, 2008

Rosabeth M. Kanter

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First Look: March 6

In Harmony

2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

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

First Look: June 10

Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership