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  • 26 Jun 2015
  • Blog Post

7 Things International Applicants Should Know About HBS

Applying to business school isn’t an easy process, and neither is uprooting your life to move to a new city once you’ve been accepted. Navigating this major life change can feel especially challenging for international students – who can... View Details
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Engagement with Open Source Communities, Innovation, and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub

By: Annamaria Conti, Christian Peukert and Maria P. Roche
We study the engagement of nascent firms with open source communities and its implications for innovation and attracting funding. To do so, we link data on 160,065 U.S. startups from Crunchbase to their activities on the open source software development platform... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Knowledge; Open Source Communities; GitHub; Machine Learning; Innovation; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Information Technology; Strategy
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  • 09 May 2016
  • Blog Post

What To Know For An International Job Search

An international job search is always challenging, and it becomes increasingly hard when you are looking to move to a new country following several years of work elsewhere. It’s not an easy transition when your contacts are on one... View Details
  • March 2004 (Revised April 2005)
  • Case

International Rivers Network and the Bujagali Dam Project (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
In the summer of 2002, the International Rivers Network (IRN), an environmental NGO located in Berkeley, California, was engaged in what appeared to be the last hours of a three year campaign to stop a $582 million dam and hydropower project at Bujagali Falls in... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Project Finance; Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Projects; Developing Countries and Economies; Energy Industry; Uganda
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  • February 2021
  • Article

How Transparency into Internal and External Responsibility Initiatives Influences Consumer Choice

By: Ryan W. Buell and Basak Kalkanci
Amid growing calls for transparency and social and environmental responsibility, companies are employing different strategies to improve consumer perceptions of their brands. Some pursue internal initiatives that reduce their negative social or environmental impacts... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility; Operational Transparency; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Operations; Environmental Sustainability; Consumer Behavior; Perception
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  • April 2010 (Revised January 2013)
  • Case

California's Budget Crises, Tax Reform, and Domestic and International Tax Competition

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Jacob Kuipers
How do (and how should) governments design fiscal policies to compete in a globalized economy while meeting internal policy priorities including redistribution? In 2009, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger repeatedly declared fiscal emergencies as California's state budget... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Economy; Globalization; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Taxation; Competition; California
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  • 16 Aug 2023

#HBSMixer: College Interns Connect with Harvard Business School

Want to connect with HBS in your internship city? Join us to meet current HBS students and Admissions staff to answer your questions and share more about the student experience at Harvard Business School. This event will give you the opportunity to make connections... View Details
  • 15 Jul 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

Keywords: by Pol Antras & C. Fritz Foley; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Keeping Up with the Dean

to outline his five areas for change: curriculum innovation, intellectual ambition, international engagement, inclusion, and closer ties with the University. Click map for larger view. Illustration by Baker Vail/www.smallworldmaps.com View Details
Keywords: academic administration; alumni; curriculum innovation; intellectual ambition; international engagement; inclusion; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • January–February 2023
  • Article

External Interfaces and Internal Processes: Market Positioning and Divergent Professionalization Paths in Young Ventures

By: Alicia DeSantola, Ranjay Gulati and Pavel Zhelyazkov
We explore how the initial market positioning of entrepreneurial ventures shapes how they professionalize over time, focusing specifically on the development of functional roles. In contrast to existing literature, which has presumed a uniform march toward... View Details
Keywords: Market Positioning; Professionalization; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Business Startups; Growth and Development; Organizational Structure
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  • 10 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

donation." In "Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative," Barrett, Austin and McCarthy examine one such collaboration, a joint effort of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and Pfizer,... View Details
Keywords: by Diana Barrett, James Austin & Sheila McCarthy
  • 08 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day

In honor of International Women's Day, the Women's Student Association set out to reclaim the word 'feminism'. They reached out to the HBS community to find out what the word means to its members. The result is a portrait project... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

utilizes the one asset that exists in abundance in even the poorest and most fragile social sectors - people's self-initiative. It increases the productivity of the person engaged in economic activity, thereby creating new wealth, rather... View Details
  • 2021
  • Chapter

Renewing the Relevance of IB: Can Some History Help?

By: Geoffrey Jones
International business (IB) as a discipline has given limited attention to contemporary grand challenges of inequality, global warming, aging populations, endemic health crises, and de-globalization, in all of which multinationals are either central to the problem or... View Details
Keywords: International Business; Globalization; History; Multinational Firms and Management
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  • 08 Jun 2023

#HBSMixer: Houston College Interns Connect with Harvard Business School

Want to connect with HBS in your internship city? Join us to meet current HBS students and Admissions staff to answer your questions and share more about the student experience at Harvard Business School. This event will give you the opportunity to make connections... View Details
  • 23 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia

the Insights and Innovation team, whose objective is to deepen the understanding of the Patagonia customer, drive business decisions using feedback and insights, and lead innovative approaches that enable Patagonia to more effectively View Details
Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail
  • 19 Jul 2023

#HBSMixer: Chicago College Interns Connect with Harvard Business School

Want to connect with HBS in your internship city? Join us to meet current HBS students and Admissions staff to answer your questions and share more about the student experience at Harvard Business School. This event will give you the opportunity to make connections... View Details
  • 16 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Internship Success: Mutual Growth Brings Intern and Enterprise Together

Francisco and Silicon Valley in December 2017. “We visited quite a few companies I liked,” Czapski says. Not only did he make new contacts, but through TechCrunch, he found an HBS alum mentor who proved helpful. Meanwhile, Zillow’s Melissa Tran was View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 12 Aug 2021
  • News

Remote Interns Who Created Virtual Water Cooler Moments with Managers Significantly Boosted Their Chances of Getting Hired, a Study Shows

  • 22 Jun 2023

#HBSMixer: San Francisco College Interns Connect with Harvard Business School

Want to connect with HBS in your internship city? Join us to meet current HBS students and Admissions staff to answer your questions and share more about the student experience at Harvard Business School. This event will give you the opportunity to make connections... View Details