First Nations - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

The first charter school law was passed in Minnesota in 1991; by 2011, there were 5,275 charters nationwide, making up more than 5 percent of all public schools. In June 2009, however, the movement hit a bump. Stanford University's Center... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

once-in-a-lifetime chance to be part of the Olympics - as among their reasons for taking on the ACOG challenge. "Along with the sense of pride and place," says Frazier, an Atlanta native who returned home after nine years at the First... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale

five minutes or so.” Fast-forward 37 years, and that same roadway is 10-lanes wide and jammed with traffic from 7:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. During more than 70 visits to China, McFarlan has watched the leaders of a nation... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

26 Jul 2018
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Running the Numbers

acclaim as Harvard Female Athlete of the Year. Yet, despite all that, when the talented point guard was approached to play professionally in Europe at the end of her senior year, she recalls, “It had never occurred to me that I could play professional basketball.” In... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2015
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Estonia, Incorporated

he needs to travel to Estonia or attend a session of the UN General Assembly across town. The payoff? A chance to chart the digital future of an entire country. In April, Estonia became the first country in the world to offer e-Residency,... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

01 Mar 2014
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Insight: Yenball

geographic: Japanese stars who come to US cities with a large Japanese population—Los Angeles and New York, for example—can convert those populations into increased ticket and merchandise sales. (All major league teams share national TV... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; Masahiro Tanaka; Hideki Matsui; Isao Okada; business of sports; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2007
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Alumni Books

to permanently gain the trust of their clients, coworkers, partners, and constituents. Crosley: Two Brothers and a Business Empire That Transformed the Nation by Rusty McClure (MBA ’75) with David Stern and Michael A. Banks (Clerisy... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

09 Feb 2017
News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

passing over it of the loyalty to country and alma mater and a lasting suggestion that they should devote their manhood developed by study and play on the banks of this river to the nation and its needs. In that spirit, Fieldhouse, the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

17 Jul 2020
News

Support System

midwife who turned to shea butter to help treat women and infants in her practice. Her mother, Eugenia, built shea-butter cooperatives and strengthened existing organizations; became president of the Global Shea Alliance; sat on the Ghanaian president’s View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Jun 1998
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HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector

companies that have been deeply involved in these issues. In addition, the forum featured an interactive videoconference with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, participating from the White House. HBS professor and BLSS chair Rosabeth... View Details

01 Jan 2009
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Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985

was a senior partner for more than 25 years before selling the firm to Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998. At Garantia and later at GP Investimentos, Lemann invested in management talent and diverse acquisitions, including a retail chain,... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Straight to the Heart

That’s my philosophy. I think about all the angst around deciding about the first job to take, post-HBS. It’s nothing compared to the decision of who to marry! You can do many things to change your professional circumstances, but there’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; marriage; social media; matchmaking; Personal Services

25 Jan 2016
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Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

You wouldn’t know it from most American media, but many sub-Saharan African nations have booming economies. And although the press may have missed the boat on this African success story, many business schools and business leaders know... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

as a Baker Scholar, in his spare time Rogers honed a system for trading over-the-counter stocks and left HBS with his bills paid and $50,000 in the bank. Eager to return to the Bay Area where he grew up, Rogers accepted a job offer from McKinsey in San Francisco. His... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

describe the new conjoining of responsible environmental practices with sound business principles. Defined in 1984 by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development as business and development activity that "meets the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

01 Jun 2011
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America the Unequal

Percent of Wealth Owned: Actual U.S. wealth distribution compared with Estimated and Ideal distributions reported by respondents in a national survey. The “4th” and “Bottom” groups are so small that they are not visible in the Actual... View Details

Keywords: income disparity; class mobility

01 Jun 2012
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Good as Our Word

And finally, how would the firm acquire status as a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization, an SEC designation that is considered a key “must-have” by many credit ratings customers? In the classroom, Becker says, students... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Starvish; Bond rating; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

07 Sep 2021
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September 2021 Alumni Books

Silent Winds, Dry Seas: A Novel By Vinod Busjeet (DBA 1980) Doubleday In the 1950s, Vishnu Bhushan was a young boy who had yet to learn the truth behind his family’s fractured history—the result, said his mother, of an alliance between two bankrupt families. In... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

nationality or which culture,” says Natarajan. “It’s not really a textbook leadership style,” he concedes. “When David Garvin first presented the case and talked about how we run a company through love, the... View Details

17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

club to better understand the nuances of virtual event production, which will help as it begins implementing more online programs. Another Cleveland Clinic webinar with the latest updates took place in June, and the club just launched a series of virtual meetups. The... View Details