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24 Apr 2014
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Driving the family business onto a global stage

equipment. “We decided that we weren’t going to be in any business that wasn’t global. You can’t compete in a small pool anymore,” he observes. M&M’s single largest product investment has been the Scorpio,... View Details

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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship | Baker Library

industry in small areas of the country. Mapping Tools Good for finding tables and maps that include industry-wide or regional statistics, such as the number of companies by employment size and level of specialization, classified by the... View Details

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Field Course: Scaling Minority Businesses - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Scaling Minority Businesses Course Number 6614 Senior Lecturer Archie L. Jones Senior Lecturer Henry McGee Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Project Educational Objectives This course is rooted in the belief that... View Details

17 Dec 2015
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Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory

As a boy in Asheboro, North Carolina, George Sondecker (MBA 2016) developed a fondness for launching rockets that evolved into a passion for working in the aerospace industry. A fellowship provided by gifts to the HBS Fund is helping him pursue an MBA to acquire the... View Details

Keywords: Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

could. Leslie Pico A small business owner and tech entrepreneur from Arizona Programming & System Analysis, Biomedical Engineering, Estrella Mountain Community College Small... View Details

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

School providing legal assistance to small businesses and entrepreneurs. Cyberlaw Clinic: A Harvard Law clinic program offering pro-bono legal services to individuals, small... View Details

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An Economy Doing Half Its Job: Findings of Harvard Business School's 2013–14 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness

By: Michael E. Porter and Jan Rivkin

In 2013–14, Harvard Business School (HBS) conducted its third alumni survey on U.S. competitiveness. Our report on the findings focuses on a troubling divergence in the American economy: large and midsize firms have rallied strongly from the Great Recession, and highly... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Economy; Financial Crisis; United States

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30 Dec 2015
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5 Hot Books: A Harvard Business School Professor on How Your Bad Posture May Be Sabotaging You

15 Dec 2023
News

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

22 Apr 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr

01 Apr 2020
Blog Post

How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage

about the opportunity to pivot from a large corporation to a small business and build the general management skills he would need to eventually start his own company. Arriving at HBS, Linzmeyer hit the... View Details

25 Jun 2020
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Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic

addressed topics such as financing small and medium businesses during the pandemic, managing through crisis, and understanding the new normal. On June 10, Carlos Mario Giraldo, CEO of Grupo Exito, a leading... View Details

04 Apr 2023
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Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology

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Leadership Collaborative | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

to learn from each other on cross-sector topics such as board development, transition planning, mergers and collaborations, impact measurement, and DEI in practice Connection with HBS Faculty on current research, cases, and other resources Opportunities to join a Forum... View Details

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Creating Ecotourism in Costa Rica, 1970–2000

By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora

Between the 1970s and the 2000s, Costa Rica became established as the world’s leading ecotourism destination. This article argues that although Costa Rica benefited from biodiversity and a pleasant climate, the country’s preeminence in ecotourism requires more than a... View Details

Keywords: Ecotourism; Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Tourism; Green Business; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; History; Business History; Tourism Industry; Latin America; Costa Rica

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10 Feb 2016
HBS Seminar

Hong Luo of Harvard Business School and Julie Mortimer of Boston College, Department of Economics

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

"Delivering phone books is the worst way to spend a Sunday when you're a kid," says Olds, now an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurship Management unit at Harvard Business School. The family lived paycheck to paycheck. And... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

22 Apr 2020
News

How to make sure you get the maximum amount forgiven on a PPP loan if you're a business owner relying on government funds to stay afloat

29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

In what could be considered the first business how-to book, an Italian merchant from the 1400s advises leaders to be charitable, ethical, and treat people fairly; be modest; look for the right qualities in a wife; be selective in deals;... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Dan Lufkin | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Transcript (PDF) Dan Lufkin, HBS 1957, was a cofounder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ). Among his early contributions to DLJ’s success was the idea of focusing on small high-growth firms rather than the blue chip stocks other... View Details

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