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Hassina Sherjan

By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim and Pippa Eccles

Hassina Sherjan was born in Afghanistan but grew up and was educated in the United States. A trip to Afghanistan when she was an adult inspired her to move back to her home country with two missions. The first was to educate young women through a non-profit... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Innovation Leadership; Development Economics; Growth and Development; Problems and Challenges; Retail Industry; Afghanistan; United States

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21 Feb 2012
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PublicationsThe Rise of the Modern Firm Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Walter A. Friedman, eds. Publication:Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2012 This authoritative volume focuses on the rise of modern firms, from their early history to the present day.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2024
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Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning

bonds. IDEO, for example, has asked employees to meet for a weekly tea time as a way to encourage workers to collaborate, connect, and deepen relationships. And Walmart founder Sam Walton started leading workers in morning chants to spell... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, 1878–1915 John A. Hartford Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, 1920–1949 Stephen D. Hassenfeld Hasbro Toys, 1979–1989 Harold V. Haverty Deluxe Corporation, 1986–1995... View Details

24 Mar 2022
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Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together

University of Virginia; Ovul Sezer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Juliana Schroeder of the University of California at Berkeley; and Jane Risen of the University of Chicago. From football traditions to tea time... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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United Fruit Company Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Motor Co. United Fruit Co. Smaller Collections Yousuf Karsh Portraits Margaret Bourke-White Farm Security Administration 1934 Art and Industry Exhibition Early Aviation Electric Railway Jones & Laughlin Steel 19th-Century Boston Portrait View Details

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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade

the 1500s, when Dutch and Portuguese traders began to import Chinese goods including silk, spices, porcelain, painting, and fine furniture. But it was the consumption of tea in Europe that created a booming commercial market between China... View Details

09 Dec 2002
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Unilever—A Case Study

1950s, Unilever manufactured convenience foods, such as frozen foods and soup, ice cream, meat products, and tea and other drinks. It manufactured personal care products, including toothpaste, shampoo, hairsprays, and deodorants. The oils... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail

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Taylor Walden

Coming to HBS is like... Sipping sweet tea on a summer day, y'all—it's refreshing, energizing, and reminiscent of home. Just as sweet tea embodies Southern hospitality, HBS offers a sense of belonging and... View Details

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Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Related Collections Site Credits The access to the tea and silk district will enable us to be sure that we can produce at fair prices; and the navigation of the Yangtze and other rivers will make steam very important. — John Heard to... View Details

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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Jordan Jordan Tourism Cluster (2009) Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Oil and Gas Cluster (2010) Kazakhstan Energy Cluster (2007) Kenya Kenya ITC Services Cluster (2016) Kenya Tourism Cluster (2016) Kenya Business Process Offshoring (2011) Kenya Tea... View Details

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Madison McIlwain

power of self-conviction in my own career and personal life. What is one thing you brought with you to campus, and one thing you'll be leaving with? A tea pot. A deeper sense of my inner compass on ethics, business decisions, and personal... View Details

03 Jun 2013
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The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business

better." Rituals Enhance Consumption Just as there are multitudes of grief rituals all over the world, so too are there innumerable rituals related to feasting, ranging from cultural (a Japanese tea ceremony) to personally quirky... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

first acquired opium from Turkey and then from India, where it was considered superior in quality. Augustine Heard & Co. used opium as payment to Chinese brokers for tea and silk, which would be purchased by American buyers. The firm... View Details

28 Nov 2005
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Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

South Africa and spread worldwide, how Lipton tea became the world's biggest tea brand, the origins of the sensual Magnum ice cream, and how Pond's Cream became a Unilever brand. The story behind the brands... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

30 Apr 2020
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Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

28 Jun 2022
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The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

11 May 2016
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Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

have caught a glimpse of the future of car buying, in, of all places, a rug bazaar, where a vendor offered her tea and food, and started a discussion about what she wanted in a rug. As additional wish-list details emerged, more rug... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto

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Bridgette Slater

adventure. Also, over the course of my years in consulting, I developed a concrete vision of the work I wanted to pursue – something along the lines of ethical sourcing of agricultural products, namely chocolate, coffee, and tea – and... View Details

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

sort of a planetarium, right in the tea fields in Asia, learning about the dangers of palm oil. And hearing from the executives at huge companies about their strategies solving their problems was amazing. Alberto de la Rivaherrera Product... View Details

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