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- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
cofounded Boundless Immigration, a Seattle-based startup that streamlines the processes for applying for a marriage green card—permission for a US citizen’s non-citizen spouse to live and work permanently in the United States—and US citizenship. (In September, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
New York Times Company are all family enterprises. Yet until recently, the phenomenon of family businesses has attracted little formal attention in academia. Building on a long tradition of research on... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
each day I was able to take what I’d learned from class and apply it to real situations,” she says. “It was beyond the Socratic method---like learning how to fight in the ring with your opponent in there with you.” Running a company in... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
edition of Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution. This highly acclaimed, landmark work introduced a framework that would help companies achieve global-scale efficiency, respond flexibly to national market differences, and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
Why Do We Tax? With the next President set to take office, it's time to ask how the income tax system could be improved. Assistant Professor Matthew Weinzierl suggests how. US Competitiveness at Risk America's declining global... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Research Brief: Lost in Translation
In an increasingly global business world, English is the lingua franca that tethers companies and their investors together. Executives without a deep fluency in English could be costing their companies more... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
having a hard time getting funded. In fact, only 1 percent of venture capital money was invested in companies run by female CEOs in 2010, the most recent year available according to Dow Jones VentureOne. Not... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
Carroll Illustration by Dennis Balogh Founded as a gold mining company in 1917 in South Africa by Ernest Oppenheimer (with help from Herbert Hoover and J. P. Morgan), Anglo American plc is the world’s fourth-largest diversified mining... View Details
- 21 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Evelyne White (MBA 2010)
core theme behind Bookalokal events." Where's the company today? "We've done really well in our first test city of Brussels. It turns out travelers are not the only ones interested in our site. Local people love it—particularly people... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Tackling the data dilemma
In 2008, Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) was among those the New York Times identified as Most Likely to Be First Female US President. After a foray into politics—a gubernatorial bid in California—Whitman became president and CEO of... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
K1 Investment Management, is leading an effort in his investment firm to give time off for voting for all K1 employees and over 5,000 portfolio company employees. K1 recently announced election day as a paid... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
A Chance to Lead
John Brennan (MBA 1980) is chairman emeritus, the Vanguard Group. In this interview he recalls his early time at the business and the opportunity presented to him to lead. “In the summer of 1982, I moved out to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
to what will replace Fannie and Freddie. The administration has outlined three options designed to frame the congressional debate expected to unfold over the months ahead: (1)privatization of the mortgage market, (2) new private, for-profit mortgage securities View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
model that features directives from headquarters. Furthermore, at Adidas, an in-country head is a native of that country, whereas American companies often have Americans running their international divisions." Louis-Dreyfus devotes about... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Sep 2019
- News
Leading the Evolution of E-Commerce
$1 billion. In 2017, when Fleiss left, it had 6 million customers and $100 million in revenues. It was time to try something new. That something new became Jetblack, a text-to-shop service that Fleiss launched this year with longtime... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
journey. Eisha Armstrong, class of 2003. I'm thinking back to 2009, very interesting time. The company that I was working for was doing a reduction in force and was part of the group who had to decide how to reduce our workforce by 25%.... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
diversity, cofounded and catalyzed by HBS grads Brad Gerstner (MBA 2000), CEO of Altimeter Capital Management; Guy Primus (MBA 2000), CEO of Valence; Reese, at the time COO at Gusto; and Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, founder and chair of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
moves about a dozen times before buying a home, and all too often the bookshelf purchased for one apartment isn’t needed in the next. As a result, about 10 million tons of furniture go to landfills every year, Ramírez says. He and Aditya... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
hoped to leverage in a less-than-encouraging job market. Both are also well aware of their good fortune to have found specialized positions that fit their backgrounds yet offer great potential for personal and professional growth at a View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
hundreds of millions of dollars, the ALS grant to Cytokinetics is significant because it facilitates the collection of plasma samples from test subjects over an extended period of time. The samples will be shared with academic researchers, a collaboration “that marks... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg