Founding - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining

01 May 2015
News

Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

will we reimagine this institution and leave it stronger than we found it?” "When I look at the challenges facing our world today, I'm convinced that now more than ever we need the type of leadership Harvard Business School can provide,"... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

the financial markets nor found consistent with the firm's previous objectives. Total also learned that it had to be prepared to communicate about accidents. Its slow response when the oil tanker Erika split in 2 and sank in 1999, causing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

31 Jul 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

that... I know people say this all the time and it sounds so ridiculous, but when you find that thing you're supposed to do... And by the way, I never thought I would find anything. I had friends who had startups, they started companies and I was so jealous of them... View Details

01 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

"If you are a rock- star Internet guru who has founded a company and needs to make more money, it would be much more efficient to use crowdfunding than calling 10 of your friends in Silicon Valley." Such a result would likely... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

07 Jan 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

Books. Before Penguin was founded by Allen Lane in 1935, serious literature—"good books"—was expensive and bound in hardcover; only lurid fiction was sold in paperback. "The good books were out of reach of all but the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

27 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 27

significant effect is found in IDA funding. These results point to challenges of global governance through representative institutions. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Feb 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Students Reflect on COP28

from every aspect of climate. Everyone was warm and excited to chat. I often feel that choosing to pursue a career in this area is unconventional among my peers, but there I found more role models than I could meet in a night.” Angela... View Details

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Day in IFC: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017), Africa - MBA

vans from the hotel and headed to Bagamoyo, Tanzania, a town founded at the end of the 18th century. It was the original capital of German East Africa and was one of the most important trading ports along the East African coast. Now, the... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Unleashed

Culture carries its guidance to the farthest corners of the organization to places you may never go and people you may never meet. There’s a story about the salvation of FedEx that Michael Basch, one of the company’s founding officers,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Jun 2003
News

Books

Press) In the past decade, as technological developments raced forward, large corporations with a history of scientific leadership like AT&T, IBM, and Xerox ironically found themselves struggling to keep up. Their problem, says HBS... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

19 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

business. I can’t say enough about the people I met at the School. During the IPO road show, for example, at one of the group lunches, I found myself sitting across from Josh Clark, an HBS classmate who was managing a $1 billion–plus... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio equipment; fashion; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

21 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

negotiation scholars—can be taught to physicians in a one-hour lecture. We found evidence that even this minimal intervention can decrease overtreatment of patients with low-risk prostate cancer. Our novel approach offers a framework to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

School is at an inflection point, an insight that meant different things to different people. Some focused on the fact that HBS is beginning its second century. Ironically, it's also a moment similar to when the School was founded in... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

But it’s also a combination of career considerations and the specific caregiving needs of the family. Gazette: You found that hiring processes used by employers have contributed to the difficulties caregivers face when trying to return to... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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Commencement 2015 Address | About

painful stories of discrimination they had faced at various points in their lives. Three students spoke to the group and brought these vignettes to life. I found the experience deeply moving and I was struck by the courage and... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

The Business of Biotech

South San Francisco, remembers watching a television program about the biotech industry in late 1987 with his father, who was fighting meta-static colon cancer. "My dad looked at me and said, 'Why don't you think about doing that?' I have View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

31 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

"styles"—investing in particular regions and industries. We found no evidence of performance persistence stemming from a differential ability to select or govern portfolio companies. Rather, our results suggest that early... View Details