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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

ready. Taking a Step Back Even the most ambitious and accomplished of HBS professionals will want, or need, to step back from business commitments to address more personal concerns, such as: Childcare and family growth Elder care and... View Details
  • 06 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

us. As Amazon has grown in scale and complexity, we would have anticipated that Bezos found less and less time to directly contribute to patents. However, our findings suggest that Bezos has found more value in patenting over the years, View Details
Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail
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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

continued its aggressive growth strategy. Another dire sign of the state of the financial system occurred on September 7, 2008, when the government placed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored mortgage lenders, in... View Details
  • 16 May 2023
  • In Practice

After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?

life of an early-stage business. When a situation is declared code red, startups should know who’s on point for communication with each stakeholder, who’s leading a process and how each process will be led. Also, plan for retrospectives... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Technology; Financial Services
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

majority of newsvendor settings. When demands are uncensored, subjects tend to order below the normative quantity when facing high margin and above the normative quantity when facing low margin, but in neither case beyond mean demand (a.k.a. the pull-to-center effect).... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim In this paper, we investigate whether superior performance on corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to... View Details
  • 18 Nov 2022
  • HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

emerged: how to preserve the firm’s growth strategy and shift firm ownership while also rewarding its diverse workforce for its investment in the team’s culture, write Harvard Business School Senior Associate Dean Luis M. Viceira, Senior... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 10 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 10

collective creativity and insight. These two divergent perspectives pose a paradox that has held the attention of scholars for many years. In response, researchers have marshaled evidence to specify the conditions under which diversity View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Social Enterprise Executive Education programs, designed for nonprofit and social enterprise leaders. Develop the strategic knowledge, practical tools, and leadership skills you need to lead a thriving, high-performance organization.... View Details
  • Article

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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  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

managers, and the company ends up as a collection of feudal baronies. This is a recipe for long-term failure, say the authors. Their research of 12 top management teams at major companies suggests that firms thrive only when senior teams View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

Julia Lee, Francesca Gino, and Bradley R. Staats Abstract—It may be possible to offer people a new understanding of their best-self concepts, leading to positive personal and social change. We developed theory about how best-self... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2008
  • Case

Moët Hennessy España

By: Tiziana Casciaro, Vincent Dessain and Elena Corsi
Since being appointed CEO of Moët Hennessy España (MHE), the Spanish subsidiary of the wine & spirits business of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH), the world's leading luxury products group, Ramiro Otano had overseen a spectacularly successful run at the company by... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Food and Beverage Industry; Spain
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  • May 2016 (Revised December 2016)
  • Case

Camposol

By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
With $289 million in 2015 revenues, Camposol is a Peruvian grower, exporter, and marketer of fruits and vegetables, with a focus on the high-growth, high-margin blueberry category. Camposol aspires to become Peru’s first multinational branded produce company. It... View Details
Keywords: Blueberries; Avocado; Asparagus; Agriculture; Peru; Retail; Produce; Agricultural Production; Branding; Brand Strategy; Commercialization; Camposol; Aquaculture; Agribusiness; Marketing; Trade; Vertical Integration; Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Family Business; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Food; Supply Chain; Distribution; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; Distribution Industry; Peru; South America; United States; China
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  • 23 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

Francisco. Among the findings: The opening of a Starbucks—and cafes more generally—is a leading indicator of gentrification, and is associated with an increase in local housing prices of .5 percent. Gentrifying neighborhoods tend to spawn... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

is to evaluate their size or growth potential, right? Not according to Krishna Palepu and Tarun Khanna. In Winning in Emerging Markets, these leading scholars on the subject present a decidedly different... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, who leads the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “Our paper reveals some very attractive and socially beneficial aspects of the private equity industry,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
  • Web

Events - Business History

how "all three regimes enjoyed periods of high growth and supposed alliances between autocrats and capitalists. Over time, however, the relationships between capitalists and political elites changed, and economic outcomes diverged. While... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

VP for North Asia, had been negotiating a possible acquisition with Jackie Jin, the chairman of a leading Chinese appliance manufacturer named Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Company (Hefei Sanyo), for almost six months when suddenly Hefei... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

They show that funding loans to these borrowers lead to better economic outcomes for the borrowers and higher returns for the fintech platform. See Marco’s other research here , Dimuthu’s other research here , and Don’s other research... View Details