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Kwame Owusu-Kesse

By his own description, Kwame grew up within challenging circumstances: "a single-parent household, the child of immigrants from Ghana trying to find their way in America." But he also found drive and purpose at an early age. In... View Details

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Andrew Kinard

go next?" Much of that immediate future was occupied by seventy-five surgeries and eighteen months of rehabilitation. While recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, however, a chance encounter opened new possibilities. "I... View Details

March 2020
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Context, Time, and Change: Historical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Research

By: R. Daniel Wadhwani, David A. Kirsch, Frederike Welter, William B. Gartner and Geoffrey Jones

The article discusses the value of historical methods and reasoning in strategic entrepreneurship research and theory. A framework is introduced for integrating history into entrepreneurship theory. The framework demonstrates how historical assumptions play a formative... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; History; Research; Theory

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Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience - Blog - Business & Environment

collaboration. The evening was moderated by Hannah Perls (JD ’20) , Senior Staff Attorney at Harvard's EELP and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, whose work focuses on equitable disaster preparedness and federal environmental justice... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Innovation has a New Home: The Harvard Innovation Lab

Contest will be among the many to benefit from the i-lab. Inaugural i-lab director Gordon Jones thinks there’s no shortage of opportunity, noting: “I am excited by the level of desire I am witnessing within... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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History-informed Strategy Research: The Promise of History and Historical Research Methods in Advancing Strategy Scholarship

By: Nicholas Argyres, Alfredo De Massis, Nicolai J. Foss, Federico Frattini, Geoffrey Jones and Brian Silverman

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the use of history and historical research methods in strategy research. This article discusses how and why history and historical research methods can enrich theoretical explanations of strategy phenomena. The article... View Details

Keywords: Methodology; Strategy; Business History; Research; History

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01 Dec 1999
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Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline

When Warren Buffett speaks at HBS, it's always standing room only in Burden Auditorium. The cavernous hall fills up early, reverberating with the mounting excitement of a revival meeting. When the 69-year-old investment sage finally takes the stage, thunderous applause... View Details

28 Aug 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

Handbook of Business History carries an even larger mission: bring the lessons of business history to current research in other disciplines and to the practice of business management itself. A Q&A with coeditor Geoffrey Jones. Key... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo

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Real estate: emerging markets

industries. Limiting the search to reports to see recent market, industry and sector reports. Jones Lang LaSalle Reports on market conditions around the globe, covering retail, office and residential markets. A variety of... View Details

12 Dec 2017
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Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley

membership records. He couldn’t find one specializing in record keeping, so he and fellow research assistant, Tom Jones (MBA 1968), offered to serve as consultants and complete the project. That’s how Epsilon Data Management was born in... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

Finance," focused on five subjects: corporate capital raising, corporate restructuring, extracting information from security prices, risk management, and security design. The fifteen papers presented at the conference, chosen by a... View Details

Making Sense of Past and Present

Throughout my life as a student, from elementary school to undergrad, I was fond of my history classes. I have always been fascinated by how past events shape our present. I read all of my history books in advance, even those of the... View Details

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Clarissa Quintanilla

campus. After graduation, she worked at Edward Jones “because I was interested in its community-based distribution system.” After two years with the company (working in its Rotational Development Program and in marketing), she married her... View Details

Platform for Dialogue

co-teaching with several faculty. With Geoffrey Jones, I participated in the provocative and lively MBA course Entrepreneurship & Global Capitalism. This course explored the making of the modern world through rich histories of... View Details

06 Apr 2023
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Circularity in Denmark

essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. Waste as... View Details

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Using the Collections - 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

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

sculpt your body and help you prevent back pain and sleep better; and a holistic mind-body approach that really works. Faculty Books Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time by Geoffrey... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Turning Point: The Dark Season

illustration by Vahram Muradyan illustration by Vahram Muradyan A few years ago I went through a sort of wilderness experience, where nothing was lining up. I had to sell my car and move in with a roommate... View Details

Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)

01 Dec 2022
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Ink: Comfort in Discomfort

Points that Challenge Every Company, by Andrew Grove; Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time, by Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang; Double... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Euro Vision

2010 to $9.2 billion in 2014, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. In the second quarter of this year, European venture capital firms raised a combined $2.25 billion, 63 percent more than over the same period last year. But that doesn't... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer

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