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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

for-credit or non-credit offering). Financial aid and financing options available for CORe program participants also vary depending on whether participants have elected the undergraduate credit option or have enrolled in the non-credit... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

public companies. “It has gone global.” To explore this trend, Gompers has spent a year conducting in-depth field research spanning continents. His work will inform the creation of a new MBA elective course called Entrepreneurship Outside... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

subjects as geography, history, astronomy, and literature. A 1941 graduate of the University of Iowa, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Christensen received an MBA from Harvard in 1943. After serving as a captain in the U.S. Army... View Details
  • March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
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City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City... View Details
Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
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  • October 2020
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HOPE and Transformational Lending: Netflix Invests in Black Led Banks

By: John D. Macomber and Janice Broome Brooks
Following the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day in 2020, the large US corporation Netflix elected to make a "transformational deposit" of $10 million into Hope Credit Union (HCU), a small Black led community development finance institution (CDFI) based in... View Details
Keywords: Banking; Rural Entrepreneurship; Economic Development; Black Entrepreneurs; Economic Growth; Credit; Banks and Banking; Entrepreneurship; Rural Scope; Development Economics; Race; Investment; Decision Making; Banking Industry
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  • July 2013 (Revised October 2013)
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United Rentals (B)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante
In April 2012, Jenne Britell, the Chairman of the board of directors of United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) was preparing her notes for an upcoming stockholders' meeting. It was a meeting unlike most other meetings she had chaired. Stockholders were about to vote on a... View Details
Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Board Committees; Chairman; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Construction Industry; North America
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    Rob Markey

    Rob Markey is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Managing Service Operations in the MBA elective curriculum. The course focuses on how to effectively design,... View Details

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    Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

    Strategy Unit. He teaches the Corporate Strategy course in the MBA elective curriculum. His research has focused on multiunit firms, such as large retail chains, quick-service restaurant franchises, and banks. Through a series of studies,... View Details
    • 12 Nov 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    The Three Components of Family Governance

    valuable resource for management and the board. The family council can be composed in several ways, the typical way being one member elected per family branch. One should try to compose the family council so that it "looks" like... View Details
    • 13 Dec 2019
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    All Is Well in Texas: How Julia Cheek Founded Her At-Home Lab Testing Startup, EverlyWell

    HBS, Julia was fortunate to have Professor Toby Stewart for the required course called The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM). She also particularly enjoyed an Elective Curriculum (second-year) class called Founder’s Dilemma, taught by... View Details
    • 27 Jan 2023
    • Op-Ed

    Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?

    On January 9, Santos was accused of violating campaign finance laws in a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission. In Santos’s recent interview on Fox News, Tulsi Gabbard asked him, “What does integrity mean to you?” After he... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George
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    Academics | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Courses The first year Required Curriculum (RC) incorporates social enterprise cases and topics in several courses ranging from finance to entrepreneurship. In their second (EC) year, students choose from a range of Social Enterprise View Details
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    Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

    must have a bias for action. TEM teaches you how to decompose such complex situations, identify critical choices confronting the enterprise, and make high-risk/high reward decisions with limited data. Andrews, Kenneth. The Concept of Corporate Strategy. Irwin, 1971.... View Details
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    Chase Hall | About

    Business School's original campus . Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873), a politician, abolitionist, and jurist, was elected US senator from Ohio in 1849. In 1855 he became the first Republican Ohio governor and launched a presidential bid a few... View Details
    • 2014
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    Delaware's Choice

    By: Guhan Subramanian
    This article first documents the shift to annual elections of all directors at most U.S. corporations and argues that the alternative of "ineffective" staggered boards would have been more desirable, as a policy matter, but is now a missed opportunity. Using this... View Details
    Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Laws and Statutes; Policy; Delaware
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    • 20 Dec 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

    29. Political infighting continued on the new Isthmian Canal Commission. Theodore Roosevelt travelled to Panama in November 1906—not coincidentally right before the midterm elections and during the worst part of Panama's rainy... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
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    Globalization - Faculty & Research

    formation and persistence of international firm networks. Keywords: Global Trade ; Firm Networks ; Political Ideology ; Elections ; Political Economy ; Political Elections ; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border... View Details
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    Shad Hall | About

    development initiatives, including the John Shad Professorship of Business Ethics, new required and elective MBA courses, a video archive of exemplary business practices, and an awards program honoring managers, academics, entrepreneurs,... View Details
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    Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

    of Accounting Studies , 2015) with Dan Amiram and Zahn Bozanic. 2013 Aiyesha Dey : Recipient of the 2013 Accounting Research Center Grant from the University of Minnesota. Robert S. Kaplan : Inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame in 2013 with David Norton. Krishna... View Details
    • 20 Oct 2023
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    Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

    Managers, which helps students use data analytics tools to identify business opportunities and shape solutions to problems. The MBA Program is also incorporating content about inclusion throughout the curriculum and is exploring in the View Details