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11 May 2018
News

Two Harvard Business School Faculty Honored by Aspen Institute Business & Society Program

July 1999
Case

Corbin Motors

By: John A. Davis

Explores the raising of capital to finance the growth of a spinoff business from Corbin-Pacific, a leader in motorcycle accessories. Also explores whether the culture of Corbin-Pacific can be infused in this new but very different kind of business. Finally, it asks the... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Capital; Governance Controls; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges

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30 Jul 2014
News

Family-Run Businesses, Like Market Basket, Face Unique Challenges

01 Jun 2018
News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

to rebuild family relationships and rejuvenate his sense of purpose, he risks his career on a life-altering physical and emotional journey.... View Details

01 Nov 2022
Cold Call Podcast

Marie Curie: A Case Study in Breaking Barriers

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

16 May 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)

and diversity of the AAPI experience and inspire hope for a world of empathy, compassion, and courage. Iris Yu (MBA 2023) My family story is one... View Details

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey

getting too wrapped up in their work at the expense of their life outside the business, panelists agreed. They credited their families and friends for keeping them balanced. Jennifer Openshaw, founder of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Jan 2020
News

Why Flexible Working Is a Nasty Lie

Article

Are Cost Advantages from a Modern Indian Hospital Transferable to the United States?

By: R. S. Kaplan, F. Erhun, V.G. Narayanan, B. Mistry and K. Brayton, et al

We use time-driven activity-based costing to estimate the cost of personnel and space for an elective coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery at two U.S. hospitals, Intermountain and Baylor Heart, and Narayana Health (NH), in India. All three hospitals use modern... View Details

Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Organizational Structure; Performance Efficiency; India; United States

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01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020

how this enduring passion has colored his relationships with his family and friends, shaped his romances, and, for better or worse, marked every era of his life—indeed, marked... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

creating a vision, and leveraging assets like relationships and partnerships. At the heart of this book are the eight things you must be intentional about every... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2020
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

curriculum, shapes great leaders. Every aspect of the experience intentionally maximizes relationship building. What an MBA Taught Me...But My Kids Made Me Learn is author Bea Wray’s sometimes hilarious, other times harrowing journey... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

crisis? Consumers expect quite a bit from their brand partners during a crisis, seeing them as critical partners to governments, non-profit relief organizations, and NGOs because of the powerful platform a strong brand delivers for... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

16 May 2018
News

ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

investment bank Bpifrance’s incubator space “Le Hub,” where the three teams pitched their concepts before a panel of 11 HBS alumni judges and a crowd of more than 100 alumni, family View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers

explains Michel Anteby, an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School who cowrote the paper with Filiz Garip of Harvard University, Paul V. Martorana of Wagner College, and Scott Lozanoff of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

February 1995 (Revised September 1995)
Case

The Bourland Companies

By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.

Michael Bourland, the president of the Bourland Companies, needs to refinance two properties, an office building in southern New Hampshire and a retail property in Massachusetts. He is considering three alternatives: a renewal of a bank mini-perm, a 15-year mortgage... View Details

Keywords: Capital Markets; Property; Mortgages; Family Business; Financial Management; Family Ownership; Real Estate Industry; Massachusetts; North and Central America

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12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

battles.” Grupo Clarín was one of the preeminent media companies in Argentina, with leading newspapers, cable television and Internet services, and broadcast television and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

theoretical investigation of open platform systems. To do this, we must first recognize that, although there is a strong family resemblance among all platform systems, there are different types of platforms, each with its own set of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

trust, the two sides may circumvent the intermediary to avoid the intermediary’s fees. We investigate the relationship between increased trust and disintermediation by leveraging a randomized control trial... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

February 2022
Case

Toraya

By: Lauren Cohen and Akiko Kanno

Mitsuharu Kurokawa was the 18th generation leader of a family firm that produced and sold premium Japanese sweets, Toraya Confectionery Co., Ltd. He had succeeded the business from his father, Mitsuhiro Kurokawa who had led the firm for thirty years. Mitsuharu was... View Details