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  • 13 Aug 2021
  • News

New Child Tax Credit Should Be a Call to Action for Banks

  • 15 Sep 2019
  • News

Sunday Strategist: Your Company Should Let You Work From Anywhere

  • November 2021 (Revised November 2023)
  • Case

Hitting Home: Amazon and Mary's Place

By: Paul M. Healy, Debora L. Spar and Amy Klopfenstein
In 2020, Amazon, the $386 billion online retail behemoth, built an eight-story shelter for women and families experiencing homelessness on its expanding headquarters in Seattle, Washington. The shelter, operated in partnership with a non-profit organization known as... View Details
Keywords: Business Ethics; Homelessness; Business And Society; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Corporate Accountability; Urban Development; Society; Information Technology; Ethics; Technology Industry; Seattle; United States; North America
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  • August 2025
  • Case

Must B Nutty?

By: Christina Wallace, Martha Hostetter and Alicia Dadlani
Veronica and Miguel Garza, siblings from a large Mexican-American family from Texas, founded a company in 2014 to sell the almond-flour tortillas Veronica had developed to fit her grain-free diet. Their company, Must Be Nutty, tapped into growing demand for... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Valuation; Family Business; Family Ownership; Small Business; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Distribution Channels; Market Entry and Exit; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • 2014
  • Book

Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare

By: Gunnar Trumbull
Why did America embrace consumer credit over the course of the twentieth century, when most other countries did not? How did American policy makers by the late twentieth century come to believe that more credit would make even poor families better off? This book traces... View Details
Keywords: Attitudes; Credit; France; United States
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  • 2022
  • White Paper

The Options Multiplier: Decoding the CareerWise Youth Apprentice Journey

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Rachel Lipson, Farah Mallah, Girish Pendse and Rachel Snyder
As more Americans question the appeal of costly higher education programs, earn-and-learn models, like apprenticeship, are attracting increasing attention from policymakers and employers alike. While apprenticeship is widespread in many parts of Europe,... View Details
Keywords: Apprenticeship; Higher Education; Training; Personal Development and Career; Cost vs Benefits; Success; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 15 Aug 2022
  • Book

University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

“Will China threaten American supremacy?” asks Kirby in his new book Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China. "Public institutions in the United States educate three-quarters of all View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
  • 07 Apr 2020
  • News

What Will U.S. Health Care Look Like After the Pandemic?

  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

20 percent of the American population," observes Tufano. "What we're talking about is a little replumbing of the IRS code and the Bureau of Public Debt to help the remaining 80 percent of American... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 09 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

HBCUs [historically Black colleges and universities] borrow more than students from non-HBCUs because African American families generally have lower assets and incomes that limit their ability to contribute... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

one long entrepreneurial adventure. Even down to the present day, more Americans have probably made fortunes from the appreciation of real estate values than from any other source. But land is only the starting place for the epochal drama... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

    Jaxon Wu

    Jaxon Wu earned his Bachelor of Arts with High Honors from Johns Hopkins University where he studied History and Mathematics. His current work intersects machine learning, team science, and healthcare operations. Specifically, he aspires to design intelligent... View Details

      William C. Kirby

      William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard... View Details

      Keywords: education industry; wine
      • 25 Jun 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

      wheel. Photo courtesy A'Lelia Bundles/Walker Family Collection/madamcjwalker.com Walker died of kidney failure in 1919 at the age of 51. By her death, according to the case, nearly 40,000 African American... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics
      • 30 Nov 2018
      • News

      The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

      • March 2024
      • Case

      Katharine Graham: Changing the World

      By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
      This case traces the life of Katharine Graham from housewife to publisher of the Washington Post. Born into a family of wealth, Graham described herself as a “doormat wife” after she married Phil Graham and stayed at home to raise their children. His unexpected death... View Details
      Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Power and Influence; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Success; Work-Life Balance; News; Newspapers; Media; Gender; Publishing Industry
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      • 30 Apr 2020
      • News

      Leading Your Team Past the Peak of a Crisis

        Tom Nicholas

        Tom Nicholas is William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is British and holds a doctorate from Oxford University. His research focuses on the history of entrepreneurship, innovation and finance. His book (VC: An... View Details

        Keywords: financial services; high technology
        • 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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        • 04 Jun 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: June 4

        managers were showing resistance to the new changes. Meanwhile, the American manager found himself caught in the web of family and company politics, and completing his assignment without the cooperation of... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne