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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 The Moral Leader Joseph Badaracco Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 The Power of DEI: Harnessing Talent and Opportunity for Enduring Success Nancy Koehn Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Public Entrepreneurship (also...
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Wage Policies and Incentives to Invest in Firm-Specific Human Capital (joint with George Baker and Nancy Dean Beaulieu)
The accumulation of firm-specific knowledge improves firm productivity and employee reten-tion, by creating a wedge between what the employee is worth inside and outside the firm. How does the firm create incentives for investment in firm-specific human capital when...
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1.5 Raymond Kluender Entrepreneurial Finance Entrepreneurial Management, Finance Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Nancy Koehn The Power of DEI: Harnessing Talent and Opportunity for Enduring Success General Management...
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- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
In recent years, polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton has been celebrated through books, memoirs, several films, and a major museum exhibit. His achievements on the ice have much to teach business students and executives, says Harvard Business School professor View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- June 2010 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
China Environment Fund: Doing Well by Doing Good
By: Christopher Marquis and Nancy Dai
In early 2010, cleantech investment pioneer Tsing Capital was planning for the China Environment Fund IV and considering how to maintain its commitment to social and environmental practices. Tsing Capital embraced its philosophy of "Doing Well by Doing Good" and...
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business Strategy;
Balance and Stability;
Environmental Sustainability;
Climate Change;
Energy Conservation;
Business Organization;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Venture Capital;
Financial Services Industry;
China
Marquis, Christopher, and Nancy Dai. "China Environment Fund: Doing Well by Doing Good." Harvard Business School Case 410-142, June 2010. (Revised July 2011.)
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
Buy, Lie, and Sell High by D. Quinn Mills Prentice Hall Any investor or person involved in America's financial-services industry will be interested in Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble. In...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Moving Mountains
What's it like to be a woman in the "old-boy" construction business of the South? "It's a lot of fun," says Kathy L. Barco (23rd OPM), president of Barco-Duval Engineering, Inc., the Jacksonville, Florida, earth-moving company founded in 1959 View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
Managing Across Borders by Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal (Harvard Business School Press) A decade ago HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett and London Business School professor Sumantra Ghoshal proposed a revolutionary new...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
a long workweek it was and how extraordinarily controlling companies were in the early days before the labor movement." In subtle contrast, a striking 1933 portrait of a woman cotton warper at the Shelton Looms in Shelton, Connecticut, by...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
Photography by Robert Schoen The résumé of Roger Anthony (“Tony”) Sanchez reads like a laundry list of military superlatives: U.S. Naval Academy engineering major, water polo team captain, and battalion commander; Navy SEAL platoon...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology
As the first director of the HBS Global Leadership Initiative, Alan Price is working to extend the School's reach in the teaching of leadership. Launched in 1999 by Dean Kim B. Clark and headed by leadership...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
resulted over time in one of the most vibrant and highly regarded alumni networks anywhere. Aside from their sheer volume (at present, a total of 300 pages per issue) and scope (current copy provided by 853 class and section...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
case studies used in the course came alive instantly, and the classroom visits by some of the cases' protagonists were enthusiastically received. Furthermore, the program's structure - two three-week units (one in March and one in May) -...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship
With the study of entrepreneurial management flourishing at HBS, the challenge to find and support new faculty and to fund curriculum development is more pressing than ever. Recently these needs were recognized by the Class of 1975...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
"That grew into a desire to save, invest, and make more" - a predilection that eventually led to an interest in private-equity investing. Kemp attended Yale, where he continued his entrepreneurial efforts by creating The Greek Shop, a...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
from managing a corporate enterprise. "Many of my friends in business would feel that universities should be managed more like businesses. That is not possible nor is it desirable," he asserts. "Unlike business, where decisions are often made at the top, a university...
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Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 The Moral Leader Joseph Badaracco Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 The Power of DEI: Harnessing Talent and Opportunity for Enduring Success Nancy Koehn Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Public Entrepreneurship (also...
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- 04 Oct 2017
- Book
Five Leaders Forged in Crisis, and What We Can Learn From Them
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by Dina Gerdeman
- June 2001
- Book Review
Review of Shelf Space, by Kurtzman and Rifkin
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of Shelf Space, by Kurtzman and Rifkin." CNNMoney (June 2001).
- March 25, 2001
- Article
An Information Age Led by Business, So Far
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Koehn, Nancy F. "An Information Age Led by Business, So Far." New York Times (March 25, 2001).