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Site Credits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

'Rooted' In Innovation

whom are women, who average under a dollar a day per capita income. Since cassava spoils within three days of harvesting, it is traditionally used in small-scale family... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • November 2023
  • Supplement

'Care in Every Drop': Ayala Corporation and Manila Water (B)

By: Debora L. Spar, Paul Healy, Tricia Peralta and Julia Comeau
Since 1834, eight generations of the Ayala family have used their conglomerate to fund nation-building projects in the Philippines, including investments in tramcars, telecommunications, hospitals, and schools. In 1997, Ayala’s subsidiary, Manila Water, took control of... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Economic Growth; Social Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Natural Resources; Crisis Management; Failure; Privatization; Social Issues; Urban Development; Adaptation; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Philippines
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  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

Ideas in Action

often, those who have experienced vast success in the public realm look back and regret not spending more time with family and friends. They wish they’d actually gone on that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • July 2020
  • Supplement

Instabeat—Crossing the Finish Line

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Nicole Tempest Keller and Alpana Thapar
Lebanese entrepreneur Hind Hobeika was just 21 years old when she launched her startup, Instabeat, which had developed the first real-time bio-feedback device for swimmers to monitor and improve their performance. It had been an extremely testing 10-year journey to... View Details
Keywords: Start-up; Wearables; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Strategy; Operations; Management; United States; Lebanon
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  • 13 Feb 2015
  • News

Lessons in Perseverance

establish a third K–12 school, or instead create a university? By the time she finished the OPM program in 2001, however, a major problem had disrupted Deza’s thinking: her... View Details
Keywords: Tyler Bridges; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • January 2009
  • Background Note

Financial Networks and Informal Banking in China: From Pawnshops to Private Equity

By: Elisabeth Koll
Provides an analysis of why informal financial networks and institutions still play an extremely important role in China's economy in the 21st century. Although China has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it still suffers from a weak... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Networks; China
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HBS Cases | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family... View Details
  • January 2007 (Revised July 2013)
  • Case

To JV or Not To JV? That Is the Question (for XTech in China)

By: Daniel J. Isenberg and Paul W. Marshall
XTech, a leading manufacturer of metal parts for the telecommunications industry, is being pushed by its large equipment vendor customers to establish a manufacturing operation in China. CEO Reinhold Hesse is debating several options: establishing a joint venture,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Search; Global Ventures; Succession; Acquisitions; Private Equity; Negotiation; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Joint Ventures; Management Succession; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Global Strategy; Acquisition; Manufacturing Industry; Telecommunications Industry; China; United States
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  • 07 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?

receive credits for emission reductions related to new nuclear power plants - including both those under construction and those still in prototype stages. Harvard Business School Professor Joe Lassiter... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities
  • August 2010 (Revised January 2020)
  • Case

Rupert Murdoch: The Last Tycoon

By: Geoffrey Jones and Hari Balkrishna
The case examines the entrepreneurial career of Rupert Murdoch and the growth of News Corporation from a small Australian newspaper to a global media giant. It shows how he expanded geographically to Europe, the United States, and Asia and from newspapers to the film... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Media; Globalized Firms and Management; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Europe; United States; Australia
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  • 05 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

the people who have competed in it for all these years, but also seen in the impact of their ventures on View Details
  • 25 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

earning her MBA at Harvard Business School. In fact, she spent the first decade of her life living down the road... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021

Love at HBS is an annual celebration of the diverse expressions of love that exist on our campus and in the world... View Details
  • 20 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

earning her MBA at Harvard Business School. In fact, she spent the first decade of her life living down the road... View Details

    Josh Baron

    Dr. Josh Baron is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a part of the Strategy Unit. In the MBA program, he teaches in the Required Core Strategy course as well as elective courses on Ownership and Leading a Family Business. He... View Details

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    Dean LeBaron | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    across many stocks with particular characteristics. He launched Batterymarch to bring these concepts to real-world investing and was among the first to use computer models to manage investment portfolios. Dean was also View Details
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    An Educated Investment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    An Educated Investment Safeena Husain was the first in her family to attend university overseas—so being admitted to the London School View Details
    • 01 Dec 2017
    • News

    Leadership in Practice

    to teach,” says Dawson. “To Dean Nitin Nohria’s credit, HBS’s approach is evolving in a very creative way. Business leaders need to inspire trust, they have to be able to read people, and they need to know... View Details
    • 25 May 2011
    • HBS Case

    QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

    group of retailers is challenging this notion of an industry built on the backs of crummy jobs, very prosperous companies that include Costco,... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail