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Launching Global Ventures - Course Catalog

offer advantages, it also exposes the venture to substantial risk. How do founders and managers overcome the “difficult middle zone of globalization” to fully realize the advantages of an international-first business model? Through cases on ventures whose View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way

but from Mexico, South Korea, and elsewhere — was coming in at a lower price point than our unionized operations could match,” Chirchirillo recalls. “And many of my OPM classmates were from outside the United States, so I was getting a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

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HBS Course: Starting a Private Investment Firm

Private Equity International (PEI) Daily newsletter on the people, the deals, the funds and the financial trends of the industry. PEI is available through... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Terence P. Stewart

For more than twenty years, Terry Stewart's work has placed him at the middle of some of the world's most contentious border disputes - the trade and legal battles that erupt when countries engage in practices such as dumping or restricting access to their View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2019
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Case Study: Off to a Fine Art

logistics business first. The reason? Last-mile delivery is a challenge the world over, but even more so in Mexico—and particularly when your product is sofa-sized. Their solution: Some Bulletin readers suggested partnering with established View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

21 Jun 2016
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Rescuing Families from ISIS-Led Genocide

remote mountain hideouts where many died before relief efforts reached them. “They are genocide victims,” states Aziza, who now works full time with Operation Ezra, an initiative led by the city’s active Jewish community that has raised... View Details

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Online AI Course | HBS Online

operating AI-powered organizations. 4 weeks 5-7 hours per week 4 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll... View Details

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

chains and people analytics to artificial intelligence-based models and automated biotechnology research, organizations further along the digital curve are responding differently than those still wondering how to evolve. The digital technology embedded throughout their... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

21 Apr 2014
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A lifetime of quiet leadership

which operated in a way that had never been done on Wall Street: Whitehead’s team proactively sought business and also became involved in facilitating mergers and acquisitions and IPOs. This spirit of innovation also informed Whitehead’s... View Details

Edward G. Gardner

Gardner began mixing hair and beauty products for blacks out of his basement during the 1940s. Around 1960, he began working for another beauty supply business and when it went bankrupt, Gardner took its customers and began producing his own line of Soft Sheen... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

01 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Reflecting and Digesting

the Operations Intern is focused on assessing existing processes for specific partnerships in different markets and redesigning them to optimize operations and increase... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

power generation source in any location – be it wind, solar, or fossil fuels – enabling reliable and predictable operation of the grid. Jessica's role prior to HBS was a Natural Gas Engineer at PSE&G. Elizabeth Marotta (MBA 2022,... View Details

09 Jan 2020
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Your Whole Self

serious time crunch while, at the same time, their organizations are becoming more global and complex. And these pressures, coupled with internal pressures to succeed, are leaving these executives feeling like they are getting in their... View Details

22 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Ewing M. Kauffman

Using his middle name as his company’s name, Kauffman built a fledging pharmaceutical business initially housed in his basement into a $1 billion operation by the time he sold Marion Labs to Merrell Dow. Kauffman built his business by... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures

What do pizza delivery, unarmed guards, and metallization on compact discs have in common? They all represent businesses founded outside the U.S. that illustrate some of the enduring realities each international entrepreneur grapples with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Andrew Dervan

operations in a General Electric jet engine facility. "I think of the operating room from the perspective of a doctor," Andrew says. "But wouldn't it be great if I could learn from GE, if I... View Details

24 Jun 2014
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Journey to my Summer Internship

marketing, operations or sales. As luck would have it, I interviewed with Danaher, a global science and technology company with operating companies in many different industries and locations. They had a... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

09 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 9

PublicationsAuctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications Authors:Peter Coles, Sanmay Das, Sébastien Lahaie, and Boleslaw Szymanski Publication:Second International ICST Conference, AMMA 2011 Abstract This book constitutes the... View Details