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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
Express; Solomon Trujillo, president and CEO of U S West Communications; and Ann Fudge, president of Maxwell House Coffee Company and Post Cereals? How did these people of color overcome the odds and break through the glass ceiling that... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208125 China's Financial Markets: 2007 Harvard Business School Note 208-147 Provides an overview of capital markets in mainland China in 2007, evaluating the up-to-date... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
which it has opened up to the outside world—shapes those markets, and companies must consider those factors, too. The five contexts framework places a superstructure of key markets on a base of sociopolitical choices. Many multinational... View Details
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
ethical awareness and avoiding potential threats to an organization's reputation. The second appendix, "Bridging East and West in Management Ethics," has been revised and updated to discuss certain basic similarities between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Publications Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest Author: Niall Ferguson Publication: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Review the book: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
ventures. “In Nigeria and across West Africa, there are tremendous opportunities to transform the agricultural landscape,” the Nwunelis said. Kola Masha (MBA 2006) sees smallholder agriculture as the key to... View Details
- 30 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Searching for Professional Passion Through My VC Summer Internship
As a child in the sun-bathed cityscape of West Los Angeles, I grew up amongst the gifts of a loving family, supportive schools, and a tranquil middle-class neighborhood. From L.A., I found my way to UC Berkeley and then to San Francisco,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
Robin Gregg (MBA 2002) grew up in the West Virginia town of Martinsburg, 15 minutes from the midpoint of the Appalachian Trail. “Most of the people I looked up to were doctors, lawyers, or teachers, so it’s funny that I ended up in... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
facilities detect and control outbreaks of health care–associated infections. Lee notes that services like epiXact are not DZD’s primary objective, but they are critical to “developing customer instincts and building commercial muscle” while also accomplishing one of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
Rob Sundy (MBA 2004) has an unabashed fondness for Americana. It’s an interest he traces back to an unexpected source: his time as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne. “It’s a historic unit,” says the West Point graduate, noting that many... View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
Lal, Rajiv, and Ishan Sachdev Abstract—Mobile money services are being deployed rapidly across emerging markets as a key tool to further the goal of financial inclusion. Financial inclusion, the development of novel methods to enable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
market conditions and, indeed, to a company's own strategic decisions. By serving the U.S. market from Japan, Toyota in its early days implicitly considered that market to be on the periphery of its own region. The North American West... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
coffee shop. These self-employed individuals were forced to make a tough decision: either continue working and put their family at risk of COVID-19, or stay at home and not get paid. In early April, Congress stepped in and began providing relief to America’s small... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
refugee women about reproductive health. “I was shocked the first time I heard some kids call me La Blanche—“The White Lady”—because I am a lighter-skinned African American,” she laughs. Working in West Africa put the future into sharper... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow draws on hours of in-depth interviews with Grove, other key Intel employees, and numerous high-technology entrepreneurs to craft a revealing, instructive portrait of a man and the company he built into one... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
structure and liquidity policies—for tax or agency reasons—appears to be a key driver of their decision to simultaneously raise and pay out capital. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48383 Online... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
company was not yet a year old. It had launched just as key provisions from the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act took effect, opening opportunities for companies to raise a total of just over $1 million from non-accredited... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
continues, “without a really clear idea of what I was going to do.” He knew that research and integration with more well-established areas — through cases on entrepreneurship across a variety of disciplines and businesses — would be key... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
“Just as the leitmotif of the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz might evoke images of its cackling, green-skinned character, the ominously quickening motif that typifies the Jaws soundtrack may similarly evoke haunting images... View Details