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28 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

rates, says Fuller, who suggests more targeted guidance and outreach to shrink the gap. In recent years, CareerWise has begun to expand, with new programs in cities including New York and Washington, DC, as well as rural locations in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 May 2023
Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

whites, according to Federal Reserve data, potentially driving some to alternative sources of capital, like Kickstarter and other crowdfunding sites. The pullback in support noted in Kerr’s research is national in scope, taking place in View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Jiaojun Wang

Chinese city with over three thousand years of history, I was gripped by ancient civilizations and all their untold stories. What is your favorite childhood memory? My dad could not hide his excitement when he took me and my mom to the... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Remix

was the dream all along: doing A&R for an iconic rap label and reporting to its legendary executive. Dixon was all of 24, and she had fought tooth and nail to get there. After finishing her degree from Stanford in 1992, she moved to New York View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

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Morgan Hall | About

establishment of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and served as its president from 1904 to 1913. At the time of his death, Morgan’s art collection was valued at $50 million. View Details

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men in Silicon Valley. In contrast, businesses led by women are 63 percent less likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

“The Job Rating Game: The Effects of Revolving Doors on Analyst Incentives.” John D. Macomber : Winner of the 2016 Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula for the MBA Course "Building Sustainable Cities and... View Details

17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

applications—a process comprising about 600,000 individual data-entry tasks. The research team matched that data to meteorological data in Tokyo during that period. (Tokyo is a city that sees its share of sunny weather and torrential... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

structure their lives in a fictional, diverse city. They were allowed to customize different aspects of the city layout based on their personal preferences, such as where to locate homes and workplaces. And they were presented with the... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

22 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

conditions are being met now, or could be met with low-cost policies.” Do ‘Ban the Box’ laws backfire? In recent years, 35 states and 150 cities and counties have adopted so-called “Ban the Box” laws that restrict or delay employers from... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

all cities for women to shop by themselves, to be out on the streets actively spending money. So this is one important aspect of a sea change," says Koehn. "Madam Walker was part and parcel of that evolution and can't really be... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

01 Dec 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

was ever-present. I always thought, wouldn’t it be better to be the landlord than the tenant? And real estate is hyper-tangible; I love the idea of providing shelter in return for income.” PD cities to date: Detroit, Memphis, Miami, the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

04 Sep 2019
News

From Retail to Real Estate

MBA, he set up the New York-based property investment firm Drake Real Estate Partners. The firm has been of particular interest to Latin American investors looking for the protections offered by American real estate. Focused on deals outside the major American View Details

01 May 2020
Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

lived in New York City prior to HBS, where he was a consultant at Deloitte Consulting. He is passionate about commercial aviation and looks to pursue a career in the space after HBS. Ryan’s undergraduate degree is in Chemical Engineering... View Details

01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

devastates Kobe 1997 Founds Rakuten 2000 Rakuten IPO 2010 Institutes “Englishnization” at Rakuten 2012 Rakuten leads $100 million Pinterest investment In 1995, the city of Kobe, where Hiroshi Mikitani grew up, was devastated by what was... View Details

12 May 2020
Blog Post

Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

cities over the last ten years. While I enjoyed every moment, I missed my friends. I wanted to meet a diverse group of people at school and build the deep relationships I’d left behind. I had also never formally worked in a Venture... View Details

24 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

wireless—varies dramatically by location, especially when comparing urban and low-density locations, but even when comparing one city to another. On a different dimension, the types of employment affiliated with implementing frontier... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

01 Dec 2019
News

Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

she says. “We’ve both been enormous fans of the possibilities in Allston for many years,” says Nunnelly. “It’s so incredibly important to the future of Harvard, the city of Boston, and the entire state of Massachusetts. We anticipate this... View Details

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

yield on the Bank of America Merrill Lynch index of high yield bonds, which remains fairly low. The bottom left and bottom right figures present the Case-Shiller 20 city index, a measure of real estate prices, and the cyclically-adjusted... View Details

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

urban districts. This program has been exclusively designed by Council of the Great City Schools and PELP for school board members and superintendents in member districts of the Council of the Great City... View Details

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