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Business Investment in Education in Emerging Markets Since the 1960s

By: Valeria Giacomin, Geoffrey Jones and Erica Salvaj
This article examines non-profit investments by business in education in emerging markets between the 1960s and the present day. Using a sample of 110 interviews with business leaders from an oral history database, the study shows that more than three-quarters of such... View Details
Keywords: Economic History; Oral History; Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business History; Emerging Markets; Reputation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Education Industry; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Middle East; India; Chile; Colombia; Sri Lanka; Kenya
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  • 11 May 2017
  • News

Going with the Flow

Hoxworth Blood Center, where it was processed and stored. Parents paid an initial processing fee at the time of delivery and an annual storage fee in the month of View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • Article

Corporate Headquarters in the Twenty-first Century: An Organization Design Perspective

By: Sven Kunisch, Markus Menz and David J. Collis
The corporate headquarters (CHQ) of the multi-business enterprise, which emerged as the dominant organizational form for the conduct of business in the twentieth century, has attracted considerable scholarly attention. As the business environment undergoes a... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Business Headquarters
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  • 24 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

has been following up his initial research to determine how review sites can do just that. He notes that consistency of reviews were weakest when there were a low number—supporting the criticism by those... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • 14 Mar 2019
  • News

The Merchant of Osaka

with the Yoga clinic’s foray into electronic medical records, the government has supported the company’s initiatives with grants—a way of looking... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • 1999
  • Other Unpublished Work

Executive Ownership and Control in Newly Public Firms: The Role of Venture Capitalists

By: Malcolm Baker and Paul Gompers
We study the implications of CEO equity ownership for incentives and control in a sample of 1,011 newly public firms. Before an initial public offering, equity investments by venture capitalists reduce CEO ownership by about half, from an average of 35 percent to 19... View Details
Keywords: Equity; Ownership; Motivation and Incentives; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Venture Capital; Managerial Roles; Cost Management; Governance Controls; Executive Compensation
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Correlated Equilibrium and Nash Equilibrium as an Observer's Assessment of the Game

By: John Hillas, Elon Kohlberg and John W. Pratt
Noncooperative games are examined from the point of view of an outside observer who believes that the players are rational and that they know at least as much as the observer. The observer is assumed to be able to observe many instances of the play of the game; these... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Game Theory; Cooperation
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  • 20 Dec 2022
  • News

Singing to the Corn

illuminating the strong spiritual, cultural, and economic connections that once existed between corn and indigenous people. At the same time, Keen and his students were brainstorming potential directions for... View Details
  • September 2002 (Revised October 2002)
  • Case

Managing Knowledge and Learning at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and David Kiron
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) faces a serious loss of knowledge--both because of the "faster, better, cheaper" mandate for Mars missions and from the retirement of key personnel. An extensive knowledge management system for NASA/JPL includes formal knowledge-capture... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Management; Knowledge Dissemination; Leadership Development; Internet and the Web; Risk and Uncertainty; Organizational Culture; Retirement; Human Resources; Human Capital
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  • 24 Jun 2017
  • News

Should the Lions pick all 15 players from one team?

  • Article

The Supply Chain Economy: New Policies to Drive Innovation and Jobs

By: Mercedes Delgado and Karen G. Mills
The debate in economic policymaking about the drivers of innovation and job creation has long centered on manufacturing versus services. The predominant view is that manufacturing drives innovation, wages, and growth, and that services provide less innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Industries; Supply Chain; Economy; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions
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  • 17 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

depends on it. Laura Morgan Roberts is a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School’s Leadership Initiative and a professor of organization studies at Antioch University’s Graduate School of Leadership and Change. Robin Ely is View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

    The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage

    From HBSP: " In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their... View Details
    • 24 Sep 2020
    • Blog Post

    Introducing the HBS Heartland Club

    treks for their classmates to their hometowns (Columbia, KY and Cleveland, OH). From there, the initiative began to attract not only those from the Heartland, but also anyone... View Details
    • 17 Dec 2024
    • News

    Solving the Underemployment Crisis

    Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
    • 11 Jun 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

    investments by sharing in the profits generated by broadcasting rights and advertising revenues. The founders initially placed a $100 million fundraising target on View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services
    • 24 Nov 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business

    A good book on CEO succession is The CEO Within by my Harvard Business School colleague Joe Bower. Bower studied how companies perform after hiring a new CEO, noting whether the successor had been recruited... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Andi Wang; Retail; Auto
    • 13 Dec 2016
    • News

    Eye Appeal Is Buy Appeal: Business Creates the Color of Foods

    • 06 Feb 2023
    • Blog Post

    Meet the Black Investment Club

    members and current club Co-Presidents, Aka Akapelwa (MBA 2023), Kendall Ernst (MBA 2023), and Alexis Coates (MBA 2023), are ready and eager to lead new and ongoing initiatives that support their Black classmates and contribute to... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

      Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights Under Reform

      Land reforms have been critical to the development of Chinese capitalism over the last several decades, yet land in China remains publicly owned. This book explores the political logic of reforms to land ownership and control, accounting for how land development... View Details