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Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade
masculine. . . . The men ate and drank a great deal too much.” 51 (The Heards particularly enjoyed good wine.) In general, American women were notably absent from factory life, and if a Westerner got married... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
“special sauce,” which includes giving fellows an opportunity to hear from researchers at various stages in their careers—from first-year doctoral students to junior faculty to the Dean. “The program has really gathered momentum, and a... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
battle (to get $700,000 minus legal fees) will exceed the defendant's assessment of his exposure (to pay $500,000 plus fees). Without significant risk aversion, the divergent... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
well-being without degrading the natural systems that are also critical to our well-being is one of the great challenges — and great... View Details
- 2022
- Book
Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China
By: William C. Kirby
The modern university was born in Germany. In the twentieth century, the United States leapfrogged Germany to become the global leader in higher education. Will China challenge its position in the twenty-first?
Today American institutions dominate nearly every... View Details
Today American institutions dominate nearly every... View Details
Kirby, William C. Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022. (Extended Book Reviews at Foreign Policy and Inside Higher Ed.)
- 04 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My Passion in the Startup Space
rely to a large extent on how well you gel with the team during the interview process. Early on at Blueground, it was clear that the culture was a View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
delivery truck, a 1920 Ford, still rolls out for promotional events. COURTESY DREYER'S GRAND ICE CREAM While war stories make for great company lore, even in their telling Rogers never loses sight of the two... View Details
- 01 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
What is the HBS Latin America Club?
Last October, around 100 HBS Latin American students, together with our families, celebrated the beginning of a new semester with a weekend retreat in Cape Cod. At this annual celebration we welcomed the... View Details
- January 2018 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Financial Inclusion at Omidyar Network
By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme and James Barnett
A team of investors at Omidyar Network explore two different investment possibilities in the budding financial inclusion space using their investment framework to consider capital alternatives available for both investments, each of which carries highly divergent... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Micro Finance; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Portfolio; Microfinance; Africa; Philippines
Gandhi, Vikram S., Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme, and James Barnett. "Financial Inclusion at Omidyar Network." Harvard Business School Case 318-004, January 2018. (Revised February 2020.)
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
reluctantly admits inspired the New York Times to dub her “Hazel,” Moore asked employees to clean out their offices and storerooms for a flea market where all employees could pay $10 to fill up a shopping bag with various items. “There... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
office.” “The private sector vendor community has done a great job of attracting that talent,” says Lefkowitz. “You may not want to wear a suit—and maybe you’d have trouble passing a background check, and maybe you want to play video... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- July–August 2013
- Article
Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement
By: Michel Anteby
Scholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression "telling our own stories" is used as a proxy for field research projects that, in their written form, explicitly rely on a scholar's personal involvement... View Details
Keywords: Fieldwork; Research Practiced; Distance; Involvement; Taboo; Practice; Ethics; Education Industry
Anteby, Michel. "Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement." Organization Science 24, no. 4 (July–August 2013): 1277–1290.
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
correlation between the scores judges assigned and the outcomes of the crowd, suggesting that on average the two groups saw projects similarly... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Recreation
- 15 Jul 2023
The MBA Tour: New York City
Interested in learning more about the Harvard MBA? Join us on July 15th at The MBA Tour: New York City hosted by GMAC. This in-person event is a great opportunity to learn more... View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
encompassed other important inflection points. The end of the Civil War was one. The onset of the Great Depression... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to achieve great things in life,... View Details
- 2009
- Chapter
The Decline and Renewal of British Multinational Banking.
By: G. Jones and Lucy Newton
This chapter discusses the renaissance of British multinational banking from the 1990s. British commercial banks had pioneered multinational banking during the 19th century, but they were unable to build on this legacy during the new wave of global banking that began... View Details
- 2025
- Book
The World Is Your Office: How Work from Anywhere Boosts Talent, Productivity, and Innovation
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
A research-based look at a growing phenomenon—companies allowing their employees to work from anywhere in the world—and how those who adopt this model can boost talent, innovation, and productivity.
In recent years, companies in a wide range of industries have... View Details
In recent years, companies in a wide range of industries have... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Telecommuting; Employees; Business Offices; Organizational Culture; Retention; Recruitment; Policy; Competitive Advantage
Choudhury, Prithwiraj. The World Is Your Office: How Work from Anywhere Boosts Talent, Productivity, and Innovation. Harvard Business Review Press, 2025.
- 09 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community
could offer to incoming MBAs interested in the tech community? My favorite tech roles to date have all been ones where I felt strongly about both the company culture and the... View Details