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    Tom Nicholas

    Tom Nicholas is William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is British and holds a doctorate from Oxford University. His research focuses on the history of entrepreneurship, innovation and finance. His book (VC: An... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; high technology
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    Spangler Center | About

    Spangler Center C.D. (“Dick”) Spangler (MBA 1956) Spangler Center was made possible through the support of the Spangler family and named in their honor. Officially opened in 2001, Spangler Center has played a dramatic role in connecting... View Details
    • 07 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook

    Network effects can provide an advantage Some products become more competitive the wider the network of customers. For instance, Facebook benefits from the wide user base that increases value for customers by allowing them to interact with more of their View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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    Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center | About

    Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center Dr. Chao, daughters and their families with Harvard University President Drew Faust and Harvard Business School Dean, Nitin Nohria Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center was made possible through the support of a Dr. James... View Details
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    Sarah Moore

    Growing up, bouncing from one unstable home to the next, I learned three truths: I was shameless: I lacked respect for others I was scrappy: I used my circumstances to get my way I wasn't worth the effort. When I was 15, I met the Brackens, a View Details
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    Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

    findings develop a nuanced framework connecting time-saving purchases to relationship satisfaction. Keywords: Personal Finance ; Family and Family Relationships ; Satisfaction ; Well-being Citation Find at... View Details
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Organizing the Family-Run Business

    As described in the first article in this series, the "Three-circle" family business system is composed of three overlapping subsystems: those employed in the business, the shareholders, and members of the View Details
    • 2022
    • Case

    Polarizing Government Work: McKinsey & Co. and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    When Donald Trump announced his run for president in 2015, he placed immigration front and center in his campaign. He promised to drastically expand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and build a border... View Details
    Keywords: International Relations; Immigration; Public Opinion; Ethics
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    • January 2018
    • Case

    Scaling Swagbucks (A)

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble
    In early 2014, Chuck Davis (HBS '86) has joined Swagbucks as its first professional CEO to scale a successful and profitable brand promotion and consumer research business. Davis came into the job while serving as a venture partner at TCV, a growth stage VC firm,... View Details
    Keywords: Loyalty Management; Scaling; Scale; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Leading Change; Growth Management; Religion; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Transition; Leadership; Web Services Industry; Technology Industry
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    Past, Present and Future Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach

    By: Lakshmi Ramarajan
    Psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers have long recognized that people have multiple identities—based on attributes such as organizational membership, profession, gender, ethnicity, religion, nationality, and family role(s) and that these multiple identities... View Details
    Keywords: Networks; Research; Organizations; Identity
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    • 28 Jan 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: January 28

    Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-055.pdf   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 714-418 Modern Family Planning: The Business of Circle Surrogacy The business of surrogacy,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2024
    • Article

    Learning Under Random Distributional Shifts

    By: Kirk Bansak, Elisabeth Paulson and Dominik Rothenhäusler
    Algorithmic assignment of refugees and asylum seekers to locations within host countries has gained attention in recent years, with implementations in the U.S. and Switzerland. These approaches use data on past arrivals to generate machine learning models that can... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Refugees; Employment
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    Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
    We present a survey of recent contributions in empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Geographic Location; Motivation and Incentives; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Competition; Human Capital; Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Multinational Firms and Management; India; Brazil; United States
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    • December 1998
    • Article

    Entrepreneurs and Business Performance in Nineteenth Century France

    By: Tom Nicholas, Elisa Boccaletti and James Foreman-Peck
    A popular explanation for the supposed "delayed industrialisation" of the nineteenth century French economy has been the inappropriate attitudes and actions of the managerial classes and family firms. To address these claims we model the supply and demand for... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Performance; Economy; Management; Success; Opportunities; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Saving; Higher Education; Training; Demand and Consumers; France
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    • 08 Mar 2021
    • In Practice

    COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

    A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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    Video Clips - Creating Emerging Markets

    Laura Catena Dr. Laura Catena Building Brands Dr. Laura Catena, Managing Director of Bodega Catena Zapata, traces the history of her family winery from humble beginnings to their decision in the 1990s to target the French wine industry... View Details
    • 18 Jul 2023
    • News

    The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

    Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Anaïs Nin, Richard Wright Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs think Downton Abbey meets Call My Agent. -A family movie about the world of dreams, set on Earth and on a distant magical planet... View Details
    Keywords: Robert Bochnak
    • 01 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

    prior to incarceration, and when they did have jobs, their median earnings were a mere $6,250 per year. In addition, one in 10 boys born to families in the bottom 10 percent income bracket were incarcerated by the age of 30—a rate 20... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories
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    Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

    foundation had committed 10% of its endowment to building a portfolio of impact investments and was among the first family foundations to embrace ESG investing—despite the limited availability of robust metrics. McKnight recognized that... View Details
    • 10 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View

    Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & C. Jason Woodard