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28 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

money. They have to be clever experiments, not expensive ones. Q: How does each country treat its diaspora in terms of stoking entrepreneurship at "home"? A: To put it bluntly, China has embraced its diaspora, and India has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Dec 2022
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The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

was 20 percent compared to 4 percent from a pension with a non-minority CIO. “Again, you see this quite sharp uptick in terms of the willingness to fund diversely-owned groups during that period after the CIO comes in,” Lerner explains.... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services

23 Mar 2023
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As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules

Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

your career to the next level, while the electives allow you to focus on areas of your choosing. 5 hrs Term 1 Course - 1 week Introduction In the Introduction, you’ll get acquainted with the content and platform, meet your peer learning... View Details

15 Dec 2023
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The Musts of 2023

the continuation of some of the Star Wars saga, including the latest, Ashoka, because it features a female, as the lead who is dauntless and just amazing in multiple skills in terms of her brains and her brawn. Scott O'Neil (MBA 1998):... View Details

21 Aug 2020
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Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

We’re amongst the smaller of the joint degree programs, and it’s possible to get to know everyone in the cohort, even though the only class we all have together is the biennial seminar. Both HLS and HBS have a lot to offer in terms of... View Details

29 Sep 2022
Op-Ed

Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

who came before you, but you accept the terms of the scene and add to it, rather than contradicting it. So, if the first player says, “Here’s an apple,” you shouldn’t reply, “That’s actually a small melon.” That might buy you a laugh, but... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) - MBA

Obligations 4. General Policies 5. Technology, Copyright, & Publishing Policies 6. Important Contact Information Immersive Field Courses (IFC) are three credit courses offered in the Elective Curriculum (EC) Year that offer an off-campus, experiential learning... View Details

18 Dec 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality

Keywords: by Alvin J. Silk & Charles King III; Advertising

September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
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From Beirut With Love (A)

By: Christina R. Wing, Esel Y. Cekin and Samer Al-Rachedy

This case describes how Robert Fadel, CEO and chairman of ABC, one of Lebanon’s leading retail and real estate groups, professionalized the family business. Robert was the second son of the company’s founder, Maurice Fadel, who had run it single-handedly. Concerned... View Details

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The Manufacturer's Incentive to Reduce Lead Times

By: Santiago Kraiselburd, Richard Pibernik and Ananth Raman

It is generally a well acknowledged fact that, ceteris paribus, reducing the lead times between downstream and upstream parties in a supply chain is desirable from an overall system perspective. However, an upstream party (e.g., a manufacturer) may have strong... View Details

Keywords: Cost; Demand and Consumers; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Production; Supply Chain Management; Sales; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

practices (i.e. prioritize stakeholders) when faced with financial pressure. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that socially responsible firms take longer to pay their suppliers though they do not appear to relax payment View Details

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5.1 Information Technology - MBA

disclose account password(s) to anyone, including family or friends. When using software, it is a student’s responsibility to learn about and abide by any terms that may be applicable to the use of that software. Privacy Policy A student... View Details

13 May 2024
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Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases

randomly provided text-and-image search refinement suggestions to only half of roughly 500,000 users, chosen randomly. A customer in the test group searching for the general term “headphones” would receive refinement suggestions, such as... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology; Consumer Products; Retail

19 Apr 2010
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The History of Beauty

successful that its U.S. sales reached the equivalent in today's terms of half a billion dollars by the end of the 1920s, before the Great Depression eviscerated what had become the world's biggest beauty company. Coty was a larger than... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

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Reconceiving Products & Markets - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

been poorly served or overlooked by the industry Think in terms of improving lives , not just meeting customer “needs” Start with no preconceived constraints about product attributes, channel configuration, or the economic model of the... View Details

11 May 2023
News

How FOMO Became a Fixture

It's rare for a day to go by when the term FOMO (short for "fear of missing out") isn't shared on TV, social media, or any other media we consume. But where did FOMO come from? In this interview, Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004), shares the genesis of the phrase, the impact... View Details

10 May 2010
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What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

they operate. Political science, government, and history paid attention; and even the economist Joseph Schumpeter, with his notion of individuals who operate outside the social structure and who can then innovate, staked out a tradition of trying to understand... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Library Equipment: Printing, Copying, Scanning, Wireless

style="font-size:13.0pt"> are available to users at Baker MBAs: Send print jobs from library computers to MBA Printers. Charges... View Details

09 Feb 2015
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Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

School of Management at Northwestern University.) "From an academic perspective, we thought we could advance the theory of networks by looking at the psychological consequences of networking." Previous psychology research has shown that people think about morality in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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