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  • 31 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

creating new jobs. One could also trace out career paths—for example, the extent that those arriving on an H-1B visa with a large company ultimately become entrepreneurs as they gain permanent residency. That kind View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 21 Dec 2022
  • News

HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

Happens Next in Ukraine?” As attack unfolds, escalation, nuclear standoff among Harvard experts’ worst fears Harvard Gazette Wide range of possible targets for Russian cyber strikes, from infrastructure to smartphones Ex-intelligence... View Details
  • 10 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

insurance industry Proudest Accomplishment: Being the mother of Elisa and the wife of Andrés  Summer Internship: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) - Boston Office How do you do it?... View Details
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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

and later founded their own enterprises. 25 Augustine Heard retired from his role as active head of the company in 1844. He would never return to China. In June 1844, the firm announced its new partners:... View Details
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dollarDEX (1998-2007)

Retired chief executive, non-executive chairman

One of world's top 30 in online finance (Institutional Investor, March 2003). Wealth management firm in Asia, and has... View Details

  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

conspicuous successes in online commerce came from companies that already had a pretty good catalog or direct mail business. Staples and Dell migrated successful catalog businesses onto the Web. Merck-Medco had done a terrific job View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

Raymond James Financial (RJF) is a diversified, publicly traded financial services holding company, including asset management and investment banking services, with some 800 View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

    Dante Roscini

    Dante Roscini holds the Professor of Management Practice Chair endowed by the MBA Class of 1952 at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2008 after a two-decades-long career in finance. He currently teaches the course Business, Government, and the... View Details

    • 24 Jul 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

    BC Partners prefers to stick to its private-equity niche in Europe, looking for large, robust companies in strong competitive positions across a wide range of sectors. With 24 partners in View Details
    Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services
    • 10 Aug 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

    They collected application data using the US Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System database, and when data for a particular college wasn’t available, they contacted the school’s admissions View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
    • 09 Sep 2024
    • HBS Case

    McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

    the language of its officer severance plan,” says Paine. Clawback policies also have to be considered. “Historically, boards have been reluctant to try to recover monies already paid, but View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
    • February 2016 (Revised October 2016)
    • Case

    Linda Rabbitt at rand* construction

    By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly
    Linda Rabbitt, founder and CEO of rand* construction, walked into her office at the company's headquarters in Alexandria, VA, and closed the door behind her. It was 10:00 a.m. on Monday, September 22, 2014, and she had just addressed her staff after the sudden and... View Details
    Keywords: Women And Leadership; Women Executives; Succession Planning; Leadership; Entrepreneurship; Management Succession; Construction Industry; District of Columbia
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    • June 2021 (Revised November 2021)
    • Case

    Equity Bank: Charting the Future

    By: Lauren Cohen, Michael Chitavi and Spencer C. N. Hagist
    After climbing the ranks among Kenya's financial institutions from 66th to 1st, and toppling a quarter of the market share held by mobile money giant Safaricom, CEO James Mwangi must now guide Equity Bank into its next stage of development beyond "Equity 3.0." Should... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Leadership; Decision Making; Market Entry and Exit; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Institutions; Economics; Kenya
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    Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

    Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research... View Details
    • 18 Sep 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: September 18, 2007

      Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • June 28, 2021
    • Article

    4 Imperatives for Managing in a Hybrid World

    By: Kalle Heikkinen, William R. Kerr, Mika Malin and Panu Routila
    As more and more companies turn to a hybrid model of work more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, what challenges are leaders likely to face when managing people both in the office and remotely? Interviews with 38 executives in Nordic countries point to four main... View Details
    Keywords: Hybrid Organizations; Organizational Structure; Management; Leadership
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    Classroom and Field Work: Methods of Instruction | Baker Library

    type of non-specialized job," Roberts explained. "The best way to appreciate the endurance and difficulty of the lowest paid job is to hold one." (3) The second, a position at... View Details
    • 08 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

    organizations is also driving the trend, generating “digital trace data”—records of employee behavior captured on devices central to performing jobs everywhere, from the office to the factory floor to the... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand

      Christina R. Wing

      Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on families in business, and she is the creator of Demystifying the Family Enterprise, a course that explores... View Details

        Vikram Gandhi

        Vikram S. Gandhi is the Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches two new courses in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. The first is a finance and investing course, Sustainable... View Details

        Keywords: financial services