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  • 13 May 2022
  • News

Four Shades of Deglobalization

  • January 2013
  • Case

Omidyar Network: Pioneering Impact Investment

By: Michael Chu and Lauren Barley
Omidyar Network, having deployed to date over $500 million in ways ranging from donations to commercial equity capital, must decide whether to back Anudip, an Indian organization dedicated to providing the rural unemployed and marginalized with livelihoods linked to... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; India
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    Lumumba B. Seegars

    Lumumba Seegars is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the MBA Required Curriculum.

    Professor Seegars... View Details

    • 21 Nov 2024
    • Blog Post

    Thoughts on the JD/MBA From a Recent Grad

    distinctive feature of Harvard’s joint degree program is the integration of the Harvard Business School (HBS) and Harvard Law School (HLS) experiences. In the third and fourth years, joint degree students take classes at both schools,... View Details
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Reinventing the American Wine Industry: Marketing Strategies and the Construction of Wine Culture

    By: Ai Hisano
    This working paper examines the remarkable growth of wine consumption in the United States since the 1960s. The country is now the largest wine consumer in the world, exceeding the wine-producing European countries such as France and Italy, which had long dominated... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Industry Growth; Transformation; Perception; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • Teaching Interest

    Short Intensive Program (SIP): Effective Strategic Philanthropy

    By: Brian L. Trelstad
    Non-profit organizations and social enterprises play an important role in every country in the world: as laboratories for social innovation, as the delivery system for critical goods and services at scale, as the stewards of our cultural heritage, and as advocates for... View Details
    • 11 Sep 2023
    • Blog Post

    Reflections on My First Semester Teaching at HBS

    DJ DiDonna is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School where he teaches the required first year course: The Entrepreneurial Manager. He has dedicated his career to commercializing social science... View Details
    • 21 Jul 2015
    • Blog Post

    3 Things Women Need to Know About Business School

    In 2013, HBS celebrated 50 years of women in the MBA program. Eight women joined the Class of 1965 – and this year 383 women from the Class of 2015 walked across the stage to collect their diplomas. So what... View Details
    • 07 Jan 2016
    • Blog Post

    Is HBS Too Big?

    At HBS, there are around 940 students in each class. Before coming here I worried a little about the large class size, because it’s a pretty overwhelming number. Sometimes a large number of students doesn’t necessarily translate to... View Details
    • 27 May 2015
    • Blog Post

    What is an HBS Section?

    HBS is a big place. We think it’s one of the great advantages of our program (lots of students = lots of alums = a big global network for you to access). We receive a lot of questions about our size, like “with a first year class of 930... View Details

      Kathleen L. McGinn

      Kathleen L. McGinn

      Professor Kathleen L. McGinn, Baker Foundation Professor and Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration (emeritus) at Harvard Business School, has served in various leadership roles at HBS, including Research... View Details

      • 29 Nov 2010
      • HBS Case

      United Breaks Guitars

      in class is whether social media are better at destroying value than creating it. In social media an entity's size and brand recognition make it more vulnerable to parody and... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna
      • 08 Mar 2022
      • Blog Post

      Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

      The start of 2022 not only marks a new year but also the graduation year of the MBA Class of 2022. As they begin their last semester, we asked EC (second-year) students about their first cold call, case method teaching, and how both... View Details

        From Higher Aims to Hired Hands

        Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform.... View Details
        • October 2011
        • Case

        Chris and Alison Weston (A)

        By: Sandra J. Sucher and Celia Moore
        Chris and Alison Weston describe how they, a well-educated middle class couple, ended up committing mail fraud, for which they each served a year and a half in federal prison. The case highlights for students how otherwise upstanding individuals much like themselves... View Details
        Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Conflict of Interests; Value
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        • December 1993 (Revised March 1994)
        • Supplement

        Fusion Systems Corp. in Japan (B)

        Describes how the dispute was settled. Designed as a class hand-out. View Details
        Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Japan
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        • September 2009 (Revised May 2011)
        • Supplement

        Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (B)

        By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
        As Acumen Fund, a global venture philanthropy firm, moves forward with an investment portfolio exceeding $22 million, it runs into two critical measurement problems. First, how should it track the performance of each investment when its interest is not just the bottom... View Details
        Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment Portfolio; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Social Enterprise; Competition; Financial Services Industry; Kenya
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        • 04 Dec 2023
        • Blog Post

        My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

        the previous summer, and learned that yes, this was a real internship. But more importantly, I learned that this internship was very structured, provided high-impact work, gave a lot of insight into the federal government, and qualified for the additional funding... View Details
        • 28 Oct 2022
        • News

        HBS Announces New RISE Career Fellow Program

        • 03 May 2021
        • Blog Post

        Celebrating the First HBS African-American Mother-Daughter Duo

        I’ve always admired my mom, Benaree Pratt Wiley, and her courage, and was amazed when I discovered she was one of twenty-eight women out of 800 in Harvard Business School’s Class of 1972. During her tenure, they didn’t even have a... View Details