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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Authority Grant in the Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Program for “From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration” (with Vasiliky Fouka and... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
Forbes welcoming me to the “30 Under 30.” I immediately shared the good news with my family and had a great day!” What does this honor mean to you, personally and also... View Details
- 22 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
“Mission + Profit: What’s the Balance?” asks SECON 2018
from as far as Japan and New Zealand. It was a great honor and experience to meet students, professionals and practitioners hailing from many parts of the world. SECON kicked off to a View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
2000, recovery, Great Recession in 2008, recovery--that it makes trend analysis (and consistent productivity growth) impossible. A related argument is that when labor is relatively cheap, growing companies are encouraged to hire more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
chief Arne Duncan his secretary of education in 2008, there was great optimism in the charter school movement. Duncan, after all, had long welcomed charters—public schools operating outside View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
world, the economics were terrific. The business was highly scalable but, in addition, there was a great market for the digital information. So... View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
Research that explores how children benefit from having a working mom blew away the field for most popular feature article on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge in 2015. With nearly 84,000 visits, twice View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
year with the Angels was 3.83.) Gonzalez, the hotshot first baseman, was great most of the season but collapsed in September--his first... View Details
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Capitalism and the State (CATS) - Course Catalog
and Karl Polanyi’s Great Transformation). We will then examine several critical tenets of market economies – including property rights and competition – and several of the most pressing problems that are... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
that cannot be satisfactorily explained using aggregate techniques, but a great deal can be learned by in-depth studies over time. That's one reason why business history can be so important in understanding View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 2005
- Book
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
In a groundbreaking and Pulitzer winning debut, Harvard historian and 1998 IDRF Fellow Caroline Elkins has recovered the lost history of the last days of British colonialism in Kenya. Elkins reveals for the first time what Britain so desperately tried to hide. In the... View Details
Elkins, Caroline M. Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2005.
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
convening of students and alumni from around the world who are excited about health care.” Gaglani: “Many left a great impression on me. I am biased though, since a few HBS professors and staff have since... View Details
- Web
Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade
States made its foray into the China trade after independence from Great Britain and the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783. View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
What inspired you to launch Spruce & Co? “My mom is a total germophobe, and throughout the years I’ve picked up on some of her anti-germ tendencies. After living in tech-obsessed San Francisco for five years and becoming glued to my... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
'machine-centered' organization. Faced with what it perceived as a mortal threat, the Navy became highly self-conscious about its distinctive competence."5 The concept of "distinctive... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
this one theoretical. What if she could invest in a company doing great things for society, but where the board was 100 percent male? "I invest in them, and file a shareholder resolution," she... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- July 2002 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
North East Medical Services
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Wendy Carter
Sophie Wong, president and CEO of North East Medical Services, a health care organization dedicated to serving the underprivileged Asian American community in San Francisco, must decide how to reposition the organization to serve patients from multiple income levels... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Human Resources; Leadership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Health Industry; San Francisco
DeLong, Thomas J., and Wendy Carter. "North East Medical Services." Harvard Business School Case 403-002, July 2002. (Revised March 2003.)
- 21 Feb 2017
- News
How Michael Sheresky Helped Hidden Figures See the Light
easily have been a great documentary,” IsHak said of the story behind Hidden Figures.“Or it could have been a great $8 million dollar Sundance movie,” Sheresky continued. “But... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
single day where I spent more than fifteen minutes alone.” What was your favorite spot on campus? “Definitely the iLab! There I met my cofounders and some great mentors, like Professor Javier Segovia.” Can... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
women. Oh, and of course, the HBS Show 2009: One Western Story. I devoured all six minutes of my stage time as Annie Patel.” Can you finish this statement? Great mobile products “Make your life easier.”... View Details