family business - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

A few years ago, Sandra J. Sucher received worried emails from two MBA students in her first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) class at Harvard Business School. Elana Green (now Elana Silver) and David Rosales (both HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

Business History at HBS traces its roots back to 1927 when it was part of a course in business policy. But the golden age for this area of study at the School began with the arrival of Professor Alfred... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

blame game engulfed politicians and S&P itself. In the midst of all this angst, four Harvard Business School faculty members offer their views on what went wrong and what needs to be done to right the US ship of state. bo Becker,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

Hellman Family Fellowship awards for research excellence. Josh Lerner Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking Unit Head, Entrepreneurial Management Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard... View Details

16 Feb 2021
Blog Post

The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

classmates and many of her teachers, and making it a challenge to find clothes that fit. In the years that followed, Girard grew into “the sixes” now standing proudly at 6’1’’ and the idea for the business she would one day start, a View Details

25 Aug 2014
News

Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

business than working as a doctor,” says Dahod, whose parents moved to the United States to help their four children to acquire an American education. Dahod, arriving in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at the age of 20, surpassed their high... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 1999
News

Ikenna Okezie

So far my life has been filled with exciting challenges along with God's blessings," says Ikenna Okezie. Indeed, "challenge" seems to be the operative word for the soft-spoken Okezie, who is about to become one of the first two people ever to earn a joint degree in... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

25 May 2011
HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

group of retailers is challenging this notion of an industry built on the backs of crummy jobs, very prosperous companies that include Costco, Mercadona, Trader Joe's, and QuikTrip. What do they know that their competitors don't? In a new case study on QuikTrip,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

01 Feb 1999
News

A Taste of Tradition

Kikkoman Corporation, whose roots stretch back to the seventeenth century, when the Mogi family began soy sauce production in Japan. The company was incorporated in 1917 as Noda Shoyu Co., Ltd., went public in 1949, and changed its name... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

events seems inconceivable. For decades, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler were American icons, Detroit's fabled Big 3. Responsible for a significant percentage of all American jobs, they lifted countless blue-collar families into the... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

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Dean Nitin Nohria | About

School through periods of innovation and challenges. December 2020 Steps Down as Dean of Harvard Business School After agreeing to stay on through the end of 2020 due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, Dean Nohria was succeeded as Dean by... View Details

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

his office isn't as big as Jenny's. And he blames others when he screws up. Joe is an HNAP, or a high-need-for-achievement professional, according to Harvard Business School professor Thomas J. DeLong, who explores Joe's world of driven,... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

26 Sep 2024
HBS Seminar

Garrett Van Ryzin, Columbia & Amazon

24 May 2017
News

David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

Counsel while earning a law degree at Georgetown, “so I was comfortable with research.” As he pitched his services to companies in need of legal advice, he refined and expanded his business plan to focus on research in the financial... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

18 Sep 2015
Blog Post

A Peek Inside Peek Weekend

about – at a time when they’re naturally thinking about the next steps in their lives. Last year Peek Weekend expanded to include men and women, specifically those with a STEM or family business background.... View Details

10 Jan 2020
Blog Post

PRIDE in the HBS Community

tone for the whole first semester. As we discussed our coming out stories and unique journeys to HBS, I realized that this was more than just a business school club, it was a community and a family, a community and View Details

11 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time

coffee shop. These self-employed individuals were forced to make a tough decision: either continue working and put their family at risk of COVID-19, or stay at home and not get paid. In early April, Congress stepped in and began providing... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

VELUX only invests in funds (as opposed to direct investments) and must now decide on fund selection criteria and on specific fund investment options that have been presented to them. Key Themes: Multi-generational family foundations must... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

Illustration by Lincoln Agnew Pete Stavros (MBA 2002) got his first lessons in labor relations as a kid at the dinner table, when his father, who operated a road grader at construction sites, told the family about his day. The elder... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

24 Nov 2015
Blog Post

What is an HBS MyTake?

from hearing about the conditions in which students grew up, to hardships they've faced, to things they've invented and business they've started, to academic and athletic achievements I had no idea about. That's the best part about... View Details

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