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- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
destination, attending Oxford, working on Wall Street, and then getting his MBA. But in 1987, as Warwick was finishing up at HBS, his father passed away, and it threw things into flux. At that point, the... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- News
The Right Stuff at HBS
cheerleaders, family members, coaches, business and civic leaders, school officials, and the mayor of Boston. Harvard University also chipped in,... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
Second Wind
- 02 Jan 2015
- News
Endangered Species: Young U.S. Entrepreneurs
- 31 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap
develop over our two years at HBS, it became clear that we both loved the idea of starting a business and had complementary temperaments. We casually discussed starting... View Details
- Research Summary
Current Research
By: William C. Kirby
Doing business in China in the early 21st century
Chinese companies and consumer markets
Chinese Universities: Leaders of the 21st Century?
The enduring role of State-Owned Enterprises in China
Business, political, and cultural... View Details
- June 2006
- Case
Matthew B. Hunter
By: John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
Matthew Hunter, CEO of a second-generation family business, must manage the performance of a key manager in his company. Looks at the impact of family relationships on performance management. View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Performance Evaluation; Crisis Management; Business or Company Management; Conflict Management; Corporate Governance; Family and Family Relationships; Partners and Partnerships; Negotiation Process
Davis, John A., and Deepak Malhotra. "Matthew B. Hunter." Harvard Business School Case 806-204, June 2006.
- 14 Feb 2020
- Video
Dr. Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti
Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti, Chair of Nalli Silk Sarees in India, described how he had to take over the family textile business at a very young age, and how he adhered to his father’s and grandfather’s conservative... View Details
- March 27, 2013
- Article
Downton Abbey: Real Life Lessons for Trust & Estate Advisors
By: Josh Baron and Devin Bird
The article discusses how the TV series "Downton Abbey" reflects challenges and opportunities faced by business families. The show's storyline, centered around the aristocratic Crawley family and their estate, parallels real-world situations where business families... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Adaptation; Transition
Baron, Josh, and Devin Bird. "Downton Abbey: Real Life Lessons for Trust & Estate Advisors." Wealth Management (website) (March 27, 2013).
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
“People think, ‘It would be wonderful if every morning I went for a run at 7 a.m. and then was showered and ready to work at 8 a.m.,’” says John Beshears, the Terrie F. and Bradley M. Bloom Associate Professor View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. His multidisciplinary research, published in... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 02 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Women, Work, and the "M" Word
I’m the eldest of three daughters in a medical family. With a urogynecologist and primary care doctor as parents, I grew up thinking it was normal to talk about all topics... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
"The Changing Structure of the Global Wine Industry," won the Best Paper award at the 2003 European Applied View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
recommend Ron Chernow’s Grant, a biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Other than as the answer to the 1950s Groucho Marx question, “Who was buried in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
There’s a lot of self-learning that goes on in the process of adjusting to a different environment. “Some students are better at reaching across... View Details
- April 1988 (Revised July 1989)
- Case
Precista Tools AG (A)
A young woman manager in a Swiss family firm finds that her role as a managing director becomes bitterly unpleasant once her older brother decides to leave an engineering career and join the family business. That is what the father, who was head of the business had... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Gender Characteristics; Switzerland
Barnes, Louis B. "Precista Tools AG (A)." Harvard Business School Case 488-046, April 1988. (Revised July 1989.)
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
cafeteria. My father’s request was breathtaking and anxiety-producing.” Over the next 35 years, Rosenberg would turn Dunkin’ Donuts into a global icon—which last year sold to Inspire Brands for a stunning $11.3 billion. And View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 2015
- Article
Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World
By: Jeremy Friedman
This article seeks to understand the motivations behind the People's Republic of China's attempt to present an alternative development model for the post-colonial world and challenge Soviet leadership in the international communist movement in mid-1960s. When the wave... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Business and Government Relations; China; United States; Soviet Union
Friedman, Jeremy. "Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World." Modern China Studies [Dang dai Zhongguo yan jiu] 22, no. 1 (2015): 259–292.
- 26 Sep 2016
- News
Letters from Prison
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
Support for the Global Century
received Harvard Business School’s Alumni Achievement Award in 2009. “That is why I think it’s important to support the HBS Global Initiative.” For Greenhill, that support... View Details