family business - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2013
News

Building a Better Brazil

of our Executive Education programs is to help fulfill the need for well-trained business leaders at all levels of organizations worldwide, and we are interested in increasing our focus in Latin America," said Dean Nitin Nohria. "This... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

03 Jun 2014
Blog Post

Springing Forward on Social Enterprise Career Paths

Hello from HBS Social Enterprise Initiative! We apply innovative business practices and managerial disciplines to drive sustained, high-impact social change at HBS and beyond. Spring is one of the most exciting (and busy) times at HBS!... View Details

03 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 3

PublicationsThe Power of Small Wins Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

recipients get organs as they become available—decisions that must be based on various priority and fairness criteria. “The new system will explicitly give points based on the likelihood of survivability.” The method—the work of Nikolaos Trichakis of Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health

01 Oct 2021
News

From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact

just five years old when her family emigrated to the United States from Syria. “Growing up, I remember we avoided doctors because we weren’t citizens and didn’t understand how to navigate this country’s complex health care system,”... View Details

04 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

Mbanusi (MBA 2021) and Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021), who came to business school from nonprofit and chemical engineering backgrounds respectively, prove that experience outside of investing can also be highly transferable and valuable to the... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital

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The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room | About

Business Families Foundation in 1991. The mission of the nonprofit organization is to offer family businesses and the professionals who serve... View Details

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

started the case for his elective course on Globalization and Strategy, said that it also illustrates the first efforts of the LARC advisory committee to address business issues unique to the region. "We started talking about what... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

01 Oct 1997
News

L.E. Simmons

who has achieved lofty financial success in his professional career while remaining firmly grounded in solid business wisdom. The second oldest of four brothers who grew up in rural Kaysville, Utah - all of whom went on to earn MBAs at... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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William R. Kerr | About

William R. Kerr Unit Entrepreneurial Management Contact Phone Bio William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty... View Details

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Capturing & Disseminating Video/Photography During Course Activities | About

Capturing & Disseminating Video/Photography During Course Activities Please note: All classroom recordings are owned by HBS, with copyright to the recordings belong to the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The case and field methods, the hallmark pedagogies of... View Details

December 2016 (Revised December 2017)
Case

Faber-Castell

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Christine Snively

By 2016, Count Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell had led the 255-year-old pencil manufacturer Faber-Castell through waves of technological change. The pocket calculator decimated Faber-Castell’s slide rule business in the 1970s, and computer aided design technology... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Style; Leading Change; Family Ownership; Manufacturing Industry; Germany

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01 Oct 1996
News

Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

and produce good jobs for American workers." Brody, who grew up in the Washington, D.C., area, has decided that the city is an ideal place to raise a family and base his new business ventures. He has... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

by offering input, asking questions, and responding to others based on their experience working together thus far. In the relaunch session, the team can discuss how business goals and strategy may have changed in light of the pandemic.... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

established companies lament the disruption they’re facing at the hand of technologically savvy startups. But Teixeira, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, argues that these... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

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Recruiting Partners - Health Care

Brighton Health Group Bristol-Myers Squibb Broadview Ventures Business Talent Group C C. R. Bard, Inc. C1 Consulting, LLC Caladrius Biosciences California Family Health Council Call9 Cambia Health Solutions... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

in upstate New York with his father, a business executive, his mother, a homemaker, and a younger sister. When MacDonald was 12, he fell ill for many months with scarlet fever and mastoiditis. Confined to his home, he survived the boredom... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

27 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Meet the PRIDE Club

community's use of the traditional acronym "LGBT." In ensuing discussions, they sought a name that would be most welcoming as a club and community at Harvard Business School, while remaining externally recognizable as an LGBTQ+... View Details

05 Oct 2021
Blog Post

First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders

During the pandemic and the disruption in business worldwide, the HBS Career & Professional Development team made an appeal to alumni and recruiting partners that resulted in nearly 1,000 new full-time and internship opportunities for... View Details

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group... September–October 2024 Harvard Business Review Should a Family Business Accept a... View Details

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