family business - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Sep 2024
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Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

As a youngster, I used to create “stores” in my driveway, selling things to other neighborhood kids. It was an entrepreneurial inclination fostered by growing up in a family that owned retail stores and enjoyed telling stories of their... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

28 Apr 2016
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3 Concerns I Had about HBS

I have a confession: attending HBS wasn't a life-long dream for me. Choosing to attend business school required some hard decisions along the way, and real thought about what I wanted from my career and from the HBS experience. I was... View Details

19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

sons' active engagement in family care. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49311 Risk Preferences and Misconduct: Evidence from Politicians By: Minor, Dylan Abstract—When seeking new leaders, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Life & Leadership After HBS - Race, Gender & Equity

Life & Leadership After HBS Life & Leadership After HBS is a longitudinal study of the post-MBA paths of Harvard Business School alumni, examining how race, gender, and other factors shape their life and career experiences. Alumni are... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

enrolled in the course Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry. In it, Izquierdo began sketching the outline of a tech-enabled business model that would eliminate everything she disliked about restaurants; namely, that... View Details

25 Jan 2023
News

The Road to the C-Suite, with Citi CFO Mark Mason

to the CFO office at Citi. In the interview, Mason talks about growing up in Queens, in a family full of business-minded people, but wanting to be a doctor when he was a child. Even from a young age there were signs that he had a knack... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

02 Aug 2017
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Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

According to Gallup, those who are engaged are: More than twice as likely to remain on the job as those characterized as disengaged, and more likely to refer friends and family members for employment. These factors lead to lower costs of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

01 Oct 1996
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Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)

Even while he was growing up, Michael Porter, the School's C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, knew a thing or two about the world. The son of a career Army officer, he lived in many places in this country and... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

Payment: Evidence from the Federal Quickpay Reform By: Barrot, Jean-Noel, and Ramana Nanda Abstract—We study the impact of Quickpay, a federal reform that indefinitely accelerated payments to small business contractors of the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Published Materials - Creating Emerging Markets

Published Materials 26 Nov 2024 Hachette Book Group The Enduring Enterprise: How Family Businesses Thrive in Turbulent Conditions 18 SEPT 2023 Book Faculty Research Precarious Ties: View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

racial disparities in wealth and income. And because homeownership is one of the principal ways in which families build wealth, housing, race, and economic inequality are all intertwined. It is no accident, for instance, that data from... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

24 May 2017
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Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973

an entrepreneur, executive, and women’s advocate were evident in her teens. The oldest of three children in a devout Jewish family in Chicago, she ran a business tutoring Hebrew to boys preparing for their... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Debora L. Spar | About

Debora L. Spar Senior Associate Dean, Business in Global Society , Unit Head, General Management Unit General Management Contact Phone Bio Debora Spar is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of View Details

22 Mar 2024
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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)

contributing to her home country. She noticed that many of the families she grew up with eventually found themselves dispersed around the globe after seeking opportunities abroad. While she welcomed international exposure, traveling to... View Details

01 Jan 2013
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Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

2002, 'venture philanthropy' as we know it today didn't exist, but we saw the opportunity to use business practices to create real social change," says Jacobson of the origins of Strategic Grant Partners, a coalition of 15 View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

18 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration, coauthored the paper with Jon M. Jachimowicz of Columbia Business School; Julia J. Lee of the Ross School of View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Portrait Project

Jay Katatumba

could, but when I arrived at the hospital I discovered that he passed away only an hour before Papa was gone within five days of being diagnosed, before I could share the news. Two things of urgency come to mind now: First, devoting my time to loving my View Details

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Considering Retirement - Alumni

like to have? Are you attracted to stability – or adventure? Some people prefer time for family and hobbies; others want an encore career (perhaps in nonprofit service) that applies the skills they acquired in their previous careers to... View Details

29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

August 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Study: More Frequent Sales Quotas Help Volume but Hurt Profits By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details