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14 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 14

universities were participating in its two-year teaching fellowships in more than 87 rural Chinese schools. The organization had grown from a founding team of three in a shoebox office to an 80-person operation headquartered in Beijing with teams in six other View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

the Great Depression had a significant negative impact on the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. However, because a sufficient number of R&D intensive firms were View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

mind? A: A few trends stand out in policymaking. First, income tax schedules have "flattened out" in most developed countries, so that marginal tax rates don't rise nearly as much at high incomes as they did 30 years ago. This has important implications for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

September 1995
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Ares-Serono

By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Jean-Pierre Jeannet and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Ares Serono, a medium-size Swiss pharmaceutical company, is the global leader in the field of fertility drugs. The company has successfully transformed into one of the very few biotech firms in Europe. The case treats a set of major strategic and organizational... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Globalized Firms and Management; Asset Management; Balance and Stability; Expansion; Digital Platforms; Leadership Development; Health Care and Treatment; Transformation; Family Business; Problems and Challenges; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Switzerland; Europe

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September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
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Keroche (F): Future Growth Plans

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding

This case describes Keroche co-founder Tabitha Karanja’s 2012 decision to invest in additional production capacity. In November 2012, with a loan from Barclay’s bank, Keroche began constructing a new state-of-the-art beer brewery using German technology. The new plant,... View Details

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Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship

News Sources by Region Factiva - access to many national and local newspapers. Limit by location (look under “Location”) or search specific local newspapers (look under “Source”)... View Details

22 Aug 2024
Blog Post

LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center

big mess and a loud noise!). LM Wind’s wind tunnel was impressive. Capable of wind speeds up to 380 km/hr, the test measures the lift, the drag, and the moment on the blade at different wind speeds and pitch. The test equipment uses pressure sensors View Details

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Ai Weiwei Strength 2019 | About

extinct over a century ago due to deforestation and Portuguese trade. Little remains of the great trees today but their discarded roots, some of which are over a thousand years old. Ai worked with local artisans and communities across Brazil to View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Action Plan: Brewing Awareness

at the bars of Harvard Square—and carried that affinity with him to New York, where he took a job in finance at Perella Weinberg. At a Whole Foods located on the first floor of his apartment building, Murad could fill a growler with an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; beer; India; leadership; COVID-19; manufacturing; marketing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

25 Feb 2020
News

In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee

opened a dozen successful coffee bar locations and a roasting facility in Shanghai, with plans to develop more stores in other major cities.” Peet’s in two words: Coffee and community. “During California’s Kincade Fire, we assembled a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 1996
News

New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting

students to reach these 'nontraditional' firms, and vice versa." For example, where students once had to visit several different campus locations to piece together the information needed for a particular job search, they will have an HBS... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development

environment, however, was not familiar to the typical MBA. Based in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha, Lu spent half of her time in an office on a street she shared with roving chickens and cows and the other half traveling to field sites View Details

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Evelyne White

Bookalokal is a social dining platform that launched in Brussels in 2012. The initial concept: Connect travelers with locals through home-cooked, gourmet meals in people's homes. Prospective diners search through Bookalokal's online database of hosts, choose a favorite... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Services

20 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Thinking About an MBA? Think About Your Purpose

over 2,000 locations in Latin America and the Caribbean. Even as sales were plummeting as the company closed most of its dining rooms, it promised not to lay off its workers. “We had a duty to these people working for us,” Woods Staton,... View Details

05 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program

My name is Charlie Hernandez. I grew up in Los Angeles, California, where I attended Loyola High School, a Catholic, all boys high school located in downtown LA. I attended Harvard College, and after graduating in 2011, I worked in... View Details

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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month | Baker Library

locate nonprofit organizations who list Indigenous Peoples (which include Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders) and people of Asian descent as populations they serve. View Mintel 's reports on "Marketing to Asian Americans" and "Asian... View Details

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South Asia - Global Activities 2021

assignments into their schedules while managing rapid growth; the cutting-edge, research-based content we offer addresses participants’ developmental aspirations; and the dual location of the program between the United States and India... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

Karmic Kickstart

Bhutan, a tiny South Asian country located high in the Himalayas with a population of under a million people, which has undergone incredible advances in infrastructure and education since the 1960s, when the king abolished serfdom and... View Details

Keywords: transitions; higher education; travel; reflection; cancer; Educational Services

07 Oct 2014
News

Network Effect

Alzheimer’s research. At McCance’s urging, they based the organization on venture capital principles: locate visionaries and invest in them; run a lean, frugal institution; and take the risk on bold ideas with enormous promise. Having... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

14 Aug 2018
First Look

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

immigrants’ location decision by interacting pre-existing ethnic settlements with aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the propensity to leave the parental... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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