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- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
the career implications of whatever he chooses to do. Students will learn about private equity investing, Entrepreneurship via franchising, the health club industry, and career decision-making. Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
connected and on task throughout the day. Here, the agenda is less structured. Most villagers survive on sales of handmade rugs and subsistence farming. But there’s also a tension in the village between a communal way of life and external pressures. With an estimated...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
a well-worn career path for his cohort at Trinity College, one of Sri Lanka’s most prestigious private high schools. It wasn’t a traditional high school experience, however; between the ages of 16 and 18, Mawilmada guesses he attended...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
goods and services — from a second or third vehicle to health clubs to text messaging — that their great-grandparents could hardly have dreamed of. At the same time, the underlying sources for all this consumption — our wealth and income...
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- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
was undergoing the non-tradable share reform. Its current controlling shareholder, private equity firm Newbridge Capital LLC, needs to negotiate with its diverse minority shareholders to find a compromise on the terms of the conversion of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
chairman of the privately held S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (more popularly known as SC Johnson Wax), thinks of the story as more than a charming anecdote. "In my dreams I fantasize that someday Johnson Wax will be able to conduct a...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Social Enterprise Initiative's blog. JULY 29 In the fall of 2019, Brian Sykes (MBA 2020) and Paul Ampofo (MBA 2020) launched HBS's Black Investment Club to address underrepresentation of Black investors in VC, PE, and investment...
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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
commit scarce resources. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117114-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-424 The Quiet Ascension of LA Fitness In 2016, LA Fitness was the largest chain of non-franchised fitness View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
entrepreneur—would take him far away from Calhoun, he returned in 1997 to give his three daughters the opportunity to grow up in the close-knit community he remembered from his childhood. He continued his work across the private and...
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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Harvard Business School Case 309-043 In June 2008, Jesse Solomon, the founding director of the Boston Teacher Residency (BTR), faced an important decision about the organization's strategic direction. Since its founding in 2003, 125 of...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21
features a seller with private information and costly buyer participation. The empirical context of the study is the market for original movie ideas. Consistent with the theory, I find that inexperienced writers are excluded from selling...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
it, sell it only online? If not, what is the requisite assortment we should carry? What's the appropriate pricing in the store? They decided on a limited assortment in-store, that is mostly private label and where price comparison is not...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
established then in 1997. The governors who provided the seed funding for a private nonprofit institution already had their own public institutions, and I think they simply just recognized that there were many of their View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
(MBA 2002), private investor, senior executive “First, my wife and I felt our top priority was to decide where we wanted to live and then look for a job, as opposed to letting my work drag us around the country. Second, I have elected to...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
wants to work for the Sierra Club or Goodwill Industries or something, but even if it’s a truck repair business, how do they do business? You know, are they doing what they can and sustainably? Do they seem to treat people fairly with a...
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- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Ampofo (MBA 2020) launched HBS's Black Investment Club to address underrepresentation of Black investors in VC, PE, and investment management in the hopes of creating a focused organization that empowers the Black community. “The idea...
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- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
annual budget with Black-owned businesses. because those percentages represent the time that Officer Chauvin had his knee in George Floyd's neck. Black-owned businesses are the largest private employer of Black people in the country. And...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
bridge and an express railway link to the central business district, represent a $20.1-billion investment. Two-thirds of the funds are coming from government, Lam noted, while the remainder is being sourced from the private sector. Philip...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
companies, hoping to empower black workers. In 1999, it had purchased a 5% stake in LeisureNet, a white-owned and -run South African company that operated health clubs globally and was seeking a BEE partner. Surve hoped to eventually...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
authors call for a greater sense of urgency from corporate boards, policymakers, and risk practitioners to resolve the many challenges facing today’s private and public sector organizations. They offer insights into specific risk domains...
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