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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
direct exposure to the daily life and potential business opportunities in base-of-the-pyramid markets. We arrive by van at the Santa Ana del Valle town square on Saturday morning. There’s a basketball court; a small, local history museum;...
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- 13 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course
Nimisha Ganesh is a Class of 2021 MBA graduate from Harvard Business School and the Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of GenUnity, a civic leadership startup. Prior to HBS, she worked at Goldman Sachs and Kitamba, a U.S.-based View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
effect should be scrutinized under deal protection doctrine, even if these agreements have a colorable business purpose as well. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51576 Emerging Markets and the Future of Business View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
spent a lot of time on lately is removing amber-colored dried tape anchoring the corners of early 20th-century photos from the United Fruit Company archives. Seventy-five photo albums document decades of social and business View Details
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Roger thompson
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
high land prices, ensures that homes will be unaffordable to most. I highly recommend Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, about how land use policies have shaped some of the...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- Career Coach
Eileen Stephan
challenges MBA students, alumni and other job seekers encounter, and has extensive insight into how businesses approach talent acquisition. Eileen holds a BA in History and International Relations from Boston University. She lives in...
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- January 2023
- Article
Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
By: Alvaro Calderon, Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized...
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Government Legislation
Calderon, Alvaro, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini. "Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights." Review of Economic Studies 90, no. 1 (January 2023): 165–200. (Available also from VOX, Broadstreet, and VOX EU.)
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
John’s very deep personal commitment to social issues. What really came through to me was the heart and soul of this guy. At the risk of embarrassing him, we were both interested in helping an indigenous student from the United States,...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
capabilities needed now: communication capabilities, ethical and social commitments, the ability to see the large, interdependent picture and to steer an organization with this in mind, and an understanding of the extraordinarily high...
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- 20 Sep 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Did Entrepreneur Ernesto Tornquist Help or Hurt Argentina?
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living....
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by Bill George
- Profile
Lauren Booker
"I've always been a 'save-the-worlder,'" Lauren Booker says about herself with a laugh. She grew up in a family with "a long, sustained history of service and civil-rights activity." Her grandfather, the late Carl...
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- 2006
- Book
Reflections from the Frontiers, Explorations for the Future: Gordon Research Conferences, 1931-2006
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich, Nancy Ryan Gray and Leah Shaper
Daemmrich, Arthur A., Nancy Ryan Gray, and Leah Shaper, eds. Reflections from the Frontiers, Explorations for the Future: Gordon Research Conferences, 1931-2006. Chemical Heritage Press, 2006.
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
estate values in the world. “Government is not one person, obviously; it's many people with many agendas, particularly in India." —Lakshmi Iyer In "Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum," HBS assistant professor Lakshmi Iyer and lecturer John Macomber...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
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The Intellectual Venture Capitalist(Harvard Business School Press) In the ninety-year history of Harvard Business School, John McArthur's fifteen-year tenure as Dean is exceeded only by Wallace B. Donham's 23 years at the HBS helm. When...
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
of risk capital are contributing increasingly to a massive expansion in new business, all underpinned by a deep social change and a willingness to “do things differently,” especially among the young. Drawing on his experiences and more...
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Ruth Cenat
What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? Learning about history is exciting to me—how business, political, and social leaders were able to make tough decisions in uncertain situations...
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- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
August 2013 Edward Elgar Publishing Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
social scientific work on entrepreneurship and weigh their value to business history research. First, we consider how scholars can employ research on entrepreneurial cognition to understand the historical...
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Martha Lagace