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- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and ask the alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments...
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- 21 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree
background in healthcare and an interest—but no experience—in tech. Knowing that I had an extra summer emboldened me to take more risks when looking for summer internships, and I tried out a new industry (fintech) and a new city (San...
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Alumnae Circles - Alumni
would not be possible without our incredible alumnae leaders. Within each Region, there are four volunteer Regional Committee positions that help manage the program. The Regional Chair, Event Lead, Facilitator Lead, and Member Lead work together to launch the program...
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Historical Data Visualization - Business History
International Businesses Historical Maps Managing Distance Telegraphic Communication Trends Over Time Managing Distance Telephone Rates between NYC and Select Cities Trends Over Time Politics & Economics Ten Largest View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
workers, sharecroppers, and other nonwaged workers and shift attention from the industrial cities of the Northeast to the nation as a whole. That approach allows scholars to interrogate the connections between slavery and the unfolding of...
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Manufacturing
- 28 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com
- 2009
- Working Paper
Negotiating the Path of Abraham
By: Kimberlyn Leary, James K. Sebenius and Joshua Weiss
In the face of daunting barriers, the Abraham Path Initiative envisions uncovering and revitalizing a route of cultural tourism that follows the path of Abraham and his family some 4,000 years ago across the Middle East. It begins in the ancient ruins of Harran, in...
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Development Economics;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Negotiation;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Religion;
Environmental Sustainability;
Tourism Industry;
Middle East
Leary, Kimberlyn, James K. Sebenius, and Joshua Weiss. "Negotiating the Path of Abraham." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-049, December 2009.
- November 2007 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
Mubadala: Forging Development in Abu Dhabi
By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Irina Tarsis
In 2007, Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, the CEO of Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala), had every reason to be optimistic about the future of his home, Abu Dhabi, one of the emirates comprising the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The tiny, sandy, and dry emirate with a...
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Development Economics;
Economy;
Non-Renewable Energy;
Globalization;
Leading Change;
State Ownership;
Diversification;
Abu Dhabi
Abdelal, Rawi E., and Irina Tarsis. "Mubadala: Forging Development in Abu Dhabi." Harvard Business School Case 708-033, November 2007. (Revised March 2011.)
- 04 May 2017
- HBS Seminar
Nicholas G. Hall, The Ohio State University
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Meg Rithmire
Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform
Published October, 2015
China since the 1980s has been the scene of unprecedented efforts at urban construction and growth, even in the absence of privatization of ownership... View Details
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Eduardo Avalos
about your hometown? I grew up in Santa Ana, CA. It is an immigrant gateway city for many families including my own. The leadership in Santa Ana deeply represented the communities it served. From all levels of life, I was surrounded by...
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- 07 Jul 2023
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
Every evening on the streets of Pune, in western India, a 67-year-old man offers food to the people in his community in need of a meal. He’s a community leader in the Robin Hood Army, a no-funds volunteer organization with a massive goal to end world hunger, community...
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- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
defining moments before and we've let them go by. Corporate America says all the right things, we'd make a few donations. You know, when I was growing up in the inner city and it was burning in the 60s, we used to call those pacification...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
Spend a day or two in Chattanooga, Tennessee, asking longtime residents about the city’s history, and it’s sure to come up: that less-than-wonderful moment in 1969 when America’s beloved news anchor, Walter Cronkite, proclaimed it to be the “dirtiest View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
part in community service projects to aid areas of the city still recovering from Hurricane Katrina, partners participated in team-building events that reviewed the company's guiding principles and reminded them of their central role in...
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- 07 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
Living Off Campus at HBS
other commuting into Boston, off campus was a great compromise. Also we have much more space! What parts of the city do students living off campus tend to live? Cameron: Most students living off campus tend to be between Harvard Square...
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- 19 Apr 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Is India’s Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Harvard Committee on University Resources. He is a Trustee of the Belmont Hill School and of the Boston Lyric Opera, a Director of the American Repertory Theatre, a member of the Executive Council of the Inner City Scholarship Fund, and a...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
he took over, Pret, reportedly valued at $1.9 billion when it was acquired in 2018 by JAB Holdings, had more than 550 shops, with the majority in London and outposts in major cities worldwide. But just a few months into his term, the...
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Amy Crawford