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Leading a Family Business (LFB) - Course Catalog
Forming a family enterprise Failure in a family business: danger zones and warning signs Each of those topics will involve a case discussion. Some of the cases will be of the standard variety and some will be “live cases” where the...
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- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide open, with some disastrous results. I think all the attention being paid to the current problems—particularly by View Details
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by Garry Emmons
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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
portfolio of mortgage assets on our balance sheet was a big problem, regardless of any quality or hedging arguments that might be made.”[16] Glen Le Lievre, "Too big to fail." The Wall Street Journal Cartoon Collection, Baker Library, Harvard View Details
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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online
This course is part of the Business in Society track. Introduction to Business and Climate Change Business and Climate Change $1,850 Next 5-week session starts August 14th...
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- 2014
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Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870–1940
By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora
This working paper examines the role of entrepreneurs in the municipal solid waste industry in industrialized central and northern Europe from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. It explores the emergence of numerous German, Danish, and other European...
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Environmental Entrepreneurship;
Business History;
Entrepreneurship;
Health;
History;
Green Technology Industry;
Germany;
Denmark;
Hungary;
United Kingdom
Jones, Geoffrey, and Andrew Spadafora. "Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870–1940." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-084, March 2014.
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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
2011.A Centennial: Lehman Brothers, 1850–1950. New York: Lehman Brothers, 1950.Archibald, Robert. “Mayer Lehman (1830–1897).” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, vol. 2. Ed. William J....
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Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
of the Roaring Twenties is legendary; less so is the rise of the regional exchanges, particularly the Boston Stock Exchange. Though NYSE business also increased, its proportion of the overall securities market decreased while View Details
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Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
lead is responsible for ensuring that the individual expense reports do not exceed the total grant awarded to the team. Failure to meet all program guidelines and to provide SEI with the necessary expense receipt documentation and/or to...
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- June 2011 (Revised January 2013)
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Home Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations
By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr and David Lane
Chris Exline founded Home Essentials, a furniture rental business targeted toward expatriates, in Singapore but rapidly moved the base of operations to Hong Kong. The company was highly successful in Singapore and Hong Kong and then pursued rapid global expansion....
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Growth Management;
Renting or Rental;
Corporate Governance;
Global Strategy;
Failure;
Singapore;
Hong Kong
Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, and David Lane. "Home Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations." Harvard Business School Case 811-078, June 2011. (Revised January 2013.)
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
or prejudice? These are collective failures where we all bear a responsibility. Fixing them is going to take a long time, but we should have the objective clear in mind. Katy DeCelles, James M. Collins Visiting Associate Professor of...
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- 09 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
in a thriving business when a job offer comes from a company you’ve always admired that’s on the brink of bankruptcy. The risks are tremendous but so are the potential rewards – to you and society. This situation brings to mind the...
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
2008. © The Economist Newspaper Limited, London (October 4, 2008). The Economist, September 2018. © The Economist Newspaper Limited, London (September 8, 2018). Rose, Clayton S., and Anand Ahuja. "Before the Fall: Lehman Brothers 2008." HBS No. 309-093. Boston: Harvard...
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- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
there is a market failure in the clearing of the small business loan market. This is evidenced by a large portfolio of creditworthy loans, disproportionately from underserved segments, that banks would not...
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Advanced Management Program (AMP) | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Library Databases Ask Us Special Collections Fast Answers All Services Hours Plan Your Visit Exhibits Hollis Working Knowledge HBS Home About Academic Programs Alumni Faculty & Research Baker Library Campaign Harvard Business Review...
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- January 2018
- Supplement
Jumia Nigeria PowerPoint Supplement
Founded in 2012, Jumia Nigeria, a startup effort by Germany-based Rocket Internet, aimed to become an African Amazon. The company entered the nascent market and immediately enjoyed an uptick in consumer spending fueled by the strength of Nigeria’s oil-based economy. By...
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General Management Program (GMP) | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
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Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy
By: Geoffrey Jones
This study examines the geography of the global wind energy industry before 2000. Between 1980 and 2000, the global generating capacity of wind power grew from 13 megawatts to 17,400 megawatts, but two-thirds of that capacity was in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the...
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Wind Power;
Business And Government;
Renewable Energy;
Entrepreneurship;
Geography;
Business and Government Relations;
Policy;
Business History;
Energy Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
Asia;
Europe;
United States
Jones, Geoffrey. "Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy." Chap. 12 in Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century, edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Adam Rome, 206–231. Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
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Owner/President Management (OPM) | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
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Senior Executive Leadership Program (SELP) | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
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