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- 07 Apr 2014
- News
Family Values
financial support to enhance the elective curriculum. The gift, says Dean Nitin Nohria, will make the second year of the MBA Program a “deeper, more cohesive, and more innovative experience that will have a...
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- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
the company has been on ground zero since day one. Founded by Hüsnü Özyeğin (MBA 1969), and chaired by Murat Özyeğin (MBA 2003), FIBA has so far allocated $18 million for immediate and long-term relief...
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- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
to gender, economics, and perceptions of leadership. He received the strongest support from white women without college degrees, 62 percent of whom voted for him. Although his View Details
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by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- 25 May 2016
- News
Supporting Critical Initiatives
Elizabeth Raun Schlesinger (MBA 2005) The School’s commitment to educating women leaders was a key reason Liz Raun Schlesinger (MBA 2005) made a 10th Reunion gift to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. The fund View Details
- 18 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Family Business Club
family-controlled enterprises. Issues that arise in family business systems are often complex and emotional. When handled poorly, the complex dynamics of a family business...
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- 18 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Students and Alumni Fostering a Supportive Community
little about the campus and culture was familiar, especially for someone coming from a low-income background. Students like him, as well as those who were the first in their families to attend college, often...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
Friends and Family Money: P2P Transfers and Financially Fragile Consumers
By: Tetyana Balyuk and Emily Williams
We assess the impact that real time money transfer technology has on consumer outcomes, particularly during periods of financial fragility. We do this by developing a new data set that documents use of Zelle—the most widely used P2P money transfer technology in the...
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P2P Money Transfers;
Real Time Payments;
Fintech;
Finance;
Information Technology;
Personal Finance;
Financial Condition
Balyuk, Tetyana, and Emily Williams. "Friends and Family Money: P2P Transfers and Financially Fragile Consumers." Working Paper, November 2021.
- 23 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers
report guides organizations in supporting work-life balance for caregivers. Fuller finds that there are strong incentives to support these employees with benefits; payoffs include lower turnover View Details
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by Kara Baskin
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
A Legacy of Support
whose support for education, healthcare, and life sciences has had a tremendous impact on the Boston area. At HBS, the Krafts continue to support fellowships, with Jonathan...
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- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
just thinking about what was going to happen to that little girl and who was going to take care of her,” says David Kim (MBA 1994), a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point who was also a part of that unit. Gibbs View Details
- December 2001 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
Ben Fiorentino: Selling the Family Business
The caseescribes the challenges Ben Fiorentino, the second-generation head of a family-run equipment business, must deal with as he decides whether and how to sell the business. The business is encountering classic problems that confront family-owned firms: The third...
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Watkins, Michael D. "Ben Fiorentino: Selling the Family Business." Harvard Business School Case 902-052, December 2001. (Revised March 2003.)
- 02 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Peek Weekend: The Family Business Cohort
sporadically since then, starting with small tasks when I was younger and growing into larger roles like 2D and 3D design now that I’m a senior design student at the University of Cincinnati. With graduation...
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- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
How Employers Can Support LGBTQ+ Employees
employers can support LGBTQ+ employees. For example, Schlacks shared that his company "provides generous benefits for medical expenses related to family planning for employees (financial assistance for...
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- August 2022 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
Iluméxico: For Every Family to Have Power
By: Brian Trelstad, Isa Oliveres and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago
In 2022, Manuel Wiechers, the CEO of Iluméxico, a for-profit social enterprise that provided off-grid solar energy services in rural Mexico, was finalizing his presentation for the company’s upcoming board meeting. In the 12 years since Wiechers had co-founded...
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Social Entrepreneurship;
Social Enterprise;
Energy;
Energy Policy;
Energy Generation;
Energy Sources;
Growth Management;
Business and Government Relations;
Equity;
Internet and the Web;
Business Model;
Energy Industry;
Mexico;
Latin America
Trelstad, Brian, Isa Oliveres, and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago. "Iluméxico: For Every Family to Have Power." Harvard Business School Case 323-026, August 2022. (Revised December 2022.)
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
percent of the population serves.” So the Children of Fallen Patriots began to show the public how to support military families and the children who are left behind when...
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Maureen Harmon
- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
supporting them. Then please shop for the right advisors to help you at the right price. 5. Develop New Context Awareness. Value-building families also take this opportunity to consider how greater wealth or...
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- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
decades. Whether you adopt the one-leader model for your own family enterprise, as RBS has done, or whether you build a team of leaders, you still need to design, structure, and allocate all the necessary...
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by John A. Davis
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
son to succeed her husband. But she grew increasingly convinced that her son would not support the values of the company and would harm the culture that had made the company strong View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
culture was familiar, especially for someone coming from a low-income background. Students like him, as well as those who were the first in their families to attend college, often face unique challenges in adjusting to academic,...
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Jennifer Mele