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- August 2012 (Revised October 2022)
- Case
Elia Nuqul and the Making of a Middle Eastern Business Group (A)
By: Geoffrey Jones and Lana Ghanem
The case is concerned with Elia Nuqul, the founder of Jordanian-based Nuqul Brothers, a large diversified business group. It shows how Nuqul, a Christian Palestinian whose family was forced to flee to Jordan after the creation of Israel in 1948, built a business in his...
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Business History;
Entrepreneurship;
Globalization;
History;
Government and Politics;
Global Strategy;
Consumer Products Industry;
Middle East
Jones, Geoffrey, and Lana Ghanem. "Elia Nuqul and the Making of a Middle Eastern Business Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 813-052, August 2012. (Revised October 2022.)
- 1987
- Book
Banking and Oil
By: Geoffrey Jones
This is the second of two volumes of a business history of a major British bank in the Middle East. Volume 1 traces the history of the bank from its foundation in 1889 as The Imperial Bank of Persia, through the years it was the state bank of Iran, and its...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Economics;
Banks and Banking;
Government and Politics;
Growth and Development;
Business History;
Problems and Challenges;
Iran;
Jordan;
Kuwait;
Oman;
Dubai
Jones, Geoffrey. Banking and Oil. Vol. 2, History of the British Bank of the Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
- 30 Mar 2015
- Video
HBS Campaign - Texas Events
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
growing trend for firms with international branch offices, says Harvard Business School professor Jordan Siegel. He discusses the issue in a new study titled "Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 31 May 2023
- HBS Case
From Prison Cell to Nike’s C-Suite: The Journey of Larry Miller
street, his past continued to haunt him, costing him an important job offer. Desperate for a fresh start, Miller hid his prison record for 40 years. However, his career took off and he eventually rose to lead Nike’s Jordan brand, as well...
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Management - Doctoral
Linda A. Hill Jillian J. Jordan Christian Kaps Nancy F. Koehn Karim R. Lakhani Jacqueline Ng Lane Dutch Leonard Joshua D. Margolis Kathleen L. McGinn Nitin Nohria Joseph Pacelli Leslie A. Perlow Jeffrey T. Polzer Ryan L. Raffaelli Lakshmi...
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- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
PublicationsAddressing the Leadership Gap in Medicine: Residents' Need for Systematic Leadership Development Training Authors:Daniel Mark Blumenthal, Kenneth Richard Lee Bernard, Jordan David Bohnen, and Richard Bohmer...
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Carmen Nobel
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Organizational Behavior - Doctoral
Gulati Linda A. Hill Nien-he Hsieh Jon M. Jachimowicz Summer R. Jackson Leslie K. John Jillian J. Jordan Rakesh Khurana Shirley Lu Joshua D. Margolis Edward McFowland III Kathleen L. McGinn Tsedal Neeley Michael I. Norton Leslie A. Perlow...
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Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea Korea (Democratic People's Republic of) Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lao People's Democratic Republic Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macao Madagascar Malawi Malaysia...
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- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2190963 Which Does More to Determine the Quality of Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies, Firms or Countries? Authors:Hugill, Andrea, and Jordan Siegel Abstract Scholars of corporate governance have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
the success of the Jordan brand. He discusses how education can break the street-to-jail cycle and why business leaders should give formerly incarcerated people a second chance. Crushed to see his dream job evaporate and fearing that no...
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Creating Emerging Markets
President, Indian Dairy Association; Former Managing Director, GCMMF (Amul) Nigeria Omobola Johnson Senior Partner, TLcom Capital; Former Minister of Communication Technology, Nigeria (2011-15) Oman Mohammed Al Barwani Founder and Chairman, MB Holding Company View Details
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Institutional influences on the firm: cross-country comparisons
A third stream of work examines the influence of country institutions on firms in a cross-country comparative context. In a paper co-authored with Jordan Siegel (published in Management Science in 2009), we employed a quasi-natural experiment: a...
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Institutions and Corporate Lobbying
“Institutions and Make-or-Buy Decision of Lobbying: The Role of Sociopolitical Legitimacy on Foreign MNEs’ Lobbying Internalization”
In this study, I examine how legitimacy comes into play in foreign MNEs’ make-or-buy decisions... View Details
Keywords:
Institutions;
Make V. Buy;
Lobbying;
Legitimacy;
Corruption;
Culture;
Multinational Enterprise;
United States
- 31 May 2023
- HBS Case
Why Business Leaders Need to Hear Larry Miller's Story
View Video Editor's note: Watch the video in "full screen" mode for the best viewing experience. If Larry Miller hadn’t concealed his criminal record, would he ever have been given the chance to turn his life around? Would his talent have taken him to Nike, where he...
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Faculty - Faculty & Research
Assistant Professor of Business Administration Jerry R. Green David A. Wells Professor of Political EconomyJohn Leverett Professor in the University Brian J. Hall Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration Leslie K. John James E. Burke Professor of Business...
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Fatima Albassam
In 2017, when Fatima Albassam was working in her home country of Saudi Arabia as a business development analyst for Saudi Aramco, she began making volunteer service trips to Jordan to support Syrian refugees. “While there,” Fatima says,...
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
including Reg IV (MBA 2021). Jordan (MBA 1967) Family Fellowship The Jordan Family Fellowship was established through the generosity of Darlene Jordan and Gerald View Details
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Students on the Job Market - Doctoral
and how to deviate from algorithms, resulting in a 25% reduction in prediction error. Faculty Advisor(s): Kris Johnson Ferreira (Chair), Ryan W. Buell, and Jordan Tong Curriculum Vitae | Website | Email Caleb Kwon Abstract: Essays on...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Drop Everything, Read This
The Bookshelf Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all time. His book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, is about the creative process and is based on his experiences with era-defining musicians. He encourages the reader to be open to clues and...
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