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- January 2020 (Revised April 2020)
- Teaching Note
Brandless: Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods
By: Jill Avery
Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods (CPG), offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious products delivered directly to their homes with the simplicity of one fixed $3.00 price point that promised...
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- 30 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS
application to the world’s best business school – one that prides itself on ethnic, geographic, and industry diversity – felt pretty daunting. Indeed, whatever inkling of hope I might have harbored after looking View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
approach to these unique negotiations, why they were so successful in the face of such great odds, and what the experience taught him. READ MORE Dan Morrell: When the average person thinks about negotiation,...
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- July 2008
- Article
Crime and Punishment in the 'American Dream'
By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
We observe that countries where belief in the "American dream" (i.e., effort pays) prevails also set harsher punishment for criminals. We know that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc). Our objective...
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Crime and Corruption;
Economic Systems;
Values and Beliefs;
Law Enforcement;
Mathematical Methods;
Personal Characteristics;
United States
Di Tella, Rafael, and Juan Dubra. "Crime and Punishment in the 'American Dream'." Journal of Public Economics 92, no. 7 (July 2008).
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see the steel mills that were its...
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April White
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Digital Image Requests from Special Collections and Archives | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
× Please sign in You need to log in to use the bookmarking feature. Sign In Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Search Find Services Ask Browse Databases Collections & Archives...
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T. J. Dermot Dunphy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Collection Contact Us Special Collections Baker Library Search Search Search Entrepreneurs Resources Persons T. J. Dermot Dunphy T. J. Dermot Dunphy, MBA 1956 Sealed Air Interview conducted in March 2002...
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- 23 Apr 2014
- News
A corporate leader’s legacy in India
When Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) joined his family’s business in 1962, it was on the Tata Steel shop floor in Jamshedpur, India. From the ground up, Tata learned how to be an...
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- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
An internment camp for German citizens in England. Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo Global enterprises that do business in emerging economies face significant political risks—in...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of...
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Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
council and its staff. “I hoped to get a smart person who could help me organize the innovation team” says Shireen, “and a person who could accelerate the work. In Henry, I got...
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- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
to prevent them. "The main conclusion from this whole stream of research is that investing in poverty reduction strategies not only has direct economic benefits but also political benefits," says Lakshmi Iyer, a Harvard View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 2017
- Book
HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Find, acquire, and run your own business. Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: you can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small...
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Entrepreneurial Finance;
Entrepreneurs;
Small Companies;
Small Business Finance;
Negotiation;
Due Diligence;
Sourcing;
Search Funds;
Search;
Deal Sourcing;
Deal Structuring;
Funnel;
Debt Financing;
Small And Medium Enterprises;
Small Business;
Internet and the Web;
Entrepreneurship;
Negotiation Deal;
Ownership;
Equity;
Borrowing and Debt
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company. Harvard Business Review Press, 2017.
- October 2020 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
When Institutions Fail: HIV/AIDS in the 1980s
By: Tom Nicholas and Christian Godwin
During the early 1980s, young gay men in urban centers such as San Francisco and New York City began contracting a mysterious illness that would come to be known as HIV/AIDS. A diagnosis meant almost certain death, with a less than 1% survival rate. Conflicting...
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Ethics;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Health Pandemics;
History;
Rights;
Media;
Organizations;
Business and Community Relations;
Religion;
Social Psychology;
Identity;
Prejudice and Bias;
Social Issues;
Public Opinion;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Health Industry;
Journalism and News Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
United States
Nicholas, Tom, and Christian Godwin. "When Institutions Fail: HIV/AIDS in the 1980s." Harvard Business School Case 821-002, October 2020. (Revised April 2022.)
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
of balance when it is placed in the context of their personal values, interests, and stage of life." There were a few dissenters to these views. Tom Patterson characterized these View Details
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by James Heskett
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
needed someone with his business acumen to execute them. “I was a 50-year-old person when I got that call about social entrepreneurship, but I stepped onto the playing field,” says Crane, who is now 63. “My...
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- October 2008 (Revised September 2009)
- Case
Consumer Lending in Japan: Citi CFJ (A)
By: J. Gunnar Trumbull and Akiko Kanno
Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks as well as international investors. Most...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financing and Loans;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Personal Finance;
Courts and Trials;
Business and Government Relations;
Banking Industry;
Japan
Trumbull, J. Gunnar, and Akiko Kanno. "Consumer Lending in Japan: Citi CFJ (A)." Harvard Business School Case 709-017, October 2008. (Revised September 2009.)
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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About
greater than $10,000) or holds a position such as general partner, limited partner, or director. A business relationship includes any type of leadership or formal non-academic advisory role, personal...
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R.G. Dun & Co. / Dun & Bradstreet Collections | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
reference staff can conduct name searches for up to 10 business and/or individual names in the R.G. Dun & Co. index volumes per fiscal year. Search results include the Dun volumes and page numbers for the...
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