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Demographics: ethnic groups (US)
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- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Whaling Ventures Nicholas, Tom, and Jonas Peter AkinsHarvard Business School Case 813-086 : Whaling was a prominent global industry in the nineteenth century and the United States was dominant. By 1850 there...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)
somehow revive the dormant business, stated a front-page article in the Wall Street Journal (March 13, 2001). Seeking a new source of supply, Shearer eventually settled on Trinidad and Tobago, better known as the calypso capital of the...
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
26 times, and daytime program twice. Both are records. In 2016 he was a volunteer professor at the United States Military Academy. He has taught in Africa, Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, India,...
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- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
contract relationship reverted to its previous state within about two years. “At the most global level, we’re trying to understand the contracting relationship between two companies,” explains Perez Cavazos. “The underlying element you...
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- May 2020 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Amy Klopfenstein and Amram Migdal
In November 2019, Sandra Richter, co-founder and CEO of Soofa, a network of advertising-supported digital bulletin boards, must decide between two different fundraising and expansion plans for her company. One plan entails raising $15 million in a Series A round and...
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Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Amy Klopfenstein, and Amram Migdal. "Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?" Harvard Business School Case 820-098, May 2020. (Revised December 2022.)
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Giving Kids a Better Chance
Partnership for LA Schools, literally the worst. In over five years, we had the highest improvement of any school district in the state of California. Again, it was because we believed in our kids. It's because we support our teachers and...
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- 02 Nov 2010
- News
Commanding Officers
fingers on his left hand and was hospitalized for months. After recuperating, Jefferson earned degrees from the Kennedy School and HBS. He was both a White House and a Fulbright Fellow. He worked in state government in Hawaii and later...
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- 20 Jan 2011
- News
A Precursor from the 1930s
In his State of the School address at last fall’s reunion, Dean Nohria laid out his vision for HBS organized in what we can call the Five I’s: curriculum innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion (making the HBS...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
detailed in the recent book A Matter of Simple Justice: The Untold Story of Barbara Hackman Franklin and a Few Good Women (Penn State University Libraries), written by Lee Stout. Nixon's advocacy of women's issues, often at odds with his...
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- March 2022 (Revised April 2023)
- Case
Pittsburgh: A Successful City?
Pittsburgh, PA, was once the crown jewel of American heavy industry. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the city was an undisputed leader in steel production, boasting some of the largest companies and wealthiest individuals in the world. Its abundance of...
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Mills, Karen, Caroline Elkins, Vikram Gandhi, Gabriella Elanbeck, and Zeke Gillman. "Pittsburgh: A Successful City?" Harvard Business School Case 322-080, March 2022. (Revised April 2023.)
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
rupiah and the Brazilian real. A common cause of these price movements is shifts, or expected shifts, in US monetary policy. The United States is still the big gorilla in the global currency field, and when...
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by Zeenat Potia
- 10 Mar 2011
- News
Philanthropy’s Dilemma
of their money to philanthropic causes. To date, 57 billionaires, including several HBS grads, have joined the campaign, committing upwards of $125 billion to charitable causes. Here’s the rub. It’s hard to spend all that hard-earned money wisely. In fact,...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
balance sheets. If price tags are the only tool used to measure value, said Gore, “then things that don’t have price tags appear to have no value.” In his talk, sponsored by the School’s Leadership and Values Initiative, Gore stated that...
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- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
Germany, despite having the highest labor costs in the world, also enjoys the world’s largest export surplus, at 7 percent of GDP. The United States, by contrast, ranks lowest among the world’s largest manufacturing nations in “export...
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- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
talent pool. Now in 266 schools across 13 states and in 28 countries, P-TECH started 10 years ago as a pilot program in a Brooklyn high school, offering students of color from underprivileged backgrounds the chance to stay in high school...
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by Kristen Senz
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
two-bedroom apartment rents for $1,400, considerably more than 30 percent of an average South End family's income. In Massachusetts as a whole, one recent study estimates that between 1990 and 1997, two hundred thousand more people moved out of the View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
How patient should we be in waiting for the tech productivity dividend? What do you think? Original Column For years we have been regaled with prospects of outsized productivity increases in the United View Details
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
ideal choice for the study because its labor market shares many of the same characteristics as those found in the United States and the United Kingdom. "Aside from being a...
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by Julia Hanna
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
investment horizons make them willing to accept takeover offers that do not fully recognize the overall value of the target—a merger at a low price is preferred to no merger at all. Another question that interests us is what the role of activist investors in countries...
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