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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America
earlier. In 1607, the settlers at Jamestown arrived under the charter of the Virginia Company of London. Puritans founded Boston in 1630 under the auspices of another English corporation, the Massachusetts Bay Company. The proprietors of...
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by Thomas K. McCraw
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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About
the art of leadership. I am delighted to be able to do something that supports those efforts both now and for the future.” Rock is cofounder, board member, and president emeritus of The BASIC Fund, the Bay View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
Biochemists earn about the same wage in the Bay Area as in Indianapolis on average. Meanwhile, the ranking of big urban hubs by IT salaries shifts from year to year, although not much at the top. San...
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All Locations - Recruiting
$32k 90% Receiving West (US) 16%+ – Expand Row $145k 25th Percentile Base $170k Median $185k 75th Percentile Base $30k 60% Receiving $30k 57% Receiving California - Bay Area 9% $165k 25th Percentile Base...
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- 09 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place
where the retailer was able to outmaneuver mom-and-pop competitors. The management team again waited until they had developed enough resources before going head-to-head in suburban areas against big-box retailers like Kmart. Timing Is...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Partners - Case Method Project
(Colonization to 21st Century), Grade 11/12 IB Economics FL 18 of 37 Robin Grenz Trinity Preparatory SchoolWinter Park, FL FL 19 of 37 John Hollingsworth Fletcher High SchoolNeptune Beach, FL FL 20 of 37 Jennifer Jolley Palm Bay Magnet...
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Team - Case Method Project
areas of curriculum development and teacher education, and she plays a direct role in providing support for participating teachers. Joanna has worked for Harvard Business School in various administrative capacities since 2008. In her free...
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- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
classroom with a completely different perspective than I came in with," he recalls. Sant's career path led him through a series of finance positions in the Bay Area before he moved to Washington, DC, for a...
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Susan Young
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
College Prep High SchoolChicago, IL Subjects:Alcott College Prep High School MA Peter Beck Buxton SchoolWilliamstown, MA PA Melissa Becker Warren Area High SchoolWarren, PA Subjects:Civics, Government, History CO Matt Beeson Colorado...
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Past Issues - Alumni
rewarding business of working in the film industry as it confronts new economic and technological realities. The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could Nearly thirty years ago, Gary Rogers barely scraped together the $14K he needed to invest in a struggling View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS
Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions...
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- 01 May 2013
- News
Thomas S. Volpe, MBA 1976
services company where he served as CEO from 2007 to 2010. A lifelong baseball fan, he owns three minor-league baseball teams and often attends San Francisco Giants games with his close friend and Bay Area...
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- 20 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
What to Expect Your First Year at HBS
to access such opportunities. As a result, I am much more likely to consider a career in investment than I was before school and I am considering staying in the Bay Area once I graduate. I also gained a...
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- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
Alumni Board members on campus for their annual spring meeting // Credit: Panfoto Hard work, with humility for humanity, is the spirit that animates Harvard Business School's MBA program today, Matt Weinzierl, Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program, told...
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
and urban areas Women's suffrage Harlem Renaissance Rampant bootlegging and organized crime Influence: Medium 301930s19 Escapism in radio serials Prohibition repealed Golden age of movies Influence: Medium-Low 401940s19 Patriotism soars...
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- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
Canal (1.5),the Bay Area Rapid Transport system (1.6), and the Washington Metro (1.8), although the Panama Canal's construction overruns do compare favorably to the Miami Metrorail (2.1), Boston's infamous...
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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
most powerful person in Boston-head of a privately held, billion-dollar company he built practically from scratch; friend and advisor to politicians of both parties, from Boston's Democratic Mayor Tom Menino to the Bay State's Republican...
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- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms
middlemen in the industry. The company works directly with Kenyan coffee cooperatives to source coffee beans that Kahawa roasts in San Francisco. Kahawa originally sold its beans to Bay Area offices, but...
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- 18 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Relocating to Boston with Your Partner
For my wife (Megan) and me, relocating 3,000 miles across the country from Los Angeles to Boston for HBS was a huge deal. We had lived in California our whole lives, only leaving L.A. for short stints in the San Francisco Bay View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Working to Change the Food System
lot of time by the water in the San Francisco Bay Area. I would catch and forage fish, crab, mussels, and sea urchin, and bring them home to eat! It was really magical (and delicious) to be able to interact with nature in such a way....
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