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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
of the HBS Executive Programs for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs. Since joining the HBS faculty in 1986, she also served as Co-Chair of the HBS MBA Program, Chair of Field Based Learning, and Co-Chair of the Harvard Policy Group on View Details
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Events - Business History
Oct21 21 Oct 2019 Business History Seminar Do Merchants Have No Country? Companies, States, and Transnational Networks in Europe’s Early Modern Expansion Felicia Gottmann, Northumbria University Oct7 07 Oct 2019 Business History Seminar...
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Why HBS? - Doctoral
Demand Forecasting and Labor Scheduling Decisions By: Caleb Kwon, Ananth Raman and Jorge Tamayo 15 APR 2024 | Faculty Research Differences in Care Team Response to Patient Portal Messages by Patient Race and Ethnicity By: Mitchell Tang,...
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- July 2004 (Revised October 2018)
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Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century
By: Geoffrey Jones, Elisabeth Koll and Alexis Gendron
This case examines the role of Jardine Matheson, a trading company founded by two Scottish merchants, in the opium trade between India and China during the nineteenth century. The two Opium Wars fought between Western powers and China, which sought to stop opium...
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History;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Ethnicity;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Groups and Teams;
Trade;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
China;
United Kingdom
Jones, Geoffrey, Elisabeth Koll, and Alexis Gendron. "Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century." Harvard Business School Case 805-010, July 2004. (Revised October 2018.)
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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity
we will identify, support, and advise organizations with missions to increase racial and ethnic diversity in pre-doctoral and doctoral programs. For example, The PhD Project is an organization devoted to diversifying the pipeline of...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
happened” across the city along racial and ethnic lines. In the early 20th century, Baltimore pioneered the use of racially discriminatory housing ordinances and deed covenants that prevented Blacks, Jews, and other minorities from buying...
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
“Resident Networks and Corporate Connections: Evidence from World War II Internment Camps” with Umit Gurun and Christopher Malloy (Journal of Finance, 2017). Thomas R. Eisenmann: Winner of the 2015 Case Centre Award in the...
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- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
divides, ethnic divides, religious divides, and social divides. Chloe Ho - MBA ‘19 Growing up in Hong Kong, being Asian meant weekly Saturday dinners at my grandmother’s house, but it also meant going out for gin & tonics with my...
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- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
Working PapersPlatform Envelopment Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To dislodge them, entrants generally...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Working World
to internally and externally manage those affinities and ethnic networks to their advantage. + ONLINE You also study companies like Netflix and Airbnb that have a multi-country presence as part of their...
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Julia Hanna
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Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Anti-racism (DIBAR) in Business | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
around the globe. It allows you to search board members and senior management by gender, and also by affiliation with six ethnicity association networks of Asian, Black, Latino, Middle East, Native American...
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- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
To illustrate the old adage that birds of a feather flock together, there may be no better example than the venture capital industry. A recent study finds that venture capitalists have a strong tendency to team up with other VCs whose View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
several concrete managerial prescriptions for the selection problem based on this trade-off. Finally, we demonstrate the value of our framework in a case study that considers air traffic management. Ethnic Innovation and U.S....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
battles for traction and respect. “We’ve made progress in Indonesia when it comes to gender equality, but we still have so much work to do,” she says, adding that entrepreneurship is one avenue for achieving equity. Kamdani, who founded the Angel Investment View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-006.pdf The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors Author:William R. Kerr Abstract The ethnic composition of U.S. inventors is undergoing a significant transformation-with...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
example, how will a would-be entrepreneur know about the prices of various cash crops that might replace otherwise tried-and-true opium production? How can would-be investors, even in a small-scale enterprise, locate suitable talent for their venture? In less...
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by Tarun Khanna
- 20 Jan 2011
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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 experience more of a level...
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Internal Medicine, American Sociological Review, American Behavioral Scientist, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Contexts, Ethnic and Racial Studies, The Journal of Marriage and Family, Sociology of Race and...
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- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Management Journal The Ethnic Migrant Inventor Effect: Codification and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—Ethnic migrant inventors may differ from locals in terms of the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7
Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—We study the role of ethnic Chinese/Indian migrant inventors in transferring contextual knowledge across borders and the role of ethnic View Details
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Sean Silverthorne