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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online
(ESG) factors, and learn how to incorporate them into investment decisions and measure and manage their impact. 6 weeks, 5 hrs/week Enroll by January 2 $1,850 Certificate Alternative Investments Professors Victoria Ivashina, Randolph...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
her career in new directions and add greater value to the company, she wanted to broaden her insights, skills, and network, which prompted her to enroll in HBS’s General Management Program (GMP) in 2021, a...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- January 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
First to Fight? Culture, Tradition, and the United States Marine Corps (USMC)
By: Ranjay Gulati, Akhil Iyer and Joel Malkin
Over a history of more than 240 years, the United States Marine Corps has forged a distinct culture and institutional identity centered on its “warrior ethos.” In the wars of American history, Marines fought with uncommon valor, rising to international prominence for...
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Change Management;
Transformation;
Talent and Talent Management;
Government Administration;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Systems;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Effectiveness;
United States
Gulati, Ranjay, Akhil Iyer, and Joel Malkin. "First to Fight? Culture, Tradition, and the United States Marine Corps (USMC)." Harvard Business School Case 423-051, January 2023. (Revised April 2024.)
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
states were able to build with religion have generated long-term repercussions. Fatefully, both state policies that seek to facilitate equality through the recognition of religious difference and state policies that seek to eradicate such...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators
performance of identical twins on a battery of ten creativity tests could be attributed to genetics. 6 In contrast, roughly 80 percent to 85 percent of the twins' performance on general intelligence (IQ) tests could be attributed to...
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Investors - Entrepreneurship
Managing Partner, SV Life Sciences MBA 1991 Tim Brady Board Member, QuestBridge MBA 1995 James W. Breyer Co-Founder, Accel-KKR MBA 1987 Rob Chandra Senior Advisor, Bessemer Venture Partners MBA 1993 Tony Chao Partner, Tyche Partners MBA...
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- 16 May 2023
- In Practice
After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?
stabilized, First Republic’s weakness, which prompted a hasty sale to JPMorgan Chase, portends continued headwinds for startups seeking investors. Julia Austin: Take stock on how to manage in times of crisis When the SVB situation...
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- July 2018
- Teaching Note
Cumplo.com
Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-039. Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-039. Cumplo is a Chilean-based fin-tech startup that provides investors and small businesses with opportunities to access loans and investments in ways distinct from traditional financial institutions in...
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Business, Government & the International Economy Curriculum - Faculty & Research
BGIE, we will learn about the key economic, political, and social factors that affect this business environment: in other words, the institutional foundations of capitalism. BGIE examines management and leadership on a grand scale. The...
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- January 2009 (Revised December 2009)
- Supplement
Playing with Fire at Sittercity (B)
By: Noam T. Wasserman and Rachel Gordon
To help her finance her aggressive expansion plans, Genevieve Thiers plans to raise venture capital for the first time. She has spent the last six long years building Sittercity into the nation's leading babysitting web service, larger than all of its competitors...
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Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Problems and Challenges;
Risk Management;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Service Operations;
Family and Family Relationships;
Competition;
Expansion;
Internet
Wasserman, Noam T., and Rachel Gordon. "Playing with Fire at Sittercity (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 809-010, January 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
- Profile
Ruzwana Bashir
with consistently working 16-hour days, not having any financial security and giving up a lot of your personal life (especially in terms of spending time with family or friends). I think generally to really excel at what you do, you have...
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- Apr 19 2017
- Interview
Understanding the Global Business Environment
- August 1977 (Revised November 1995)
- Supplement
Process Engineering Proposal
By: John J. Gabarro
An "in-basket" decision-making exercise in case form, to be used with Nuclear Tube Assembly Room (A) (Condensed). The purpose is to pose students with several related problems which require immediate analysis arriving at some decisions and planning how to implement...
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Gabarro, John J. "Process Engineering Proposal." Harvard Business School Supplement 478-008, August 1977. (Revised November 1995.)
- August 2021 (Revised September 2022)
- Case
Patch Technology: Making It Easy to Do the Right Thing
By: Tomomichi Amano, Robert J. Dolan and Carol Zhang
In 2021, the growing threat of climate change pushed companies around the world to understand that significant behavioral change was necessary. While many recognized that decreasing emissions was critical, more sophisticated players such as Microsoft began to recognize...
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Amano, Tomomichi, Robert J. Dolan, and Carol Zhang. "Patch Technology: Making It Easy to Do the Right Thing." Harvard Business School Case 522-037, August 2021. (Revised September 2022.)
- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
needed minority officers who were college graduates to lead their diverse enlistees," Norton says. "Statements like these help to reframe the general notion of why developing effective strategies for View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 2019
- Working Paper
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 16 Capturing Value by Controlling Bottlenecks in Open Platform Systems
The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the means by which firms capture value in open platform systems. I begin by arguing that the surplus value created by complementarities within a technical system will be split among the owners of the unique and essential...
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Open Platforms;
Bottlenecks;
Flow Production;
Value Capture;
Disintermediation;
Production;
Management;
Digital Platforms
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 16 Capturing Value by Controlling Bottlenecks in Open Platform Systems." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-054, November 2019.
- Research Summary
Putting Patients First: Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing Nations
It is more than mere coincidence that the highest rates of HIV occur in the world’s poorest countries. Of the over 40 million people currently living with HIV, 95 percent are in the developing world. The first half of this paper explores the economics of HIV and...
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- July 2024
- Case
Roja Garimella: Developing a Founder's Judgment
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
Roja Garimella’s path to becoming a founder was anything but straight. Setting her sights on a career in medicine since childhood, she committed to medical school with her acceptance to college. And yet, throughout her studies, she continually explored alternative...
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- January 2006 (Revised February 2015)
- Case
Innovation at Timberland: Thinking Outside the Shoe Box
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ryan Raffaelli
Innovation was linked to Timberland's heritage. In 2005, CEO Jeff Swartz and COO Ken Pucker hoped the Invention Factory, an advanced concept lab, would develop new breakthrough products and reinvigorate the company's culture of innovation. Since the 1960s, Timberland...
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Innovation and Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Product Development;
Organizational Culture;
Change Management
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Ryan Raffaelli. "Innovation at Timberland: Thinking Outside the Shoe Box." Harvard Business School Case 306-064, January 2006. (Revised February 2015.)