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- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Is Amazon Becoming A Monopoly?
Rebecca A. Karp
Rebecca Karp is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Karp is a field researcher and ethnographer. Her research examines how companies formulate and... View Details
- 18 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the Tech World Through WesTrek
What do New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston all have in common? They’re all cities on the east coast, and they also happen to be the only places I’ve ever lived, except... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
In what is believed to be the largest study of its kind, MBA students at Harvard Business School recently analyzed the financial returns generated by 110 early-stage companies... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
necessary to save his brother’s life, but intent on laying some sort of foundation for success. The first step was an undergrad degree at Cornell, close to his family’s upstate New York home, and then on to HBS. While here, Horgan started... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
A conversation with John Davis, author of "Challenges Facing Family Companies in the Gulf Region" Family Business Review, vol XIII, no. 3, September 2000. Q: Where does family business take you?... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
Investigation through the Special Advisor Program. After graduation, Matt participated in the HBS Leadership Fellows Program, joining the Boston... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Your Life. NOVEMBER 4 Rod Harl (MBA 2000), president and CEO of Alene Candles, led the pivot of his company from candlemaking to the production of Personal Protective Equipment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
president and had attended Georgetown, that’s where I set my sights.” Brown soon established herself as a student leader at Georgetown. One of the university’s board members, Lloyd Campbell, then a managing director at Credit Suisse First... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
about changing both how people think and how they behave," says Porter. "I'm pleased when my work is used by other academicians. But I feel equally satisfied when people tell me my ideas made a difference in their companies or countries."... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Oct 2012
- News
Anchored to mobiles
- 11 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
HBS runs a Dedicated Interview Period for internship hiring. This week students do not have class and can dedicate time to interviewing. Over 100 companies come to Boston to conduct these interviews held at... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
occurred. “As the decades of research on virtual work would have predicted, productivity has gone up for many organizations,” says Tsedal Neeley, the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Meet the Team | Information Technology
across five continents, partnering with faculty to produce media-rich case studies on companies and organizations including NASA, Chobani, Zappos, IDEO, Bridgewater Associates, Coca Cola, Siemens, Jazz at Lincoln Center, lululemon,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
After HBS, Hussein will work and gain experience in private equity and venture capital in New York or London, with the long-term goal of setting up his own firm in the Middle East to connect Israeli and Arab... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- January 2017
- Supplement
Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy — Operating the Business Model Exercise
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton
On a mission to "automate the on-demand economy," Harvard Business School classmates Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck launched Hello Alfred in 2013 to provide subscribers with an "Alfred" to complete various chores for a monthly fee. In early 2016, the company has built... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
company’s competitiveness after the downturn ends? For the last five years, we have been studying layoffs and their alternatives. Our goal with this research is to help leaders understand when it makes sense... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
celebrate during a victory parade in Boston after winning Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005. Despite such steps, inadvertent head blows and hard contact with the ground remain inevitable. Newly emerging research... View Details
- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
physically and emotionally, about these events? How did they motivate you going forward? What are 1-2 lowlights from your experience? It could be that one time you really thought the company was dead or when... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin