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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Equity Finance class, an advanced elective course offered in the Harvard Business School MBA elective curriculum. The structure of the book follows the timeline of a typical investment. Starting with deal...
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- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
Cases & Course MaterialsAccidental Innovation Harvard Business School Note 607-082 Describes the role accident has historically played in invention and discovery, and raises questions about the importance of variation in View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
Helping African Businesses Compete on the Global Stage Sheila Kyarisiima’s (MBA/MPA 2017) curiosity about building things, especially infrastructure, prompted the Kampala, Uganda, native to come to the United States in 2007 to study...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
leadership and mentoring and on achieving organization alignment, both vertically and horizontally, across the entire structure of the organization. He also gives readers a method for tracking progress—plant by plant and function by...
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Sandra Sucher Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits Course Description Trust is crucial to the success of any relationship. Building trust into the structure and daily operations of a business translates into increased...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
deployed after the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as during world wars, previous pandemics, and other disasters. With that structure in place, the hospital was able to make the “crisp decisions that are required in warlike times,” says...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
impose " Sudheer Thaakur concurred: " in a world that is more complex and uncertain and ambiguous we should be promoting slow and deliberative thinking. Till we do that we will not be able to fully utilize the opportunity offered by (the) View Details
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by James Heskett
- November 2017
- Case
Outrageous Ambition: Duke University
By: William C. Kirby and Yuanzhuo Wang
Duke University had grown from a one room schoolhouse in rural North Carolina in 1859 to one of the leading research universities in the U.S. and the world. Since the late 1950s, Duke’s leaders had consciously used the process of strategic planning to guide the...
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Duke University;
University Governance;
Internationalization;
Duke Kunshan University;
Interdisciplinarity;
Higher Education;
Interdisciplinary Studies;
Global Strategy;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business History;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Strategic Planning;
Education Industry;
United States;
China;
Singapore
Kirby, William C., and Yuanzhuo Wang. "Outrageous Ambition: Duke University." Harvard Business School Case 318-043, November 2017.
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Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building, Managing, and Scaling the First Sales Team as a Founder, Investor, or Advisor - Course Catalog
course. ‘Nothing happens until a sale is made’ Nothing happens until a sale is made. That simple point underlines the critical importance of sales. Every operating model and business plan ‘assumes’ a certain amount of sales, but that...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
Why They Buy The first big puzzle Professor Clay Christensen tackled when he joined the HBS faculty in 1992 was an elemental one: Why was success so hard for businesses to sustain? The search led to his theory of disruptive innovation,...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
to become more business-minded as it routinely faces project deadlines, production goals, and business uncertainties. Eric S. Lander is a day-to-day source of inspiration for those taking on such challenges. A member of the TOM faculty at...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
Stacey Abrams didn’t dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Her first small business was a consultancy that she launched out of necessity to supplement her salary as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998)...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Working PapersEquity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure Authors:Bo Becker and Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress....
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Martha Lagace
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Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling - Course Catalog
‘Nothing happens until a sale is made’ Nothing happens until a sale is made. That simple point underlines the critical importance of sales. Every operating model and business plan ‘assumes’ a certain amount of sales, but that assumption...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Duhigg Photo Courtesy Charles Duhigg As a business writer for the New York Times, I often bump into HBS classmates and alumni who ask me, in a whisper, “What’s the real story behind the economic crisis? There’s some hidden tale that...
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- 15 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Prepare for Your Interview with Research
eBaker has information on over 37 million companies - public and private - worldwide. From OneSource Global Express you can access a complete corporate overview that includes a business description, a chronology of significant...
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- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
year. Using Internet Data for Economic Research Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:Journal of Economic Perspectives (forthcoming) Abstract The data used by economists can be broadly divided into two categories. First, structured...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
board accountability through greater transparency in decision making, more representative vote allocation, or better parliamentary scrutiny. In other words, although civil society efforts have led to some gains in accountability with respect to Bank policies and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
irrelevant which country developed this form (or another product or whatever) first. All three of these countries' big businesses began independently arriving at rough versions of the same structure as they...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Video Management Policy | About
Video Management Policy General Principles At Harvard Business School, the video management systems infrastructure is implemented to enhance the safety and security of the community, reduce institutional risk, strengthen customer service...
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