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30 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 30

another—is one mechanism that helps teams leverage the potential benefits of variation in team member experience by alleviating coordination problems that such variation may create. We use several years of detailed project- and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2023
News

Case Study: The Home Team

Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting

network can be instrumental in helping interns add value. Students have successfully tapped into the potential of the HBS network to build connections that enhance their team’s ability to conduct due diligence and advise portfolio... View Details

05 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

and maintenance of unethical behaviors." It probably doesn't help that many businesses try to thwart potential fraud by threatening employees with severe consequences—increasing stress and thus elevating cortisol. "If you think about how... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

the experience of development and fundraising professionals in the impact investing space—that anchor investors are motivated by the ability to catalyze additional change by supporting fund managers early in their fund raise, often providing a signal to other View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

they have tackled each however, differs in nature. In terms of recognizing potential threats, Microsoft has built-in "sensing" mechanisms to keep abreast of what is happening in the broader technological context. Much of this... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

root. An anonymous donor took note of his academic potential and put Brown through college. After a break to serve in the military, Brown went to business school and ultimately started his investment career at T. Rowe Price as the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

entrepreneurial skills and launch or scale their business. These courses can help you identify and validate a business idea , create high-quality business models, achieve product-market fit, and talk to potential investors . Related... View Details

2024
Working Paper

Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song

Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Government Administration; Acquisition; Health Industry

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01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

potential to bump up to $10 based on performance and attendance) to turn out the door panels, bumpers, and other parts for vehicles that include the VW Atlas and Passat. With three plants in the area, all of which host WBL students,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

15 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Writing a Case as a Student at HBS

choose; most professors are happy to have case writing help! If you chose a professor before a topic, you will want to discuss potential topics with him or her during these first meetings. 4) Get researching! Some professors provide more... View Details

09 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

bought more products at the first transaction, especially those who did so in stores, were more likely to be repeat buyers in the future. Likewise, the algorithm tagged people who bought newly released products as potential high-value... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service

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MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details

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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures - MBA

new ventures. Conflicts of Interest: Financial or business relationships between students and faculty members have the potential to create conflicts of interest. Such conflicts—real or perceived—are most apparent when a faculty member is... View Details

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For Organizations - Business & Environment

investigation of potential strategic partnerships to support the rapid commercialization of next-generation batteries by Pellion Technologies. Engage with MBA Student Clubs Student clubs — including the Energy & Environment Club ; Food,... View Details

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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

irrelevant construct when considering how to harness generative AI capabilities. Processes ranging from negotiating contracts with vendors to developing marketing messages will be redesigned from the ground up in order to exploit the full View Details

01 Nov 2016
First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

brands. Companies can leverage storytelling to build their brands, and careful brand extensions can grow the business as long as they do not alienate core loyalists. Other potentially risky opportunities to weigh carefully are moving... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2019
News

Remix

dissatisfaction with an employer’s response. In both cases, the decision comes with a price: from the material losses of firm-specific human capital—which is linked to earnings—to severed access to professional networks, financial strain, gaps in employment, or View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

22 Mar 2016
First Look

March 22, 2016

benefits; and theoretical work to guide the analyses. The paper summarizes likely motives for foreign direct investment and potential effects of FDI on local economies as well as recent findings from the macro literature on the role of... View Details