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12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

student-focused initiative has collectively raised more than $30,000 in less than 3 weeks, has mentored more than 350 prospective business school and graduate students, and started a fundraiser to procure oxygen concentrators and channel... View Details

08 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 8

Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 510-063 In January 2010, Jen McDonald, head of Bank of America Corporation's (BAC) Digital Marketing group, was discussing the bank's mobile strategy with Douglas... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

three-part interview with Harvard Business School Marketing professors Rajiv Lal and José B. Alvarez, they discuss who is winning this revolution and which brands appear to be losing ground. Sean Silverthorne: Among the retailers you have... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Jun 1999
News

A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

been doing financial seminars for fourteen years," Klein, president of NF Communications, Inc., told Business Wire (March 22, 1999), "and I have never been able to find a good source of humor and jokes for my speeches." Klein's new book... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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Working Groups, Upcoming Event, and Resources | About

Working Groups, Upcoming Event, and Resources Published November 9, 2023 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email Recently I wrote to you about important work we need to initiate at Harvard Business School following the... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

baseball games; the games that amateur players broadcast are more like a pickup basketball game. The world championships in each of the major games are the Super Bowl. But the comparisons begin to fall apart when attention turns to View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think creatively, and be alert for... View Details

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Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016

“Who owns space?” to digitally enabled prescription medicine to cultured beef. View episodes A Vision for the 21st Century Alumni events were held in Seattle and Cleveland, two of six cities visited during FY16 as part of The Harvard... View Details

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

took a slightly different approach, noting that barriers to entry are not likely to become insurmountable. "As services proliferate, how do you figure out who you trust and who you do business with? Frankly, it's the same way you always... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014

Financials From the Chief Financial Officer 5-Year Data Summary CFO Letter Consolidated Balance Sheet Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Supplemental Financial Information Harvard Business School’s economic model performed well in fiscal... View Details

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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015

From the Chief Financial Officer The School’s economic model proved its strength in fiscal 2015. Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) and Executive Education contended with a unique set of short-term revenue challenges, and Harvard View Details

June 2024
Teaching Note

Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management... View Details

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03 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

Journal of Interactive Marketing 23, no. 1 (winter 2009): 2-12 Abstract The digital interactive transformation in marketing is not unfolding, as some thought it would, on the model of direct marketing. That model anticipated that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2016
News

Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup

workers), who work as virtual health care assistants, handling everything from long-term care arrangements to transportation. Wellthy’s digital platform is designed as a consumer- friendly project management tool, and allows for... View Details

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

They are often born of deep business experience, delivered with great style, wit, and humor. Here are some of our favorite comments in 2017. Some have been edited for clarity. Want to be Happier? Spend Some Money Avoiding Household Chores... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Tufano. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1995. Bodie, Zvi, Robert C. Merton , and William F. Samuelson. "Labor Supply Flexibility and Portfolio Choice in a Life-Cycle Model." Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 16, nos.... View Details

29 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

industry like taxicabs. It can fight hard to get the rules changed,” says Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair and director... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

31 May 2023
Research & Ideas

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines

If knowing what customers need is marketing gold, pinpointing exactly when they need it may just be platinum. Services that become part of a customer’s routine may deliver advantages beyond repeat business for a company, Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation

Profile

Hiroshi Mikitani

richest person in Japan. His skills as an entrepreneur became legend in his home country and around the world. Given the challenges entrepreneurs face in Japan—a dearth of venture capital, daunting government regulations and the aforementioned View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum

business as a profession, with the social implications and heightened sense of responsibility that goes with that.” Said Light, “This is an important aspect of HBS, and has been since our founding.” The conference, led by Alumni Chair... View Details

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