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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
and discovery," Cassell explains. In fact, its origins date back to Cassell's arrival at Soldiers Field. As an HBS student, he began to reevaluate his beliefs about learning and education after his first encounter with the case method.... View Details
Keywords: Eileen McCluskey
- Profile
Ravi Belani
curriculum. “The ability to define a direction with uncertain information,” says Ravi, “is a skill you can only develop with practice. The case study method is the most natural and best way to exercise that... View Details
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Gordon Ross
the list for its case study method. “I have more than seven years of business experience,” he explains. “Perhaps I’m too old and stubborn to just sit and listen to lectures with a load of PowerPoints. I want... View Details
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
businesses often answer unmet wants and needs that they see on a local level." Gopal Padinjaruveetil asked " where is the wealth created? In the case of small business the wealth is created in the local economy." Gerald... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Austin Regalado (MBA 2026) - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
Image by John Ritter It’s not just that Americans can’t find a middle ground on tax policy or abortion rights anymore—political polarization has sunk to a depth from which Americans can no longer see eye to eye on what is fact and what is not. In their View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
management style has left in its wake a long line of unhappy stakeholders: regulators, competitors, drivers, customers, and even some partners. Kanter, who wrote a case study on the company after featuring... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
case method is so good. I was forced into the fray. It helped me with my ministry, because it put me out there. I have to be able to engage people of different backgrounds and with differing perspectives.” Upon graduating, Quainton joined... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Labor Relations Board then notifies the business owner that a secret ballot election must take place within six weeks. During that time employers wishing to make the case to their employees that they would be better off without a union... View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
enduring strength of the corporate climate in South Africa, says Eric D. Werker, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. Werker's case study, "Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa," to be published in December,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
LaGuardia is number 15 for takeoff. I miss Air Force One!! And here's one from film director Lee Unkrich: Just in case you think all this has gone to my head, within 36 hours of winning the Oscar, I was back home plunging a clogged... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
In a famous example of how first movers can lose their advantage, second-mover Microsoft won the Web browser wars from Netscape and continues to dominate the market today. But that competition was the subject of another "war," this one among researchers who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
founded, the notion of social enterprise was still relatively new to the lexicon, and HBS was clearly one of the pioneering actors in this broader movement to advance the study and the practice of social enterprise and in inspiring other... View Details
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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
given opportunities to prepare case studies and to practice a case opening and cold call. Faculty Promotions Ethan Bernstein Associate Professor, Organizational Behavior Rory... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
(DBA 1972) (MIT Press) China is moving from a strategy of imitation to one of innovation, and western businesses need to prepare for a tidal wave of innovation from China The authors explain this transformation and propose strategies for both Western and Chinese... View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
process including military services, industry, and Congress, hardening them against change, Fox says. The book excerpt below looks at how previous reform studies have fallen significantly short of correcting significant problems in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01) and Heather McLeod Grant (Jossey-Bass) What makes nonprofits great? The authors studied twelve nonprofits that have extraordinary influence —... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
investigates the drivers of success and failure of media and entertainment products such as motion pictures and video games. Her paper, "Demand and Supply Dynamics for Sequentially Released Products in International Markets: The Case... View Details
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog
been lightly studied academically. And yet its entrepreneurial and management learnings have broad application beyond restaurants. Sited within General Management, this course explores exactly that. We will run the gamut from planning for... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
didn’t read the case because I thought he’s never going to call on me, because my mother’s with me. So I’m sitting there—“Page, since your mother’s here, why don’t you open the case?” Oh my God! And my friend who is in my View Details