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Ann Chao

different countries and industries to learn with and learn from. As a Social Studies/East Asian Studies concentrator with a strong interest in disability rights and education as well as entertainment and performing arts, I still felt... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media

10 Jul 2017
Blog Post

Why the MBA is Still Relevant

First, the MBA at HBS emphasises leadership, and is an incomparable immersive study into how to become a leader. Few young professionals get to sit in the chair of an executive: making difficult decisions, managing teams, and executing a... View Details

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A Catalyst for Commitment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

NPR, her manager recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara 2015 Patricio “Pato” Bichara (MBA 2015) learned... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Magician Turns HBS Upside Down

insights to execute a more compelling product or service is a best practice we’ve studied in cases about certain companies, and it is definitely one of Randal’s strengths,” Martin said. Thomke described what... View Details

Keywords: magic; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online

personalization, storytelling, and community building Who Will Benefit Marketing Professionals Non-Marketing Professionals Entrepreneurs Advance beyond tactics and learn digital marketing on a strategic level. "The course’s content and teaching method through View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

Wildlife to Winetasting "The driving force behind the region's growth is South Africa," says HBS professor Richard H.K. Vietor, the faculty chairman of the conference and the author of a 1997 comprehensive case View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

28 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

Locations Visited: Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore Date: March and May, 2006 Purpose: Assess the progress of eighteen business schools in Harvard Business School's Program on Case Method and Participant-Centered... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

01 Dec 2001
News

Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges

transparent and globally standardized methods of corporate governance. Dozens of countries worldwide, each representing different degrees of involvement of legal systems and regulators in corporate governance, were studied by Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

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Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business - Course Catalog

grow the overall value that is realized in an exchange (i.e., baking a bigger pie). We will spend most of our time understanding these two core functions of pricing. From a practical standpoint, the 14 sessions of the course comprise case... View Details

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

solutions. Indeed, it was outsiders—those with expertise at the periphery of a problem's field—who were most likely to find answers and do so quickly. People often think about open source as a special case, as if such openness can only happen in software. The View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

What happens to a country's economy when its government is politically unstable, such as has been the case historically in Mexico? Can business get done under a strong-arm dictatorship, or when a government is too weak to protect the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency (revised) Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract Katz and Shapiro (1985) study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and direct... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1998
News

Managing the Business of Life

average of 3.2 hours each workday with their children, while employed fathers spend 2.3 hours each workday. Source: The Families and Work Institute's "1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce." Karla (Rose) Middlebrooks Keeping to... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message

heavily in developing technology to deliver targeted ads to these sites, with the simple goal of "making advertising work on the Web." DoubleClick "In the old world of advertising," says John Deighton, who just completed a case View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

Financial data on US companies is easy to come by—if they are listed on the stock market. More than 99 percent of them are not, presenting a challenge for researchers intent on studying how privately held firms operate. “It seemed natural... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

01 Mar 2013
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Leveraging Female Talent

the numbers. Inclusiveness is about making the numbers count and effecting a cultural change. Your earlier research resulted in a surprising finding about the difference between male and female star performers. In a nine-year study of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

faced with making difficult decisions. "For me, that connection from textbook to reality made the courses memorable, enjoyable, and interesting. Case studies were absolutely my favorite part of the program."... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change

In some ways it doesn't seem that long ago that our class began its studies at Soldiers Field, but a look back at the first Harbus edition in the fall of 1972 seems to reveal another century. King of Hearts and Diary of a Mad Housewife... View Details

Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer

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Commencement 2019 Address | About

today: As you move into leadership roles, and as your duties call on you to make decisions that test your integrity, imagine yourself as the protagonist in a case study. Imagine a future generation of students sitting in Aldrich, debating... View Details

02 Mar 2016
News

On Credit

about to file for divorce and alimony, thereby reducing his assets. A few years later, a New York engraver filed suit when he learned of a report that stated he was a counterfeiter who had left his wife for a prostitute. The Ohio case... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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