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- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
founded in 2013 with classmate Scott Puritz (MBA 1982). The company takes advantage of recent advances in financial products and cloud computing to make available the type of investment services that were... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
projects and good returns. Project finance — Esty’s specialty and the focus of his course — involves highly leveraged deals and risk-taking, something that has interested Esty since he wrote his doctoral thesis on risk-taking in the savings-and-loan View Details
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was... View Details
- Profile
Kanwaljit Bakshi
"I've no idea how I did it. I didn't sleep much," she laughs. After graduation, Brochu went to Silicon Valley and worked for a computer security firm. But like the rest of the nation, her worldview shifted on 9/11. She decided... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Forecasting ’15
Health Care: Data-Driven Diagnosis Robert Wah (AMP 175, 2008) President, American Medical Association; Global Chief Medical Officer, Computer Sciences Corporation “We’re entering the third phase of health information technology. The first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
to the printer in South Carolina, who would keyboard all the pages twice and then compare the two copies of the page as a crude way of proofing!” Fortunately, computers have rendered that tedious process obsolete. But it still takes three... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
meanwhile, were seven times less likely to experience a ransomware attack than the industry average. The company’s advantage, claim cofounders Rotem Iram (MBA 2013) and Roman Itskovich (MBA 2012), is a combination of cybersecurity savvy... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
effective management of information services activities and highlights the areas of greatest potential application of the technology. Global Marketing Management by John A. Quelch and Christopher A. Bartlett (South-Western Publishing... View Details
- July 2008 (Revised January 2013)
- Teaching Note
eHarmony (TN)
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Hanna Halaburda
Teaching Note for eHarmony [709424]. View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
Gene Markowski Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Richard Kondo Blending military leadership and private industry best practices Blending military leadership and private View Details
- 29 May 2009
- News
Last Look - June 2009
A Tupperware party at HBS? So say MBA 1992 classmates Olaf Krohg (Section E) and Jamie Millar (B). Krohg writes, “I believe this was a Tupperware party conducted in Professor Len Schlesinger’s Service Management class for the Class of... View Details
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Luc Sirois
The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)
and services to consumers over 50 in the United Kingdom. The first three to six months, almost everybody who arrives at HBS is convinced that the admissions office must have made a mistake, that they’re going to get caught out. If you... View Details
- May 2007 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
The West German Headache Center: Integrated Migraine Care
By: Michael E. Porter, Clemens Guth and Elisa M. Dannemiller
Describes the joint efforts of the German health plan KKH and Essen University Hospital to develop an integrated practice unit (IPU), and the West German Headache Center's efforts to improve the quality of migraine care. Provides an overview of the German health care... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Industry Structures; Service Delivery; Integration; Health Industry; Germany
Porter, Michael E., Clemens Guth, and Elisa M. Dannemiller. "The West German Headache Center: Integrated Migraine Care." Harvard Business School Case 707-559, May 2007. (Revised July 2011.)
- 21 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 21, 2007
decisions confronting the founding management team of a new online financial services company. Prosper Marketplace is an internet-based market for individuals to borrow money from other individuals who wish to invest in such loans.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Overview
Downstream businesses that utilize global suppliers frequently use auditing programs to monitor their suppliers’ working conditions and are often deployed to address reputational concerns associated with procuring from unregulated suppliers. Despite their widespread... View Details
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
modifications to major new innovations. The user-friendly tools, often integrated into a "toolkit" package, deploy new technologies (e.g., computer simulation and rapid prototyping) to make innovation faster, less expensive and,... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
mention” candidates, Tony Hsieh, Jack Ma, and Richard Branson. Musk did his undergraduate work at Wharton and completed a graduate degree in physics at Stanford. Hsieh displayed entrepreneurial skills as a student at Harvard College where he received his BA in View Details
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A-Z List of Tools | Information Technology
MessageMe Multimedia Cases O O365 Office Apps O365 SharePoint O365 Teams OneDrive P Panopto PeopleSoft Pharos Uniprint Phonebook Poll Everywhere Q Qualtrics R Research Computing Services (DRFD) Research... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
required to achieve better and better results. When the product the customers use isn't good enough, its architecture is proprietary and its manufacturers make money. When it's more than good enough, its architecture becomes modular, built around View Details