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message from a 1960 U.S. Steel Hour program. Full films are available online. Please refer to each clip for details. Empires of Steel (1930) This silent short film released in 1930 features the View Details

27 Oct 2021
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HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing

This fall, Harvard Business School launched its first Impact Investment Fund Course after a successful pilot in the Spring of 2021. The fund expands access to affordable,... View Details

02 Feb 2023
News

Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

The demand in the market right now is functionally infinite. DM: One of the big movers in the space is the Frontier Fund, a group led by Stripe,... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Entrepreneurship flourishes in the Bayou

entrepreneurs. “It is a very easy city in which to adopt new approaches. It's a very open city in which to take a... View Details

12 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs

eyeglasses that can be calibrated by the user to circumvent the need for an optometrist. The second, VisionSpring, follows a different approach, working to build a network of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 May 2019
Working Paper Summaries

US Antitrust Law and Policy in Historical Perspective

Keywords: by Laura Phillips Sawyer; Education

18 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

While gains were focused at the executive and investor levels, these cuts fostered a transactional relationship between businesses and their workers. So, it should be a shock... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson

07 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big

With limited regulatory enforcement and few gatekeepers, crypto influencers with large social-media audiences can move global markets with a single tweet. The most prominent, including celebrities like Kim... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

November 2006 (Revised November 2007)
Case

Strategy in the Twenty First Century Pharmaceutical Industry: Merck & Co. and Pfizer Inc.

By: David J. Collis and Troy Smith

The global pharmaceutical industry has gone through substantial changes in the last few decades and pharmaceutical firms face major challenges including headline-grabbing litigation, imminent patent expirations, new technologies, rising drug development costs, generic... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Research and Development; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

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10 Aug 2015
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A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges

In 2001, Monisha Kapila (MBA 2005) went to India to help its people emerge from the devastating Gujarat earthquake. As she worked with artisans to reach new crafts markets, she knew she had found View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 1996
News

New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting

planning, MBA Career Services will host a range of activities, including career fairs, panel discussions, and practice interviews to be conducted at various times throughout the summer. "We developed a... View Details

26 Jan 2015
News

What You Can Expect For Social Video in 2015

22 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?

from a Field Experiment, authored by Harvard Business School marketing professors Doug J. Chung and Das Narayandas. “With so many people and resources at stake, the design of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Apr 2014
News

Providing lessons in financial literacy

very excited for her vision,” Wood says of Morrison. “I thought, given my background, I could come in and make a difference.” Wood, who previously ran traditional and online View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

The True Value of a Tweet

media’s impact on the bottom line. You and your colleagues have taken a critical look at the assumption that social media works by attracting followers, which exposes the brand and in turn leads to sales.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Global Reach | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Body 2 After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, HBS faculty introduced the case method to business educators in emerging free-enterprise... View Details

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Is Deposit Insurance a Good Idea, and if so, Who Should Pay for it?

Joint work with Alan Morrison, Saïd Business School, Oxford.

Deposit insurance schemes are becoming increasingly popular around the world and yet there is little understanding... View Details

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details

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