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- 19 Apr 2023
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. Even so, they were... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
The full cultural and sociological aftershocks of the earthquake in Japan—the worst disaster to hit the country since World War II—are washing like a tsunami across many industries as manufacturers and their customers scramble to replace... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
he foresees a decline in revenue from advertising in the news industry. A concern shared by all of the panelists was they dry-up of local news outlets even as national papers like the New York Times are... View Details
- Web
Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About
with a distinctive bell tower and columned façade by McKim, Mead & White, Baker is the largest business library in the world. More than 600,000 volumes span seven centuries and serve as a resource for the HBS community, View Details
- 11 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas
featuring music by the local symphony as 250,000 Christmas lights lit up the county courthouse. Then revelers could head to the Samsung Ice Skating Rink, the only outdoor venue of its kind in all of Texas—which also happened to be located... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Blog Post
6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
of both schools from day one. You spend your first year at HKS, your second year at HBS, and your third year taking electives across both schools. Throughout your time here all joint degree students participate in a weekly joint degree... View Details
- 09 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual
register. It did for Trump, but not for Clinton. Close the sale. Political marketing requires you win a plurality of votes not every day but on a single day once in four years. Timing is everything. Trump learned what worked and what... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
- August 2009
- Supplement
The TSMC Way: Meeting Customer Needs at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (CW)
By: Willy C. Shih
When L.C. Tu receives an emergency order, he is confronted with a range of production scheduling choices, each of which has unique costs and trade-offs. The case was designed to help students understand job-shop style production and the impact of disruptions and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Unlocking the Power of Community
When Tara Fung (MBA 2016) explains Co:Create, the company she cofounded in 2022 and now leads as CEO, she doesn’t mention Web3 first. “We help innovative brands and creators unlock the power of community,” she explains. Co:Create does this with a new, gamified approach... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
acquired 62 companies, as it races to dominate the Internet server and communication equipment fields. From the target company's point of view, an acquisition is often desirable, since it takes a massive amount of View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
and which will be most responsive to email campaigns, information that firms can use to improve marketing strategy and return on investment. “Companies are leaving money on the table,” says Ascarza, because they don’t know how to use most... View Details
- Portrait Project
Angel Gonzalez
stop and when our mom caught up, we broke the news that her purse was gone and in it all the money we had—including rent for the month. Strangers stared as we consoled our mom. A few, however, generously... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
What better way to drive people to work harder and more efficiently, you may ask, than to offer them a special carrot: more money for hitting specific company targets? The idea seems perfect. Managers want their employees to pull out the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
independent and dispersed contributors made highly interdependent contributions to the design of a single technical system (or sub-system). Based on a detailed analysis of the latter 28, we introduce the concept of actionable transparency View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
2.5 Disciplinary Outcomes & Sanctions - MBA
and support Probation Probation is a strong warning to a student whose conduct has given serious cause for concern. During the period of time that a student is on probation, any further instance of misconduct will cause the CRB to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner
As president of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO), Sharon L. Patrick (MBA '78) oversees business strategy and operations at one of the country's most talked-about enterprises. She is a former partner at McKinsey & Co. and former... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
chain. However, companies that weren’t born as platform businesses rarely realize that they can—at least partially—turn their offerings into one, say the authors. And even if they do realize it, they often wander in the dark searching for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
designing, positioning, marketing, and selling the animated snooze-button thwarter, as well as the challenge of expanding the company's product line. The cases deal with universal entrepreneurial consumer... View Details
- Web
3.8 Health Insurance - MBA
registered as more than half time are enrolled in the Harvard University Student Health Program (HUSHP), which enables them to use Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) without additional charge for most... View Details