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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
(photo by Neal Hamberg) (photo by Neal Hamberg) Blue skies and sunshine welcomed over 2,000 alumni and guests to fall reunions, where the many offerings included a case discussion of “Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center” with Professor Rohit Deshpandé, a tour of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Just Extraordinary
TURNER: A World Cup goal. Matt Mendelsohn The world’s most popular sporting event — and the reason global productivity declines for several weeks every four years — soccer’s World Cup kicks off this month in South Africa. Stacie Scott Turner (MBA ’96) and her... View Details
William Guthy
reputable firms selling on late night television. Guthy was also a pioneer in the use of continuity programs for Infomercials which were very successful for Tony Robbins’ Personal Power books and products. View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 25 Sep 2019
- News
Leading the Evolution of E-Commerce
allowing more time to focus on what the consumer wants, she says. What the consumer wants is what Fleiss—a mother of three—also wants: efficiency and ease of use. “The idea here is to combine the convenience of e-commerce with the View Details
- June 1983 (Revised April 1991)
- Case
Dominion Engineering Works
Dominion Engineering Works faces important strategic decisions about whether to continue its focused strategy of selling newsprint machines to the Canadian paper industry or whether recent changes in industry conditions and the emergence of three global competitors... View Details
Keywords: Machinery and Machining; Globalized Markets and Industries; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Diversification
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Dominion Engineering Works." Harvard Business School Case 383-184, June 1983. (Revised April 1991.)
- December 2002 (Revised February 2015)
- Case
Jim Sharpe: Extrusion Technology, Inc. (Abridged)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Barbara Feinberg
Jim Sharpe, 10 years after receiving his MBA from Harvard and working for others, has finally become his own boss and 100% owner of manufacturer of aluminum extrusions. After 10 months of an unfunded search, he acquires the business in an LBO and prepares to face his... View Details
Keywords: Search Funds; Search; Entrepreneurial Management; Operations Strategy; Acquisitions; Work/family Balance; Unions; Union; Turnarounds; Funding Model; LBO; Bank Debt; Bank Loans; Equity Investment; Career Management; Small Business; Work-Life Balance; Negotiation; Operations; Labor Unions; Investment; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Borrowing and Debt; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Barbara Feinberg. "Jim Sharpe: Extrusion Technology, Inc. (Abridged) ." Harvard Business School Case 603-084, December 2002. (Revised February 2015.)
- Career Coach
Katherine Manweiler
Katherine is eager to support students in a variety of ways including: consulting, VCPE, and hedge fund case interview prep; behavioral interview prep; crafting a cohesive and compelling personal narrative; deciding between different... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
A radiologist and technician at Misr Radiology Center review images taken of a patient and discuss protocol for a brain PET/MRI exam. “AI has improved workflow through higher efficiency and has helped us deliver more personalized care,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Fast Answer
Research Tools
the web. Researchers can save and store their visualizations under a personal profile, share them via social media or embed them on a site or blog. View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’
with a new name, Crossroads, and a renewed sense of purpose — helping alumni identify and build a plan for achieving personal goals. “Our focus is to help people plan their lives, not just their careers,” says HBS senior lecturer John... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Reinventing Radio Days
guaranteed new music they’ll enjoy, unlike recommendations based on more superficial data, such as purchasing patterns. Music stores were SBT’s customers, but Kennedy’s innovative idea was to reinvent SBT as a personalized Internet radio... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
that for CEOs of companies over $10 billion in revenues. My guess is that, given the increasing level of work required and personal risks run, a doubling of director compensation is an absolute minimum. Third, public companies need a... View Details
- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
A few months ago, I wrote about the ridiculous increase in velocity that we are seeing in the venture capital market in my post, Velocity and Venture Capital: 11. Now that summer is upon us, I want to reflect on the subtle value of slowing down, particularly from the... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
The crisis in American business has spawned tales of colorful characters who will surely live on in folk memory, quipped Harvard Business School professor D. Quinn Mills: the ignorant CEO; the creative accountants; the big-spending dot-com kid. Dark humor aside,... View Details
- 1995
- Article
Putting the Work Back into Work/Family
By: Leslie Perlow
Keywords: Work-Life Balance
Perlow, Leslie. "Putting the Work Back into Work/Family." Group & Organization Management 20, no. 2 (1995): 227–239.
- October 6, 2015
- Article
Compared to Men, Women View Professional Advancement as Equally Attainable, but Less Desirable
By: Francesca Gino, Caroline Ashley Wilmuth and Alison Wood Brooks
Women are underrepresented in most high-level positions in organizations. While a great deal of research has provided evidence that bias and discrimination give rise to and perpetuate this gender disparity, in the current research, we explore another explanation: men... View Details
Gino, Francesca, Caroline Ashley Wilmuth, and Alison Wood Brooks. "Compared to Men, Women View Professional Advancement as Equally Attainable, but Less Desirable." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 40 (October 6, 2015).
- 2007
- Chapter
The Future of Retirement and Planning
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "The Future of Retirement and Planning." In The Future of Life-Cycle Saving and Investing, edited by Zvi Bodie, Dennis McLeavey, and Laurence B. Siegel. CFA Institute, Research Foundation, 2007.
- 2007
- Chapter
Career Patterns and Organizational Performance
By: Monica C. Higgins and James R. Dillon
Traditional research on careers examines how organizations and individuals affect career outcomes. This chapter reviews several specific ways in which career histories have been found to influence organizational outcomes. While we incorporate both upper echelons... View Details
Higgins, Monica C., and James R. Dillon. "Career Patterns and Organizational Performance." Chap. 21 in Handbook of Career Studies, edited by M. Peiperl and H. Gunz, 422–436. Sage Publications, 2007.
- June 1993 (Revised April 1994)
- Case
David Melcher
By: Shoshana Zuboff
David Melcher contemplates changing his career at midlife. View Details
Zuboff, Shoshana. "David Melcher." Harvard Business School Case 493-087, June 1993. (Revised April 1994.)
- Article
The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions
By: Carlos Dobkin, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender and Matthew Notowidigdo
We use an event study approach to examine the economic consequences of hospital admissions for adults in two datasets: survey data from the Health and Retirement Study, and hospitalization data linked to credit reports. For non-elderly adults with health insurance,... View Details
Keywords: Personal Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Insurance; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Health Care and Treatment
Dobkin, Carlos, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender, and Matthew Notowidigdo. "The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions." American Economic Review 108, no. 2 (February 2018): 308–352.