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- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
Frank Cespedes (photo by Neal Hamburg) Frank Cespedes (photo by Neal Hamburg) “Every entrepreneur is selling all the time—to customers, investors, employees, and strategic partners,” observes Thomas Eisenmann, the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Corporate Information Strategy and Management by Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, and F. Warren McFarlan (Irwin/McGraw-Hill) This extensive collection of HBS cases devoted to IT gives an overview of contemporary information systems... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
to patient. For companies to endure, they need to be prepared to encourage scientists, reassure investors, handle uncertainty, and navigate the regulatory environment. Chandra sees the course as delving into the business View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace by Guhan Subramanian (W.W. Norton) Today’s marketplace is filled with business transactions that include elements of both negotiations and auctions, yet... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
industry," he explains, "you have to make a bet on the future: Do you have a viable business strategy, and if so, is it one of growth, of maintenance, or of decline? Given your beliefs about the future, you then need to design a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Insider Knowledge
19fa3d517837d2a3a5724cd478d6306e Omari Bouknight (HBS ’04) turned his experience gaining admission to business school into his first book Your MBA Game Plan: Proven Strategies for Getting into the Top View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
updated look at the current difficulties of doing business in emerging markets, particularly in China. Why is it so much harder for companies to operate there today compared to just a decade ago? The authors describe the rapidly changing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
nonprofit consultancy of its type. Its staff offers strategy consulting, executive search, and advice on developing funding models. Bridgespan today is far different from the organization laid out in the original View Details
- Article
Does Management Matter in Schools?
By: Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden,... View Details
Keywords: Management; Education; Business Strategy; Education Industry; Germany; Sweden; India; Canada; Italy; Brazil; United Kingdom; United States
Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Does Management Matter in Schools?" Economic Journal 125, no. 584 (May 2015): 647–674.
- November 1997 (Revised June 1999)
- Teaching Note
Becton Dickinson: Designing the New Strategic, Operational, and Financial Planning Process TN
By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
Teaching Note for (9-197-014). View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Takeaways
make additional efforts to infuse scaling into the DNA of their business models, and institute appropriate strategies for recruiting and retaining talent, leveraging financing and partnerships for scaling... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
what loyalty means or how to build it. Reichheld, author of the 1996 bestseller The Loyalty Effect, outlines six principles of loyalty that can make the Internet a hospitable and highly profitable place for businesses to succeed. 20/20... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
transactions—the metrics Karavites tracks most closely—are up at all his locations. Formulating a turnaround strategy required Kempczinski and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of what exactly had happened to... View Details
- 20 Aug 2021
- News
Why Startups Fail
- 16 Jun 2016
- News
IBM Refused to Lay Off Workers for Decades
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
A closer look at the industry of beauty
The global beauty business is a $450 billion industry, yet it received little serious scholarly attention until Geoffrey G. Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, published Beauty... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
Schwarzman Illustration by Roberto Parada Last year the U.S. private-equity business set a number of impressive records: most money raised at $375 billion, most deals closed at 654, and biggest buyout ever at $38.9 billion. Of all the... View Details
- September 2010 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Gazelle in 2012
By: Andrei Hagiu and James Weber
Gazelle has pioneered a reCommerce intermediation model: it buys used electronics from consumers and resells them on eBay or to wholesalers. Going forward, its two main strategic challenges are 1) deciding how much to rely on partnerships with large retailers for... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Markets; Two-Sided Platforms; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Retail Industry; Service Industry
Hagiu, Andrei, and James Weber. "Gazelle in 2012." Harvard Business School Case 711-446, September 2010. (Revised April 2013.)
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
venture community and startup ecosystem.” The HBSCC hosts a wide variety of business and civic leaders for the benefit of alumni, according to Club President Steve Wasko (MBA 1986). “Penny Pritzker is at the pinnacle of both of these... View Details