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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
deciding that. The naming of Brett McGurk to the government, as well as others who are part of this story, has given people some hope, I think. They have never given up, and I do hope that people take inspiration from this book: Women led, and they created role View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
campus to be a model of best practice for them. On the academic front, in addition to a burgeoning number of technology-related courses in the curriculum, students use technological tools - interactive cases, for instance - in their class...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
will carry the day.” An assistant professor of organization and strategy at Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, Moreton has focused his research on economic and organizational models of business strategy,...
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- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
horizons. We also demonstrate that nonlinear boosting models with feature selection, such as random forests, perform significantly better than traditional linear models. The best-performing method (random forest) yields an out-of-sample...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
teams to win, but also to lay odds for other punters to back. This business model allows punters to cut out the middleman of the bookmaker and leads to a much more efficient two-sided market. Betfair.com's domination of the betting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
and improved services in the same area. Written with the assistance of Namrata Arora, a research associate at the HBS India Research Center, the case considers the potential risks and rewards of approaching an area like Dharavi with a new View Details
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Product Management - Course Catalog
These exercises are modeled after PM in-person or take-home interview questions. These may require students to do work/research that extends beyond the information provided. Most importantly, they give students an opportunity to create a...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
of investment management. “I think that vote captured a powerful tension inside the students,” she remarks. “They have plenty of mathematical and financial models to support the point of view that restricting the size of an ‘investable...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
and an espoused belief system that stressed respect, integrity, and communication end up in such a situation? How could an innovative business model that showed so much promise have gone wrong so suddenly? Why did Wall Street and...
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- October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
- Supplement
Dulcie Madden (B)—A Difficult Choice
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
This is part of a three-case series that follows Dulcie Madden's journey as a founder over five years. Case (A) is about managing growth and cash flow; Case (B) is about the exit decision and conditions on a sale; Case (C) shows Madden dealing with adversity and the...
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Entrepreneurial Management;
Family;
Family Conflicts;
Founders' Agreements;
Growth And Development;
Hardware;
VC;
Scaling;
Start-up;
Female Ceo;
Risk Assessment;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth Management;
Cash Flow;
Equity;
Success;
Failure;
Acquisition;
Business Model;
Information Technology;
Valuation;
Family and Family Relationships;
Information Infrastructure
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "Dulcie Madden (B)—A Difficult Choice." Harvard Business School Supplement 820-053, October 2019. (Revised January 2020.)
- October 2011 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
LinkedIn Corporation
By: Francois Brochet and James Weber
The case is set at the end of the first public trading day of LinkedIn, an online professional network company. It provides information on the company's business model, financial statements, competitive landscape, and IPO terms, to help the reader critically assess the...
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Initial Public Offering;
Growth and Development;
Earnings Management;
Risk Management;
Valuation;
SWOT Analysis;
Emerging Markets;
Business Model;
Information Technology;
Competitive Strategy;
Web Services Industry
Brochet, Francois, and James Weber. "LinkedIn Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 112-006, October 2011. (Revised January 2012.)
- 06 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Cheers to the American Consumer
problem-solving entrepreneurs and successful entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates and Michael Dell become well-respected role models for younger people. Marketing, a distinctly American expertise, has of course encouraged consumers to be...
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by John Quelch
- Profile
Aspa Lekka
"I started knowing nothing," she says. But she went above and beyond the call of duty, completing extra work to advance her skills. "I managed to build a number of models for digital marketing – it gave me deep knowledge of...
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On Course | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
financing and advisory services to nonprofits throughout the US. “At first I was looking for something longer than one year, but this job description was a dream,” she says. “I report directly to the CEO—a leader and role model in the...
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- 11 Oct 2019
- News
Balancing Act
business world as an investment-banking associate. She was often the only woman in a meeting—a fact that was frequently commented on by colleagues and clients—and when she looked at the company’s leadership ranks, she saw few women who could serve as role View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
need arise.) Lyft plans to ease the rest of its 23 million passengers into the new model gradually, city by city. Here, Kapoor takes your questions about what a self-driving future might look like. Illustration by Matt Chinworth How does...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
community education program for minorities. "Young people need role models who can teach them not only basic academic skills," he says, "but also about what the stock market is, how to get a loan, and what to wear to a job interview. They...
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Judith A. Ross
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
Photography by Jason Minick At the age of 16, Fortunat Mueller-Maerki (MBA 1975) was given his first clock, a Viennese desk model from the late 18th century. It came to him from the estate of a distant relative, and wasn’t particularly...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Alumni Board Wraps Up Year
development of a sustainable model for Executive Education reunions. The committee also suggested creating more opportunities for Executive Education participants to interact with MBA students. Additional recommendations may result from...
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- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
White House conference on environmental quality that convened engineering firms and federal procurement officials, both the Defense Department and the EPA approached the Zofnass Program to learn more about Envision. Zofnass Program director Pollalis has called it a...
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