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- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
Clubs News Clubs News Demystifying AI at Orange County Leadership Breakfast At its first HBS Leadership Breakfast event since before the pandemic, the HBS Association of Orange County (HBSAOC) tackled the potential of AI with a talk... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements - Course Catalog
strategy execution, performance, financial prospects, and value. The primary emphasis is on the analysis of public companies, but the framework and tools are also relevant to private enterprises. This course is particularly valuable to... View Details
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
In the 2012 US presidential election, the Obama campaign deftly used a Facebook app to register voters and have friends message them to get out the vote. But it was 2016 presidential campaign that really changed social media’s impact on... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
KHP’s investment strategy, if at all? MD: This downturn is terrible for the travel business, to be sure, but it does create significant investment opportunities. Our strategy has always been to find an... View Details
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
booksellers have survived. How Disruptive Innovation Changes EducationChristensen advocates for innovation to spur much-needed improvements in public education. Using Fintech to Disrupt Eastern Bank from Within When Eastern Bank decided to battle a threat from new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2014
- Blog Post
A Summer Reflection
team meetings (e.g., what can Walmart learn from GM’s issues with recalls?), murals on the wall listing these values / rules, and so on. I have never worked in an environment where the culture was such an active focus. For such a vast company, View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
private or small-group classes. “Education is correlated with stronger language education,” she says. While it’s challenging for workers to start from scratch, it is “absolutely doable,” she adds. In related research, Neeley, who speaks... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
Fifth Third’s employees back to the office he remarked that, “We can’t be a great company working remotely We can get the job done, but it’s tough to flourish.” The comment refers to Fifth Third’s management core. Like many service organizations, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
decades, the system may have worked better than ever for the constituencies that it was built to serve best: primary voters, donors, and lobbyists for special interests, including businesses. Unfortunately for the American public, most... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
where they are given no information about auction payoff rules, subjects converge on playing their optimal strategy significantly faster in sequential auctions conducted with a standard second price auction mechanism than with a clamped... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Father of Modern Management by Bob Buford (OPM 2, 1977) (Worthy Publishing) Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care by Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997) and Stephen Baker (Portfolio) Bush, the cofounder and CEO of... View Details
Charles W. Nash
Not wanting to compete with the "Big Three" auto makers in the 1920s, Nash carved out a unique niche for well-designed luxury automobiles at medium prices. This strategy was very successful for Nash Motors as View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Walter A. Haas, Jr.
Walter A. Haas Jr. was responsible for Levi’s concentration on blue jeans production. He targeted the marketing strategy to teenagers and as blue jeans became the symbol of nonconformity, Levi’s rapidly multiplied View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 14 May 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
Organizations stand to benefit when ideas are cross-fertilized and diverse individuals learn to work together. "Outsiders" can introduce valuable ideas. Learning and execution are often at odds: Learning by its nature involves... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
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Online Learning Track Programs | HBS Online
HBS Online is currently offering a Learning Track in: Leadership & Management Strategy Entrepreneurship & Innovation Business in Society Finance & Accounting Marketing What You Earn Certificate of Specialization By completing any three... View Details
Joshua Yguado
Buenos Aires, and Berlin. Jam City awards include Facebook Game of the Year, and Best Game of the Year honors from Google and Apple. Before launching Jam City, Josh was a senior executive at Fox Entertainment Group. His career also includes View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
The facts of the ever-widening skills gap are increasingly difficult to ignore: As many as 9 million tech jobs sit vacant across the US, Europe, and China, says Przemyslaw Berendt (PLDA 18, 2014). And judging by the $1 trillion spent on View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
impersonal forces and events. Indeed, in the field of business history, it was HBS professor Alfred Chandler who shifted the focus of scholars and others away from individual heroic entrepreneurs toward a concentrated examination of the... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- News
The Business of Access
nonprofits and social services organizations whose staffs had the skills to help, and plotted a different way to give back. “My thinking was, if I were to help people here in California,” she recalls, “that would pay it forward for... View Details