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01 Mar 2014
News

Generation Next

"It was an expensive way to learn about the realities of business." Nisa says that her next move, entering business school, was an attempt to outpace critics. "When you're in a family business, you walk around with a big nepotism sign on... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

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Establish the enduring structures required for the journey ahead. - Advancing Racial Equity

unit-led efforts, spur new activities that leverage the School’s constituencies and resources, form strong relationships with Harvard University and with our Allston and Boston neighbors, and foster a shared vision of diversity, equity,... View Details

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

basically to impress her. So I learned how to sing. I learned how to play music and martial arts and many of those things basically just to make sure that she was attracted to me and she found me to be a... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

School's investment in its doctoral programs creates intellectual capital with widespread effects. After receiving their degrees, most graduates of the DBA and Ph.D. programs go on to influential faculty positions at HBS and other top business schools.What they have... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Building Community: Meet the HBS Latino Student Organization Leadership

of learning from when I was a prospective applicant. I ran for Co-President because I wanted to further strengthen the Latino community at HBS and to ensure pre-pandemic traditions carried forward for future LASO members. Camila Diaz I... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Taking the Lead in Support of HBS

Angeles, CA "I support the School because I have benefited tremendously from what I learned at HBS about innovation and building businesses, especially from outstanding professors." —Jennifer Yan (MBA 2000) Partner, Steamboat Ventures... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

January 2016
Case

Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey

This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details

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Harvard Business School

Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years & View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

behavior of others. In his book Complicit, Professor Max Bazerman offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding the psychological and other traps that lead us to ignore, condone, or actively support wrongdoing in our businesses,... View Details

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

the order of 25-, 30-, even 50-percent at highly-ranked schools outside the top 15 or so schools. The schools were, by and large, unaware of how widespread the problem was. Each thought the problem of declining enrolments was unique to them. In the course of our... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

26 Oct 2017
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Can Farming Save the Planet?

if I actually knew what I was doing; you guys should let me in.’ “Having never had a math or a business course before, the first year was interesting, but I clearly had a lot to learn and HBS delivered,” he adds. Once he graduated,... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Organic farming; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry

03 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

better to manage these programs in-house or to use outside experts. . Power Of The Network Affiliate networks slash the cost of buying ads for sellers through the use of advertising marketplaces. In essence, View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing

20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

versus Posted Prices in Online Markets By: Einav, Liran, Chiara Farronato, Jonathan Levin, and Neel Sundaresan Abstract—Auctions were very popular in the early days of internet commerce, but today online sellers mostly use posted prices.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

prospective buyers may be necessary to facilitate the sale. Such disclosures can, of course, be protected in principle through a confidentiality contract which gives the seller the right to sue for unauthorized use of the disclosed... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

negotiations regularly culminated with the seller going from buyer to buyer extracting successively higher prices. The students adhered to the letter of my rules, but the auctions looked a lot like negotiations, and the negotiations... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

If you want to become good at early-stage investing, you need to learn how to size up the fundamental elements of an opportunity. Many investors use checklists or think of evaluation as a process of judging an entrepreneur, or an idea, or... View Details

Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson

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Field Course: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (Application Only) - Course Catalog

Financial Management of Smaller Firms (FMSF), 1452. Enrollment by application only: Students enrolled in FMSF will learn more about the application steps from faculty in fall. This course teaches specific practical skills that are... View Details

01 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Choose the Best Deal

deal work. But without knowing exactly what he'd need to pay for each, how can he determine which property is the better value? How can he judge success in his negotiations with one seller without knowing what the second View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

on consumers, platform managers, and policymakers. Martha Lagace: What piqued your interest in this research? Chiara Farronato: I study market design choices of online platforms from eBay to Airbnb. Online platforms help match many fragmented buyers and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

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