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24 Jan 2020
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Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67

and taught for many years the MBA elective curriculum offering, Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, which uses a general manager's lens to evaluate theories about strategy, innovation, and management to predict which tools,... View Details

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Administration Ethan Rouen is an associate professor of business administration in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches the elective course Reimagining Capitalism. From 2020 to 2022, he served as... View Details

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

painfully." “Lean startups don't try to scale up the business until they have product market fit, a magical event-more easily recognized in retrospect than in the moment-when they finally have a solution that matches the problem.” Eisenmann has developed a new MBA... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

04 Apr 2022
What Do You Think?

As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

parks—responsible for spreading “pixie dust” for Disney’s “guests”—were supporters of these groups. Within Disney, employees were protesting on social media and organizing walkouts from company theme parks in Florida and elsewhere. In spite of these warnings, Chapek... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Oct 2018
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Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

doubt that it was where I wanted to be. Thankfully, I was accepted—and I can say with certainty, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. Life at HBS Now as a second-year, Elective Curriculum (EC) student at HBS, I can honestly say... View Details

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Cali Tran

they were about mundane things like test-scores, student-body elections and after-school sports. Unlike my mother, I grew up with the privilege of choice and I fully intend to indulge in this privilege. I choose to remember my family... View Details

10 Nov 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Crony Capitalism, American Style: What Are We Talking About Here?

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter

21 May 2012
Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

With an election looming and the economy continuing to struggle, the effectiveness of government regulation has become a political football. While advocates hold regulations up as necessary to protect public health and safety, critics see... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Annual Report 2020 - Annual Report 2020

Corporate Restructuring, Elective Curriculum “Beyond her mastery of course content, Professor Mugford’s infectious enthusiasm and dedication were inspiring. She managed to make a technical class very rewarding, accessible, and fun.”... View Details

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Joiner - Entrepreneurship

Student Journey Joiner Required Curriculum Elective Curriculum View Video Getting a job at a startup is a networked path and individual search. Throughout your time at HBS, use resources such as the Rock Center, VCPs, EIRs, Baker... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Business Book Award Gold Medal for the Best Book on Entrepreneurship for Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed and What to Do About It (Princeton University Press, 2009). Josh Lerner : View Details

24 Oct 2019
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Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

at HBS. The third and fourth years are elective years in which students take courses at both schools just like their peers. JD/MBAs have been known to pursue a variety of additional pursuits related to their personal interests. At the law... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico

social policy of the new administration. He was then asked to join the new government. He elected instead to return to HBS, a decision he does not regret. “I’ve been fortunate enough to do research with Professor Michael Porter,” Ramirez... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; World Bank; United Nations; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

The world’s uncertainties can feel like a tsunami washing over your business. Bill George recommends navigating with a compass pointing to your own True North. Source: iStock With the events of 2016—Brexit, the election of Donald Trump,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Transferring Data - Research Computing Services

Potentially up to Level 4 Individuals may elect to mail ("snail mail") or hand deliver (i.e., “Sneaker Net”) electronic data on a external portable storage device. This can included devices like flash drives. Note that if the data are... View Details

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

company's senior investment officer and was elected to its board of directors in 1936. Edwin Bush Jourdain Jr. HBS 1921–1924 New Bedford, MA Harvard College, 1921 The son of a member of the Niagara Movement, a civil rights organization... View Details

April 2017 (Revised March 2024)
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Making Target the Target: Boycotts and Corporate Political Activity

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Victor Wu

Through the challenges facing Target, the case examines ways in which corporations can become involved in political and legislative debates and processes, ranging from campaign contributions to lobbying to political activism. In 2016, Target CEO Brian Cornell must... View Details

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Melcolm Ruffin

goals and a trajectory beyond what I would've previously imagined." By the time Melcolm arrived on campus in 2018, he "felt I was already part of AASU," and he's been elected co-president for the 2019-20 term. Melcolm plans... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 08 Nov 2024 By Unit View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View Accounting & Management Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits The Anatomy of Fraud... View Details

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Laura taught undergraduate Military Leadership and Intro to Sociology for 6 and 4 semesters, respectively, at the United States Military Academy (West Point) from 2013-2016 (see course descriptions and links below). She was promoted from instructor to Assistant... View Details

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