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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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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Fellowship in 2016. Lakshmi Ramarajan : Winner of the First Annual African American Student Union (AASU) Case Award in 2016 for "Carla Ann Harris at Morgan Stanley" (HBS Case No. 415-029) with Alex Radu, taught in the HBS Second-year View Details

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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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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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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

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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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Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Wind Sculpture (SG) V 2019 | About

Kanu Park, Lagos, Nigeria; Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC; and Davidson College, North Carolina. Nominated for the Turner Prize in 2004, Shonibare was also featured in the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. He was View Details

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

do not confuse the two. They periodically step back from their arguments and try to confirm their assumptions by examining them critically. If they find that some still lack hard evidence, they may elect to proceed, but they will at least... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

03 Nov 2021
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Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist

Tango’s Venture Capital (VC) and Private Equity elective class. A special tradition at HBS is that the entire section signs a hard copy of the case when it is taught for the first time. My return to campus was made even more memorable as... 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

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Renovating Democratic Capitalism

By: Malcolm S. Salter

This in-process work focuses on how best to address the declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider to be a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer to this question is not entirely clear, I... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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High Fives

as a member of the corporate finance department after graduating from HBS. Elected a managing director in 1978, he was eventually given responsibility for engineering Lehman's mergers and acquisitions area. In 1985, he left Lehman to... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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The Internet's Next Frontier

about One outgrowth of the lab’s work is the MBA elective that debuted this spring, Building Web3 Businesses. Created by Bernstein, Kominers, and Senior Researcher Liang Wu (MBA 2018), the course evolved from the Short Intensive Program... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

21 Aug 2000
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From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

started the case for his elective course on Globalization and Strategy, said that it also illustrates the first efforts of the LARC advisory committee to address business issues unique to the region. "We started talking about what... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

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HBS - The year in Review

Required Curriculum, and Kristin Mugford and Tom Nicholas for outstanding teaching in the Elective Curriculum. Two HBS faculty members, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Robert Huckman , were recognized for their exceptional mentorship,... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order

book) is accelerating that trend. “There are substantial public health impacts in wildfire smoke, extreme heat, and the aftermath of flooding,” notes Macomber, who teaches the MBA electives Business Opportunities in Climate Adaptation and... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

11 Jan 2010
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Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

competes through a proprietary business model and the other opens one module, generally the extensions. As the quality difference grows, cannibalization concerns lessen, and both competitors elect to compete through the same mixed source... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

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By: Rohit Deshpande

Rohit Deshpandé is Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business Schoolwhere he currently teaches in the Owner/President Management Program and in other executive education offerings. He has also taught global branding, international marketing, and... View Details

12 Oct 2017
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Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

as the School’s first Goldman Sachs Fellow, and was elected copresident of the African American Student Union (AASU). “I had never taken an accounting or finance class before I went to HBS,” he notes. “The AASU study groups and community... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

address. Employees watched closely the numbers of users who might elect the “DeleteMyAccount” button on Facebook. What would you do? Mark Zuckerberg has come to you today to help formulate a plan of action for the company and for his... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

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