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- 01 Jun 2015
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The Giving Tree
that legacy, one branch of which is shown below. William H. Draper III (MBA 1954) Founding Cochair, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation “The case method was a brand-new concept to me. I was on a very steep learning curve, but it was...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Ads Improve Consumer Decisions
to advertising can actually decrease the probability of a consumer choosing that product. This boosts the case for precision target marketing, which, though often controversial for perceived breaches of privacy, could be beneficial to...
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Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 20 May 2008
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Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot
Just in case you missed it, the Massachusetts legislature has voted to study the idea of taxing college endowments 2.5 percent annually on the amount that exceeds $1 billion. That puts Harvard, with a $34 billion endowment that includes...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Sign of the Times: General Management Course Evolves
Cases will be drawn from existing entrepreneurship courses and from the GM course, and new cases will be developed as needed. Faculty from the Entrepreneurial and Service Management unit will oversee the...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
American bathrooms. Taught in the second-year course Leading Innovative Ventures, the case was coauthored with Masako Egawa (MBA ’86), former executive director of the Japan Research Center, and former research associate Jun Fukuyoshi...
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- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
the CEO, and ideally I become the COO over the course of the process if I hire the right director. And what I mean by that is the producer starts out with the original idea, puts together the whole team, so it starts out with the idea, in this View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
In the Hot Seat
Illustration by Ket-le / iStock; photo courtesy of Jeff Immelt Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1 The makings of a CEO and lessons in leading change Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2 Case studies in crisis management and what it takes to...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
From A to Z
whatever I do is going to involve some kind of business in Nigeria. I was also drawn to the case method as a way to learn, and to the campus facilities. I knew this was a place where I would enjoy spending two years.” Nigerian traits?...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Touching All the Bases: Stephen A. Greyser
Classroom guests (and case study sources) have included sports executives such as Rick Welts, president of NBA Properties; Ed Horne, marketing VP for the NHL; Donald Dell, founder of ProServ; Larry Cancro and Stuart Layne, marketing heads...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
MBA degrees handed out nationally. But more importantly, HBS was cementing its identity, centered on the powerful pedagogy of the case method and on the entire MBA experience as a unique and transformational event. Indeed, the School had...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
discussion under the case method helped me learn when to jump into a debate, and what kinds of evidence to use to be most effective in different situations—skills I draw on when advising the administrator on whether to support or oppose a...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Shared Vision for a Better World
because he was impressed by, among other things, the case method and by several alumni colleagues at Chemical Bank. “It was clear they had been superbly educated,” he says. Upon arriving on the HBS campus, he quickly found community and...
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- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012)
engaged network was—and continues to be—a big part of the HBS experience for me,” she says. Hawthorne remembers many HBS moments that continue to have an impact on her life. One was a case discussion a Technology and Operations Management...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
Women's sports is one of the hottest growth sectors in the business of sports. A case in point is the National Soccer Alliance (NSA), a new women's professional soccer league currently in the startup phase. With exhibition games, special...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Books
stories and cases drawn from years in the field, Bohmer shows how to manage both modes successfully. Finding Your True North: A Personal Guide by Bill George, Andrew McLean, and Nick Craig (Jossey-Bass) Based on Professor of Management...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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James McKenney Remembered
Waves of Change: Business Evolution through Information Technology, McKenney also wrote numerous case studies, among them the first on airline-reservation systems and inventory management across the consumer-products supply chain. Active...
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- 25 Aug 2010
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Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
and making it fair, but it was 1974I, apparently, that removed the biggest obstacle to smooth, somewhat undisruptive playing of the game: they used an agreed-upon bingo phrase rather than shouting out “bingo” itself. If you got “bingo,” you had to get called upon in...
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- 10 Mar 2011
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Philanthropy’s Dilemma
An estimated ten times more money will pour into philanthropy during the first half of this century than during the entire century before. A high-profile case in point is the Giving Pledge, a campaign headed by Bill Gates and Warren...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Air Time
People often ask me how I managed with the morning study groups: I simply did not attend them. I studied on my own. How about case prep with a toddler? I studied all my cases on the weekend. It was a journey...
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- 06 Aug 2008
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Caution to the Winds
inherent conservatism — can stifle its innovative, ground-breaking impact and its inherent progressivism. Is that just a case of markets at work, or a case where markets just don’t work?
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Garry Emmons