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- 16 Dec 2010
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The Emergent Arab World
scholarship; today, a computer search using the key words “Middle East” produces some 58 cases at the Harvard Business Publishing Web site. Almost all of them were written in the last ten years. Surely we can expect more in the future,...
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- 07 Jun 2011
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Back to the Future
Alden and his people-moving car, with Walter Cronkite in the driver’s seat, 1966. Photo courtesy William Alden Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur. Consider the case of William Alden (MBA ’52), as reported in the Cape Cod Times...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Supporting Women in Leadership
women and leadership. "Harvard is a global platform—HBS cases are read by so many individuals around the world. We thought, how do we help the leading business school in the world focus on this?" says Kordestani, cofounder and COO of the...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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A Marketable Skill
explains Gehrke. "I am definitely not the type to climb the corporate ladder." In 1978, she launched Design Lines, Inc., a small housewares business. When the company failed in 1980 ("a textbook case of being unwilling to let anybody come...
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- 22 Nov 2013
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A Passion for Film
Management (TOM) Unit, which still resonates in the work he does today. "I bring some of the stuff I learned in that class to the majority of my days," he says, recalling a case study of Krups, the coffee maker, and analysis of cost,...
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- 24 Oct 2013
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Engineering a More Secure World
Management. Harris approached the three decades after HBS as if he were tackling case studies in entrepreneurship. From executive positions at utility companies and owning a car dealership, to launching a Silicon Valley startup, each of...
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- 08 Oct 2013
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The Green Giant
to the US and looking to our Senate to make those commitments." Roberts appreciates how HBS is integrating environmental and sustainability concerns into case studies and says he would love to see Harvard continue to build a strong...
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- 23 Jul 2013
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Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
setting with others of like talent. Employing the case method, it is predicated upon the same expectations as HBS, that the candidates have real-world experience and exceptional ability. In the core program, participants receive 360 hours...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Facing Ambiguity
commitment of time and resources, careful consideration is given to whether a case justifies the treatment. “It’s not technology for technology’s sake,” Roberto notes. “We should only use multimedia when we have a pedagogical innovation,...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
truly amazing,” adds Goldman. “The Partners of 63 will be critical to DonorsChoose as we expand nationwide. Their expertise is invaluable.” Goldman also calls upon classmates and HBS professors for advice. In fact, Associate Professor Frances Frei decided to write a...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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John R. Davis
and accounting for all 800 “cow units” (a standard measurement that in this case means about 1,175 actual cattle). Calving season calls for constant monitoring of the pregnant cows and helping them give birth — including stitching them up...
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- 02 Jun 2011
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Serious Fun
green pigs. If the ultimate outcome of that frantic gaming also teaches us something (probably not the case with Angry Birds), our brain is likely too engaged in the task of winning to rebel against some higher purpose. Nick Maynard...
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- 19 Oct 2012
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Past and Present
Sullivan: Fulfilling an age-old human curiosity. Photo courtesy Ancestry.com For Tim Sullivan (MBA 1991), the case method was the perfect way to learn. Sullivan, who is president and CEO of Ancestry.com—the world’s largest online...
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- 25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
call out “bingo.” The faculty frowned on this disruption. To meet this challenge, the rules were again changed, and you had to be called on and work the word “bingo” into your participation in the classroom discussion. Some efforts were a real stretch. For example, one...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Inside the Revolution
the School’s Global Research Centers in helping faculty work on cases and find research opportunities. The LSP builds contacts, compiles databases, organizes seminars, and encourages and supports case...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting
organizations tighten their belts by simply cutting travel across the board? “I think the core issue for everyone is the same, which is how do you buy time?” remarks HBS professor Bill Sahlman, coauthor with Jackie Donnelly Russell (MBA ’92) of a recently published...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
Illustration by PJ Loughran Everyone talks about how quickly business changes. yet some HBS cases remain reliably relevant decades after they are written. In the pages that follow, we take a behind-the-scenes look at five View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
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Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Senior Lecturer José Alvarez visited wheat fields at a farm owned and run by the Duhau Group in Argentina’s Pampa region. The company was the subject of a case Alvarez wrote, which he taught in the Agribusiness Seminar in 2019. (photo by...
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- 27 Mar 2019
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Sharing the Road
the case of car sharing is the same car gets utilized almost about 75 to 80 percent of the time. “We've invested in two very important aspects of our business. We invest today in telematics and internet of things as a technology to be...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Going Forward
to improve the perception of HBS and business in the world; to engage with the University in mutually beneficial ways; and to build the case for flexible funding that would support innovation at the School. On all these dimensions we have...
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