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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog

costs bedevil all countries. The health care sector—inefficient, erratic in quality and access, ripe for massive technological and consumer-facing innovations—is one of the largest sectors that can be transformed with innovation. The... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors

School over the course of 2004. I am pleased to share our plans and our progress to date. Let me begin by reporting that the Global Leadership Forum Committee, with direction from its new chairman, Jean-Marc Daillance (MBA 1984), is... View Details

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

Career Coach

Megan Gardner

Megan (HBS ’06) is an executive coach, board member and tactical advisor for CEOs and senior executives. As a founder and CEO of a technology business, she knows first-hand the value of strong coaching in a rapidly growing business. In... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Hospitality

29 Dec 2019
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Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019

plans for future workforce makeup and training, and its search for opportunities from digital infrastructure and automation. What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2012
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Alumni, Faculty, and Other Experts Offer Career Advice

Three HBS alumni will present online seminars in this fall’s Career Management Webinar Series, a resource offered by Alumni Career & Professional Development. Mark Chussil (MBA 1979) will discuss creating your ideal life; Jill Miller Perrin (MBA 1985) will analyze how... View Details

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

12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

collar and a sketch on a Palo Alto bar napkin helped launch a tech giant. READ MORE Jen Flint: I wondered if the two of you could go back and tell us the story of how you wound up writing this business plan together as a school project... View Details

24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine

Above: illustration by Matthew Roharik/Getty Images In November 2019, a team from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, visited Moderna, Inc.’s manufacturing plant in Norwood, Massachusetts. The biotech... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Jun 2017
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Better Hiring Through Brain Science

activities than scanning a résumé for six seconds—which is what the average recruiter does,” she says. But just as important as efficiency to companies like Unilever is the diversity of applicants that Pymetrics delivers—a trait unique to the company, says Polli,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

2012, Phil Strause (MBA 1967), a former boss from an early career stint at Deloitte, sent Lo a business plan for a vertical farming company. She forwarded it on to the German investor, whose family, it so happened, had major European... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

April 2011 (Revised February 2015)
Course Overview Note

The Online Economy: Strategy and Entrepreneurship — Course Architecture Note

By: Peter Coles and Benjamin Edelman

This note provides an overview of the Harvard Business School course "The Online Economy: Strategy and Entrepreneurship." It covers the framework for the course, key principles within each course module, and a synopsis of each case, along with the lessons the case is... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Plan; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Entrepreneurship; Business Strategy; Information Technology; Internet and the Web

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01 Mar 2012
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School’s Financial Picture Brighter than Expected

million to $132 million. Although Harvard Business Publishing experienced planned increases for expenses to boost its technology platform and expand its sales organization, revenue grew by $17 million to... View Details

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

04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

entrepreneurs who are building new ventures. In 2005, the group is considering increasing its investment focus to include a broader range of technologies, including emerging technologies (for example, Mobile and RFID technologies) and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2014
News

The New Venture Competition's Digital Democracy

The annual alumni New Venture Competition (NVC) is giving the power to the people. As in past years, the HBS regional alumni clubs held local qualifying rounds, producing a dozen or more NVC finalists. But instead of traveling to Boston to make their case in front of a... View Details

Keywords: New Venture Competition

28 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 28

http://www.amazon.com/Business-History-Elgar-Walter-Friedman/dp/1781955263/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389789862&sr=1-2&keywords=Business+History+Jones+and+Friedman August 2013 Management Science The Distinct Effects of Information View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 1997
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Manager's Notebook

frequent-flyer programs) when discounts on future flights or other products and services are offered in exchange. "Many of our MBAs plan to run their own business after graduation. Having a good partner is extremely important." "Many of... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

01 Oct 1999
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A Message from Dean Clark

that are yielding substantial results. Our extensive investment in information technology (IT) has been particularly effective, enhancing our ability to teach, conduct research, and serve our diverse and often far-flung constituencies.... View Details

Student-Faculty-Profile

Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell

anxiety impacts the quality of a financial planning experience and the integrity of the resulting financial plan, both of which will impact customer satisfaction. The financial services industry has acknowledged that retirement planning,... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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HBS Contributors Report

The HBS Contributors Report was mailed to some 13,000 donors in November and reflects all new gifts, pledges, and planned gifts received during fiscal year 2010, ending last June 30. Total commitments exceeded $130 million. Alumni gifts... View Details

Keywords: meta

01 Aug 2001
News

Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)

turmoil, Goldberg remains as focused and busy as ever. He currently chairs a National Research Council subcommittee planning the direction of the U.S. government's future agricultural research, has been invited to lead food-policy task... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; John H. Davis; Agriculture; Scientific Research and Development Services

24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006

Course MaterialsCellular Service Harvard Business School Case 707-424 Background on cellular service technology and "friends and family" plans as foundation for discussing network effects. Purchase... View Details