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Digital Transformation - HBS Online

Online. I think the certificates help you get noticed and through the door to a job offer. Richard Pitts Certificate of Specialization in Strategy What sets HBS Online apart? Our flexible, online programs are designed to bring the Harvard... View Details

March 2007 (Revised November 2012)
Case

Parmalat Uruguay (A)

By: Paul Marshall and Gustavo Herrero

Three young MBAs create a partnership to acquire the assets of Parmalat in Uruguay. Focuses on their analysis prior to submitting a bid and their plan for improving the operations once their bid is accepted. In addition to improving operations, they must negotiate with... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Entrepreneurship; Borrowing and Debt; Negotiation; Performance Improvement; Uruguay

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Educators

Purchase

01 Mar 2008
News

Innovation, Inc.

of the French pointillist painter, and it’s easy to imagine Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey humming the same tune. But if creativity is integral to business, and to entrepreneurship in particular, how exactly does it occur? Where does this... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think creatively, and be alert for... View Details

John S. (Jack) Knight

Knight inherited Akron's Beacon-Journal in 1933 from his father and built it into a leading newspaper publishing conglomerate. A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Knight also had a knack for business. Through several major View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

Willard H. Dow

Dow grew the company his father had founded through acquisitions and mergers. He acquired a 75% interest in Midland Ammonia in 1930, partnered with Ethyl Gas in 1933, joined with Cleveland-Cliffs Iron in... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

01 Mar 2005
News

Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference

the conference attracted more than 800 women to the HBS campus. The panel on entrepreneurship at which Shukla spoke was moderated by HBS professor Lynda Applegate. It focused on the unique challenges women face in starting a company,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Profile

Joe Khoury

countries in Asia, Latin America and Europe and got exposure to more than 500 different cases. In less than two years, HBS has offered all possible resources to help me start a business and go through the whole process of ideation,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship

11 Aug 2014
News

The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)

educated, and provided with artisan skills. Doing well by doing good is important to us and we support a good cause through our supply chain." What's been the best and most challenging part of building the business? "The best part of the... View Details

Career Coach

Adam Bronfin

Adam spent five years in real estate private equity prior to HBS. In his previous role, he gained experience across many different verticals within the industry, including development / construction, private equity, structured finance / credit investing, View Details

13 Jun 2018
News

The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)

can help a lot, and yet these are not sufficient. Entrepreneurship is a skill you learn out in the wild, through failure after failure and through persistence when everything... View Details

23 Nov 2020
Blog Post

We Rise

But change cannot wait, says Barna, just one of many alumni and academics in the entrepreneurship and investing sectors who advocate steps toward inclusivity like the ideas offered here. “Innovation through... View Details

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

Professor William A. Sahlman calls "the problem of simultaneity." If, as the business school defines it, entrepreneurship is the pursuit of a business opportunity requiring resources beyond one's control, Polished was all... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

28 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 28

Kindler barely mentions McKinnell's (controversial) early retirement and describes efforts to reform the company. The case closes in February 2009, just after Pfizer announces plans to acquire competitor Wyeth. Since 2000, Pfizer's tremendous growth in assets View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Oct 2014
Webinars: Trending@HBS

Can China Lead?

Can China sustain its remarkable emergence of the past 35 years? Surely No, for multiple reasons. China will be a leader, but not the leader. Professor McFarlan will talk about both the challenges and opportunities for those seeking to do business with and within China... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Golden State of Mind

Tim Draper (MBA 1984) tells 30 students assembled poolside at Draper University, a seven-week entrepreneurship boot camp targeting 18- to 28-year-olds that he launched in 2012 after purchasing and renovating the vintage 1926 Benjamin... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

29 Nov 2017
Blog Post

HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise

to build skills required to succeed as an early stage entrepreneur. Next, we advanced to the semifinal round of the New Venture Competition (NVC), an annual entrepreneurship competition that awards $300,000 in cash prizes to HBS startup... View Details

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

are the opposite of what we'd expect based on large-company compensation patterns. Q: Can you explain the difference between stewardship theory and agency theory? How do these theories apply to new venture firms? A: Agency theory is the standard lens View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

19 Apr 2017
News

Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action

a clone of Silicon Valley, but as a unique, networked support system with its own identity. Positioning Chicago as a city conducive to entrepreneurship required ongoing, deliberate efforts on the part of Emanuel (who was sworn in as mayor... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Emmanuel

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjöman: In the first eighteen months of operation (July 2002 through December 2003), thirty-eight faculty members were supported in either course development projects or research activities. So far, ten case... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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