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Celebrating our Student Fathers - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to... View Details

18 Jul 2014
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Team Players

HBS. He lost, and Blumkin, who was struggling to see a career path out of sales, headed for Cambridge to find out how the case study method might change her game plan. "For a young woman who had grown up in... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment

that point and have tried to use that lesson throughout my life. See Every Side Jacqueline Beato (MBA 2009) THE GREATEST LESSON I took from the case study method at HBS is that opposing viewpoints are all... View Details

Keywords: Walter Frese; Martin V. Marshall; C. Roland Christensen; Lawrence Fouraker; Educational Services

01 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor

with a “what’s in it for me attitude” and little patience. I have found that there is really no shortcut to success, and learning business takes time. Companies are different, industries are different, and the case View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

05 May 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

Facts in the Face—and What to Do About It. Tedlow, a business historian, defines denial as "the unwillingness to see or admit a truth that ought to be apparent and is in fact apparent to many others." In other words, denial is "seeing but not... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Introduction Training Certificate Management Program Harvard-Radcliffe HBS MBA Program Methods of Instruction Theory to Practice The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration: 1956 - 1962 078, 057a A Growing Partnership... View Details

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

spending time with each other, those can be overcome.” The panelists also discussed the possibility of collaborating on teaching methods. For instance, some SEAS classes could adopt Harvard Business School’s case View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

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Malory Mclemore

future of aerospace that I envisioned. I became curious about the HBS case method and decided to apply after talking with aerospace professionals who had attended HBS and were influencing aerospace at a high... View Details

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

paper I just assumed that noncompetes were an invention of modern—especially high tech—companies. But as you make clear, noncompetes have enjoyed a long history. How and why did they arise? A: The earliest recorded noncompete case was... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

measurement had fueled great market success for the division, but alternative non-contact measurement methods that employed optical or x-ray technologies were rapidly gaining ground in the market. This case... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

tendency of governments is to cut back on foreign or development aid, which creates a similar pressure to what we're seeing in the United States. The emphasis on results is far stronger. There's a shift toward trying to get countries (in the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Jan 2004
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A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

Chairman, President & Chief Executive, The Procter & Gamble Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Hamilton College, 1969 A.B., History LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "The case study View Details

15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

delivery tomorrow versus two days in the future do not show this want/should pattern, and we briefly discuss survey results suggesting a potential explanation for the nonlinearity in customers' apparent decreasing impatience. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

dirty to clean technology. We then estimate the model using a combination of regression analysis on the relationship between R&D and patents, and simulated method of moments using microdata on employment, production, R&D, firm... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

Harvard economist N. Gregory Mankiw, Weinzierl coauthored the HBS working paper "The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution" [PDF]. The main framework economists use to think through tax... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2020
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Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

good business can be built around it?’ Kaelyn: The required curriculum gave me a broad groundwork that enabled me to ask the right questions during my internship. In particular, the case method enabled me to... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

09 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)

ago. Or the first Newton, Tang, or Roomba. Everyone knows and understands a better mousetrap when they see one—no selling skills really required. But a 3-D printer? Why would I want that? How much does it cost to maintain? What’s wrong with my current View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Consumer Products; Electronics; Industrial Products; Information Technology; Manufacturing; Medical Devices & Supplies; Retail

13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007

contribute to longer term complementary effects which work to overcome the losses from cannibalization. Our results are based on both interrupted time series analysis and a difference-in-differences analysis of six years of proprietary sales data and we use a novel zip... View Details