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- 01 Mar 2018
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Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
considering a PhD program and a career in research or academia. The program also exposes the fellows to in-class case discussions to give them a sense of participant- centered learning and how research leads to preparing View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
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Getting There
as one of the largest tech startups in Southeast Asia. The cofounders sat next to one another in Business at the Base of the Pyramid at HBS, where case discussions focused their attention on building businesses with double or triple...
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- 01 May 2013
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Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979
over the world.” Lessons gained from the case study method, in particular, have stayed with her. “It’s a discipline that encourages you to step back and learn from many perspectives,” Thoman says, adding that her HBS experience has...
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- 17 Apr 2014
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Support for the Global Century
Robert F. Greenhill (MBA 1962), the founder and chairman of an investment banking firm with 13 offices across five continents, is acutely aware of the global nature of business in the 21st century. “As is the case in most companies today,...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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The Class of 1975 in Review
the bet, but his antics no doubt ruled out Baker Scholar honors for the future investment banker. The Cold Calls. There is nothing like seeing the bold and confident get called on to start a case when they least expect it. Professor Jim...
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J. Hans Stumm
- 01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action
Michael Roberts, who is the primary liaison between HBS and the CRC. Roberts, an experienced teacher and case writer who is executive director of entrepreneurial studies at the School, will spend about one week a month at the Center. The...
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Susan Young
- 26 Oct 2011
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On Top, Down Under
team, avoiding group think, and embracing alternative points of view. Often I would read a case and think I had the answers. I’d later discuss the case with my living group and realize that I may have taken...
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- 17 Aug 2020
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Democratizing Medicine
suffered the consequences of that lack of access. “And in particular, we looked at the health care space in the US and realized that 40% of the referrals to specialists were unnecessary. And at the same time, half of the country doesn't get access to a specialist. The...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Martin V. Marshall Remembered
Professor of Business Administration, joined the HBS faculty in 1949. He produced some 200 cases and teaching notes as well as several books, including Automatic Merchandising and Advertising Management. Although he taught in almost every...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Snapping Up Voters
in the contrasts he draws with the medium that still commands the bulk of campaign budgets—which, in the case of the upcoming presidential election, are estimated to swell to a combined $5 billion. Unlike on YouTube, where ads run before...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Sep 2004
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Outsourcing for Radical Change
outsourcing business may be of this nature. Many examples in your book come from outside the United States. Are other nations more advanced in using outsourcing for transformation? The United Kingdom is definitely ahead in using outsourcing in the public sector. View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Faculty Books
organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. An effective business culture can account for up to half of the performance differential between organizations in the same business. Drawing on field research and case studies,...
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- 17 Apr 2014
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A Family Investment
Field. “I was thrilled by the learning. The case studies, the class-room discussions, everything we did was so relevant to my future,” Özyeg in says. “I loved it.” After earning his MBA, Özyeg in joined Fiba, where he currently serves as...
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- 19 Jun 2018
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Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
Strategy Landscape” like a typical HBS lecture, though there was no case included. (View photos.) “We know the audience was quite excited and impressed with the lecture,” says Lovenbach, adding that HBS faculty speakers attract the...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2001
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Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
illegally obtained. Outside the financial institutions, recent cases involving a range of products — such as appliances, helicopters, and gems — demonstrate that a variety of companies aren't vigilant enough when dirty money is used to...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Inspiration Is Not Enough
“human transporter.” But tons of funding and big-name partners couldn’t overcome consumer reluctance. “Kamen endowed Segway with many positive attributes but not enough to break through and claim commercial success,” Harris writes. Many of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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The End of Cows?
affect far more than your dinner. “It’s potentially severely disruptive in that it gets a lot of the current players out of the market and completely changes the supply chain,” says Alvarez, who explores this impact in a new case study...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
programs, and leadership it’s had over the years. For me, the classroom was my favorite place. My chief emphasis was teaching an approach, not so much facts or theories. I especially enjoyed the back-and-forth with students and discussing View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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Alumni Author
What was the process? In most cases I interviewed the faculty member and then worked to distill his or her ideas into one salient point. Often they made fifteen fabulous points, so there was some work in figuring out how to focus each...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Lessons in Leadership
HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn found the leadership lessons in the ill-fated voyage of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance so valuable that she wrote a case study on it. HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace recently asked Koehn...
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