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- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
wrote a case study on Code.org, which is a nonprofit organization that wants to make sure every student in America’s K–12 system has the opportunity to learn about computer science. There are millions of...
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- 22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes
Abington High School in suburban Philadelphia, Stephen Schwarzman (MBA 1972) got waitlisted at Harvard College. So he found the number for Harvard’s dean of admissions and called him up to plead his case...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Late Start, Dramatic Finish
first-year MBAs overcame significant obstacles to win the twelfth annual Babcock Marketing Case Competition, held in January at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Due to weather delays,...
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- 18 Aug 2015
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New HBS Fund Chairs
numerous leadership positions including launching the firm’s European Leveraged Finance unit in 1997 and leading it for three years. He has held his current position, head of Global Private Equity, since 2007. View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel Partners. He figured he’d stay a...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
manufacturing. Highly polished injection-molded case MADE IN CHINA REASON U.S. supplier base eroded as the manufacture of toys, consumer electronics, and computers migrated to Asia. Wireless card MADE IN...
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- 29 Sep 2022
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) left his job as an investment banker in New York to move back to his native Senegal as an advisor to the minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. The position would entail developing the country’s private sector;...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2011
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Faculty Research Online
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga What goes into creating the world’s largest pop star? Before her fame hit, Lady Gaga’s manager faced decisions that could have derailed the performer’s career. A new View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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James McKenney Remembered
Waves of Change: Business Evolution through Information Technology, McKenney also wrote numerous case studies, among them the first on airline-reservation systems and inventory management across View Details
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Good as Our Word
ratings to highly complex and opaque mortgage- and asset-backed securities. How had the rating agencies gotten it so wrong? In the recent case “Kroll Bond Rating Agency,” HBS...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face
were blamed for the Estonia disaster, Bemis believes foul play was involved, based on evidence gathered during an unauthorized dive he made to the wreck in 2000. (There is a warrant for his arrest in Sweden...
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- 18 May 2011
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Man with a Plan
Smaller Company Management Program (today’s Owner/President Management Program). “What better place to look for those answers than Harvard Business School?” At HBS, Rane recalled that two cases made all the...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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Antitrust in Historical Perspective
terms with what business itself should be. Is it a method for delivering goods to consumers at the lowest prices? Is it a mechanism for providing employment? Is it a tool for asserting national power abroad?...
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Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Sep 2014
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All For One
community, people can align themselves around a shared sense of purpose,” says Hill. Such was the case with Luca de Meo, who became head of marketing for Volkswagen (VW) in 2010. When he surveyed View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do
lack of market linkages are only a few of the problems. The story of women is an economic story. Investing in women creates a safer, prosperous, and more stable world, which is in everyone’s best interest.”...
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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...
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- 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,...
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- 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 View Details
- 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...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity
junior professionals in consulting and investment banking firms. She found that these individuals had various methods of discovering how to create an effective image for themselves as senior managers. The...
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