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- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
opportunistic low-ball offers. Working Papers The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination By: Bormann, Sara, Jan Bouwens, and Christian Hofmann Abstract—This study examines how control elements of a firm affect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
Dowling launched Workparent, a coaching and consulting firm that supports organizations and individuals by providing practical tips and techniques that help workers excel at home and on the job. To date, the company has advised parents on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
job test scores or grant managers discretion in making hiring decisions. We implement our test in the context of the introduction of a valuable job test across 15 firms employing low-skill service sector... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
management should understand about IT is its associated economics. Driven by Moore's Law, those evolving economics have enabled every industry's transaction costs to decrease continually, resulting in new economics for the firm and... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 11 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
decline. “I need to keep my professional skills in play, or they will atrophy.” The path ahead, however, remained unclear. Kloeblen was not sure how his executive experience could translate into one, or multiple, roles, what kinds of... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55694 forthcoming Journal of Monetary Economics U.S. Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles By: Bräuning, Falk, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract— Foreign banks’ lending to firms in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
course, Eisenmann teaches cases on cloud storage company Dropbox and the social search service Aardvark. Both firms' founders were early practitioners of the lean startup method. The Dropbox team initially announced a bare-bones version... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- News
Nohria’s Next Move
In a message to the HBS community this week, former Dean Nitin Nohria shared his next chapter. “I am pursuing a new adventure as the Executive Chairman of Thrive Capital, a firm that invests in and builds technology-enabled companies.”... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
Counsel while earning a law degree at Georgetown, “so I was comfortable with research.” As he pitched his services to companies in need of legal advice, he refined and expanded his business plan to focus on research in the financial... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster
In 2009, technology researchers at Forrester published a report entitled We Are All Media Companies Now, that looked at how publishing firms were dealing with the shift from a distribution paradigm to one based on consumption. By 2014,... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Smaller Firms (also listed under Finance) Richard Ruback Royce Yudkoff Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 The Founder Mindset Reza Satchu Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero (also listed under General... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
accounting at night while working days and came to HBS at the urging of his boss, who even offered to pay his application fee. Saladrigas's friendly, regular-guy demeanor belies his lengthy list of personal and professional... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
schedule would do the trick, with the bulk of the payment due when procurement budgets are replenished. The frustrated supplier also may be overlooking a fundamental set-up barrier. While top management from both firms might speak of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
associated with the passage of a directive in the European Union (EU) mandating increased nonfinancial disclosure. These disclosures relate to firms’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and would be applicable to firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2002
- Case
Pallotta TeamWorks
By: Allen S. Grossman and Elizabeth Kind
Pallotta Team Works is a for-profit, privately owned company that produces multiday fundraising events for nonprofit organizations. Dan Pallotta, the 40-year-old CEO, founded the enterprise in 1992. The company has grown rapidly, having raised over $200 million for... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Nonprofit Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Service Industry; Service Industry; United States
Grossman, Allen S., and Elizabeth Kind. "Pallotta TeamWorks." Harvard Business School Case 302-089, April 2002.
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Thomas S. Volpe, MBA 1976
fund at HBS “to add fuel to the fire that kindles the entrepreneurial spirit.” In a career that has included leadership roles at firms such as Blyth Eastman Paine Webber, Hambrecht & Quist, and Volpe Brown Whelan & Company—as well as his... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Greenhill Award in 2021 for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community. Lauren H. Cohen : “AQR’s Momentum Funds (A)” (HBS Case 211-025) with Daniel Bergstresser, Randolph Cohen, and Christopher Malloy was selected as a Case Centre... View Details
- 13 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS
The first time I thought seriously about the Harvard MBA was after work colleagues suggested I apply. It sounded daunting, but I like challenges and I had little to lose. I wanted to test myself at this new level, get an international world-class education, and explore... View Details
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Andrew O’Brien | About
Andrew O’Brien Bio Andy O’Brien is the Chief of Operations at the Harvard Business School. He is in charge of all non-academic operations on the 40 acre 1.9 million square foot HBS campus. In this role Andy is responsible for fourteen different View Details