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Summer Venture in Management | MBA

method teaching style. I saw firsthand how learning business skills through discussion allowed for more collaborative and inclusive approaches to solving problems. Ashley Reid ; SVMP 2016, MBA 2023 Selection Criteria We are looking for... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

Fall Reunions

the classroom, with topics ranging from business opportunities in emerging markets to biotech to management challenges in public education. And once the cold-call jitters were over, there was ample time for catching up with old sectionmates and initiating new... View Details

Keywords: reunions; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2015
News

New Idea: State of the Art

experience. Massive, high-resolution touchscreen tables let visitors call up and manipulate images from its entirely digitized collection. The Immersion Room (pictured above) allows users to select different wallpapers from an extensive... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Adobe; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

19 Nov 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?

Banning Big Box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers Research shows how regulations designed to protect independent retailers from big box competition may backfire. Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail Retailers can offer great product View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Feb 1998
News

Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)

- a strategy, marketing, and athlete representation firm she founded - has been selected by the league's seed investors to create and manage the new league. The league's marketing strategy is "a hybrid of the ABL and WNBA women's... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

Fast Answer

Options: Historical Prices

How do I find historical option prices? Options Metrics via WRDS provides historical price and implied volatility data for the U.S. equity and index options markets, on an option by option basis. Once you have selected the database in... View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 12 Nov 2014
Webinars: Trending@HBS

Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation

What does it take to build an organization that can innovate in today's global economy? Professor Linda Hill will share examples from her new book of leaders who have learned how to cultivate "collective genius" and provide a framework for creating organizations in... View Details

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

and test an empirical framework which allows us to separate selection from treatment effects of large shareholders. Individual blockholders tend to hold blocks in public firms located close to where they reside. Using this empirical... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2002
News

MBAs by the Numbers

With a record number of applicants — more than ten thousand — to the MBA Class of 2004, it seems that the acronym “B2B” could now stand for “Back to Business” School. From this impressive pool, MBA Program admissions officers selected a... View Details

26 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program

for and understanding of the complexities of leading in the social sector. To achieve this goal, HBS partners with government and nonprofit organizations to offer one-year high-impact roles to a select number of graduating students.... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise

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The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog

the business. How do you assemble, motivate and lead a team when you have big ambitions, limited resources, and a compass instead of a map? The course will walk you through practical actions, such as selecting a team, choosing a business... View Details

13 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia

received nothing. To uncover the effect of disagreements between spouses about the number of children to have—women generally want fewer than men—half of the women chosen to receive vouchers got them without their husbands present, and the remainder with their husbands... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

01 Jun 2024
News

Research Brief: Ahead of the Game

As a lifelong runner who spent countless hours training and competing his way up to the national level, Professor Paul Gompers has always believed that his athletic experiences were critical to shaping who he is, both as a competitor and in the professional sphere. Now... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Antonio Pinna

07 Mar 2017
News

From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World

general director. With a lengthy career in industry and politics as well as academia, Giscard D’Estaing is a former mayor and member of the French Parliament and is chairman of the Committee for a World Parliament. He is also honorary chairman of the INSEAD Foundation.... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Oct 1997
News

After 27 Years at HBS, Shapiro Shifts Professional Focus

product-line planning, and marketing organization, Shapiro was a member of the School's faculty for 27 years. He will continue to teach in select HBS Executive Education programs. "I cherish the memories and relationships of my career at... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Books: Brand New

Koehn examines six business pioneers across three centuries to better understand, as she puts it, how “individual entrepreneurs and companies translate a few buyers’ curiosity about new products into widespread customer loyalty.” The six individuals she View Details

Keywords: Startbucks; HP, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Dell, eBay; Estee Lauder; John Heinz (MBA 1963); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

September 2010
Case

Bush Brothers & Company

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Chad Carr

The chairman and CEO of Bush Brothers grapples with leading and managing changes in strategy, governance and board composition, as well as succession, compensation and ownership issues, as he takes the family owned/family operated business into its fourth generation.... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Change Management; Decision Making; Selection and Staffing; Leading Change; Management Succession; Governing and Advisory Boards; Wages; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy

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Educators

January 2008 (Revised March 2008)
Case

Uría Menéndez (A)

By: Robert G. Eccles

Uria Menendez, the pre-eminent law firm in Iberia, is at a critical point in its long and distinguished history. Its newly appointed second generation co-managing Partners are facing some critical strategic decisions concerning how the firm should position itself in... View Details

Keywords: Global Strategy; Networks; Selection and Staffing; Work-Life Balance; Compensation and Benefits; Decision Making; Expansion; Legal Services Industry; Iberian Peninsula