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Program Policies - HBS Online
learnings of the program. Some programs also have assignments that must be completed as part of your experience. Business Analytics , Economics for Managers , and Financial Accounting contain required quizzes, and an average score of 50%...
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- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
treating both its suppliers and its blue collar workforce as homogeneous, interchangeable entities as well as its view that expertise could be partitioned so that there was minimal overlap of knowledge amongst functions or levels in the organizational hierarchy and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
industry," he explains, "you have to make a bet on the future: Do you have a viable business strategy, and if so, is it one of growth, of maintenance, or of decline? Given your beliefs about the future, you then need to design a View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
into these outliers began in the late 2000s, after teaching the Malden Mills case in the MBA required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Most in the class believed Feuerstein had made a grave mistake; the decision had cost...
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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
navigating a range of personalities and egos to ensure “the right information was in the right place, at the right time, for decisions to be made. “Paige has a real commitment to public service, whether it’s global View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
seek work once benefits ended, the authors examined a sample of low-income workers who typically have limited access to credit. Using detailed banking data from Earnin, a financial services company that offers workers access to their...
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by Rachel Layne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
http://hbr.org/2012/03/why-us-competitiveness-matters-to-all-of-us/ar/1 Does America Really Need Manufacturing? Authors:Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract Too many U.S. companies base View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
Karen Gordon Mills served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet as head of the Small Business Administration (SBA) during the height of the Great Recession. “Back then, I thought small businesses were weathering the worst financial crisis...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
Photo courtesy Jeff Madrick When I graduated from HBS in 1971, I chose journalism (at BusinessWeek) over business, a career decision that enabled me to observe “up close and personal” the coming Wall Street revolution. It was a revolution...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
closings, Feurstein's decision made headlines around the country. "We must extend to workers the loyalty we want them to extend to us," the 72-year-old Feurstein explained to students during a January visit to HBS. "In addition," he...
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James E. Aisner
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
Human Decision Processes Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice By: Blunden, Hayley, Jennifer M. Logg, Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie John, and Francesca Gino Abstract—Prior advice research has focused on understanding when...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Important Life Decisions by Jaja Jackson (MBA 1999) and Jennifer Grimes (Jennifer Grimes) The authors demonstrate that it is really how we make important decisions that will determine how happy we are. A...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
McNamara Illustration by Zak Pullen For a man who once commanded huge organizations and made decisions affecting the lives of millions, Robert S. McNamara (MBA 1939) is mostly on his own these days. Dressed casually in khakis and a...
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Garry Emmons
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Micah Macfarlane
Micah Macfarlane tries to make every career decision to make the greatest difference in the most lives. Before HBS, Micah worked in global health – expanding access to quality care and, especially, affordable medicines. "I worked to...
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- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
economic trends a central economic activity and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Tyler Todd
prepared me to effectively take on leadership and management positions. Learning processes for thinking through the hardest business decisions will serve me well my entire career.
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- July 2007 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
ABRY Fund V
By: Nabil N. El-Hage, Richard S. Ruback and Leslie Pierson
In January 2006, Andrew Banks and Royce Yudkoff were considering raising a 5th fund for their media-focused private equity firm, ABRY Partners. ABRY had a strong track record that the co-founders attributed to their group's deep knowledge of the media industry and...
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Cooperative Ownership;
Venture Capital;
Customer Relationship Management;
Asset Management;
Private Equity;
Judgments;
Competitive Strategy;
Media;
Corporate Finance;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry
El-Hage, Nabil N., Richard S. Ruback, and Leslie Pierson. "ABRY Fund V." Harvard Business School Case 208-027, July 2007. (Revised March 2008.)
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
test systems. HP experienced both a financial loss and a morale loss, while Teradyne capitalized on an opportunity and preempted a market migration away from its products. Ultimately, financial expectations...
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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
give-and-take among students, professor, and manager, the class touched on the tension between the romance of ideas and the reality of enterprises, the conflicting motivations of the participants in an immature business, and the staged growth and resource needs of a...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 31 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring the Art of Business: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Felipe Ceron (MBA 2022)
can I find the financial statements?". Even though it’s not completely related to my job, the financial knowledge I attained as a first-year student has helped me understand the School a lot better. All of...
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