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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
glasnost. The experience was mind-blowing and heart-opening.” After fulfilling a two-year military service requirement in Singapore, Lim studied international relations as an undergraduate at Princeton University, where Professor Cornel... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
collaborated with doctors and college students to produce information on sexual and mental health topics that was both accurate and interesting to young women. But as the Confi team talked with students about subjects such as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni Contribute to Business and Society
for-profit or nonprofit organizations. “Excluding financial service organizations,” he notes, “HBS founders are responsible for nearly 11 million jobs worldwide, across an estimated 43,000 companies and organizations.” In terms of board... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
was its reasoning? It argued that the marketplace has changed because new technologies — such as cable, the Internet, and satellite TV — facilitate new and diverse sources of information and content. The competition they provide, the FCC... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Bringing Out the Best
need to be able to bring out the best in them.” As an example, Curry cites working with millennials in her role as president of National Office Services for Colliers International, the world’s third-largest publicly traded real estate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Faculty News
by Rufus W. Lumry III (MBA 1974) to further research in the field of information technology. Others receiving chairs for the first time are Max Bazerman (Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration); John A. Deighton (Harold... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Harvard’s Next Frontier
John A. Paulson (MBA 1980), founder and president of the investment management firm Paulson & Co., has made the largest gift in the University’s history—a $400 million endowment to support the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), which will be renamed the... View Details
Keywords: Drew Faust
- January 2000 (Revised April 2000)
- Case
AsiaMail.com: What's in a Name?
By: Myra M. Hart and Sharon Peyus
Three founders of an international Internet company (e-mail-based marketing) struggle with naming the company. As they prepare to invest more than $10 million of first-round venture funding in advertising and marketing, they search for a name that will have power and... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Brands and Branding; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Advertising; Marketing; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Asia
Hart, Myra M., and Sharon Peyus. "AsiaMail.com: What's in a Name?" Harvard Business School Case 800-132, January 2000. (Revised April 2000.)
- 08 May 2015
- News
Ubiquitous digital connectivity is now essential to competitiveness
rethink their business models to identify new opportunities for creating and capturing value. The fundamental properties of digital technology (exact replication infinite times at zero marginal costs), along with cloud computing, have enabled the transformation of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
has also begun helping employers meet their workers’ complex care issues by offering an upgrade from existing solutions such as elder care services or employee assistance programs (EAP), the latter of which essentially provide access to a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Launches Alumni Survey
MBA. The magazine asked the schools to provide contact information for the Class of 1992. Five business schools — Wharton, MIT Sloan, Yale, the Marshall School at the University of Southern California, and HBS — declined. “At HBS, we have... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
a generation. Once reviled as villains operating on the fringes of the market, they are now powerful forces at work in the mainstream of business. Activist investing gained legitimacy and influence thanks in part to the development of a support system from professional... View Details
- February 2011 (Revised November 2012)
- Case
Product Development at OPOWER
By: Thomas Eisenmann and Rob Go
OPOWER, a software startup that helps utilities engage their customers in ways that reduce energy consumption, is scaling rapidly. The company's new head of product management has designed a system to address a point of constant tension: whether to build custom... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Relationship Management; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Product Development; Sales; Customization and Personalization; Energy Conservation; Environmental Sustainability; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas, and Rob Go. "Product Development at OPOWER." Harvard Business School Case 811-075, February 2011. (Revised November 2012.)
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Paulson Sees World of Opportunity
dysfunctional world, but we can actually do something about it. And not only that, people will demand and expect it.” The event also featured the annual presentation of student-selected awards for teaching excellence to faculty members Bharat Anand (Corporate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
Selectric typewriter. But soon desktop computers were introduced, and they revolutionized the way business was done, helping the economy evolve from a manufacturing base to one driven by services and information. The View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Chile, where we keep repeating the same mistakes?” It got me thinking about how, if a country’s archives are closed and public information is unavailable, you can’t learn from anything. So I did a pilot, in which we interviewed 20 top... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting
In a three-pronged effort focusing on technology, summer recruiting activities, and fall interviewing, MBA Career Services is launching new services to support MBA students and recruiters in the job search... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Tata Open for Business
Executive Education participants talk about their programs as a transformational experience," says Professor Das Narayandas, senior associate dean and chair of Executive Education. And not just because of what they learn in the classroom, he says, but also from their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a 2003 joint ini-tiative of HBS and Harvard’s Graduate School of Education,... View Details