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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research
Accounting & Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students July 3, 2025 Article A New Framework for Reducing Healthcare Disparities By: Susanna Gallani , Mary Lynch Witkowski, Lidia M. V.... View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Video Blog: Why I Decided to Pursue an MBA at HBS
courses in undergrad, I didn't quite remember anything or retained anything that I have learned, which is pretty sad, but it's the truth. And so I felt that going back to school would enable me to relearn... View Details
- October 1992 (Revised June 2001)
- Case
Stermon Mills Incorporated
A paper company is unable to compete on cost as a result of the installation of three very efficient paper machines by competitors. Prices for its products are falling by the day, and the company is making a loss. In the face of such competition, management feels that... View Details
Upton, David M. "Stermon Mills Incorporated." Harvard Business School Case 693-053, October 1992. (Revised June 2001.)
- Teaching Interest
Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)
Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details
- August 2019 (Revised July 2023)
- Course Overview Note
Demystifying the Family Enterprise
By: Christina R. Wing and Madeline Keulen
90% of the GDP in the world is created through family-owned businesses. Family businesses are frequently thought to be exclusively mom-and-pop, small businesses. Most fail to realize that Walmart, Fidelity, Cargill, Koch Industries, and Ford, to name a few, are all... View Details
Wing, Christina R., and Madeline Keulen. "Demystifying the Family Enterprise." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 620-030, August 2019. (Revised July 2023.)
- 28 Apr 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Sweden’s Northvolt Electric Battery Maker: A Startup with a Mission
Robert J. Dolan
Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined... View Details
- October 2020 (Revised May 2023)
- Exercise
SenseAim Technologies: Pricing to Win
By: Elie Ofek, Eyal Biyalogorsky, Marco Bertini and Oded Koenigsberg
This exercise serves to help students understand the proper role and use of costs in a firm’s pricing decisions. The exercise is designed such that the learning of students evolves across a classroom session, starting from understanding which costs are relevant when... View Details
Ofek, Elie, Eyal Biyalogorsky, Marco Bertini, and Oded Koenigsberg. "SenseAim Technologies: Pricing to Win." Harvard Business School Exercise 521-049, October 2020. (Revised May 2023.)
- September 2011 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
Sykué Bioenergya
By: Shon R. Hiatt
Sykué Bioenergya (Sykué) was formed in April 2006 with the goal of building four 30 megawatt (MW) bioelectricity power plants in Brazil's Bahia province, 1,500 kilometers north of Sao Paulo. Bahia's savannah-like conditions were perfect for growing elephant grass, a... View Details
Hiatt, Shon R. "Sykué Bioenergya." Harvard Business School Case 412-062, September 2011. (Revised October 2012.)
- November 2016 (Revised April 2025)
- Case
Lynda Bussgang's Stages
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Lynda Bussgang is getting ready for her 25th Harvard College reunion and for the first time she is actually looking forward to it. Unlike some of her classmates she has charted her own course to happiness. This path took her from musical theater, to non-profit work to... View Details
DeLong, Thomas J., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Lynda Bussgang's Stages." Harvard Business School Case 417-034, November 2016. (Revised April 2025.)
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Program Requirements - Doctoral
Statistics: All doctoral students enrolled in the TOM doctoral program are required to have completed one undergraduate or graduate course in introductory probability and statistics. If this requirement has... View Details
- July 2024
- Case
Freelancer, Ltd.
By: Christopher Stanton, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik and Nina Cohodes
Over the course of the 2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500... View Details
Keywords: Freelancers; Labor Markets; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Change Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Employment; Global Range; Employment Industry
Stanton, Christopher, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik, and Nina Cohodes. "Freelancer, Ltd." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 823-706, July 2024.
- July 22, 2024
- Article
Why People Resist Retirement
Research suggests making the decision to retire means grappling with three psychological issues. First, identity issues can loom large for any deeply engaged professional. Even a small step away from a career can make a person wonder who they are without it. Second,... View Details
Amabile, Teresa M. "Why People Resist Retirement." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (July 22, 2024).
- 10 Aug 2020
- News
At Home, Workers Seek Alternative Credentials
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MBA Experience - Leadership
all students pursue the same course of study: the Required Curriculum and FIELD. By studying under a common curriculum, students build a solid, broad foundation of general... View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
HBS Lingo 101
opened in 1953 (and later updated in 2004), and the horseshoe-shaped classroom layouts were specifically designed to facilitate case method learning. BAKER: Baker Library is equipped to assist MBA students with the breadth of their View Details
- September 2024
- Exercise
Finding Your 'Jagged Frontier': A Generative AI Exercise
By: Mitchell Weiss
In 2023 a set of scholars set out to study the effect of artificial intelligence (AI) on the quality and productivity of knowledge workers—in this specific instance, management consultants. They wanted to know across a range of tasks in a workflow, which, if any, would... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Performance Productivity; Performance Evaluation; Consulting Industry
Weiss, Mitchell. "Finding Your 'Jagged Frontier': A Generative AI Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 825-070, September 2024.
- Teaching
Overview
Course Requirements
Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.
Career Focus
For... View Details
Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.
Career Focus
For... View Details
- March 1994 (Revised December 1998)
- Background Note
Managing Your Career
By: Linda A. Hill
Designed to serve as background reading for the "Managing Your Career" module of the second-year MBA elective Power and Influence. Describes the way in which managers learn and develop through on-the-job experience. Outlines a model for launching a "success syndrome"... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career
Hill, Linda A. "Managing Your Career." Harvard Business School Background Note 494-082, March 1994. (Revised December 1998.)
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Finance Faculty - Faculty & Research
Finance Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Unit Head Malcolm P. Baker Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration Unit Head, Finance Samuel B. Antill Assistant Professor of... View Details