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14 Dec 2015
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5 Facts About HBS Conferences

Prospective applicants are absolutely welcome and this is a great way to meet current HBS students and potentially learn more about a specific industry. 4. On campus clubs spearhead conference planning Before starting my RC year, I... View Details

09 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)

evaluating ways to better support their nonprofit partners across the country, specifically by improving knowledge sharing across their nonprofit partners and identifying focus areas where City Fund can provide additional guidance. Why... View Details

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Public companies: fast growing

Business Journals Book of Lists: Many local business journals for specific cities in the U.S. publish books of lists that include fast growing companies. Note: Some cities' lists (ex. Chicago, Los Angeles)... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising

Public Health) found that the agreement has had little effect. In their article in the New England Journal of Medicine last August, King and Siegel analyzed trends in expenditures for advertising between 1995 and 2000 by examining fifteen View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

11 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

incredibly complex. When a phone is designed in America and assembled in China with supplies from 30 other countries, where is it from? By trying to manage trade flows in any specific product through tariffs or barriers, you will affect... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog

life sciences industry. This field course complements concepts covered in the Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences course and all other entrepreneurially-focused courses, but with a specific industry focus on the life sciences.... View Details

18 Mar 2020
News

Leading Change

Feldman (MBA 1967), and Club President Higor Sales (MBA 2011). “Each event has been tailored to the specific focus of the alumni in each club. In D.C., policy is a central focus of the discussion around climate change.” Guided by Toffel,... View Details

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Investing in Life Sciences - SIP Resources

coverage of healthcare, diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals. Technavio - Reports on a variety of global industries including technology, healthcare, and more. Report downloads are available, but one must select and request a View Details

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Jaylon Sherrell

gamer, Jaylon has always been fascinated by the creation and re-invention of personal identities in virtual environments. While her specific research is still evolving, she hopes to examine how technology impacts the expression of... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy

in a service business, selling the plan is paramount to everything else.” Specific actions of regaining employee trust included eliminating severance packages for management, updating an archaic scheduling system, and asking designer... View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

ecosystem in crafting response strategies. This lets focused players develop specific solutions and concentrate on integrating these with key specific assets inside the firm. Intuit enabled its application,... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

14 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

When health insurer Cigna Corp. appeared in front of a judge for allegedly misleading shareholders on Medicare regulations this spring, plaintiffs thought they had a strong case. After all, Cigna had published its own document titled “Code of Ethics and Principles of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

functional support units. Business units to customers: The priorities of the customer value proposition are communicated to targeted customers and reflected in specific customer feedback and measures. Business support units to suppliers... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail

01 Dec 2009
News

Robert Goodwin

understand how best to utilize their talents to make a difference. We help companies find ways to become more profitable in socially responsible ways. If a company is seeking ways to invest in a community it operates in, we can find View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

02 Aug 2021
Blog Post

ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY

17 other executives of color from leading Massachusetts corporations. Pursuing an innovative, state-focused approach, the fund specifically targets Black- and brown-led nonprofits closely tied to the people and problems in under-resourced... View Details

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

workshop." Over the past 10 to 15 years the object of management attention has widened to include the care itself. With the development of generally accepted standard processes we have become able to design operating systems View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

and that challenges mounted against a single firm and an industry can inspire both firm and field-level changes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-019.pdf Asset Specificity and Vertical Integration: Williamson's... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

stage entrepreneurial ventures. Given the inherent uncertainty surrounding a decision to invest in these ventures, prior research has found that experienced investors rely heavily on their investor gut feel—dynamic expertise-based emotion-cognitions View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2011
News

Reimagining the MBA

specific new product- or service-development project that would be their focus for the next 12 weeks. As these students are experiencing firsthand, it’s one thing to hypothesize about product development in an emerging market. It’s quite... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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HBS Course: Real Estate Private Equity - Research Resources

how to search a specific Publication (e.g.: Private Equity International, article availability in Factiva ended August 2022). Also, Baker's Venture Capital & Private Equity research guide is a good place to start.... View Details

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