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Field Course: Startup Operations - Course Catalog

industry focus for this course - all sectors and business models apply - including CPG, social enterprise, nonprofits and bootstrapped businesses. This field course complements concepts covered in Launching Tech Ventures, Entrepreneurial... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Pricing Paradise

The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, Bilmes began her career at the Boston Consulting Group, focusing on cost structures in large-scale industries where fractional... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

20 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability

an engineer at Tesla, where I worked in manufacturing and design engineering. I loved my time there and am proud that I played a small role in helping drive the automotive industry towards electrification. Most importantly, I learned... View Details

05 Jan 2022
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Untapped Potential

and wastewater systems of varying size, the majority of which are extremely small. Those systems—some investor owned, others government operated—have a variety of governance structures and infrastructures that are decades old. This... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Beyond the Numbers

needed to manage its operations by business instead of by country, strategically reallocating resources. "I also showed them how to look at expenses as a percentage of revenues, something that's commonly done in the packaged-goods View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

development of the U.S. railroad industry in the latter half of the 19th century. Al went straight to the sources and expanded upon them in a series of important articles in the Business History Review. That work developed into his... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

the creative expertise, as a function of negotiated rights. By examining the music industry and Hollywood entertainment industry, we explore how technology does not define the winners and losers, but the institutions and contracts... View Details

10 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

Chairman of the Blackstone Group, has just learned that an investment group associated with the government of China wants to buy the majority of Blackstone's leveraged IPO. As he considers how to respond to this offer, Schwarzman reviews the firm's proposed View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits

bold moves. One of the bigger risks involved a tour she had planned with Kanye West. When West had to drop out, the question was, should Gaga go on the tour by herself? It seems a risky move for an artist who's not well known. But she and her manager took the gamble,... View Details

Keywords: Patrick Kirchner; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

cost transparency caveats for retailers. A firm may not want to share production costs if the cost structure provides a competitive advantage. In addition, contracts with suppliers may prevent making certain information public. And it... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

January 1983 (Revised February 1988)
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Hospital Corp. of America (A)

By: W. Carl Kester

HCAs ratio of debt to total capital is approaching 70%, jeopardizing its single-A bond rating. Students must determine an appropriate target debt ratio for HCA in light of its growth objectives, its acquisition strategy and its changing regulatory environment. View Details

Keywords: Situation or Environment; Capital Structure; Health Care and Treatment; Borrowing and Debt; Health Industry; Tennessee

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01 Jun 2007
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Steve Schwarzman

Schwarzman defended his industry and cautioned that the good times can’t go on forever. Private equity’s been all over the headlines for months. Why is it suddenly such a big deal? Over the last ten years it has grown from 5 percent of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

19 May 2020
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Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online

passed by Congress as part of ongoing pandemic relief efforts. HBS Senior Lecturer emeritus Steven Rogers HBS Senior Lecturer emeritus Steven Rogers “They talked about specific tips for surviving the pandemic,” says Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978), a member of the HBSAAA,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

humor Professor Sahlman and sign up for his adventurous new course. Wouldn’t they? Sahlman believed he had a conceptual structure for the course that might protect him from the dreaded Onion Outcome. “My goal from the beginning,” he... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

01 Feb 2002
News

Driven

In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, HBS professor emeritus Paul Lawrence and professor Nitin Nohria explore one of the most basic questions of human behavior: What motivates us to act the way we do? Drawing on theories of evolutionary biology and social... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

01 Jun 1997
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Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field

colleagues, he has also begun looking at how competitive shocks affect industry structure and business strategy in emerging markets. Adam Brandenburger and Assistant Professor Harborne W. Stuart, Jr., have... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 1999
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New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program

In June, W. Carl Kester, the School's Industrial Bank of Japan Professor of Business Administration, was appointed senior associate dean and MBA Program chair (succeeding Professor and Senior Associate Dean Steven C. Wheelwright). The... View Details

September 2007 (Revised October 2007)
Supplement

Children's Hospital and Clinics (B)

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Ingrid M. Nembhard and Kate Roloff

Explores the numerous initiatives Children's Hospital and Clinics has undertaken to improve patient safety since the late 1990s--from the perspective of 2007. The case thus updates the A case by revisiting the hospital to find out what happened as a result of the... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Legal Liability; Leadership; Management Teams; Health Industry