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McCollum Center | About

her support for the education of women managers at HBS, noting, “Today, women must be interested in business science in addition to the traditional domestic sciences.” Continental Oil had a long history of... View Details

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations

While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn (MBA 1981), was changing the institution. “I was blown away,” she says, “by how Jeff and his... View Details

20 Dec 2022
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7 Resolutions for Recruiting in the New Year

Whether your company is manufacturing farming equipment, advising Fortune 500 companies, or developing the next healthcare innovation, you know that the success of your business starts with people. Great teams drive great results and to... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

26 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

Working PapersScale Without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell, and Feng Zhu Abstract Since the mid-1990s, productivity growth has accelerated in the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Aug 2024
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Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001)

Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development I graduated from Harvard Business School at the tail end of the dot-com bubble and was fortunate to join Goldman Sach’s high-tech... View Details

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

involves work in our educational program and in our research. The mission of the Harvard Business School is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, and who make... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

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Dean Nitin Nohria | About

School through periods of innovation and challenges. December 2020 Steps Down as Dean of Harvard Business School After agreeing to stay on through the end of 2020 due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, Dean Nohria was succeeded as Dean by... View Details

25 Jan 2017
HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

Chaturvedi of the School’s India Research Center. “These products have really grown in the last 15 to 20 years, and I was interested in looking at how they have been marketed,” says Deshpandé, who says the case generated a lively debate among View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics

May 2024
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Forest Park Capital (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

During the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020, Betsy Harbison formed the search fund Forest Park Capital with the intention of purchasing a small business. The case conveys the details of Betsy’s final decision at the terminus of her search, between a software company... View Details

Keywords: Search Fund; Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition; Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Tourism Industry; Web Services Industry; North America; Missouri

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23 Jun 2023
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Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

Alumni Board members on campus for their annual spring meeting // Credit: Panfoto Hard work, with humility for humanity, is the spirit that animates Harvard Business School's MBA program today, Matt Weinzierl, Senior Associate Dean and... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?

Bower, the Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration, in his 1986 book, When Markets Quake, documented the problem as it affects the petrochemical industry. He has also observed it in other sectors over the years. "In one... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

serves as chairman of the consultancy TruePoint Partners and of its educational and research institute, the TruePoint Center for Higher Ambition Leadership. In the e-mail interview that follows, Beer talks about the book and what boards... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

Lalocracio Location has always been a vital resource in business. “Location, location, location,” as they say in real estate. But then along came the internet in the 1980s, and suddenly distance-related business costs collapsed for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

resources), free career and academic webinars, a Harvard Gmail account, and education tax credit and loan deferments. Does HBS Online restrict enrollment for citizens/residents of countries in geopolitical conflict with the United States... View Details

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

infrastructure, technology, and education that seek to bring tradable jobs ("work for middle-income people") back to US shores. One model that he cites is Germany between 2000 and 2005, during which it sought to become more competitive by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

24 Jun 2019
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Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud

Noa Torok, MBA 2019, came to HBS with a blank slate. “I arrived with zero expectations,” she says. “I had no idea what I wanted to do.” Her prior experience had shown her the opposite – what she did not want to do. After studying both law and View Details

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

on a variety of social and environmental issues, and the companies receiving investments were involved in businesses as diverse as clean energy technologies, sustainable agriculture, educational toys, and... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Faculty and Research - Alumni

scholarship that ensures the School’s continued educational excellence and its impact on business and society. Watch more videos about faculty members' research activities The Insights we need to View Details

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

organizational management practices all over the world. The project was borne of a widely perceived gap in economic research. In business academia, there is an optimistic tendency to assume that managers generally make decisions in the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Understanding Health Systems, Payors, and Regulation - Health Care

products and pricing on the public health insurance exchanges, and co-payment coupons for prescription drugs. Featured Research 15 Nov 2016 Harvard Business Review Health Care Needs Real Competition By: Leemore Dafny More Health Care... View Details

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