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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
face with realistic business situations right in the classroom." Building rapidly on the skill base and fiber network already in place at the School, such an initiative has indeed been launched. Progress to... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
best-practice tales from the frontlines, and networking opportunities with other alumni. "I had forgotten how great it is to be in a classroom," said Alan M. Silberstein (MBA '72), after hearing Professor... View Details
- Profile
Brooke Boyarsky
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I felt that I had a lot to learn. I knew that the cases and skills taught at HBS would give me the foundation to be an View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
of companies have participants role-play to gain a better sense of others' points of view or to sense how consumers would actually use new products. When Interval Research Corp. wanted its young designers... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
others, and personal accountability. These are the values we believe are essential to effective and principled leadership. Our goal is to make HBS a living model of these... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
address the issues that kept them from being employed well in the past." The bakery's challenges include limited financial resources—its budget is $200,000 a year—and learning to be profitable while... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
similar ways for a limited array of traditional services, and last for only one year. In essence, managed care comes in just two flavors: plans that place constraints on access to physicians and hospitals... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
job but can’t make ends meet? —Rick Holliday (MBA 1963) OAKES: Yes, their needs are quite different. For individuals with mental illness or disabilities or who have experienced homelessness, we have learned that just providing an affordable place View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
of superstar talent, so any manager hoping to make blockbusters needs them on his or her side. Fourth, an entrepreneurial streak is essential, I think. Every product launch effectively involves groups of... View Details
- Web
The Art of "Posting" - The Art of American Advertising
checklists to inspect the distribution, placement, and condition of posters. At times the public landscape became so saturated with marketing images that some state legislations called for a limitation on... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
customers; selecting the right entrepreneurial marketing path; getting from the early stage to the mainstream in the market life cycle; and executing effective sales and marketing strategy in a dynamic... View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
mountaineering expeditions and firefighting crews. We've found that for change to stick, leaders must design and run an effective persuasion campaign—one that begins weeks or months before the actual... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
There is also a network effect at work in that everyone on a project needs to use the tool for it to generate the most value View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
friends and acquaintances and reconnect with faces from the past. First college students, then Millennials, and soon after, their parents and grandparents were drawn in by the allure of this pioneering social network that View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
Capitalism's capacity to evolve and its incredible versatility have proven to be the single most important source of its robustness and success. In fact, capitalism has avoided devastating crises not because... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
strong community. As our base of instructors continues to grow, we are starting to see the network effect of BollyX gaining more brand... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last 40 years, and of the men most responsible... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
couple it with loss aversion, and you put people in a position where they're more likely to go out and exercise." StickK has incorporated another economic principle—the power of social norms—to keep people on track. Users create an online... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Blog Post
5 Lessons from Business School
and practice something new. 3. Time is limited – it’s important to define individual priorities and goals People come to business school for many reasons, including academics,... View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
capital firms. 54 In addition, ARD was formed as a closed-end investment fund regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which placed limits on how those working for ARD could be compensated. Employees, for example, were... View Details