Investing In Student Success Act Of 2014 - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Demystifying the Family Enterprise

This course is primarily designed for students who are pursuing a career in family run businesses, family owned businesses, investment roles in family offices, or students that might invest in or wholly purchase a family owned business through a private equity firm,... View Details

June 2014
Case

Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal

By: Nancy F. Koehn, Kelly McNamara, Nora N. Khan and Elizabeth Legris

Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal analyzes the turnaround and reconstruction of Starbucks Coffee Company from 2008 to 2014 as led by CEO and co-founder Howard Schultz. The case offers executives and students an opportunity to examine in depth how... View Details

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Educators

Purchase

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

suggested that the benefit of separating the new venture had to do with securing resources for it. However, our research found that parent organizations invested roughly the same amount View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

29 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

this point before. But we want to review the key differences briefly from the perspective of the CEO because the implications are crucial: for how the job of the senior leader is defined, and for what View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

United States, what questions would you recommend they ask themselves before proceeding? A: The most important thing that any executive considering an investment in the United States can do is to ponder the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

(Wiley) Seides provides critical lessons and insights for those trying to decipher the industry and those seeking to invest in the next generation of high performers. He... View Details

Web

Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

to northern cities Influence: Medium-High 20 1920 19 Population of urban centers overtakes that of rural communities Tight immigration restrictions Increase in divorce rates... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

New Director of MBA Career Services Focuses on Power of Alumni Network

The outlook for MBA job seekers was bright when Matthew S. Merrick (MBA '96) was a student in search of a summer internship. The Pittsburgh native knew he wanted to be View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Keepers of the Flame

ACOG on various issues. In some ways, because this is the first major multisport event since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

coach or mentor, but what makes for a successful student in this role? There are individual benefits and organization-wide benefits to the whole notion View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Feb 2023
Blog Post

The Rituals of Case Method Teaching

paying a lot of attention to what students are saying—I want to connect points and orchestrate the conversation towards a learning point. That cognitive capacity is more complex—I need to really concentrate... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire

Penn at age 20. Today, as president and CEO of Columbia Investment Management Company, Lew has come full circle, overseeing a university endowment of approximately $11 billion... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investing; leadership; diversity; career experience; higher education; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

each with some amount of funding. Putting the money to good use, building a successful organization, showing that you have a demonstrable impact in achieving your mission, and... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

16 Nov 2017
News

The Business of Social Justice

change,” says Brooks. “Rosa Parks’ civil disobedience didn’t just happen because she wanted to sit down one day; and gay marriage didn’t become legal in one day. These kinds of changes have decades View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

economist Edward Glaeser argues in The Triumph of the City that "our greatest invention [i.e.,cities] makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier." That's all well and good, but the... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

16 Jan 2018
News

Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits

launch in 2012, Polaner says, more than 400 alumni—including younger alumni—have participated in close to 80 events. Events often sell out, and he adds, “The program has been self-sustaining from the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

moment of truth, and success breeds attention and willingness to implement. Ben Shapiro: Then look at incentives. Pricing to reflect value-adding performance while paying the sales force for volume rarely... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

13 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Trust

Oberholzer-Gee saw in TrapGuard, being marketed for the first time to plumbers in Philadelphia, an interesting way to better understand the link between trust and diffusion of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Service

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

each company in the portfolio is acting in a socially responsible manner. So-called green funds attempt to invest View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

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