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  • 12 Jan 2017
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The 10 Best Business Books of 2016

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Leadership Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

ONE YEAR. ONCE IN A LIFETIME. HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL The Leadership Fellows program is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a select group of graduating students to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public... View Details
  • May 2004 (Revised December 2004)
  • Case

Slingshot Technology, Inc. (A)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
Slingshot Technology Inc. (STI) is a privately held software start-up founded in 1995 focused on identifying emerging spaces in the IT services industry and partnering with vendors selling promising but unproven technologies in those spaces. The vendors used STI to... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Partners and Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry
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  • July–August 2013
  • Article

Building Sustainable Cities

By: John D. Macomber
By 2050 the number of people living in cities will have nearly doubled, to 6 billion, and the problems created by this rampant urbanization are among the most important challenges of our time. Of all resource-management issues, the author argues, water, electricity,... View Details
Keywords: Growth Management; Urban Development; Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; City
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  • April 2012
  • Article

Retail Doesn't Cross Borders: Here's Why and What to Do about It

By: Marcel Corstjens and Rajiv Lal
Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for boosting revenues and profits today. However, success abroad varies widely, and research shows that it's often tough to... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Growth and Development Strategy; Globalization; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Local Range; Retail Industry
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Business Opportunties in Climate Adaptation

By: John D. Macomber

This is a Short Intensive Program or SIP at Harvard Business School.  It’s an optional student offering prior to the formal start of the Spring semester the following week.  SIPs tend to cover new material on current topics, to be less formal than the HBS Case Study... View Details

Keywords: Resilience; Climate Risk; Climate Impact; Fire Protection; Insurance Risk Exposure; Hedge Fund; Public Health; Public Health Measures; Climate Change; Adaptation; Infrastructure; Real Estate Industry; Transportation Industry; Insurance Industry; United States; Africa; Latin America
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

challenges and opportunities in aligning strategy with purpose, particularly in the context of identity-based barriers in cultural markets. Keywords: Cultural Entrepreneurship ; Brands and Branding ; Luxury ; Consumer Behavior ; Market... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2023

HBS Information Session in Oslo

Join us for an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions presentation and the View Details
  • 24 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo

he says after a moment. “I can already see my dad and mom in the audience. There’s an understanding when we look at each other, an accounting, for all the years—the struggle and pain of so many things they had to go through. They had so much loss, so many missed View Details
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The Program for Leadership Development Community

The power of the Program for Leadership Development network is endless. Each year the Program for Leadership Development (PLD) community gathers to reconnect, share their experiences, and spark new opportunities across the PLD network.... View Details
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California - Global

Case Adobe: GenAI Opportunity or Threat? By: Sunil Gupta , Rajiv Lal and Allison Ciechanover In December 2022, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen faced a pivotal strategic decision due to the rapid rise of generative AI image models from OpenAI,... View Details
  • 21 Jun 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Multi-Sided Platforms: From Microfoundations to Design and Expansion Strategies

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Technology
  • Forthcoming
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People Overestimate How Harshly They Are Evaluated for Disengaging from Passion Pursuit

By: Zachariah Berry, Brian J. Lucas and Jon M. Jachimowicz
The call to pursue one’s passion is ubiquitous advice, and prior research highlights the many upsides to doing so. To pursue one’s passion sustainably, people need to try different pursuits— and critically, drop those that are not tenable for them. However,... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Attitudes; Perception; Judgments; Behavior; Goals and Objectives
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  • December 2006 (Revised October 2016)
  • Case

eClinicalWorks: The Paths to Growth

By: Robert F. Higgins and Mark Rennella
In January 2006, eClinicalWorks (eCW) had an acquisition opportunity that could fundamentally change the way they had done business since the inception of the company in 1999. eClinicalWorks was a privately run business in the healthcare information technology field... View Details
Keywords: Young Companies; Strategic Revelation; Strategy And Execution; Strategy Development; Strategy And Leadership; Financing Strategy; Financing Risk; Financing; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizational Culture; Financing and Loans; Customer Focus and Relationships; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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Research - Managing the Future of Work

Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, Eva Sage-Gavin, & Kristen Hines Building From the Bottom Up By: Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman NOV 2024 Report The British Opportunity Index By: Matt Sigelman, Joseph... View Details
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MBA Experience - Business & Environment

student-led clubs which can help you get to know students who share your interests, explore career paths, and deepen professional networks. Events A list of events for current MBA students. Funding Opportunities Learn about different... View Details
  • 11 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message?

than another. The cause might be situational, based on where a person grew up, the family they were born into, or the educational opportunities they had—in other words, luck. It might be individual, based on factors beyond a person’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
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Marketing Curriculum - Faculty & Research

pricing—to satisfy customer needs profitably. Use this knowledge in a brand management simulation. The course culminates in an examination of the evolution of marketing, particularly focusing on opportunities presented by the Internet.... View Details
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

Télécom before privatization and were disoriented by the company’s multiple restructurings.” “You are left with the most vulnerable people in the organization, who passed up earlier opportunities to leave,” Whillans said. “Now management... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 21 Jun 2018
  • Blog Post

Living in a Dorm at HBS

once and is always there to greet you in the morning/afternoon. The McCulloch dorm is under a pilot this year to develop more of a community feel. We host snack time once every other week and breakfast once on the other week. This has been an amazing View Details