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01 Mar 2010
News

A New Oath for Business Leaders

At the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Forum for Young Global Leaders (YGL) resolved to study the idea of developing an oath to guide decision-making when facing tough business choices.... View Details

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

July 1997
Case

We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corporation's Cardiac Pacemaker Business

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Illustrates how a new management team at Medtronic's Cardiac Pacemaker business reversed a steep decline in market share by adopting certain management principles for new product development: clarifying strategy, aggregating project planning, accommodating the number... View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Product Development; Health; Technology; Change Management; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

24 Jun 2024
Video

Can unions and businesses collaborate for mutual success?

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Doctoral Affiliates - Business & Environment

About Doctoral Affiliates Explore the list of our doctoral affiliates whose research is at the intersection of business and environment. Fulton Christopher Eaglin PhD student... View Details

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Business Track | New Venture Competition

Business Track Presented by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, this track is for new ventures whose economic returns drive substantial market impact. How to Register & Key Dates Eligibility $ 75,000 Grand Prize $ 25,000 Runner-Up Prize... View Details

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Business Program Discount | HBS Online

Management Strategy Entrepreneurship & Innovation Business in Society Finance & Accounting Certificates You Can Earn Certificate of Completion All paid HBS Online courses, with the exception View Details

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Business and Geopolitics - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Business and Geopolitics Course Number 1155 Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Project Educational Objectives The goal of the course is to examine the... View Details

25 Feb 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Should I keep control of my company? How do... View Details

10 Apr 2020

Industry Spotlight Series: Business & Environment

Wonder what an MBA could do to help with your professional growth? Hear from current HBS students and the Business & Environment Initiative staff as they reflect on how the MBA Program is inspiring innovation at the intersection View Details

February 2018
Case

The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A)

By: Joseph Fuller, William Kerr, Manjari Raman and Donald Maruyama

The Golden Triangle Region (GTR) is a three-county area in rural Mississippi that suffered a steep decline as manufacturing companies faced pressures from automation and overseas competition. Between the mid 1980s and late 1990s, several textile, toy, and tubing... View Details

Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Development Economics; Change; Leadership; Success; Mississippi

November 1989 (Revised April 2004)
Case

Du Pont's Titanium Dioxide Business (A)

This case series is a vehicle for examining the strategic logic and risks of preemption. Rewritten versions of earlier cases. View Details

Keywords: Competition; Supply and Industry; Product Marketing; Chemical Industry

01 Dec 2014
News

Case Study: Growing the Family Business

discounted services or brand association might benefit the local lender. Finally, given the business strategy of no long-term commitments, I wonder if the centers could be sold to or subsidized by local... View Details

Keywords: childcare; Finance

06 Mar 2013
News

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

16 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School

Before I came to HBS, I bootstrapped a software company, Proximate, for three years.* We make social-media marketing software for alumni and trade associations. In many ways, HBS made starting my own business possible. I was a 2+2 admit,... View Details

March 2004 (Revised November 2004)
Case

Great Depression, Mass Unemployment, and Business Leadership, The

Explores the texture of mass unemployment during the Great Depression in the United States. Business leaders offer assessments of the Great Depression and the New Deal. View Details

Keywords: History; Employment; Financial Crisis; United States

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

process? I think that these sorts of scenarios, along with doubts about the effectiveness of recent US foreign policy decisions regarding Syria and Iran, have had a negative effect on how we're viewed by... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

09 Jan 2017
News

Business Lessons From the iPhone’s First Decade

2016
Working Paper

Credit-Market Sentiment and the Business Cycle

By: David Lopez-Salido, Jeremy C. Stein and Egon Zakrajsek

Using U.S. data from 1929 to 2013, we show that elevated credit-market sentiment in year t – 2 is associated with a decline in economic activity in years t and t + 1. Underlying this result is the existence of predictable mean reversion in credit-market conditions.... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Credit; Macroeconomics

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