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Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo
love the way the case method doesn't focus on memorizing theory, but on applying what you've learned by analyzing situations. I wanted my MBA to give me something I can't get from books; case View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Origin Story: Tasila Banda (MBA/MPP 2025)
First love: Performing. “I spent pretty much every weekend from the age of five singing, acting, and dancing at the local theater school.” Take a bow: “My dad is originally from Zambia. Back in the day he bought rudimentary music software and laid down guitar tracks... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
“favorable.” Case method of teaching 86 % Case materials 84 % Faculty 84 % Elective courses 81 % Other class members 78 % Section experience 78 % Required courses 75 % Grading system 67 % View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
coordinates elective field studies in information technology and has developed case modules on electronic commerce and emerging Internet-based business opportunities. Applegate has worked with a number of... View Details
Expanding Horizons
enabled me to see issues that I have studied as a historian in new ways. Often, these conversations led me to ask new questions in my research. I particularly benefited from hearing how MBA students understood and responded to business... View Details
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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge
base, says a case study by Victoria Ivashina . What will it take to scale? Private equity has come a long way since the classic book Barbarians at the Gate detailed the excesses of 1980s Wall Street—an... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
one side of the market, the incumbent always invests (weakly) more in first-party content relative to the case in which it is a monopolist. Bolstering and Restoring Feelings of Competence via the IKEA Effect Authors:Mochon, Daniel,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27
candidates, candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Deep Reading
Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
resulted in a book, with Polaroid as one of the representative companies. Effect of Federal Taxes on Growing Enterprises , Study No. 2, Polaroid, 1944. Effect of Federal Taxes on Growing Enterprises , 1945. Various View Details
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
theories we argue that they have been based on an inadequate and insufficiently specified concept of ERM. Based on a ten-year field project, over 250 interviews with senior risk officers, and three detailed case View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Europe’s green transition | Institute for Business in Global Society
Sustainability is innovation video Play Video duration: 6:41 Innovation is sustainability: How leaders are redefining what's possible Play The business leaders leading Europe’s green transition video Play Video duration: 5:47 The business leaders leading Europe’s green... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
transferred electronically, and computers monitor everything from the arrangement of cases on each shipping pallet to the consistency of Plochman's zesty brown Kosciusko mustard, one of eleven varieties enjoyed by mustard aficionados... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
Michael Roberts, who is the primary liaison between HBS and the CRC. Roberts, an experienced teacher and case writer who is executive director of entrepreneurial studies at the School, will spend about one... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
in Latin America. The two-day event featured a case discussion (on Embraer, the Brazilian commercial aircraft manufacturer), presentations and analysis of new research, and discussions on the complexities of View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
A: Many of the case studies in the volume identified the issue of control at the heart of the management problems experienced by foreign firms in the United States. For considerable periods of time, European... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
conformist organization men. Likewise, even the most potent rebel is understood either as a tragic figure (as in the case of Hank Williams) or as a childish Peter Pan (as in the case of Howard Stern).... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009
Unethical Behavior.") Four laboratory studies show that people are more likely to overlook others' unethical behavior when ethical degradation occurs slowly rather than in one abrupt shift. Participants served in the role of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog
opponents to build “Running Fence,” The Gates in Central Park, and to wrap Paris’s Pont Neuf in golden fabric; Proponents of a “European Super League” try to form a breakaway football/soccer league, etc. etc. A typical case challenges you... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
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Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
details on the unfolding of the pandemic and the policies implemented to manage the outbreak in 19 European countries and the EU. The center also co-authored a library case study, “COVID-19: Tracing the Virus in Europe and Italy”, focused... View Details