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Black History Month | Baker Library
is the brainchild of Cathy Chukwulebe (MBA '21) and was created to promote education and discussion on race, identity, and systemic racism. Hosting this collection is one of Baker's ways to support student-led initiatives to address... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Emeritus Johnson & Johnson Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page ©2003 www.RockyThies.com EARLIER EDUCATION College of the Holy Cross, 1947 B.S., Economics LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "HBS had a... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
expropriation processes, or financial crisis. Silverthorne: Who should be reading these interviews? What will they learn? Khanna: Academics for sure, for their research. Several have started mining the extensive transcripts as data, for example. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
H. Stevenson, for instance, discussed the evolution of the field of entrepreneurship at HBS and beyond. Professor Malcolm S. Salter addressed "Facing the Modern Industrial Revolution," focusing on the tools established companies can use... View Details
- November 2007
- Article
A Model of Consumer Learning for Service Quality and Usage
By: Raghuram Iyengar, Asim Ansari and Sunil Gupta
In many services, e.g., the wireless service industry, consumers choose a service plan based on their expected consumption. In such situations, consumers experience two forms of uncertainty. First, consumers may be uncertain about the quality of their service provider... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Value and Value Chain; Learning; Price; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Service Delivery; Quality; Risk and Uncertainty; Service Industry
Iyengar, Raghuram, Asim Ansari, and Sunil Gupta. "A Model of Consumer Learning for Service Quality and Usage." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 44, no. 4 (November 2007): 529–544.
- 26 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program
said “I didn’t do anything that was international development-related after those two years; I went into education and then hunger relief. So, it was more than an industry specific set of skills I drew on.... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 16 Nov 2021
- News
Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest
56 alumni who were highly engaged in the conversation. GNN, HBS Club of Nigeria Drake brings deep experience in leading diversity initiatives for higher education organizations, and started his talk by sharing his initial observations of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- October 1998 (Revised September 1999)
- Case
Mercedes-Benz in Alabama: Lessons from the Field
By: William J. Bruns Jr., Carin-Isabel Knoop and Anthony St. George
Details the establishment of the Mercedes Benz M-Class plant in Vance, AL. The plant was established as an independent "teaching field" for parent company Daimler Benz. The case reviews the different lessons from the plant and looks at issues going forward,... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Banks and Banking; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Business Ventures; Teaching; Organizational Structure; Auto Industry; Alabama
Bruns, William J., Jr., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Anthony St. George. "Mercedes-Benz in Alabama: Lessons from the Field." Harvard Business School Case 199-028, October 1998. (Revised September 1999.)
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
with a “what’s in it for me attitude” and little patience. I have found that there is really no shortcut to success, and learning business takes time. Companies are different, industries are different, and the case method recognizes this.... View Details
- January 1996
- Case
Biogen, Inc.: rBeta Interferon Manufacturing Process Development
Biogen, Inc., a Cambridge, MA-based biotechnology company, is wrapping up a project to develop a new manufacturing process for a new drug product that will reposition the company from a purely research-oriented company to a fully integrated pharmaceutical manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Technological Innovation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Projects; Research and Development; Corporate Strategy; Biotechnology Industry
Wheelwright, Steven C. "Biogen, Inc.: rBeta Interferon Manufacturing Process Development." Harvard Business School Case 696-083, January 1996.
- May 1994 (Revised August 1994)
- Case
Motorola-Penang
By: Shoshana Zuboff and Janis Lee Gogan
S.K. Ko managed Motorola's Penang, Malaysia factory, producing telecommunications components and equipment. As a female manager of a multi-ethnic and labor-intensive plant in Asia, Ko faced a number of challenges. She had already promoted quality circles and quality... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Transformation; Decision Making; Ethnicity; Gender; Training; Leading Change; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Problems and Challenges; Technology Industry; Malaysia
Zuboff, Shoshana, and Janis Lee Gogan. "Motorola-Penang." Harvard Business School Case 494-135, May 1994. (Revised August 1994.)
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
introduced HIV and hepatitis C into his system. Today he’s in full health: a liver transplant cured both the hemophilia and the hepatitis, and tests showed he is naturally immune to HIV infection. This past March Massie was named president and CEO of the New Economics... View Details
- June 2021
- Teaching Note
Michael Phelps: 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'
By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Michael Norris
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 421-044. In 2020, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in various swimming events, was now retired. As he looked back on his 20+ year athletic career, he considered what had gone into making him the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the decades of research and teaching that began immediately after World War II. By the late 1960s, however, institutional interest in the subject (reflective of broader educational trends) had waned, and the School's "curriculum" in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
make money on it," says Vietor. "The problem is that getting back and refurbishing the parts is expensive. So they're hoping for the best." Michael E. Porter, C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, believes that it is indeed possible for companies... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
observe homophily in ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in education and past working experience increases the probability of forming teams by 17% and 11 % respectively. Homophily in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
U.S - he was struck by the owners’ lament that they just couldn’t hire enough skilled trades people, industrial painters and welders, for example. Their pain point led Sam to start researching the world of green skilled trades. Initially,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
what-if and formal optimization approach). We discuss pros and cons of these approaches and illustrate them through applications and case studies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-069.pdf Positions of Power and Status: Reciprocity in the Venture... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a gritty New Delhi suburban View Details
- March 2013
- Article
The Unintended Consequences of Ownership Transfer Planning
By: Josh Baron and Marion McCollom Hampton
The article discusses the challenges of passing down family businesses across generations, highlighting complexities in executive succession and estate planning. It emphasizes how emotional factors, complicated family dynamics, and unintended consequences influence... View Details
Keywords: Estate Planning; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
Baron, Josh, and Marion McCollom Hampton. "The Unintended Consequences of Ownership Transfer Planning." Trust & Estates 152, no. 3 (March 2013): 52–56.