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- July 2019 (Revised November 2022)
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Backstage at Boston Ballet
By: David G. Fubini, Ryan Raffaelli, Begum Agca Okutgen and Julia Kelley
This case asks students to consider how to prioritize goals when placed in a new leadership role. In August 2014, Meredith “Max” Hodges became the youngest Executive Director (ED) in the Boston Ballet’s 51-year history. In her first year, she was able to claim several...
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Fubini, David G., Ryan Raffaelli, Begum Agca Okutgen, and Julia Kelley. "Backstage at Boston Ballet." Harvard Business School Case 420-005, July 2019. (Revised November 2022.)
- 05 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements
Others With Truthful Statements.) And it has certainly wormed its way into the political spectrum. The research paper Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
splashed with evocative pictures of the after-effects of too much sugar, like a man’s bulging belly, an insulin needle inserted into a stomach, and a mouthful of decaying teeth. “We were working with a graphics team View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
with his extended family and staying in touch with OPM graduates. Arthur N. Turner (MBA '50) Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus As young man, Art Turner was drawn to literature View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
rampant discrimination and sometimes physical violence. In that context, what happened on Airbnb in 2020 may be disturbing, but it’s not entirely surprising, Luca says. “Given the scapegoating that we've seen both within government View Details
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Harvard Business School
served on the boards of numerous philanthropic and arts organizations, including the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Howard Theatre Restoration Corporation, and the Achievement First...
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
strategic opportunities. Current use giving has supported a number of Dean Datar’s strategic initiatives, including the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3), digital transformation, and the...
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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
February 21, 1947, at a meeting of the Optical Society of America in New York City, Edwin Land introduced the one-step photography process. "Land's introduction of the concept of instant photography was not a traditional commercial...
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- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
millennials aren't the only consumers out there. Brands serve an entire continuum, and so trying to strike the right balance. Lots of the commercials have been really tough. The Super Bowl reflects what View Details
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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
Understand the unconscious and systemic biases in the startup ecosystem and assess a business model’s impact on society . Highlights Bailey Richardson, former Instagram...
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- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
2015, accessed on www.mckinsey.com/insights. Women Matter: Gender Diversity, a Corporate Performance Driver, a joint study by the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society and...
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by James Heskett
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education
business education. Washington served as principal of Tuskegee University, which provided vocational training in agriculture and industry, from its founding in 1881. 2 Du Bois believed a liberal arts...
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Low 40 1940 s 19 Military spending explodes Graduated income tax, Victory Tax adopted to fund war effort Rationing Influence: Medium-Low 50 1950 s 19 Military spending shifts to nuclear deterrents Small Business Administration created Influence: Medium 60 1960 s 19...
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- April 1975 (Revised April 1983)
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Salter, Malcolm S. "Boston Symphony Orchestra." Harvard Business School Case 375-340, April 1975. (Revised April 1983.)
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
from a half-orb chair strung from the ceiling. Shahani runs the Godrej India Culture Lab, a three-year-old arts center. Its website states that the lab is "hard to categorize." Its events, free and open to...
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- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
(iStockphoto/FreshSplash) There seems to be limited interest in middle management or the managers that occupy such positions among those who study management today. Go to Amazon or Google, for example, and check out the number of recent...
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by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 2017
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Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
multigenerational cycles of poverty. “You can’t expect schools to consistently outperform the health of their neighborhoods,” says Majors, a vice president at Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta-based, nonprofit consulting group. “The reality is that some employers...
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Deborah Blagg
- 29 Apr 2019
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A Global Mission
For more than 50 years, Art DeFehr (MBA 1967) has been a fixture at Palliser, the Canadian furniture company founded by his family. He served as CEO of the 2,000-employee firm from 1984 to 2015 and continues...
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- October 2019
- Case
Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music
By: Rohit Deshpandé
To Vijay Gupta, music was sacred. A highly accomplished and renowned violinist with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gupta believed the act of making and performing music was a deeply spiritual practice — one that had the power to heal audiences and musicians...
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Deshpandé, Rohit. "Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 520-701, October 2019.
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Participants will leave this session understanding the state of the art in identifying financial market bubbles and how predictable crises are. Preserving What is Human in Business Professor Nien-hê Hsieh...
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