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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog

Associates How and why investors structure deals How PE firms add value How investors screen and choose investments Getting a deal through the Investment Committee Role of debt providers and where incentives overlap and diverge Different... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Negative Ad Power

nefariousness of individual politicians and political parties. It’s the structure and rules of the political game. Political marketing is “do or die.” Candidates typically represent one of only two viable choices for voters and face a... View Details

Keywords: John A. Quelch;Katherine E. Jocz; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Oct 1997
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Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices

half of all EC courses, part of the traditional thirty-session class structure is now used for group project work, field research, and the preparation of papers on "frontier" business issues. New EC courses... View Details

06 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

wrong answer unless one takes into account the different ways in which firms compete (that is, their business strategy). Because macro-level shocks reverberate differently at the firm level depending on whether a firm has a cost View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2007
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Up from the Ashes

Schumpeter well. Perhaps more so than with any other economist, it is Schumpeter’s language, concepts, and intellectual architecture that business schools and businesspeople use today to define and understand what they do. Indeed, McCraw... View Details

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

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Aline Camargo

& career path? One of my main goals coming to HBS was to identify a career that combines my passion for music and my business skills. During the MBA program, I took Entrepreneurship and Strategic Marketing courses for Creative... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Retail; Entertainment / Media

11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow

humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great ideas can be backed with the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

14 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Future Leaders Dive into the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Through courses in business and engineering, as well as specially designed integrated courses co-taught by HBS and SEAS faculty, students hone their... View Details

17 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program

F-Prime immensely – there were days I found myself knee-deep in technology diligence with scientific/medical experts in one meeting while structuring deals and meeting entrepreneurs in another. My exposure to CEOs and VC Partners showed... View Details

06 Mar 2018
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Peek: The People, The Experience, and The Case Method

I was in the early stages of pursuing a career as an engineer. However, buried beneath all the Lagrange multipliers, Laplace transforms, and quantitative constants laid a piece of my future. Everything radically changed for the better after one special experience –... View Details

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Managing Customers for Growth - Course Catalog

managing customer relationships and driving customer growth are central. This includes: Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders (e.g., CEOs, CMOs, Chief Growth Officers, Chief Customer Officers) seeking to build and scale customer-centric... View Details

May 2013 (Revised October 2014)
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Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise

By: William W. George, Krishna G. Palepu and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Novartis, the world's leading healthcare company, was formed in 1996 out of a merger of two very different, mid-tier Switzerland-based pharma companies. The case traces the company's evolution over the past 17 years, as it transformed into a truly global enterprise... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Success; Globalized Markets and Industries; Management Teams; Change Management; Business History; Mergers and Acquisitions; Global Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Switzerland

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13 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

As health insurance reform is hotly debated in Washington, DC, what strategies should be central for the benefit of patients' health? HBS faculty with expertise in business administration, economic development, and operations strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

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Digital Operations - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Digital Operations Course Number 2113 Associate Professor Antonio Moreno Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits Project Overview: Digital technologies are reshaping operations, improving efficiency, quality, speed, and enabling new View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Beyond the Numbers

needed to manage its operations by business instead of by country, strategically reallocating resources. "I also showed them how to look at expenses as a percentage of revenues, something that's commonly done in the packaged-goods... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Jun 2004
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New MBA Leadership Course

Paine: “We want students to realize their full potential as business leaders.” Courtesy HBS Communications When Andy Mulkerin (HBS ’05), a chemical engineer by training, came to HBS he knew that his class would be the first to take... View Details

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

11 May 2021
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IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

company to a larger one. In contrast, startups funded by a VC syndicate with less familiar co-investors are most likely to exit through a potentially splashy IPO that could let founders retain more control, says Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down

an economic analyst," states George B. Kaiser (MBA '66), president and CEO of Kaiser-Francis Oil Company, a private concern based in Tulsa. "Analytical skills are indispensable when it comes to understanding and projecting pricing cycles and creating intelligent and... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

July 2010 (Revised September 2012)
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Public Architecture

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Christopher Marquis and Bobbi Thomason

Public Architecture is a non-profit architecture company dedicated to creating social and professional change through design for the public good. Public has focused on three strategies to create change: 1) promoting the design community's commitment to pro bono work,... View Details

Keywords: Design; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Strategy; Integration