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  • Program

Building a Legacy

managers, or top family business leaders Also appropriate for family members with a range of financial acumen—from expert to novice Not appropriate for investors who are not representing a family's interests... View Details
  • 06 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Bringing Music to the HBS Classroom: My Journey as a Nontraditional Student in the Summer Venture in Management Program

a year ago that I would find myself in a business classroom, I would have laughed it off. Today, I can’t think of a day where I am not further developing my relationships and interest in View Details
  • 02 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • January 24, 2025
  • Article

Behaviorally Designed Training Leads to More Diverse Hiring

By: Cansin Arslan, Edward H. Chang, Siri Chilazi, Iris Bohnet and Oliver P. Hauser
Many organizations have shown interest in increasing the diversity of their workforces for various reasons. Collectively, they have spent millions of dollars and countless employee hours on diversity training. Yet, there is little empirical evidence that such training... View Details
Keywords: Training; Diversity; Selection and Staffing; Behavior; Outcome or Result; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

Buyers and sellers in mature industrial markets can turn single transactions into long-term beneficial relationships by a deeper understanding of the complex connection between the two, says Harvard Business School professor Narakesari... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2021
  • HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

Early on the morning of June 1, 1921, more than 5,000 white residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma, invaded the African-American neighborhood of Greenwood. They came armed with guns, sticks, and other weapons—some supplied by the city’s police department—and set fire to homes... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Reinventing Retail: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores

By: Ryan Raffaelli
This study examines how community-based brick-and-mortar retailers can achieve sustained market growth in the face of online and big box retail competition. The appearance of Amazon.com in 1995 led to a significant decline in the number of independent bookstores in the... View Details
Keywords: Bookstores; Competitive Strategy; Business and Community Relations; Customization and Personalization; Growth and Development; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 02 Jun 2016
  • Blog Post

Applying to the JD/MBA Program

Applying to business school can be a stressful and time consuming endeavor. For those who hope to pursue a joint degree, the application process is doubly demanding.   Joanna Cornell and Bhargav Srinivasan are both one year into their... View Details
  • 06 May 2021
  • HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men in Silicon Valley. In contrast, businesses led by women are 63 percent less likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
  • Program

Preparing to Be a Corporate Director

with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend Senior executives who are interested in serving on a corporate board... View Details
  • 30 Mar 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

amesy SUMMING UP: Should Facebook Change Its Business Model? Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, received a great deal of advice from respondents to this month’s column. It included ideas that haven’t gained much attention in the press.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology
  • 10 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

He wrote: “For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.”  In this vein, we were given a generous 20 words to introduce an essential part of our identity to our classmates.  I wrote: 1919 the 19th amendment 1972 Title IX 1973 Roe v. Wade 2019 Here I am, [4 months] pregnant at... View Details
  • January 1993 (Revised July 1993)
  • Case

Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (Consolidated)

By: Lynda M. Applegate
The setting is a food manufacturing company that has stumbled in terms of its historic growth and profit achievements. In trying to recapture its momentum, the president has used information technology as one element in his program of transition. The case focuses on... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Information Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Transition; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Food and Beverage Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 04 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life

Even now, mere mention of Quaker Oats' acquisition of Snapple causes veteran dealmakers to shudder. For good reason. In 1993, Quaker paid $1.7 billion for the Snapple brand, outbidding Coca-Cola, among other interested parties. In 1997,... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton; Food & Beverage
  • July 2013 (Revised October 2014)
  • Case

Value Retail: Opportunities for European Expansion

By: Arthur I Segel
Scott Malkin, CEO of Value Retail, a developer and operator of European outlet villages serving luxury brands, is planning on developing a 18,503 m2 open-air outlet village to be built 98 kilometers south of Milan on land he was about to acquire for 7.26 million lira.... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Expansion; Retail Industry; Milan
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  • 11 Sep 2015
  • Blog Post

What is the JD/MBA Program at HBS?

school, both because it appealed to my intellectual passions and would provide rigorous critical thinking training. However, after spending one year as a teacher in an LA public school, I realized that having exposure to and experience in View Details
  • 26 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Matthew Young

to work in Boston with an HBS alum who took me to visit campus for the first time. Business school was something I had been aware of, but after hearing her talk about HBS and walking around the campus – I knew that I wanted it to be a... View Details
  • 14 Jun 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need

Perks like remote work or unlimited vacation time might be nice, but when it comes to true fulfillment in a post-pandemic workscape, psychological safety is essential. Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmondson coined the term... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • Research Summary

Overview

Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details
  • 02 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

Developer Network. One of the most interesting is the Linux/open source platform. This platform has recently become associated with IBM, which has invested resources in its development and extension, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne