Business or Company Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2017
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Case Study: Confidence Builder

should it start: at the grassroots with the student groups with which they are familiar, but which often have small budgets, or at the top with the university administration, where the company will face more... View Details

Keywords: April White; Confi; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2023
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An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders

are based on merit and—unusual among graduate business schools—financial aid is based on need. In 1910, four Visiting Committee members launched an $850 financial assistance fund. Since then, the MBA fellowship budget has grown to more... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2008
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Team MBA

management processes — learning about relationships with other people and how those are often paramount in business situations. Also, learning about myself . . . the things I’m good at, and what I need to... View Details

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

15 May 2020
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New Menu

find and support the entrepreneurs positioned to mitigate the effects of climate change and help the world adapt to the realities of a warming planet. The firm's first fund is the New Protein Fund, dedicated to growing companies producing... View Details

01 Jan 2003
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Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

defense at age 29. In 1970, Rossotti and several Pentagon colleagues started American Management Systems (AMS). "We decided that big companies and government agencies could do a lot more with computers than... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

don’t make it past five years. Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson want to help today’s entrepreneurs beat the odds by revealing the unseen tethers that keep small businesses from growing and thriving. Drawing on firsthand experience starting... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur

Debate: The Business of Business Despite the need to exclude so much material, McCraw believes that the papers presented at the symposium paint a rich portrait of the many "remarkable contributions" to View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Feb 1999
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Newman's Own Brand of Charity

Sector, details the 1982 launch and subsequent development of Newman's Own. Based in Westport, Connecticut, the company began as "something of a lark," according to Newman, with two thousand bottles of vinaigrette salad dressing made from... View Details

22 Dec 2022
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LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway

regularly for support around personal, family, and business matters. Modeled on the concept developed by the Young President's Organization (YPO), the forums were pioneered over 20 years ago by Bob Halperin (MBA 1982), who leads HBS... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

17 Aug 2015
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The Play Alchemist

a system that can allow your product or service to reach as many people as possible in a sustainable way.” So far, it is reaching people quite nicely. As of April, the company has sold 50,000 Socckets, and... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

29 Aug 2018
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The Value of Valleys

strength. So those are basically one of the business level, one of the personal level. We always continue to strive. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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John McArthur

above: photo by Bill Gallery John H. McArthur, a member of the Harvard Business School community for more than six decades—as a student (MBA 1959, DBA 1963), as a faculty member (beginning in 1962), as Dean (from 1980 to 1995), and as... View Details

Keywords: Dean

18 Mar 2014
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The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain

probability of being the wrong decision. If you can apply some data, you will heighten your probability of making a better decision." Howe isn't speaking theoretically. Today companies like his can capture, store, and analyze massive data... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Dec 2017
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Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

staffing business should be cash-flow positive quickly in a given market, so focus on building critical mass dynamics in the top 25 health care markets. —Paul Sims (MBA 2002) Much to my surprise, Lyft’s success proves that often it is two... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 2001
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William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency

Ask fund managers covering the Hong Kong market about smart technology plays in these days of crashing dot-coms and you’re likely to hear one company name repeated often. Li & Fung has become the firm to... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2014
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Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators

significant resources. Consequently, I think that Gazelle should seek one to two partnerships with large companies (e.g., Best Buy, Verizon, or Apple) on its buy side in order to take its scale to the next... View Details

Keywords: ecommerce; Kathy Korman Frey; Telecommunications; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Retail Trade

25 Mar 2015
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The Greening of Houston

Ask most people to name a city with a lot of parks and chances are Houston won’t be the first one they name. “For better or worse, our built environment is known for the lack of zoning,” says Daniel M. Gilbane (MBA 2005), senior vice... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

22 Sep 2017
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The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice

pirate—believe it or not, you can look him up—named Black Caesar, who was marauding across Biscayne Bay in the Caribbean and was an escaped slave who was rumored—legend had it that he docked his boat there. And here you have, maybe a... View Details

25 Jul 2024
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Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success

small, rural town in Illinois, the son of educators, I certainly have,” he adds. “Navigating my career through engineering to HBS and then into finance, I sometimes felt envious of classmates and colleagues who grew up with parents or... View Details