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1.6 Degree Requirements | MBA

Control (FRC) Data Science and AI for Leaders (DSAIL) 1.5 credits Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) Marketing (MKT) FIELD Global Capstone (CAP) Strategy (STRAT)... View Details

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

organizations that really ends up with no trend line” “For decades, we’ve been in this cycle where an organization hires a consulting firm to help design and execute a restructuring, and then, as soon as they’re done, they start that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

clear-cut business strategy for its research laboratory, and, in turn, many of PARC's technologies did not fit into Xerox's strategic objectives. For instance, the Alto's... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

03 Feb 2021
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Power Play

contributed complementary skills from the energy sector—to establish the firm’s leadership team. Advani believes the company’s middle-market private equity investment strategy is better executed and better aligns the View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

29 Apr 2021
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Equal Partner

Today, she serves as chief strategy officer for the firm, which has connected more than 1 million investors with some 300 companies, raising in excess of $250 million. But Aditya didn’t stop there,... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Inclusion

22 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability

ultimately, it fell short on criteria #3 and #4. After many conversations with fellow classmates and HBS CPD, I decided to recruit for consulting – a career option that I had completely brushed off prior. I realized that working at a... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Cleantech

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

income. Finally, a unique aspect of the research setting allows tests of who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of aisle display promotions in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2014
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Research Brief: Capitol Gains

the bills due to a vested political interest in their outcomes. Using this model, the researchers discovered a phenomenon undetected by markets: After passage of such signal legislation, firms in the affected industries yielded abnormally... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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Curriculum | MBA

key disciplines. Fall Term Finance 1 Financial Reporting & Control (FRC) Leadership & Organizational Behavior (LEAD) Marketing Technology & Operations Management (TOM) Strategy Spring Term Data Science & AI View Details

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Operations Management) Suraj Srinivasan Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Strategy Execution Robert Simons Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Tatiana... View Details

31 Mar 2011
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Building an Online Swap Shop

the holidays. He also recalled how the idea for thredUP came to him at HBS. “The original concept for how to deal with two-sided marketplaces, which is what thredUP is, came from HBS associate professor... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers

launch Bridgespan. Over the years, the firm has assisted HBS professors in writing several social enterprise cases, and two have been written about Bridgespan itself. For his part, Tierney is chair of the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Entrepreneurial Finance (Q3) - Course Catalog

the relative costs and benefits of each source of funding and the connections between a venture's financing strategy and its product-market strategy. Inevitably, there will be some overlap with courses such as Launching Global Ventures,... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Books

www.mindedge.com. Performance Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy by Robert L. Simons (Prentice Hall) "This book is built around a number of tensions inherent in all business," declares... View Details

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

in a special issue of Management Science. Ultimately, the authors believe, neither side is likely to be forced from the battlefield—Microsoft has too much market share and OSS offers too many benefits for users. But there are View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

26 Nov 2012
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New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy

when you look at the Internet, the thing you see is Facebook. But for it to flourish, it depends on branches. The real surprising growth was in those branches, in the firms that used the data that was... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Publishing

01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

recessions, it is not clear if this is due to demand or supply. We address this question by studying firms' substitution between bank debt and non-bank debt (public bonds) using firm-level data. Any firm that raises new debt must have a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

unwilling, to invest directly in Turkey because of political risk and government restrictions. The case ends in 1988 when the founder received a report from the management consultancy Bain calling for the View Details