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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
  • 29 May 2023
  • News

Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas

alumni and friends affirms its mission—to serve as an educational springboard that fosters peer collaboration beyond the boundaries of a particular Harvard school, enabling innovators to create meaningful impact across industries,... View Details
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Rishon Benjamin

Profit Margin. Asset Turn. Leverage. Three simple ingredients that have become near daily fixtures of my MBA experience. Is this the education that is supposed to help me make a difference in the world? Can it really be so easy? Profit... View Details
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Is the Digital Transformation Certificate Right for You?

today is engaged in some type of digital transformation, but with technology changing so fast, it can be hard to stay on top of the trends that matter most. That's why HBS Executive Education is continuing to expand our offerings related... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Financial Highlights

record revenues, while MBA and Executive Education tuition revenue declined. Salaries and benefits grew 3 percent for the year, driven by an increase in the number of faculty. New gifts and pledges totaled $162 million, compared with $76... View Details
  • June 2022 (Revised August 2023)
  • Case

Strategic Innovation at the United Nations: A Network of Ecosystems

By: Frank Nagle, Elizabeth J. Altman and Amy Klopfenstein
In 2021, Gina Lucarelli, leader of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Accelerator Labs, prepared for a meeting with UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. The two planned to discuss the future of the Accelerator Labs, a network of social innovation labs located... View Details
Keywords: Change; Disruption; Transformation; Change Management; Education; Learning; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Local Range; Geopolitical Units; Country; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Information Technology; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Psychology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Society; Social Issues; Welfare; Strategy; Cooperation; Adaptation; Public Administration Industry; North and Central America
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Prineeta Kulkarni

possibilities inherent in the life sciences while simultaneously revealing her limitations. "My entire education was technically intensive and focused on scientific research, not management practices," she says. "I realized... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education
  • April 2023
  • Article

Learning Down to Train Up: Mentors Are More Effective When They Value Insights from Below

By: Ting Zhang, Dan Wang and Adam D. Galinsky
Although mentorship is vital for individual success, potential mentors often view it as a costly burden. To understand what motivates mentors to overcome this barrier and more fully engage with their mentees, we introduce a new construct, learning direction, which... View Details
Keywords: Mentoring; Learning Direction; Interpersonal Communication; Learning; Leadership Development
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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First... View Details
  • May 2024
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Forest Park Capital (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
During the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020, Betsy Harbison formed the search fund Forest Park Capital with the intention of purchasing a small business. The case conveys the details of Betsy’s final decision at the terminus of her search, between a software company... View Details
Keywords: Search Fund; Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition; Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Tourism Industry; Web Services Industry; North America; Missouri
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  • November 2019 (Revised February 2020)
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Starbucks: Reaffirming Commitment to the Third Place Ideal

By: Francesca Gino, Katherine B. Coffman and Jeff Huizinga
On April 12, 2018, two African American entrepreneurs had scheduled a business meeting at a Starbucks in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. They sat without ordering, waiting for a local businessman to show up for the meeting. The store manager called 911... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Prejudice and Bias; Crisis Management; Employees; Training
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change Gerald Chertavian Brian Trelstad Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 The Spiritual Lives of Leaders Nien-hê Hsieh Derek van Bever Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Transforming Education through Social... View Details
  • October 2004 (Revised March 2005)
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Langer Lab, The: Commercializing Science

By: H. Kent Bowen, Alex Kazaks, Ayr Muir-Harmony and Bryce LaPierre
Professor Robert Langer's laboratory at MIT is the source of an unusually large number of published papers, patents, and technology licenses to start-up and established companies in the biomedical industry. Explores Langer's leadership and other factors that create a... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Research and Development; Patents; Innovation Leadership; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Education Industry; Education Industry
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Learning by Thinking: The Role of Reflection in Individual Learning

By: Giada Di Stefano, Francesca Gino, Gary P. Pisano and Bradley R. Staats
It is common wisdom that practice makes perfect. And, in fact, we find evidence that when given a choice between practicing a task and reflecting on their previously accumulated practice, most people opt for the former. We argue in this paper that this preference is... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Cognition and Thinking; Practice; Experience and Expertise
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  • 21 May 2021
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Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) reflects on how her experience at HBS shaped her career and inspired her to make a difference in her home region of Asia through impact investing. How has your education at HBS helped to shape your career in impact... View Details
  • 09 Jun 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

value of their intellectual property," he says. We asked Lerner to discuss current issues in IP and also describe an Executive Education course he will teach this summer on the subject. Sean Silverthorne: Do you think companies in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Singing to the Corn

growing things could play in educating others about indigenous cultures. Now he talks about the intelligence of corn—how it changes color to optimize filtration of ultraviolet light: Soon, he explains, the corn leaves will be tinted a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture
  • 16 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

it’s a perfectly honest and real thing to talk about. We’re paying for something that we’re so lucky to get and we need to be mindful of what will happen in the future. The more we repress it, the more it comes up as anxiety. We’re all so lucky to be receiving this... View Details
  • 01 Aug 2001
  • News

Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

Still involved with the firm as chairman emeritus, Fisher also serves on the boards of numerous arts and educational institutions. An art collector and avid amateur cook, he is an investor, along with his wife, Jeanne, in a new Manhattan... View Details
Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First... View Details