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- 27 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Opportunity Abounds
space. This company was doing truly disruptive work to bring financial services to India’s unbanked / underbanked population (~700 million) in an effort to help lift their fellow citizens into the middle class, or at least closer to it. The experience has been... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Rights Not at Issue In response to the interview with Damon Silvers, it would be wrong to let the Employee Free Choice Act succeed. From my nearly four decades of experience with unions, I see three issues that make this bad legislation.... View Details
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Paola Lara
that, she needed “to address shortcomings in areas like finance and strategy. I’d like to understand and communicate clearly on all business issues.” Once she committed herself to getting an MBA, selecting the right program proved simple.... View Details
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Maurice Taylor
me to obtain the right skills for addressing the real issues I’m interested in. Business means the opportunity for making a broad impact. But law sets the rules of the game. What are the policies behind business actions? A true... View Details
- 23 Dec 2009
- News
In the Zone
through the Leadership Fellows Program has been great because it’s given me direct access to senior management right away,” she says. “That’s why I went to business school in the first place — I want to be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Latin Flair
told the Financial Times (March 21, 2011) that they had to scrap their first few concepts for the Brazil-based Vostu, including hopes of creating a Latin American version of Facebook, before settling on social gaming in 2009. “It was... View Details
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Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) - Course Catalog
context broadly. The principal focus is on the context surrounding the human group involved. We examine cognitive, interpersonal, and organizational factors that thwart effective decision making and introduce techniques for diagnosing and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jayon Wang
freeze your drink. Teachers and friends all laughed knowingly, “Jayon is at it again!” For my first ‘real job’, I launched a grand plan to fix Big Oil from the inside. An Asian-American liberal kid showing up in Houston with East-Coast... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
Kristin S. Rhyne, MBA '99, would have loved to have the problems of reconciling employee priorities and juggling financial plans. Late last May, a year after incorporating Polished, she was still struggling to open its first unit. The... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to achieve great things in life, even if the path I took wasn’t... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
6 Lessons I learned from HBS Peek
one of the most challenging parts of the program. I learned how to use the Case Method in a variety of ways for each scenario. 2. Embrace our Differences This is is a must have at Harvard Business School. My first case was about Beyoncé.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
including Rolls-Royce, the Deutsche Bank, IBM, and Seven-Eleven Japan. In the chapter "Josiah Wedgwood and the First Industrial Revolution," for example, HBS associate professor Nancy F. Koehn describes how, in 1771, Wedgwood sent... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
fifth box? 3) Consider partnering with local humane societies. For example, offer a reduced-cost first package after an adoption—the goal being to associate the joy of bringing a pet home with your product.... View Details
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
boards of Carmax, Inc., and Avatar Holdings, was first named a director when she was 36. In the 20 years since then, she estimates she has participated as a member in more than 200 corporate board meetings. She was almost always the only... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
All this makes for a case study of the moral courage of ordinary Japanese citizens in times of crisis. There are lessons to be learned here by the rest of us. W. Carl Kester, George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Australia (HPE), launched the Dandelion program in 2015, introducing people with autism spectrum disorders into the IT workforce. Dandelion—an innovative collaboration between HPE and the Department of Human... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
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Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements - Course Catalog
case-based discussions to develop a comprehensive framework that integrates strategy and financial analysis, and applies this framework to fundamental analysis and valuation. The first half of the course develops the framework through two... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
South Asian Women at Work
that the interviewer was complimenting her sari, Aly responded with a “yes.” The interviewer’s expression said it all. She went shopping, bought a pantsuit, and was hired at her next interview. “So the first lesson I learned as a South... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
they coauthored in the report, A Recovery Squandered. The survey found that more than half of all Americans believe the country is not electing the right people and that over 70 percent of HBS alumni believe our political problems are... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
at the other little forts in the room.” Holmes would later tell the National Observer that after a particularly heated exchange, she told First Nations representative Dallas Smith—who has a prosthetic leg—“If I was a wooden leg I’d take... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous