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  • 24 Jun 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Don’t Just Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate & J. Bruce Harreld
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students

leadership during the Tylenol crises of the 1980s set the standard for corporate responsibility. Burke has been hailed as one of the ten greatest CEOs of all time by Fortune magazine. Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA ’69), founder, former... View Details
  • 17 Mar 2017
  • News

Schwarzman on Blackstone and the Value of an MBA

interview with Poets & Quants, Schwarzman talks about: The team-oriented culture at Blackstone: “We’re not looking for people who want to create more stress with people around them”; The value of an MBA education: “It’s a wonderful... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Turning Point: Eternal Returns

Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was... View Details
Keywords: life experience; search firm; entrepreneurship
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

deflate,” Miller recalled in a recent Harvard Business School case. The partner had a job offer in his pocket that he had planned to hand Miller, but the prison time changed everything. View VideoVideo: Larry Miller looks back at the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories
  • 28 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life

real results. Equity Audits The first step is to understand where your organization needs to improve so that time and money can be put behind the right efforts. Elizabeth Zwart (MBA 2023) recommended companies “explore, and then address,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 2012
  • Article

Mutual Fund Trading Pressure: Firm-Level Stock Price Impact and Timing of SEOs

By: Mozaffar N. Khan, Leonid Kogan and George Serafeim
In tests of the equity market timing theory of external finance, the prior literature has used overvaluation identifiers such as high market-to-book and high prior returns that are likely correlated with other determinants of SEOs. We use price pressure resulting from... View Details
Keywords: Equity; Market Transactions; Valuation; Capital Structure; Market Timing; Mathematical Methods; Acquisition
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  • 20 Dec 2017
  • Blog Post

Meet Annie & Piper: A Student and Dog's Life at HBS

all. In many cases, Piper was allowed to come to the activities and events. She joined many TGIF's, section barbecues, and dinner parties. There were certainly a few weeks where she didn’t receive the attention she needed or deserved, but that is part of View Details
  • Web

Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Course Number 1350 Baker Foundation Professor Robert Simons Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Paper This course is designed as a capstone for graduating MBA... View Details
  • 16 May 2024

Life at HBS Chat with HBS Club of Sweden (In Person)

Join for a unique opportunity to learn more about the HBS MBA experience and life at HBS from alumni.  This special event, hosted by the HBS Club of Sweden, is available both in-person and online.  During this event alumni will share... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2015
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values

focus on when we talk about sustainability. It creates a lot of debate in class. This is an industry where you can really make an impact because there is so much to do. Q: Tell us about the way Stella tried to infuse these values... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Fashion
  • Research Summary

Business and Low Income Sectors: The Creation of Economic and Social Value

In the last three decades, innovative commercial solutions have emerged in developing nations focusing on providing effective responses to the hugely underserved needs of low-income populations, both as consumers as well as active participants in productive value... View Details
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

"Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment," at the Harvard Business School Möbius Leadership Forum on April 12. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, Emeritus.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values

By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
This working paper examines the history of organic wine, which provides a case study of failed category creation. The modern organic wine industry emerged during the 1970s in the United States and Western Europe, but it struggled to gain traction compared to other... View Details
Keywords: Product Launch; Failure; Problems and Challenges; Complexity; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 16 May 2024
  • News

On the Job

finding his way back to Wall Street, Schwartz returned to his native Canada, and in 1984 founded Onex Corporation, a private equity firm built on the values that changed the trajectory of his life so many... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
  • January 2018
  • Supplement

Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (B)

By: William R. Kerr and Gamze Yucaoglu
On November 7, 2017, Sidar Şahin, founder and CEO of Peak Games, a Turkey-based global mobile gaming company, had just closed the sale of Peak Games’ card games studio. This sale included three of the company’s top grossing games and half of its team. Sahin was happy... View Details
Keywords: Games; Gaming; Acquisitions; Exits; Private Sector; Decision; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Emerging Markets; Acquisition; Entrepreneurship; For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Making; Value Creation; Leading Change; Management Teams; Technology Industry; Turkey
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  • 06 Dec 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

it has acquired Whole Foods, the market value of US big name retailers selling foods immediately drops 10 to 20 percent. The exchange of information and news, fake or fact, among large segments of the world’s population is controlled by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services
  • 28 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership, and environmental and social responsibility. Practitioners will find compelling insights also. "Aspiring entrepreneurs and established business leaders," Jones says, "will see for the first time... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 2018
  • Article

Overcoming Barriers to Time-Saving: Reminders of Future Busyness Encourage Consumers to Buy Time

By: A. V. Whillans, Elizabeth W. Dunn and Michael I. Norton
Spending money on time-saving purchases improves happiness. Yet, people often fail to spend their money in this way. Because most people believe that the future will be less busy than the present, they may underweight the value of these purchases. We examine the impact... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Choice; Sharing Economy; Opportunity Cost; Time-as Money; Well-being; Time Management; Happiness; Perception; Behavior
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1.1.1 MBA Program Guidance on HBS Community Values | MBA

1.1.1 MBA Program Guidance on HBS Community Values 1.1 Community Values Harvard Business School’s statement on Community Values lays out the principles that enable us to... View Details