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- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Seventy Years Out: Class of 1932 Celebrates Reunions
John Brink (left) attended his last five reunions and came back for his 70th to “keep the record going and to see the old gang.” Brink said that times were tough when he was at HBS and that half View Details
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo
View Video Adán Acevedo (MBA 2023) has been selected as the student speaker for Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Class Day celebration, held this year on Wednesday, May 24.... View Details
- 28 Aug 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms’ Corporate Tax Planning
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
to by assigning overly optimistic ratings to highly complex and opaque mortgage- and asset-backed securities. The high ratings signaled to investors that the financial instruments had little chance of... View Details
- November 2011
- Case
Comfort Class Transport: Does Customer Service Need an Overhaul?
By: Michael J Roberts and Paul E. Morrison
The general manager of a chauffeured limousine transport company is concerned about underperformance at the company's customer service call center. The eight-person call center handles almost all customer interaction including discussing company services with... View Details
Keywords: Capacity Utilization; Supply ＆ Demand; Operations Management; Customer Service; Management; Demand and Consumers; Service Operations; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Performance Capacity; Customer Satisfaction; Transportation Industry
Roberts, Michael J., and Paul E. Morrison. "Comfort Class Transport: Does Customer Service Need an Overhaul?" Harvard Business School Brief Case 114-374, November 2011.
- 10 Mar 2016
- News
Salary negotiation classes teach women how to "push back"
- 23 May 2013
- Video
In One Word
- 17 May 2014
- Video
In One Word
- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Schwarzman on Blackstone and the Value of an MBA
(via Poets & Quants) (via Poets & Quants) Many b-school students covet a career like the one Steve Schwarzman (MBA 1972) has had. He became a managing director at Lehman Brothers when he was 31. Seven years... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
taseffski When Stefan Thomke finished writing the Harvard Business School case study on A. Lange & Söhne, he sent it to the German watchmaker for feedback. View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Harvard MBA Class of 2016 Honors Excellence in Teaching
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years
graduates, international alumni, and the HBS Fund Investors Society. We ask our peers to join us in making leadership gifts to the HBS Fund and introduced a new fundraising volunteer role—Investors Society... View Details
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Decluttering the company
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
On February 14, US Airways and American Airlines put their names on a valentine to each other as they announced an $11 billion merger, a union that created the largest airline... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
Clubs News Clubs News In a first-ever result, all of the winners in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition (ANVC) hail from the same HBS class: View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Class Day, Commencement Mark New Beginning for Newest Alumni
Class Day speaker Jamie Dimon (MBA ’82) Photos by Stuart Cahill Overcast skies, but no stormy washout: That bad news/good news scenario for last June’s Class Day ceremonies seemed to reflect View Details
- 27 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Taking the LEAP into the Case Method
students last semester. I was familiar with the theory of leadership, and I also had many years of teaching experience on this subject, but finding an effective way of helping students learn and improve... View Details
- January 2009 (Revised November 2010)
- Case
The Dojima Rice Market and the Origins of Futures Trading
By: David A. Moss and Eugene Kintgen
In 1730, Japanese merchants petitioned shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune to officially authorize trade in rice futures at the Dojima Exchange, the world's first organized (but unsanctioned) futures market. For many years, the Japanese government had prohibited the trade of... View Details
Keywords: Futures and Commodity Futures; Price; Food; Business History; Market Transactions; Business and Government Relations; Japan
Moss, David A., and Eugene Kintgen. "The Dojima Rice Market and the Origins of Futures Trading." Harvard Business School Case 709-044, January 2009. (Revised November 2010.)
- January 2019 (Revised January 2022)
- Case
Chinese Infrastructure Investments in Sri Lanka: A Pearl or a Teardrop on the Belt and Road?
By: Meg Rithmire and Yihao Li
In 2015, a surprise presidential election result seemed to imperil Chinese investments in Sri Lanka, which were associated with China’s Belt and Road Initiative to build global infrastructure. In the previous decade, China had undertaken two major projects in the... View Details
Rithmire, Meg, and Yihao Li. "Chinese Infrastructure Investments in Sri Lanka: A Pearl or a Teardrop on the Belt and Road?" Harvard Business School Case 719-046, January 2019. (Revised January 2022.)