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  • July 1986 (Revised March 1989)
  • Case

Jim Southern

By: Howard H. Stevenson
A recent MBA graduate has reached tentative agreement for an LBO of a forms-printing business with $43 million sales. At the eleventh hour, however, the seller has demanded that the buyer personally guarantee $4 million of accounts payable. View Details
Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Leveraged Buyouts; Accounting
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  • May 1986 (Revised July 1986)
  • Case

MBAs at Merrill Lynch

By: George C. Lodge
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
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  • September 1985
  • Background Note

Finding a Job with a Small Company

By: Howard H. Stevenson
Describes a process of self-evaluation for working in small companies, discusses small company issues, focuses on some basic search techniques, and ends with a little how-to section. The goal is to facilitate the process of securing a job in a small company and to show... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Higher Education; Recruitment; Work-Life Balance; Interests
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  • April 1985
  • Supplement

People Express, Questions and Answers with an MBA Class, Video

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger
Don Burr, chairman and CEO, conducts a question and answer session. Designed as a follow-on to the discussion of the case. View Details
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  • October 1984 (Revised July 1988)
  • Case

Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc.

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
Describes the history, management, and organization of an extremely successful bank holding company. The company has had a very charismatic chairman, has made MBAs bank presidents at very early ages, and has a long record of innovation. Now deregulation and a coming... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Financial Services Industry
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  • September 1983 (Revised July 1998)
  • Case

Heather Evans

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts
Focuses on the efforts of Heather Evans, a second-year MBA student, and her attempts to start her own dress business. Examines the business plan and the process of acquiring control over the financial and human resources necessary to implement the plan. View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Business Startups; Investment; Human Resources; Strategic Planning; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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Accounting for Managers

By: V.G. Narayanan
I teach financial and managerial accounting to executives and MBA students. View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Managerial Accounting; Financial Accounting
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Business Opportunties in Climate Adaptation

By: John D. Macomber

This is a Short Intensive Program or SIP at Harvard Business School.  It’s an optional student offering prior to the formal start of the Spring semester the following week.  SIPs tend to cover new material on current topics, to be less formal than the HBS Case Study... View Details

Keywords: Resilience; Climate Risk; Climate Impact; Fire Protection; Insurance Risk Exposure; Hedge Fund; Public Health; Public Health Measures; Climate Change; Adaptation; Infrastructure; Real Estate Industry; Transportation Industry; Insurance Industry; United States; Africa; Latin America
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Consumer Decision Making and Behavioral Research

By: John T. Gourville

John Gourville’s research focuses on consumer behavior, especially in the areas of pricing and consumer decision making. In the area of pricing, for instance, he has looked at the role of time on how consumers interpret and react to product costs and prices.... View Details

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Creating Value in Business and Government

By: W. Carl Kester

This full-credit course is open only to students in the HBS-HKS Joint Degree Program, and is a required course for all joint degree students in the fall semester of their third year. Its purpose is to integrate on the one hand, the perspectives and analytic tools... View Details

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Crossover into Business (for Professional Athletes)

By: Anita Elberse
Designed to help professional athletes be better prepared for business activities during and after their active sports careers, this program matches each athlete with a pair of student mentors so athletes can learn business fundamentals in a customized and flexible... View Details
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Data Science and AI for Leaders

By: Dennis Campbell
Modern business increasingly relies... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Data Science
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Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for Leaders

By: Chiara Farronato
With artificial intelligence (AI)... View Details
Keywords: Data Science; Data Science And Analytics Management; Data Analytics; Data Analysis; Artificial Intelligence; Generative Ai; Generative Models
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Digital Innovation and Transformation – MBA Elective Curriculum

By: Feng Zhu
 

Digital Innovation and Transformation is designed to equip students to confidently help conceive, lead and execute digital innovation initiatives and develop new business models for existing and insurgent organizations. The basic premise of the course... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Failure

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
Most startups fail. Why? Are there recurring patterns that can be anticipated and avoided? If entrepreneurs fail, how can they do so in ways that leave their reputations, relationships, and integrity intact? And, how can they learn from the experience, heal, and... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Entrepreneurship; Failure
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FIELD Foundations

By: Alison Wood Brooks

FIELD Foundations is a course for first-year MBA students in the Required Curriculum. As a complement to case method courses that students take in the first year of the MBA program, FIELD Foundations offers hands-on leadership practice and immersive team... View Details

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FIELD Global Capstone

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
A required course for first-year MBA students that aims to develop students’ ability to understand and manage differences and operate effectively across cultures and business contexts. View Details
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Field Global Immersion

By: Archie L. Jones

The FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) is a semester-long first-year (RC) MBA course. The course is a capstone of sorts, and it requires students to build on learnings from their first-year courses and apply them to real-world business problems. At the beginning of... View Details

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Field Global Immerson

By: Martin A. Sinozich

The FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) is a semester-long first-year (RC) MBA course. The course is a capstone of sorts, and it requires students to build on learnings from their first-year courses and apply them to real-world business problems. At the beginning of the... View Details

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Financial Risk Management

By: Richard F. Meyer
Richard F. Meyer is exploring the theory and practice of financial risk management in corporations worldwide. Three primary objectives of his research are: to understand the underlying sources of risk and corporations' exposure to them; to identify appropriate,... View Details

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