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Use Your Strengths to Stand Out in the Admissions Process
Are you a musical athlete or dancing doctor? Are you a political junkie or junior entrepreneur? The college admissions process has become increasingly competitive, and so students who understand their strengths and focus on finding the best fit have a clear advantage. View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
play a part in addressing them. As you begin the next phase in your leadership journey, I ask you to join me in reflecting on three behaviors that I hope might be helpful to you as you go about this great task. They are Active Listening ,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
determined largely by individual "interest patterns" that stabilize in early adulthood. Because these patterns are realized through specific work activities, a given job is best analyzed by examining its underlying activity structure.... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
activities. These activities, and the secrecy they demanded, became the cover for activities that were not in shareholders' best interests. Oversight of tax planning, much like accounting, can no longer be relegated to specialists within... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
William B. Bell
coating resins, as well as melamine resins, which were used in making work surfaces impervious to scratches and stains. During the 1940s and 50s, Bell also expanded American Cyanamid's activities in drug research and production. View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many
Call them the class's Designated Eight. The Bulletin has picked a small group from the Class of '74 whose activities and achieve-ments are intended to represent - however unscientifically - the variety of job and life experiences of the... View Details
- August 2005 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
DICOM Group plc and Captiva Software Corp.
By: Paul M. Healy
Compares two companies in the information capture software industry. Asks students to analyze and compare the performance of two companies (one in the United Kingdom and the other in the United States) from the perspective of a buy-side analyst reporting to the manager... View Details
Keywords: History; Financial Management; Environmental Accounting; Activity Based Costing and Management; Financial Reporting; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Economic Growth; Fair Value Accounting; Information Industry; Computer Industry; United Kingdom; United States
Healy, Paul M. "DICOM Group plc and Captiva Software Corp." Harvard Business School Case 106-015, August 2005. (Revised April 2007.)
- 06 Oct 2014
- Blog Post
Leveraging LinkedIn to Recruit Candidates
encourage candidates to check out your page and follow you. Tap into your employees’ LinkedIn networks: Many LinkedIn members are passive candidates, meaning they are not actively looking for a job but they would be willing to hear about... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - The Future of Green Building
as a pivotal point of discussion towards reducing global carbon emissions. The push to decarbonize the building sector stems from statistics compiled by sources such as Architecture 2030, which indicate that activities related to... View Details
- September 2010
- Supplement
Using Regression Analysis to Estimate Time Equations (CW)
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
This note presents a simple way to estimate time equations using regression analysis in Excel. The note quickly outlines regression analysis, then presents a real-life case example from the natural gas industry that students can use to gain experience developing and... View Details
- January 2018 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Financial Inclusion at Omidyar Network
By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme and James Barnett
A team of investors at Omidyar Network explore two different investment possibilities in the budding financial inclusion space using their investment framework to consider capital alternatives available for both investments, each of which carries highly divergent... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Micro Finance; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Portfolio; Microfinance; Africa; Philippines
Gandhi, Vikram S., Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme, and James Barnett. "Financial Inclusion at Omidyar Network." Harvard Business School Case 318-004, January 2018. (Revised February 2020.)
- November 2013 (Revised May 2023)
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Valuing Yahoo! in 2013
By: Luis M. Viceira and Atul Khosla
In late July 2013, Danielle Engle, Managing Director of Clairemont Capital, was contemplating what to do about a large investment her fund had in the stock of Yahoo! Inc. In mid-2012, Clairemont had invested nearly $75M in Yahoo! after the tech company settled a highly... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Decision Making; Investment Activism; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Valuation
Viceira, Luis M., and Atul Khosla. "Valuing Yahoo! in 2013." Harvard Business School Case 214-048, November 2013. (Revised May 2023.)
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United Fruit Company Photograph Collection | Baker Library
describe their content. The photographs depict agricultural operations, construction, and research activities undertaken by the company’s many operating units. These units produced bananas, sugar, abaca (for use as hemp), cacao, palm oil,... View Details
- 24 Feb 2011
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What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
private mortgage credit dries up. "In that case, a government-owned corporation could guarantee newly issued, high-quality mortgage-backed securities to keep credit flowing," says Scharfstein. "This entity could have a small footprint in normal times to ensure that it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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Silver Lining
Energy International, a company formed to manage its physical assets, which, as it happens, are actively being sought after by private-equity groups from around the world. Said Bhatnagar, who has since founded THOT Capital Group, an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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Innovation Lab to Open in ’11
access to Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, and a program of related activities to deepen their understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation. “Our goal is to drive innovation by connecting entrepreneurial teams, not only across the Charles... View Details
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Wine & Cuisine Society | MBA
Wine & Cuisine Society The mission of the Wine and Cuisine Society (WCS) is to promote good living through the enjoyment of fine wine and cuisine. The WCS is focused on providing both educational and social activities in a convivial yet... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Professors Thompson, Healy Remembered
social responsibility. Healy was an authority on labor relations and arbitration who joined the faculty in 1946. He remained active in high-level dispute resolution while teaching at HBS and was the coauthor of Collective Bargaining, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Together Again
building green businesses to winning in emerging markets to rethinking business education. For many, the reunion was a family affair, with children and grandchildren participating in a variety of activities tailored to their interests. To... View Details
Keywords: reunion
- 01 Feb 2017
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New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach
underlying Israel’s strength in technology and innovation More than half the cases published in FY16 were international in scope or focus. To facilitate growing interest and activity in Africa, the Global Initiative established an office... View Details