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08 May 2022
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The Territory of Motherhood: A Reflection in Honor of Mother’s Day

It’s hard to believe our time at Harvard Business School is coming to an end and that an impending move and graduation is creeping into view. When I think about our little family that moved to campus in August 2019, a week before our daughter Adeline’s first birthday... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)

and Alicia figure out that Frank Michael Thomas is forming a class action suit with some hockey players. When they ask about it, he answers, ‘Yep, seven players, eight if I can find Flin Flon, Manitoba, on a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment

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From the Director | Baker Library

issue at a hypothetical shoe company, “General Shoe.” After outlining the factors to be weighed, Biddle poses the question, “What are the general policies with which these conditions should be remedied?” as a way of opening the class... View Details

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In the News - Entrepreneurship

Founders Are Missing Re: Tom Eisenmann 05 Jun 2025 Deal Makers Founder-Turned-Venture Capitalist Jeff Bussgang On Helping Build A Unicorn, Co-Founding A Company That Sold For $300 Million, And Now a Best-Seller Re: Jeff Bussgang 04 Jun 2025 The View Details

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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship

Stevenson Professor of Business Administration Joseph B. Lassiter , Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management Meredith L. McPherron , Director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship William A. Sahlman , Dimitri V.... View Details

14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

Education Leveraging Crowdsourced Peer-to-Peer Assessments to Enhance the Case Method of Learning By: Avery, Jill Abstract—Many marketing educators use the case method to help their students strengthen their decision-making skills. Rigorous View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2021
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Holding Business to Account

competitors had recently been forced to pay a record $108 million to settle a class action suit brought by female employees who had been denied advancement opportunities. Aiyer wanted to know what Albertsons... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

perks, small non-cash rewards like access to valuable online classes or fitness programs can also contribute to well-being. Other non-cash rewards, such as notes of appreciation from clients, can also positively impact workplace... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

15 Aug 2017
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What is Field Foundations?

practice though experiential exercises and working in small teams. This is a first term course of roughly ten sessions. The FIELD Foundation classes tend to be a bit longer than the 80-minute traditional View Details

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4.6 HBS Campus Demonstration Policy | MBA

may occur in other contexts, whether during events (such as lectures, seminars, speeches, or panel discussions) or through actions such as demonstrations. As outlined in the USRR and as articulated in Harvard Business School's Community... View Details

09 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

Treasurer, faced a decision with potential personal and political ramifications: whether or not to ask the city’s Mayor to join a class action antitrust suit against the city’s creditors for View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog

well?” EQUITY VALUE CREATION addresses the cases where founders are challenged with the growth of their firms and the requirement to deliver financially, answering questions like where should the CEO focus, what metrics matter, are your View Details

20 Feb 2025
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IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management

of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2025 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 9 student essays that... View Details

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

every minute, and he conveyed that....[Y]ou really learned from his passion and from his entrepreneurial fire." 10 Doriot became well known for his Manufacturing course, a second year class he began teaching in 1937. The full year course... View Details

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

party and governmental elite and among a new class of entrepreneurs. Surprisingly, Chinese mercantilism is also widening the income gap in Western trading partners. For example, Wal-Mart, the largest and fastest-growing trader with China,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://hbr.org/2010/03/bold-retreat/ar/1 Lawsuits and Empire: On the Enforcement of Sovereign Debt in Latin America Authors:Laura Alfaro, Noel Maurer, and Faisal Ahmed... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

rights to your codified labor and how you should navigate employment contracts or other business agreements over your direct labor and any data byproduct that can be used to train AI models. We will also re-think the power of collective View Details

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

Schering-Plough filed a lawsuit accusing Upsher-Smith of violating Schering-Plough's patent. The companies reached an out-of-court settlement in which Upsher-Smith agreed to delay its entry into the market, and Schering-Plough agreed to... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

01 Dec 2002
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Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values

Chao Photo Stuart Cahill As part of the orientation for the MBA Class of 2004, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao (MBA '79) told 899 entering students that they had an obligation to help fix the American free-enterprise system. “This... View Details

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Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA - Course Catalog

follow-up window which opens on June 24. Class meets weekly on Tuesdays as a section. Class meets weekly on Wednesday nights to enable unique interactions with HBS alumni and other guests. Usually these... View Details

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