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15 Jul 2025
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Outrage at the Death of a Tree

against a mining company more recently. What if Graham’s 350 year old sycamore had rights defensible in a court of law? Regardless of what one thinks of the rights-of-nature effort, I laud its intellectual... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving

Long before HBS professor Karim R. Lakhani used crowdsourcing to develop pioneering research on the science of innovation, his experiences working at General Electric and the View Details

18 Oct 2017
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4 Advantages of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

MIT—undergraduate and graduate students, many of whom need the business expertise acquired at HBS. There are also hundreds (yes you read that right) of cross-school organizations and the opportunity to... View Details

06 Dec 2017
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The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference

Carolyn Everson, Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions at Facebook. The highlight of this session was when Carolyn shared a story about how one day she received a fax from Pets.com, a company she had... View Details

Keywords: Technology

16 Mar 2018
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Giving Back to Help The Next Generation

I am happy to give back,” she explains. “It was a nice surprise to me to learn that, as a younger alumna, I could create a named fellowship fund with a lower minimum gift and use my company match to help fulfill my pledge,” she adds. “My... View Details

12 Jul 2020
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

Compete: Why Honest Conversations about Your Company’s Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy When company leaders can't hear the voices of their workers, serious... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

03 Oct 2017
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Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?

In the battle to land Amazon’s second American headquarters, Boston may have an historical advantage with CEO Jeff Bezos. A recent Boston Globe article details Bezos ties to... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade

07 Aug 2014
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Summer School? Teens Trade Classes for Factory Jobs

02 Sep 2010
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Disputing wrongful dismissal; consumers like underdogs, too

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Steinway & Sons: Buying a Legend (A)

By: John T. Gourville and Joseph B. Lassiter III

It is 1995 and Steinway & Sons has just been purchased by two young entrepreneurs. For 140 years, Steinway has held the reputation for making the finest quality grand pianos in the world. The past 25 years have proven to be a challenge, however. First, the company has... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Crisis Management; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Quality; Competitive Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; New York (state, US)

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04 Nov 2020
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The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

credit: Library of Congress / Dorothea Lange READ MORE Hi, this is Akilah Rogers. I graduated in 2009, companies were rescinding offers, and the only companies that were hiring... View Details

19 Dec 2016
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Harvard Students Help Mom-and-Pop Shops Get off the Ground

Senior Lecturer Kristin W. Mugford (photo courtesy of Kristin Mugford) Senior Lecturer Kristin W. Mugford (photo courtesy of Kristin Mugford) Students at Harvard Business Schools are taking their education to the streets of View Details

Keywords: retail

September 2020
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Drinkworks: Home Bar by Keurig

By: Sunil Gupta, Jonathan Levav and Julia Kelley

In the summer of 2018, Drinkworks CEO Nathaniel Davis needed to make a number of go-to-market decisions ahead of his company’s upcoming product launch. Formed through a joint venture between Keurig Dr. Pepper and Anheuser-Busch InBev, Drinkworks had developed an... View Details

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26 Apr 2024
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How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Matthew Young

to work in Boston with an HBS alum who took me to visit campus for the first time. Business school was something I had been aware of, but after hearing her talk about HBS and walking around View Details

06 Jul 2020
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A Letter from the Women in Investing Club

outings to help facilitate the development of deeper relationships between our members. Off campus, we sought to keep continuity in this community, hosting events in Boston and New York City for alumnae. It... View Details

21 Aug 2018
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Navigating Talent Hot Spots

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

with a successful entrepreneurial track record and a Boston address. “I am a tech CEO.” With so few women in leadership roles in the information technology sector and a dramatic gender imbalance throughout... View Details

Keywords: April White

Jeffrey J. Bussgang

General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners

Former entrepreneur turned VC, HBS Senior Lecturer, author of three, dad of three, husband of one, civic leader, and fan of all Boston sports.

Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a Senior... View Details

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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Related Collections Site Credits The China house was ultimately a go-between, an economic mediator spanning both geographic and cultural distance. — Stephen Lockwood, Augustine Heard and Company , 1858-1862... View Details

29 Jun 2022
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Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

and fellows’ companies funding has quadrupled. It is gratifying to be a part of the program’s tremendous growth and mentor next generation entrepreneurs who contribute to society by commercializing... View Details

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