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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

founding of the one-year certificate program at Radcliffe College in 1937 to their complete integration into HBS campus life in 1970. From Inquiry to Action: Harvard Business School & the Case Method Since the 1920s, HBS has been an... View Details

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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

Dashoriya Engineering Manager at Quizlet at Infosys Prepare for, or acclimate to, new leadership roles in which you’ll be faced with making difficult decisions. "For me, that connection from textbook to reality made the courses memorable, enjoyable, and interesting.... View Details

23 Jul 2020
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How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

confirmed this notion using the detailed database, updated in real time until the end of May. There is a “stark difference between the announcements as a share of GDP in the developed countries relative to the developing countries,” says Cavallo, who also developed a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog

combination of "job to be done," assets required to deliver that service, and monetization method – create value. We will examine WhatsApp (worth $22b?...) and Walmart in its competition with Amazon. The module also studies how firms... View Details

01 Mar 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details

17 Sep 2001
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Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace, Deighton explains how it continues to carve out territory in the marketplace.Lagace: Were you surprised that Webvan failed? Deighton: No. The purpose of writing the case was to have classes explore... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

04 Nov 2002
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From Lone Star to Team Player

collaborative organization and knowledge management? A: Many companies have focused on knowledge management the last couple of years. While that has been a good start, it is only one part of the overall challenge of creating an effective collaborative organization. KM... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

15 Mar 2019
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PART 3: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Getting on the JD/MBA Path

while you are in school, or via study abroad). There are multiple ways to think about them: using a series of opportunities to build your skills and experience towards pivoting into a full-time job that is difficult to get, taking... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Dean Clark on the New Academic Year

content of our curriculum and build deeper relationships with business and academic communities in key areas of the world. We are seeing dividends in the development of an increasing number of internationally based cases and a growing... View Details

Keywords: Kim B. Clark; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 May 2011
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Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

and consumer lending. The researchers chose to study risk-management experts because their role has risen in importance with demands for improved corporate governance and the need for better forecasting and modeling. After the financial... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking

02 Apr 2010
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Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

over their own needs)." Mark Isaac pointed out that "Succession plans, open communication, and knowing that the company cares, create a learning environment." Gerald Nanninga's reference to findings of the biennial Global Workforce View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Archival Resources Industry, marketing and advertising have long been topics of interest at HBS, where marketing has been part of the curriculum since 1914 and advertising courses started offering an intensive study of the place and... View Details

18 Jan 2012
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Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

have built national or global organizations that have achieved social impact. This focus on success stories has led to a skewed view of social entrepreneurship as nothing more or less than a field of huge, realized dreams. “A big weakness of the existing qualitative... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Frank Mycroft

and the Goddard Space Flight Center. "Early on at Princeton," Frank says, "I got really interested in astrobiology, the study of life on other worlds. If it existed, where would it be and how would it evolve? Are there... View Details

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Special Assistant to the CEO | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Topics Nonprofit Strategy & Governance More Impact Stories A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations Mizuho Kanai 2018 While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager recommended that she read an HBS case... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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HBS faculty and research assistants. Each year, more than 40 percent of the faculty's time and 30 percent of the School's total budget are devoted to faculty research and course development. A typical year at HBS will produce hundreds of new View Details

01 Feb 2012
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Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

businesses often answer unmet wants and needs that they see on a local level." Gopal Padinjaruveetil asked " where is the wealth created? In the case of small business the wealth is created in the local economy." Gerald... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Sep 2015
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A Peek Inside Peek Weekend

coursing through your body throughout class while grappling with the fact that your initial “great idea” is about to be changed or influenced in some way by a fantastic remark of one of your peers. The case View Details

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

Kuemmerle, who has studied more than fifty start-ups in twenty countries, says entrepreneurs today should take a litmus test of five questions (See sidebar). In this excerpt from Harvard Business Review, Kuemmerle discusses two of the... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

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Ravi Belani

curriculum. “The ability to define a direction with uncertain information,” says Ravi, “is a skill you can only develop with practice. The case study method is the most natural and best way to exercise that... View Details

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