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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

features short, highly produced videos of HBS faculty and guest business experts, interactive graphs and exercises, cold calls to keep you engaged, and opportunities to contribute to a vibrant online community. Do I need to come to campus... View Details

10 May 2020
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Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

disadvantaged community in Denver. How do you do it? My husband is an incredible co-parent– he packs lunches, changes diapers, cooks dinner, sings, and looks up calming tricks on YouTube. Singing keeps things lighthearted, silly, and joyful. There is more singing in... View Details

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

interactive quizzes such as "How Bauhaus Are You?," self-guided tours for Valentine's Day, and a video on women in art with a star of HBO's Girls. It created online-only exhibitions of art, and allowed visitors to create their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

18 Dec 2019
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6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

As a boy, Soichiro Honda, the eventual founder of Honda Motor Co., was infatuated with airplanes. At age 10 he biked 20 kilometers to see American pilots performing aerobatics near his home in Japan, climbing a tree to watch the show. It... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

Wasserman Taking the Game to a New Level: Zeynep Ton Finding Reason in the Irrational: Ulrike Malmendier Star Search: Boris Groysberg On the Case: First-Year Professors Develop a Taste for Teaching The Big Aha When Noam Wasserman enrolled... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

simultaneous increase in demand for home deliveries, which raised the need for operators in stores. The company worked with catering and cooking associations, whose operations were temporarily closed, to share labor. Instead of staying at... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

jumped on the bandwagon to some extent. It's partnered with Novell to put some of Microsoft's technologies on Linux and other open platforms. The Mono project consists of porting the .NET framework onto Linux, and the Moonlight project is about providing an offer of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

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Harvard Business School

programming, film acquisition, and international co-production. Named president of HBO Home Entertainment in 1995, McGee received numerous industry awards and oversaw the digital and DVD release of many blockbusters, including The... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Video Recording – Less Info - Video Recording Dean Srikant Datar kicks off Reunion Weekend by sharing his key priorities, which will strengthen and accelerate the School’s impact in the world. 10:00-11:15... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

children in Middle American suburbia, his businessmen protagonists acquired the extroversion “necessary to be at home in a smiling rotarian world.” But like MacDonald, who admitted that he himself had done “miserably in the business... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
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Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

magazine's offices on his way to a job interview at Dartmouth College. As a result of that meeting, and subsequent introductions, Levitt found a home in the Marketing area at HBS. "That sequence of events had a powerful effect on... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

You,” in which Nicholas Kristof wrote, “Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don’t matter in today’s great debates.” Or the 2015 Chronicle of Higher... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

04 Sep 2019
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Giving Live Sports Another Dimension

technology. (The company also has deals with the Erie BayHawks, a National Basketball Hall of Fame and minor league NBA team.) Using your phone, you can home in on a geographic beacon like the pitcher’s mound and watch View Details

September 2010
Teaching Note

A Chinese Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Teaching Note for 309060. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Business or Company Management; Business Model; Internet and the Web; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Social and Collaborative Networks; Video Game Industry; China

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March 2009
Teaching Note

Responding to the Wii? (TN)

By: Andrei Hagiu and Hanna Halaburda

Teaching Note for [709448]. View Details

Keywords: History; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Competition; Industry Structures; Age; Video Game Industry

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24 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

readily gameable. If you need to sell one more unit and you can't find anyone to buy it, buy it for yourself or for your buddy. Because these systems can be gamed, firms spend extra money on online advertising. That money might be better spent in increasing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Video Game

01 Sep 2017
News

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

Bjerg is staring blankly at his computer screen. He adjusts his two monitors and fiddles with the speakers as he awaits the start of his next League of Legends battle. As he does many days, Bjerg will sit here playing the popular video... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2015
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The Next Big Swing

in 1987, the game puts players in the manager’s seat, letting them make tactical decisions against a mathematical model that determines outcomes based on everything from how a batter has historically fared against a certain pitcher to the... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Clark; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Sep 2024
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Next Level

aspect of gaming as the most appealing part. In other words, games are often how younger generations interact with their peers. Bond says this is what has always drawn her to View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

It's academic. (Not!)

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

Harvard Business School

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

One Man Crime Wave

Leadership and Teaming

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

Giving Live Sports Another Dimension

A Chinese Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com (TN)

Responding to the Wii? (TN)

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

The Next Big Swing

Next Level