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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education
Cunningham, who had been born into slavery. Wendell Thomas Cunningham HBS MBA 1915 Atlanta, GA Clark University, 1913 Wendell T. Cunningham completed his MBA with his thesis "Plan for a Reorganization of a Fraternal Insurance Company." He... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Integration, Not Intellectual Property The "great embarrassment" of twentieth-century medicine, despite its many strides, is that most therapeutics were directed at symptoms, not causes, said Eric S. Lander, a leader of the Human Genome Project and director... View Details
- 23 Apr 2008
- Op-Ed
The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations
The U.S. Treasury recommendations for restructuring the nation's system of financial regulation are an important start in the process of strengthening the United States financial system. The proposal is to be commended View Details
- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
The Pinto was the last vehicle for rent. I had hoped to sneak into the lot unseen. Unfortunately, the GM customer service team, for whom I was an outside consultant, spotted me as I entered the lot. The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- August 2010 (Revised May 2015)
- Teaching Note
Bank of America: Mobile Banking and Bank of America: Mobile Banking (Abridged)
By: Sunil Gupta
Teaching Note for 510063 and 512082 View Details
- March 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Blogging at BzzAgent
BzzAgent is a word-of-mouth marketing firm. The founder, Dave Balter, sees blogs as an important way to communicate BzzAgent's unique positioning: transparency. He sees the firm's blog--the BeeLog--as a way for the firm to participate in conversations with clients,... View Details
Godes, David B. "Blogging at BzzAgent." Harvard Business School Case 508-102, March 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
historians can use for a number of purposes. I am also planning on writing a couple of journal articles related to the book. In addition, I am beginning a comparative examination of savings institutions in... View Details
- July 2004
- Tool
Developmental Network Questionnaire (CW)
By: Monica C. Higgins, John Galvin and Denis Saulnier
Solicits information about the network of people who provided career developmental assistance for respondents and presents information about the structure and diversity of the developmental network. View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
assistance policy. It helps establish a basis for improved estimates of the gains from past and current practices that worked against African economic, social, and political institutions and systems. This... View Details
- March 2011
- Teaching Note
InnoCentive.com (A) (TN)
By: Karim R. Lakhani
Teaching Note for 608170. View Details
- March 2014
- Teaching Note
Barclays Bank and Contingent Capital Notes, 2012
By: Lucy White
In 2012, regulatory changes following the financial crisis mean that Barclays Bank is faced with the need to raise large amounts of capital in order to comply with increased capital requirements, tightening rules as to the "quality of capital," and increased risk... View Details
- 30 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Harvard and HBS: The Next 100 Years
"build cathedrals." This entails educating leaders who make a difference not just in the world, but for the world. As the institution looks ahead to the next century, there are key areas where new... View Details
Keywords: Education
- March 2010
- Teaching Note
Disruptive IPOs? WR Hambrecht & Co. (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for 610065. View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
a senior portfolio manager for the firm, a position she had held since 1984. Fedak is also a member of the Small-Cap, International, and Global Equity Investment Policy Groups. From 1972 to 1983 she was a portfolio manager and research... View Details
- June 2005 (Revised November 2005)
- Case
Hale and Dorr (A)
Highlights how word-of-mouth is crucial in the acquisition of new customers. Specifically, it shows the existence of both internal (to the firm) and external markets for customer leads. View Details
Godes, David B. "Hale and Dorr (A)." Harvard Business School Case 505-005, June 2005. (Revised November 2005.)
- 25 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control
World Nutella Day, held on February 5, inspired more than 40,000 Instagram posts as fans of the chocolate-hazelnut spread shared recipe videos, memes, and selfies with jars. It was free marketing for Nutella maker Ferrero, which almost... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
Networks as Covers: Evidence from On-Line Social Networks
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Sociologists have extensively documented that networks influence market exchange through improved matching and vouching. In this paper, I propose that networks can also blunt the signal of market participation, as actors who are on the market surrounded by their... View Details
Keywords: Job Search; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan. "Networks as Covers: Evidence from On-Line Social Networks." September 2011.
- February 2023
- Teaching Note
Colette Phillips and GetKonnected: Creating Inclusive Ecosystems
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 323-035. View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Ecosystem; Inclusion; People Of Color; Network; Racial Bias; Gender Bias; Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Change; Change Barriers; Change Leadership; Community; Innovation; Pandemic; Impact; Systemic Racism; Minority-owned Businesses; Social and Collaborative Networks; Equity; Race; Small Business; Prejudice and Bias; Boston
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-055.pdf Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This paper describes the unraveling of transaction dates in several markets, including the labor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
collaboration could make the two platforms differentiate themselves further, causing Apple to focus even more on device sales and Amazon more on book sales for their profits. Through their mathematical... View Details