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  • 07 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree

to spending a decade in the military as a Navy SEAL being deployed globally. A lot of the places we deploy are... View Details
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Intelligent Design of Inclusive Growth Strategies

By: Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim and Eduardo Tugendhat
Improving corporate engagement with society, as advocated in the Business Roundtable’s 2019 statement, should not be viewed as a zero-sum proposition where attention to new stakeholders detracts from delivering shareholder value. Corporate programs for sustainable and... View Details
Keywords: Inclusion; Sustainability; Performance Measures; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Strategy; Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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  • November 2018 (Revised April 2019)
  • Case

Nike: Changing the Sneakers Game

By: Anita Elberse, Bryce Aiken and Howard Johnson
“Our goal is to be the kind of start-up that would terrify Nike—if Nike didn’t already own us.” Ron Faris, general manager of S23NYC, a Manhattan-based digital studio owned by sports apparel giant Nike, is on the phone with Adam Sussman, Nike’s chief digital officer.... View Details
Keywords: Digital Technology; Apparel; Fashion; Superstar; Innovation; General Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Management; Sports; Entertainment; Digital Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • March 24, 2014
  • Article

Like a Boss: How Corporate Negotiators Would Handle Nuclear Talks With Iran

By: James K. Sebenius
While the Obama team deserves high marks for launching the interim talks, its approach doesn't sell the upside of a comprehensive deal persuasively enough to transform more Iranian skeptics into active supporters—a necessary condition for success if there is an... View Details
Keywords: Negotiations; Nuclear; Conflict Resolution; Winning Coalition; Blocking Coalition; Strategy; France; Germany; Iran; China; Great Britain; United States; Russia; Negotiation; International Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Public Administration Industry; France; Germany; Iran; China; Great Britain; United States; Russia
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  • 28 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

College Students, Take a Sneak Peek at the HBS MBA

include a career workshop, mock case sessions, and an alumni/current student panel! You’ll have the chance to interact with students from around the world to collectively grapple with management challenges... View Details
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Positions of Power and Status: Reciprocity in the Venture Capital Industry

By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski
This paper proposes a straightforward way of differentiating between central network positions that confer power and those that confer status. I argue that actors achieve high status by receiving numerous exchanges from actors who in turn receive numerous exchanges... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Partners and Partnerships; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Status and Position; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 2012
  • Book

The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy

In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power... View Details
Keywords: History; Sovereign Finance; Ethnicity Characteristics; Economics; Great Britain; United States
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  • 09 Jun 2011
  • News

The Tycoons, HBS's First A Cappella Group

after the founding of Harvard University's oldest a cappella singing group, the Krokodiloes, at the Hasty Pudding Club, the Tycoons, HBS's oldest a cappella singing group, was... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 15 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

sustainability. “Private investors will need to fund not only real estate development, but also the supporting urban infrastructure systems” In his multiple roles as a member View Details
Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 15 Jul 2019
  • Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

regulations on buybacks as some propose, I’m in favor of boards being much more active in evaluating buybacks, limiting accelerated share buybacks, and changing the accounting treatment View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

passed, often twelve to twenty-four months. Such a clause, for instance, sparked a public legal battle two years ago when Google hired away a top Microsoft executive, Kai-Fu... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

On the Origins of Brokerage in Intraorganizational Networks

While we have ample empirical evidence linking brokerage in intraorganizational social networks to both individual and firm-level benefits, we know little about its origins. Prior research describes correlations between rough demographic categories and network... View Details
  • 25 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

a spreadsheet tool they developed that any organization can use to plug in their own figures and calculate their own potential costs of not dealing with burnout. “In every other View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 10 Dec 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

State Owned Entity Reform in Absence of Privatization: Reforming Indian National Laboratories and Role of Leadership

Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury & Tarun Khanna
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

Some of the best entrepreneurial ventures begin with a small revelation. For Luke O'Neill (MBA '95), the founder of a unique alternative high... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 16 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

The Rituals of Case Method Teaching

prior to class as tools to marshal that energy on demand. “The deep puzzle of both research and teaching is how you can get into the zone in a creative View Details

    Levels of Meaning

    project inventory needs over the course of the year. My business history courses posed questions like, How did an entrepreneur build his or her business over time? What choices did they make that were fundamental in making the business... View Details
    • October 2015
    • Teaching Note

    Molycorp: Financing the Production of Rare Earth Minerals (A)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
    Molycorp, the western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth minerals, was in the middle of a $1 billion capital expenditure project in its effort to become a vertically integrated supplier of rare earth minerals, oxides, and metals. Yet it had just reported lower... View Details
    Keywords: Convertible Debt; Uncertainty; Competition; Startup; China; Supply ＆ Demand; Growth; Rare Earth Minerals; Discounted Cash Flows; Mining; Payoff Diagrams; Option Pricing; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Financial Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Vertical Integration; Valuation; Metals and Minerals; Mining Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Canada; California
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    • 12 Feb 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns

    Keywords: by Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini & Christopher Malloy; Financial Services
    • 20 Dec 2018
    • Blog Post

    A Time For Opportunity In Food and Agriculture

    In the words of David Eisen (MBA 2001), CEO of the rapidly growing vegan food-maker Plant Snacks, “there’s probably nothing more important for your everyday behavior—as a... View Details