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OPM Renew

discover a living and learning environment expressly designed for executive education. Review Our Campus Health & Safety Protocols Admissions Criteria and Process We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

related to the workforce, including the skills gap, degree inflation, care economics, the role of artificial intelligence in employment outcomes, the effectiveness of social entrepreneurs in improving education to employment outcomes,... View Details

August 2018 (Revised July 2020)
Case

Revenue Recognition at HBP

By: Paul Healy and Siko Sikochi

In early 2014, Paul Bills, CFO of Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), sat down with David Wan, the company’s CEO, to discuss budget preparations for the coming year. Bills noted that the performance of Corporate Learning, one of HBP’s three business units, would be... View Details

Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Budgets and Budgeting; Revenue Recognition; Financial Reporting; Education Industry; Education Industry; United States

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01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

Health Care Health Care February 2015 Supplement The Affordable Care Act (A): Legislative Strategy in the House of Representatives By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris In early 2009, the Obama administration and the Democratically-led... View Details

04 May 2021
Book

Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

published May 4, aims to reverse some of the damage done by other cutthroat leaders who have taken a slash-and-burn approach to business. “So much of what I learned when I was at business school, or in my early years as an executive, is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

March 2019
Article

A Structural Analysis of the Role of Superstars in Crowdsourcing Contests

By: Shunyuan Zhang, Param Singh and Anindya Ghose

We investigate the long-term impact of competing against superstars in crowdsourcing contests. Using a unique 50-month longitudinal panel data set on 1677 software design crowdsourcing contests, we illustrate a learning effect where participants are able to improve... View Details

Keywords: Crowdsourcing Contests; Superstar Effect; Bayesian Learning; Utility; Economics Of Information System; Dynamic Structural Model; Dynamic Programming; Markov Chain; Monte Carlo; Learning; Competition; Performance Improvement

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01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

profitable when it decided to do its spin-off. What can be done to encourage companies to restructure sooner rather than later? In the case of United Air Lines, management in effect created a crisis that made employees more willing to compromise. View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

1977) MORE A century after the introduction of the first case to Harvard Business School, the case method remains the cornerstone of the educational experience. But it is also clear, from the scores of stories submitted here, that certain... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

Executive Education programs. With the COVID-19 pandemic transforming our lives at every level, a growing number of students and former students have sought my advice about how to lead in a time of great uncertainty and unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson

01 Dec 2023
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Leadership Transition for External Relations

goal. In the years since, her work with the ER team to strengthen our fundraising enterprise and grow annual giving through the HBS Fund has built a strong foundation to support the School’s core activities and strategic priorities. She View Details

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core... View Details

02 May 2022
What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

questions, questions that students assume primary responsibility for discussing. There is no assumption that there is always a right answer. Rather the emphasis is on the quality of analyses and thought processes employed in coming up with responses. When asked View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

01 Mar 2019
News

The Burden Legacy

graduated from Harvard College. Her grandson Ordway P. Burden (AB 1966, MBA 1968, HLS 1971) represented the fourth generation of her family to be educated at Harvard and was attending HBS when the cornerstone of Burden Hall was laid in... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

01 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Five Lessons From My First Year at HBS

born to supportive parents who pushed me to do my best in school and extracurricular activities, being able to benefit from strong education systems in safe environments, and having managers who trusted me to take on large... View Details

02 Nov 2023
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Seeding Startups

product, the company was acquired by RIM, the company behind BlackBerry, in 2002. But that’s not why he tells the story to the fledgling entrepreneurs he mentors through TiE Seattle, a regional chapter of the global nonprofit The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE), which began... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Knowing Your Students - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

online class cards that provide a detailed profile of each student, including a photo, name pronunciation, educational background, work experience, demographic data, and extracurricular interests. Instructors study these profiles before... View Details

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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Since its inception, the Social Enterprise Initiative has explored the role of business in creating social value. Early efforts in the late 1990s included hosting a research conference on business leadership in the social sector and... View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an alternative view where increasing concentration of economic activity and power in the world's largest corporations, the... View Details

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Partners - Case Method Project

Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming CO 1 of 13 Denny Bain Poudre High School Fort Collins, CO Subjects: American Government, US History, Economics CO 2 of 13 Matt Beeson Colorado View Details

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