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- 21 Mar 2011
- News
Ben Edelman says Google favors its own results
- 26 Apr 2019
- Video
Spring on Campus
- June 2001 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
SKOLAR: Launching a University Technology Spinoff Company
SKOLAR is the first company formally spun out of Stanford University. The company is searching for the right business model to commercialize its Internet-based medical information offering. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Commercialization; Higher Education; Information Technology; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry; Education Industry; California
Chesbrough, Henry W., Charles A. Holloway, and Nicole Tempest. "SKOLAR: Launching a University Technology Spinoff Company." Harvard Business School Case 601-162, June 2001. (Revised July 2001.)
- Career Coach
Kelsey Holland
startups, launching ventures within larger enterprises, and founding a new company. This past summer she interned at Pacific Lake Partners, a private equity firm focusing on search funds, where she worked in both an investing and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search?
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- 10 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Successful Internship Matchmaking: “With Citadel, I could be myself.”
Sarah Kramer (MBA 2019) came to HBS knowing what she wanted – sort of. “I was interested in human capital, but I wasn’t sure what a job in this sector would look like,” Sarah says. For Sarah, searching for an appropriate internship... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”
Aaron Scheinfeld, MBA 2019, did not launch a formal search for his summer internship. Yet he found an opportunity he is excited about, largely by pursuing the interests that come naturally to him. After two years with Morgan Stanley’s... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 15 Feb 2017
- News
You Should Consider Buying a Small Business. But When?
- 22 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Video Blog: My Experience with Career Services at HBS
View Video TRANSCRIPT Xonana Scrubb: So my first touchpoint with career services was right in the beginning of the school year. I came into school with an exploding job offer. Not something I particularly recommend, but it was a great opportunity. I was really torn... View Details
- July 2014 (Revised August 2015)
- Case
Qihoo
By: Feng Zhu
Qihoo, one of the largest Internet companies in China today, was founded in 2005. The company started its business by offering a security software product, and quickly dominated the market in China after its unusual move of giving its product away for free in 2009.... View Details
- March 2016 (Revised February 2023)
- Exercise
Advertising Experiments at RestaurantGrades
By: Michael Luca, Weijia Dai and Hyunjin Kim
Advertising Experiments at RestaurantGrades is an exercise in which students are asked to analyze and make a recommendation on the basis of simulated experimental data. The setting is a hypothetical restaurant review company called RestaurantGrades (RG), which shows... View Details
Luca, Michael, Weijia Dai, and Hyunjin Kim. "Advertising Experiments at RestaurantGrades." Harvard Business School Exercise 916-038, March 2016. (Revised February 2023.)
- 16 May 2016
- Blog Post
Career Resources for International Students
been with CPD for the last four years. We checked in with him to learn more about what international students should know about the job search at HBS. What would you like international prospective students to know about CPD? CPD devotes... View Details
- June 2008
- Article
The Market for Mergers and the Boundaries of the Firm
By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and David Robinson
We relate the property rights theory of the firm to empirical regularities in the market for mergers and acquisitions. We first show that high market-to-book acquirers typically do not purchase low market-to-book targets. Instead, mergers pair together firms with... View Details
Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, and David Robinson. "The Market for Mergers and the Boundaries of the Firm." Journal of Finance 63, no. 3 (June 2008): 1169–1211.
- June 1997 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Elliot Lebowitz
By: Paul A. Gompers and Alexander Tsai
Elliot Lebowitz, president and CEO of BioTransplant, must decide on a strategy for this young biotechnology start-up. Among the issues to be resolved are focus of research and search for strategic alliance partners. View Details
Keywords: Alliances; Research; Business Startups; Management Teams; Business Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; United States
Gompers, Paul A., and Alexander Tsai. "Elliot Lebowitz." Harvard Business School Case 297-094, June 1997. (Revised October 2001.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Demand for Executive Skills
By: Stephen Hansen, Tejas Ramdas, Raffaella Sadun and Joseph B. Fuller
We use a unique corpus of job descriptions for C-suite positions to document skills requirements in top managerial occupations across a large sample of firms. A novel algorithm maps the text of each executive search into six separate skill clusters reflecting... View Details
Hansen, Stephen, Tejas Ramdas, Raffaella Sadun, and Joseph B. Fuller. "The Demand for Executive Skills." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28959, June 2021.
- July 2001
- Exercise
Working with Your "Shadow Partner": Building a High Tech Investment Portfolio
By: Dwight B. Crane and Richard L. Nolan
Team-based exercise designed to illustrate the use of the Internet directly by executives. Requires going on the Internet to search for information required to construct a high-tech investment portfolio. View Details
Crane, Dwight B., and Richard L. Nolan. Working with Your "Shadow Partner": Building a High Tech Investment Portfolio. Harvard Business School Exercise 302-029, July 2001.
- May, 2019
- Article
Who Would You Like to Work With?: Use of Individual Characteristics and Social Networks in Team Formation Systems
By: Diego Gomez-Zara, Matthew Paras, Marlon Twyman, Jacqueline N. Lane, Leslie A. DeChurch and Noshir Contractor
People and organizations are increasingly using online platforms to assemble teams. In response, HCI researchers have theorized frameworks and created systems to support team assembly. However, little is known about how users search for and choose teammates on these... View Details
Gomez-Zara, Diego, Matthew Paras, Marlon Twyman, Jacqueline N. Lane, Leslie A. DeChurch, and Noshir Contractor. "Who Would You Like to Work With? Use of Individual Characteristics and Social Networks in Team Formation Systems." Art. 659. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (May, 2019).
- June 2003 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Schering-Plough and Genome Therapeutics: Discovering an Asthma Gene
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Marc Aquino
Personalized medicine requires the identification of mutated genes. Schering-Plough's search for the one related to asthma requires finding families with the disease. Examines the industry that helps conduct such research, including contract research organizations. View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Research and Development; Genetics; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Marc Aquino. "Schering-Plough and Genome Therapeutics: Discovering an Asthma Gene." Harvard Business School Case 303-044, June 2003. (Revised March 2008.)
- Career Coach
Aaron Mitchell
profession, he can provide support in developing job search skills, resume, bio and profile development, as well as behavioral interviewing skills. Aaron has a passion for coaching and mentoring and enjoys helping individuals develop... View Details