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Courses - Entrepreneurship

total enterprise. There are a variety of entrepreneurship related elective courses to choose from. Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits 5 Technologies that Will Change the World Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2024 Q3Q4 3.0 The American... View Details

30 Mar 2021
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Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

Trademark Office, Dataquick, which is now owned by CoreLogic, and Data Axle USA. When measuring the number and quality of patented inventions by high-tech inventors, Wu and his colleagues found that for... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

April 2018
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Miami's Tech Future (Abridged): Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Leadership Challenges

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

By the middle of the 1990s, Miami’s reputation was changing. An influx of Spanish-speaking immigrants and major investments in the airport and seaport had changed the image of a sleepy southern city to the de facto business center of Latin America, a center for... View Details

Keywords: Change; Leadership; Business and Community Relations; Strategic Planning; Technology Industry; Miami; Florida

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September 2022 (Revised June 2025)
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York Capital CLOs and WorldStrides International

By: Victoria Ivashina and William Vrattos

The case follows the debt restructuring of WorldStrides International, a travel program provider in the education market, after the onset of COVID-19. The pandemic severely impacted the travel industry, creating challenges for many companies like WorldStrides, which... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Debt Restructuring; CLO; Compliance; Debt Securities; Financing and Loans; Decision Making; Education Industry; Education Industry

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07 May 2013
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Quality Competition? By: Buell, Ryan W., Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Abstract—When does increased service quality competition lead to customer defection, and which customers are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Race, Work, and Leadership

Race, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people’s experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be black in corporate America today? How are racial dynamics in organizations... View Details

14 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

Probing the productivity and morale toll The anonymized nature of the data made it difficult to discern the quality of the meetings and email communication, and the impact on... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

low percentage of income contributed) and rewarded the poor (for their high percentage of income contributed). In Experiment 4, participants provided with public education... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Sep 2012
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candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a signal View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Crossover Into Business

get at the core of what business is, how business works, and see what it is I like. Let me try to connect the dots and educate myself first. ” Chris Bosh NBA Player More Past Participants Fall 2025 Edition... View Details

09 Oct 2012
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maintaining the company culture, finding adequate partners to preserve the quality of the "Buy a Pair, Give a Pair" program, and devising an integrated online and offline marketing strategy that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2007 (Revised September 2008)
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Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (A)

By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop

In 2002, Professor Nicholas Negroponte, a successful venture capitalist, author, and co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, announced his intention to build a PC so cheap as to make it possible to provide... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Developing Countries and Economies; Manufacturing Industry; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry; Cambridge

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Open to Negotiation: Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination

By: Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn

Phenomenological assumptions-assumptions about the fundamental qualities of the phenomenon being studied and how it relates to the environment in which it occurs-affect the dissemination of knowledge from subfields to the broader field of study. Micro-process research... View Details

Keywords: Framework; Knowledge Dissemination; Research; Organizations; Negotiation; Information Publishing

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05 May 2017
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Harvard Business School Professor David A. Garvin Dies at 64

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

May–June 2025
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Slowly Varying Regression Under Sparsity

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Michael Lingzhi Li and Omar Skali Lami

We consider the problem of parameter estimation in slowly varying regression models with sparsity constraints. We formulate the problem as a mixed integer optimization problem and demonstrate that it can be reformulated exactly as a binary convex optimization problem... View Details

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Analytics and Data Science

03 Oct 2023
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Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

actually think that's right. I think that one of the reasons why I am so proud of myself is not just because I escaped apartheid Mississippi and was able to get an education... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

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Health Care Initiative - Health Care

and innovation, and to disseminate these works. Alumni Opportunities to participate in health care activities at the school, and through the ongoing development of the alumni health care network Executive View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Five Lessons From My First Year at HBS

Elisa Djuhar (MBA 2023) is from Singapore. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science from Cornell University. Before HBS, she oversaw research and development, and quality and safety of food products at... View Details

June 2001
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Coordinating + Managing Supply Chains: Course Overview Note TN

By: Ananth Raman

Describes the MBA elective course on supply chain management at HBS. Coordinating and Managing Supply Chains focuses on the managerial aspects of supply chains. Acquaints students with practical issues in a variety of supply chains and then identifies barriers to, and... View Details