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- June 2014
- Teaching Note
Steve Carpenter at Cake Financial
After investing $9 million of venture capital, Cake Financial had failed to reach critical mass. In early 2010 Cake's assets were sold and the company was dissolved. Founded in 2006, the San Francisco-based Internet company allowed users to monitor their investments... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
second year,” he says. Gardner has built Kyruus into an industry leader in providing search, scheduling, and data management services for health systems. Simplifying the Process “We don’t define what is... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
paper with Harvard graduate students Sonia Jaffe (Department of Economics) and Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard Business School). Carmen Nobel: How can a discount voucher service like Groupon benefit retailers? Ben Edelman: Our paper looks at... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
of investing at home than those where external managers are involved. At the same time, SWFs with external managers tend to invest in lower P/E industries, which see an increase in the P/E ratios in the year... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Goldman Supports Case Method
The Goldman Sachs Group will fund outreach and scholarships to bring a dozen or more senior faculty from leading Indian business schools to HBS this summer to participate in the School’s two programs that teach how to teach the case method. HBS began offering... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Hawes Hall Groundbreaking
Groundbreaking took place in early June for Hawes Hall, a new classroom building that will be constructed adjacent to the northeast corner of Aldrich Hall, facing Baker Library. Dean Kim B. Clark opened the ceremony by welcoming the Hawes family, including Beverly and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
What Is Harvard’s Impact in the World?
It’s safe to assume that Harvard University alumni collectively have a significant impact in the world, but just how significant is hard to know. That is why Harvard Business School is leading a University-wide effort to quantify the global economic and social impact... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
MBA Poker World Series
Playing in an organized poker tournament for the first time in his life, Joe Godfrey (HBS ’07) bested some 470 fellow card sharks in the 2006 MBA World Series of Poker, held in Las Vegas in January. Going up against students from 48 other business schools, Godfrey won... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
What Are They Thinking?
The Leadership Initiative, whose mission is to ensure that the School remains at the forefront of leadership R&D, has two projects under way that focus on young people. Using interviews, self-assessment exercises, and periodic interventions, one study is documenting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
33rd Annual HBS Show
33rd Annual HBS Show: Indecent Disclosure took satirical aim at the School’s quest to replace Dean Kim B. Clark, as disgruntled alumni hatch a plot to install an evil android as the new dean. Dylan Bourguignon (HBS ’07), on the left, played Harvard President Lawrence... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Gift of Gab
For the second year running, Jin (“PJ”) Kim (MBA 2006) won the HBS Public Speaking Competition. Kim and seven others were selected as finalists from a preliminary group of nearly forty MBA students after each delivered a four-minute, impromptu speech on a randomly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Last Look - December 2007
What’s Going on Here? Who, what, where, when, and why .we’d appreciate any information that will help us identify what’s going on in this photograph plucked from the archives of Baker Library. Please contact us at bulletin@hbs.edu, or HBS Alumni Bulletin, Teele Hall... View Details
- 29 Feb 2008
- News
Last Look - March 2008
What’s Going on Here? Who, what, where, when, and why .we’d appreciate any information that will help us identify what’s going on in this photograph plucked from the archives of Baker Library. Please contact us at bulletin@hbs.edu, or HBS Alumni Bulletin, Teele Hall... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- News
An Educational Start-Up
Last week I made the trek to campus to sit in on a case discussion. Sure it’s summer, but the crews who clean blackboards in Aldrich and Hawes are still pretty busy. In fact, we’re all busy, thank you very much. How else would you get your nice, shiny copy of the... View Details
- March 1996 (Revised January 1997)
- Case
America Online: Using Information Technology to Better Serve the Customer
By: James I. Cash Jr. and Judy E. Stahl
Mike Connors, president of AOL Technologies, examines several efforts to correct operational problems inhibiting the company's growth. What will need to be done to support growth and counter competition from Prodigy, Compuserv, and Internet-related services? View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Service Operations; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology; Technology Industry
Cash, James I., Jr., and Judy E. Stahl. "America Online: Using Information Technology to Better Serve the Customer." Harvard Business School Case 396-290, March 1996. (Revised January 1997.)
- October 2011 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
LinkedIn Corporation
By: Francois Brochet and James Weber
The case is set at the end of the first public trading day of LinkedIn, an online professional network company. It provides information on the company's business model, financial statements, competitive landscape, and IPO terms, to help the reader critically assess the... View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Growth and Development; Earnings Management; Risk Management; Valuation; SWOT Analysis; Emerging Markets; Business Model; Information Technology; Competitive Strategy; Web Services Industry
Brochet, Francois, and James Weber. "LinkedIn Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 112-006, October 2011. (Revised January 2012.)
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
hotels we own, we’re looking at hospital-grade sanitation programs. We’re looking at things like plexiglass shields between the customer and the check-in desk. We’re considering what social distancing looks like in our restaurants—or do we even open restaurants? We’re... View Details