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  • 15 Dec 2011
  • News

An HBS gift guide

Wondering what to get the HBSer in your life this year? In the holiday spirit, we're highlighting a few alumni-led companies and ideas that you may not know about. Since roughly 1 in 6 alumni work in manufacturing, high tech, retail, and consumer products, there are... View Details
Keywords: Bulletin Staff; holiday; gift giving; Manufacturing; Retail Trade
  • 24 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its centennial year by examining the future of the degree it... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education
  • 19 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

Both Associate Professor Christine Exley and Assistant Professor Julian Zlatev apply the tools of their research to examine a simple question: What makes people give? Exley became interested in the topic as a child, when she tried to raise funds for her local animal... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin
  • 12 Apr 2012
  • News

HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups With more than a 40 percent increase in Alumni New Venture Contest entries this year, our 11 finalists overcame stiff competition to win their local regions. On April 23, they travel to campus to compete in the the third annual... View Details
Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest
  • 17 Dec 2018
  • News

Tomorrow, Transformed

What does the future of business look like? And how will HBS help define that future? The School is uniquely positioned to help businesses and their leaders rise to meet the global challenges ahead. The faculty are already at the forefront of this work, digging into... View Details
Keywords: HBS Bulletin staff; illustration by Martín Léon Barretto
  • January 2003 (Revised July 2003)
  • Case

Boston Automation Systems, Inc.

By: David F. Hawkins
Daniel Fisher, the CFO of Boston Automation Systems, must review a number of revenue transaction accounting policies following the issuance of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Staff Accounting Bulletin 101, "Revenue Recognition in Financial Statements."... View Details
Keywords: Revenue Recognition; Policy; Financial Statements
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  • April 1993 (Revised May 1994)
  • Case

Prodigy Services Company (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine
Top executives of Prodigy Services Co. must decide how to respond when publicly accused of allowing anti-Semitic messages to be posted on the electronic bulletin boards of the company's interactive computer service. Can they defend free expression while at the same... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Communication Intention and Meaning; Information Technology; Decision Making; Law; Management Teams; Information Technology Industry
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  • September 2008
  • Case

Yucheng Technology

By: Li Jin, Li Liao, Chang Chen and Aldo Sesia
The founder and CEO of an IT company servicing the needs of the financial services industry in China needs to raise capital for the company to grow and survive. He has two options. He can try and obtain financing from private equity investors, or he can accept a... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology; Financial Services Industry; China; United States
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  • 20 Mar 2013
  • News

Perspectives on Progress

  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

Building a Movement

    Metaverse Seoul

    In May 2022, the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) launched the pilot of Metaverse Seoul, a government-run metaverse. SMG had delivered a virtual version of Seoul’s mayor’s office. The team aimed to gain insights as they worked towards building a broad,... View Details
    • 29 Mar 2017
    • Video

    David Brunell (MBA 1962) – Bringing Markets to Myanmar

    • July 2022
    • Case

    Metaverse Seoul

    By: Mitchell Weiss and Samantha Markowitz
    In May 2022, the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) launched the pilot of Metaverse Seoul, a government-run metaverse. SMG had delivered a virtual version of Seoul’s mayor’s office. The team aimed to gain insights as they worked towards building a broad, immersive,... View Details
    Keywords: Metaverse; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Government Administration; Public Administration Industry; South Korea; Asia
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    • November 2000 (Revised December 2001)
    • Case

    Alibaba.com

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Carin-Isabel Knoop and David Lane
    This case focuses on the strategic issues of an emerging dot-com in a rapidly emerging Internet nation-China. Alibaba, a bulletin board company based in Hangzhou, China, is trying to carve out a niche in the B-to-B e-commerce world. It also shows the speed and... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Marketing; Internet and the Web; Marketing; Strategy; Service Industry; Information Technology Industry; Hangzhou; Europe; United States
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    • 15 Sep 2016
    • News

    Competing Against Luck

    • June 2012
    • Article

    Collective Memory Meets Organizational Identity: Remembering to Forget in a Firm's Rhetorical History

    By: Michel Anteby and Virag Molnar
    Much organizational identity research has grappled with the question of identity emergence or change. Yet the question of identity endurance is equally puzzling. Relying primarily on the analysis of 309 internal bulletins produced at a French aeronautics firm over... View Details
    Keywords: Organizations; Identity; History; Aerospace Industry; France
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    • 21 Dec 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

    Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm that oversees more than $170... View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
    • May 2020 (Revised December 2022)
    • Case

    Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Amy Klopfenstein and Amram Migdal
    In November 2019, Sandra Richter, co-founder and CEO of Soofa, a network of advertising-supported digital bulletin boards, must decide between two different fundraising and expansion plans for her company. One plan entails raising $15 million in a Series A round and... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Model; Business Plan; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Decisions; Ethics; Geography; Geopolitical Units; Finance; Investment; Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Demand and Consumers; Network Effects; Media; Society; Urban Development; Sustainable Cities; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Business Strategy; Expansion; Relationships; Partners and Partnerships; Capital; Venture Capital; Advertising Industry; Technology Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Cambridge
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    • Web

    Lifelong Learning - Alumni

    Social Impact Women in Business 296 01 Jun 2024 HBS Alumni Bulletin Redefining How Businesses Operate Two HBS electives give students insights into technologies that are changing the world Re: Shikhar Ghosh (MBA Class of 1961 Professor of... View Details
    • Web

    Case Method Project

    History 8 Feb 2016 | The Atlantic One professor is borrowing a method from Harvard Business School to engage students and inspire better decision-making skills. Rewriting History 2 Mar 2016 | HBS Alumni Bulletin Can one HBS professor... View Details