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What are the best finance interview prep resources?

Including asset management, VCPE, investment banking, asset management,and  investment management? Research task: Good for finding: Suggested resources: Interview skills/prep Advice and techniques for... View Details
  • 26 May 2016
  • News

Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993

woman on Wall Street, Erdoes leads a hugely complex global business “with an iron fist in a velvet glove,” as her boss, Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982), puts it. The eldest of four and the only daughter, Erdoes grew up in Wilmette, Illinois, where... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance
  • 09 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

interacting with racial minorities motivates White people to self-segregate, says Harvard Business School professor Jon M. Jachimowicz. And White people often attempt to erect barriers—even seemingly innocuous ones like stricter dress... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • September 2017
  • Case

Tencent

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking service provider with several of the... View Details
Keywords: Tencent; Tencent Holdings; WeChat; Social Networking; Social Networks; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Video Games; Computer Games; Mobile Gaming; Portals; Payments; Mobile Payments; O2O; Online-to-offline; E-commerce; Messaging; Subscription Model; Freemium; Mobile App Industry; Smartphone; PC; Monetization Strategy; Antitrust; Streaming; Cloud Computing; Artificial Intelligence; Big Data; Alibaba; Facebook; JD.com; Tesla; Bundling; Synergies; Digital Strategy; Imitation; Licensing; Agility; Entry Barriers; Online Platforms; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Joint Ventures; Restructuring; Communication; Communication Technology; Blogs; Interactive Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business History; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Positioning; Social Marketing; Network Effects; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Industry Growth; Monopoly; Media; Distribution Channels; Product Development; Service Delivery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Business and Government Relations; Groups and Teams; Networks; Opportunities; Social and Collaborative Networks; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Value Creation; Communications Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Financial Services Industry; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Music Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; Web Services Industry; Asia; China; Canton (province, China)
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  • 23 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

on screen. Harvard Business School’s Amit Goldenberg worked with seven other researchers, including Airbnb executives, to evaluate online strategies for mitigating loneliness. Goldenberg’s findings offer... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 24 Nov 2015
  • Blog Post

What is an HBS MyTake?

and the friendships they’ve formed at HBS. Each year we bring together over 900 diverse people from all over the world – all of whom are invested in becoming leaders and making some kind of difference in the world. During their time at... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Harvard Business Review Managing Political Misfits By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory McDonald Abstract—Not all employees agree with your politics. That's OK. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54406... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

production costs include, for example, Harvard Business Review's printing expense. They also include strategic investments in digital infrastructure and content designed to extend the group's record of... View Details
  • April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
  • Supplement

Fleet Oil Company: An Exercise

The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Non-Renewable Energy; Cost; Production; Performance Productivity; Research and Development; Energy Industry; Atlanta; Houston
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  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

grocery and dry goods, such as canned foods and boxed breakfast cereals. It was not until after World War II that the majority of American grocers adopted self-service to meat and produce sections. Business historians have explored the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

mechanisms of value infusion in the institutionalization of organizations. Publisher's link: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/S0733-558X20150000044011 April 2015 Harvard Business Review The Type of Socially Responsible View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Donald J. Chiofaro

In 1981, one year after starting his own real-estate development company, Don Chiofaro undertook to build the largest office complex in Boston. "I knew just enough about the business to be dangerous," he recalls. "I quickly got into more... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

On a summer evening in 1991, after a small, invitation-only dinner in New York City, Ken Brody took aside the guest of honor for a private conversation. The longer the two men talked, the more Brody sensed he had found a kindred spirit. Like Brody -- a milkman's son... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 18 Sep 2019
  • Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

published in the company’s prospectus. The lessons to be found there are classic examples (and warnings to other IPO companies) of how not to frame a public offering. WeWork took advantage of being deemed an “emerging company” under the Jumpstart Our View Details
Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate
  • November 2011
  • Case

Brink's Company: Activists Push for a Spin-off

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Aldo Sesia and Amy Kaser
The case studies the decision of the security services corporation Brink's Company to spin-off its home security division from the rest of the company. The decision followed intense pressure on the company by three activist hedge funds that felt that Brink's was... View Details
Keywords: Activist Investors; Spin-off; Leveraged Recapitalization; Debt; Valuation; Hedge Funds; Conglomerates; Investment Activism
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  • September 1993 (Revised July 1995)
  • Background Note

Public Policy and the Manager: Conceptual Framework

By: Willis M. Emmons III
Government intervention in markets may have significant effects--both positive and negative--on a firm's strategic options and its performance outcomes. Thus the ability to analyze the origins, implications, and dynamics of public policy is a critical managerial skill... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Management Skills; Government and Politics; Adoption; Business Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Economic Systems
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  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund

contribute to the continued success of the School.” A member of the Campaign Advisory Committee, Thomas Frist Jr. and his wife, Trish, served on the Board of Dean’s Advisors from 1997 to 2003. The Frists’ sons, Tommy and Billy, work at Frist Capital, LLC, a private... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 11 Mar 2021
  • News

Leading with Heart

Well, I have known you for many, many years. We met in college, actually in New Delhi. And then of course we lost touch for many, many years until you showed up in my class, in the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School,... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • News

Mission Control

founder and CEO of Spire, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services.Making good on those long-term goals, Platzer says, was the result of building a very specific mission for himself while he was at HBS: "To lead, inspire, and create the... View Details
  • 04 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

on individual performance are prone to this problem. It is a problem in investment banking and can also be a problem in sales organizations where individuals are compensated for their own sales and not for helping others and sharing best... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark