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  • 17 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

The Art of Perseverance and Resilience: Reapplying to HBS

My name is Omar Aboulezz, and I’d like to share with you a bit about my journey to HBS and how I persevered through multiple setbacks. Nearly four years elapsed between starting my first HBS application and stepping foot on campus starting as an MBA View Details

    Michael E. Porter

    Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
    • August 2001
    • Case

    Pharmaceutical Industry and the AIDS Crisis in Developing Countries, The

    Explores the controversy over the pricing of AIDS drugs in poor countries. This issue has received wide publicity due to two events: 1) a court case in South Africa that seeks to force drug companies to license their patents and 2) the announcement by the Indian... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Developing Countries and Economies; Business and Government Relations; Pharmaceutical Industry; South Africa; India
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    • January 2024
    • Supplement

    Winning Business at Russell Reynolds

    By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
    In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry
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    • September 1992 (Revised March 1993)
    • Case

    Empresas ICA and the Mexican Road Privatization Program

    By: Willis M. Emmons III and Monica Brand
    Mexico's largest construction company, Empresas ICA, makes an initial public offering to international equity investors in April 1992 to help fund its participation in an ambitious new private-sector approach to highway development. Under the new program, launched by... View Details
    Keywords: Construction; Transportation Networks; Infrastructure; Privatization; Private Equity; Investment; Initial Public Offering; Private Sector; Government and Politics; Policy; Construction Industry; Mexico
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    • 05 Nov 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: November 5

    Publications August 2013 John Wiley & Sons International Strategy and Competition By: Collis, David Abstract—This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services

        Joseph B. Fuller

        Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and Entrepreneurship. He founded and co-leads the school’s project, Managing the Future of Work, as well as the Harvard Project on the Workforce. He currently leads the FIELD Global Capstone... View Details

        • 05 May 2025
        • Blog Post

        Meet the Tech Club

        One Capital, Stack Overflow, Perplexity, and Hebbia. Internal Development and Workshops: Throughout the year, we organize sessions tailored to the needs of both students transitioning into tech and those... View Details
        Keywords: Technology; General High Technology; Other Technology
        • 07 Nov 2024
        • Blog Post

        Meet the Aerospace & Defense Club

        What we do The mission of the HBS Aerospace & Defense (A&D) Club is to help students make critical contributions to the space, commercial aviation, and defense industries. How we do it Our club accomplishes our mission in two... View Details
        Keywords: All Industries
        • January 2014 (Revised June 2015)
        • Case

        Amgen Inc.: Pursuing Innovation and Imitation? (A)

        By: Ian W. Mackenzie
        Set in 2009, the (A) case explores whether Amgen, a leading innovator of biotech-based drugs, should enter the emerging business of biosimilars (BS), which are essentially 'me-too' products. There appear to be sound reasons to explore this related diversification:... View Details
        Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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        • 11 Apr 2017
        • Blog Post

        Why I Love My Job: Andrew Grochal on His Path to CarGurus

        just hired our 450th employee. The growth has been pretty wild, and it’s been really exciting watching us take the US market by storm, launch additional products, and gain a real foothold in a couple of international markets. At the same... View Details
        Keywords: Technology
        • 21 Feb 2019
        • Blog Post

        Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics

        economics is about how people understand information.” As an undergraduate at William & Mary, he interned at Google, where he gained an insider’s perspective on a new technology, Google Glass. Bracaglia wrote SQL for the Glass team,... View Details
        • 02 May 2016
        • Blog Post

        Why We Recruit: Samsung Global Strategy Group

        Why We Recruit is a series of interviews with our recruiting partners to discuss everything from their experience of working with HBS to what they want students to know. Each week, we will release a new interview that dives into a unique... View Details
        Keywords: Technology
        • 29 Apr 2014
        • First Look

        First Look: April 29

        student to prepare. A great virtue of the method is that it replicates the managerial work involved in solving a problem within a group. Publisher's link: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0080 August 2013... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 2020
        • Book

        Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire

        By: Thomas J. DeLong
        The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes... View Details
        Keywords: Teaching; Leadership; Attitudes; Management; Business Education
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        • February 1984 (Revised February 1986)
        • Case

        E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.: Titanium Dioxide

        By: W. Carl Kester, Robert R. Glauber, David W. Mullins Jr. and Stacy S. Dick
        Disequilibrium in the $350 million TiO2 market has prompted Du Pont's Pigments Department to develop two strategies for competing in this market in the future. The growth strategy has a smaller internal rate of return than the alternative strategy due to large capital... View Details
        Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cash Flow; Investment Return; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Projects; Chemical Industry
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        • 03 Feb 2017
        • Blog Post

        The Making of an Internship

        influence an organizations’ success long term. Learn about the projects students work on and the impacts they can make. Explore ways to meet and recruit an intern to support your organization's priorities on... View Details
        Keywords: All Industries
        • 2007
        • Book

        Carbon Strategies: How Leading Companies Are Reducing Their Climate Change Footprint

        By: Andrew J. Hoffman
        Carbon Strategies describes specific steps any business can take to implement sound, practical, climate-related corporate policies. Based on Andrew J. Hoffman’s widely praised report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, and significantly revised in light of... View Details
        Keywords: Climate Change; Business Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Policy
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        • 26 Apr 2009
        • News

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