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16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

expert who has studied advertising for forty years, believes the future of Internet advertising depends on improvements in technology. "We won't really understand the full potential of Internet advertising until broadband service... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

Thomas (MBA 2003) Grace Under Fire I was a server for the catering service on my college campus. Working at the banquets hosted by the university president was my favorite because sometimes it meant seeing famous people. One time Stephen... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

of change. The unprecedented flood of mergers and acquisitions, the advent of the global marketplace, the stock market's dizzying rise, and the capricious fortunes of technology-based companies have made financial services a fascinating... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details

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Harvard Business School

Development Center, and advising the student marketing association. In 1965, Fitzhugh moved to Pepsi-Cola, where he led the development of targeted marketing strategies. Fitzhugh consulted with major corporations and helped launch the... View Details

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

the global value chain, and what more might we expect? Laura Alfaro and Ester Faia: In 2012, a survey by the World Economic Forum and [the consulting firm] Accenture, devoted to assess the risk of a disruption in the global supply chain,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

responsibilities Foster successful strategy execution by establishing an environment that communicates which opportunities and behaviors are encouraged and which are out of bounds Who Will Benefit Mid-Level Managers and Professionals Aspiring Managers Entrepreneurs and... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

director of the New York Times Company. Robert F. McDermott (MBA '50) Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force (Retired) Chairman Emeritus, USAA In 1993, after a 25-year tenure at the United Services Automobile Association (USAA), General Robert... View Details

Profile

Wombi Rose

doing different things for different partners," says Wombi of his FIELD 2 experience. Wombi's assignment was challenging: A local television station wanted to expand its existing online dating service into a mobile application.... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consulting; Consulting

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

correlation vs. cause and effect. As commenter Diogenes put it, “Prove with a cogent methodology that racial and gender diversity lead to greater profitability. Prove causation, not correlation (which studies to date primarily by View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit

for what would eventually become the online services marketplace NextDoor Networks, a business they launched shortly after graduation. Loo and Sityodtong lived and worked out of a two-bedroom apartment in Silicon Valley along with Loo’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

08 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

Entrepreneurship Club, and the Women In Investing Club. After graduation she will be joining Amazon as a senior technical product manager in Amazon Web Services (AWS), where she completed her internship last summer. What do you remember... View Details

13 Nov 2017
Blog Post

5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS

considering getting an MBA and worried about similar issues, I hope you will find this post helpful. Here were my major concerns: 1. I wasn’t interesting enough I studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Lagos, then spent three years in management View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

“Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (A)” with Marco Di Maggio and Greg Saldutte (HBS Case 218-095). Victoria Ivashina : Received the Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community in 2023. Ishita Sen : Winner... View Details

04 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

The Real Cost of Bribery

payment, how it was detected, and the way the firm responded to the bribe after it was uncovered. To test the hypothesis, Serafeim evaluated data from the forensic services practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which provides global View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

March 2000 (Revised August 2000)
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Ethan Berman at RiskMetrics Group (A)

Ethan Berman, CEO of J.P. Morgan's risk management spinoff, has grown RiskMetrics Group (RMG) from a small team of 30 to a 70-person firm contemplating an IPO. Along the way, the consensus-based decision-making process that he espoused started to prove unwieldy; his... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Style; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Making; Service Industry; Service Industry

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 IFC: Israel; Startups and Venture Capital Paul Gompers Richard Ruback January 2026 J 3.0 Investment Management and Capital Markets Luis Viceira Emil Siriwardane Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Investment Strategies William Vrattos Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Managing... View Details

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

consultants and eventually founding corporate publicity departments.” 14 The economic strife brought about by the Great Depression in the 1930s instilled a sense of public misgivings about large corporations, while interest in American... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

(AMS), an international business and IT consulting firm. "The impact the professors were having on my sectionmates and me made a deep impression." Wasserman recalled that one of the most enjoyable aspects of his work life had been helping... View Details