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17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

what you were doing before joining HBS and what inspired you to join the Career & Professional Development (CPD) team. Before coming to HBS, I lived in New York City where I worked in integrated... View Details

November 2014
Article

Beyond Bedlam: How Consumers and Brands Alike Are Playing the Web

By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

The new marketing order, as played out on media platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Instagram, is so unlike the order it is displacing that it might seem like bedlam, an asylum of sorts for ideas intelligible only to their creators. And yet, surely, something... View Details

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March 2014 (Revised May 2016)
Technical Note

Angel Investments in Europe and Recent Developments in Crowdfunding

By: Lynda Applegate, Vincent Dessain, Emilie Billaud and Daniela Beyersdorfer

This technical note provides information on the evolution and current state of angel investing in Europe. The note first describes the role and types of angel investors, focusing on their investment preferences and practices. It then details the new trends in the... View Details

Keywords: Angel Investors; Crowdfunding; Financing and Loans; Investment; Financial Services Industry; Europe

November 1998 (Revised December 1998)
Case

Amul and India's National Dairy Development Board

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Srinivas Sunder

Amul Dairy has been a successful change maker in India's dairy system. How does it move from this success to the new challenges facing the Indian food system--is it an appropriate model? View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Leading Change; Success; Cooperative Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Food and Beverage Industry; India

24 Apr 2014
News

Training managers in the developing world

Through the Southern African Development Community Business School Network he established with the University of Botswana and the University of Pretoria, Richard America (MBA 1965) is on a mission to help train first-rate managers in the... View Details

Video

2012 New Venture Contest: Runner-up

01 Oct 1998
News

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business? Howard Raiffa, the Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics, Emeritus, at HBS, is a pioneer in the development of decision and negotiations analysis. In Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions,... View Details

13 Apr 2022
News

New School

Within a month, Waldron’s far-reaching predictions proved accurate. And Curriculum Associates was ready, not just for the new world of remote work but also with respect to the increased demand for remote learning. The company committed to... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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organizations as large as IBM and Texas Instruments could acknowledge the need for new processes. People are interested in this work because it provides models for R&D as well examples of change." Technology Integration is required... View Details

Keywords: Robert Binstock

15 May 2020
News

New Menu

find and support the entrepreneurs positioned to mitigate the effects of climate change and help the world adapt to the realities of a warming planet. The firm's first fund is the New Protein Fund, dedicated to growing companies producing... View Details

May 2015
Case

China Yintai: Developing Shared Value in China

By: Christopher Marquis, Ying Zhang and Shiyu Yang

Under the leadership of CEO and President Shen Guojun, China Yintai was increasingly committed to philanthropic initiatives. Drawing upon his experience as an entrepreneur and a philanthropist, Mr. Shen saw the urgent need to build bridges between business practices... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; China

04 Aug 2020
News

Glossier Built a Cult Brand and a Digital Community, but What’s Next?

01 Jun 1999
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John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do by John P. Kotter (Harvard Business School Press) The need for strong leadership in business, government, and society has never been greater than in today's ever-changing and fast-paced world. But while many believe that a View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Feb 1998
News

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research has led to the development of a new organizational framework - the differentiated network - that will enable MNCs to succeed. Through systematic examination of MNCs, Nohria and Ghoshal show that... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Apr 1998
News

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in the financial management field. Over the last fifteen years, they have developed and described key concepts, such as activity-based costing (ABC), activity-based management, operational systems for learning and improvement, and target... View Details

April 2020
Case

The Board's Role in Refocusing Bahrain Development Bank

By: Paul M. Healy and Alpana Thapar

In March 2016, Bahrain Development Bank’s (BDB) existing board term came to an end and Khalid Al Rumaihi was appointed the new chairman. Determining a need for change, he immediately overhauled the board and replaced BDB’s long-standing CEO. The new board quickly... View Details

Keywords: Board Of Directors; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Banking Industry; Bahrain