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Professor Bernstein currently teaches a second-year MBA course in Managing Human Capital (MHC). He is also the faculty chair for the Harvard Business School Online Developing Yourself as a Leader course and teaches in a variety of executive education... View Details

13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008

community-based health center) are also discussed. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308072 Global Climate Change and BP Harvard Business School Case 708-026 Following the sudden View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
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Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting... View Details

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01 Mar 2007
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LBS Picks New Dean

London-based management consultant Robin Buchanan (MBA ’79), senior partner in the UK of Bain & Company. Buchanan replaces Laura Tyson (who once taught at HBS). Tyson resigned to return to teach at the Haas School of Business at the... View Details

Keywords: dean appointment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

04 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

here that you could choose to participate in if you want to or not. I could make myself more wealthy. I could make other people more wealthy. That was my job. But it didn't feel big enough, purposeful enough, meaningful enough to me.” After four years in finance,... View Details

10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

those created by well-designed policy (the PPF). Specifically, this note analyzes how differences in governance structure, termination capabilities, funding mechanisms, and asset management policies created... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2013
Blog Post

Product Launch Day

in the wrong location. We were next to the piano and percussion building, and unfortunately those instruments aren’t available on Cadenza yet, so all the students we were meeting ended up walking away with... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

01 Mar 2009
News

Having a Ball

terminally ill, and others unlikely to be part of the presidential inauguration should have a chance to experience it. When the JW Marriott on Pennsylvania Avenue offered a $1 million package deal that... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

Working Papers Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency Authors: Paharia, Karim S. Kassam, Joshua D. Greene, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. "If you're one of them and you're not getting a kidney, you should be able to understand why and what... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health

10 Feb 2014
HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

challenge of sustaining a culture change in the years leading up to Carroll's resignation in 2013. "They've addressed the safety issue and taken major steps to change the culture," Mukunda says.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

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Alternatives to Bloomberg | Baker Library

Help Center Alternatives to Bloomberg What databases can I use that have much of the same data and functionality as the Bloomberg terminal? When data download limits on the Bloomberg terminals have been... View Details

02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008

from a family perspective, his business runs into challenges when he merges it into a Canadian company and winds up with 30% ownership. McCrea eventually resigns and has to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2001
News

But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)

In 1978, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in Boston Harbor was unceremoniously shut down because of contract disputes with its Algerian suppliers. In 1987, the terminal’s owner, Cabot Corp., tapped Gordon Shearer (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

August 2001
Case

Charmed Technology

By: Youngme E. Moon

Charmed Technology, a California start-up known primarily for its high-profile fashion shows featuring "wearable" computers, has just released its first product. The "CharmIT" is being billed as the world's first affordable, wearable computer for consumers. The key... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Resignation and Termination; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Product Development; Luxury; Information Infrastructure; Value Creation; Computer Industry; Fashion Industry

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11 Sep 2012
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PublicationsIndispensable: When Leaders Really Matter Author:Gautam Mukunda Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract Will your next leader be insignificant-or indispensable? The importance of leadership and the impact of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16

bribery scheme. The (B) case relates Stanley's actions after he became the subject of multiple investigations and was terminated by Halliburton, parent of the U.S. JV partner, for taking kickbacks. The (C)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Study Spaces | Baker Library

Study Spaces Baker Library Exchange (First Floor) Located inside the South entrance to Baker Library on the ground floor, the Exchange offers comfortable seating and computer workstations to all visitors. In addition, there are Bloomberg... View Details

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Building Communities as Well as Companies

who was terminally ill, asked Wright when he was going to go into business for himself. "That was the catalyst—after my dad died, I walked in and quit my job." In 1989 Wright began establishing... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

April 2023 (Revised April 2024)
Teaching Note

Netflix's Culture: Binge or Cringe?

By: Hubert Joly, Leonard A. Schlesinger, James Barnett and Stacy Straaberg

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 522-096. View Details

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Overview

First Look: May 13, 2008

Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

LBS Picks New Dean

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

First Look: September 10

Product Launch Day

Having a Ball

First Look: August 12, 2008

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

Alternatives to Bloomberg | Baker Library

First Look: September 3, 2008

But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)

Charmed Technology

First Look: September 11

First Look: October 16

Study Spaces | Baker Library

Building Communities as Well as Companies

Netflix's Culture: Binge or Cringe?