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- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
What was it like teaching the case to MBA students? A: We had a new course in the spring, with about 60 MBA students, called Managing in the Creative Economy. This case was explored over 2 sessions. In the... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
the Tsinghua program and will find their way into the School's MBA and Executive Education Programs. They range from a study of a century-old Hong Kong-based trading company that has extended its global reach with a $200 million Internet... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
Harvard Business School MBA '03 students Raj De Datta, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Meghna Modi recently won the Social Enterprise track of the annual HBS Business Plan contest with their plan for brokering... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470391782.html Cases & Course MaterialsAlex Mandl: Life Story of a Recent MBA Harvard Business School Case 410-040 An abstract is unavailable at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
do not have access to the drugs or drug makers do not receive a fair reimbursement, panelists said. Lessons Of A Lemon-aid Stand But differences are as much cultural as regulatory. Cultural differences favor entrepreneurship and risk-taking in the U.S. more than... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
The case describes the company's business model, which attempts to integrate microfinance with social development, and provides students with the opportunity to discuss the scaling options and challenges facing the founder. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
School MBA Elective Curriculum. Teams of HBS students have traveled to several developing countries to research prospects for private finance and delivery of solutions in traditional energy, renewable... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
differently than many companies' product development processes, but allows this company to produce very high profit margin products that retain their margins for a very long time in an industry in which products come and go very quickly. The case helps View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
In what is believed to be the largest study of its kind, MBA students at Harvard Business School recently analyzed the financial returns generated by 110 early-stage companies backed by Investors' Circle, a... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
Kristin S. Rhyne, MBA '99, would have loved to have the problems of reconciling employee priorities and juggling financial plans. Late last May, a year after incorporating Polished, she was still struggling to open its first unit. The... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
what he did. Kenny: That's great to hear. It gives me more confidence, I guess, going forward. So, you've discussed this in class, I'm guessing, with both MBA students and probably executive education... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
leadership—had built the largest restaurant company by far in mainland China. Averaging one new restaurant opening a day for the past five years, in 2010 Yum ran over 3,600 restaurants in 650 cities and employed over 250,000 people, many of them college View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
kozmo.com also got its money (including $60 million from Amazon) and managed to run through $250 million of venture capital before shutting its doors just 14 months later. The next time I met the CEO was as a student in my View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
Incentives, Harvard Professors Kathleen L. McGinn and Iris Bohnet, along with HBS doctoral student Pinar Fletcher, examine how men and women respond when they cooperate or compete in pairs on math and verbal tasks. What they unearthed in... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
social impact. This registered benefit corporation was formed by Davis Smith who coalesced his experiences as a Wharton MBA student along with professional knowledge from an unpaid internship in Peru and his... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
Benioff completed a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, paying his way through college with royalties he earned as a teen-age game developer. Nadella studied engineering in India and was awarded an View Details
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
was potential to "expand the pie," Riley said, "what we found is that men were better at claiming the pie. On the other hand, woman-woman dyads were the best at expanding the pie." "These results were disappointing." Another study focused... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
successful part-time MBA programs in English and Japanese. The full-time English program was a necessary step to fulfill Hori's ambition to make GLOBIS the number one business school in Asia; however, it remained to be seen whether the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
young Indigenous Australian university student who created the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a nonprofit organization he formed to respond to the problem of Indigenous high school View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
bear. Written by Harvard Business School Visiting Professor Thomas H. Davenport and independent consultant Brook Manville, the book shares the tales of organizations that made successful choices through team-led decisions. This excerpt explores the entrepreneurial... View Details