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The Case Method | MBA

Video duration: 4:17 Read and analyze the case. Each case is a 10-20 page document written from the viewpoint of a real person leading a real organization. In addition to background information on the... View Details

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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog

and the ongoing regulatory response to both. In the second module, we study credit, focusing on the main types of credit: residential mortgages, small business loans, consumer credit, lending to larger firms, and commercial real estate... View Details

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Revital Gabay

organizing activities ranging from informal hikes and dinners to more structured professional events in which colleagues discussed their projects. "We changed the way we related to each other," Revital says with pride. At HBS,... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Tech; Consulting

07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

bungles things when it wades into the private sector. Lerner's book studies where public efforts to spur entrepreneurial activity have gone right and wrong—there are many more of the latter, the author acknowledges—and offers policy... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

01 Sep 2011
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Letters to the Editor

joined a start-up in Seattle, the Rocket Research Corporation, where I was VP in charge of all business activities for 6 years. Then I became self-employed for 38 years as an expert witness in finance and economics in Washington and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Road to the White House 2024, a Private Sector Perspective on Presidential Politics - Course Catalog

Business School graduates are in a unique position to help solve the problem - as candidates for elective office, as private sector leaders who actively contribute time and money to candidates with high integrity and sound policy, and/or... View Details

17 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 17

section of stock returns, also predicts excess bond returns. These relationships remain in place even when bonds and stocks become "decoupled" at the index level. They are driven by a combination of effects including correlations between View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

short time ago is that there is now no room for error. You need real businesses, real revenue, real profits, and real cash flows." Yoffie... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

30 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI

Last year, foreign investors set new records for their acquisition activity in the United States. And 2008 began with nearly daily stories of American financial executives courting foreign direct investors, particularly sovereign wealth... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

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Mariano Bomaggio

no real experience of how C-suite executives think." His Leadership & Organizational Behavior (LEAD) course offered a different perspective on executive leadership. "I realized how much the culture of a company influences... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Manufacturing/Energy

01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment

tutoring, mentoring, or demanding rigor from the curriculum. Because business has a real interest in an educational pool that is skilled and well-versed in the basics, business leaders should take an active... View Details

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Kathleen Hebert

put what she has learned into practice. "Even in a place with as much institutional power as HBS, you can have a real impact on people's experiences." As a Section president, Kathleen says, "It's the first time I've had to... View Details

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Fred Smith

Fred Smith comes from an impressive of line of entrepreneurs. His grandfather founded what would become the largest tour company in Jamaica. Fred's father created his own tour company, then extended the family's interests into real... View Details

21 Mar 2016
HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

They spend much more time paying attention to reviews of other people like them and trying to understand and gauge in an unbiased fashion what the real quality is of these products and services, particularly those in which you can’t... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel

01 Jun 2020
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Lesson Plans

between participants. Elements of what makes the case method great need to be in every online course. You have to vary activities frequently, or people get bored very quickly. Lastly, I think there has to be a thread of storytelling in... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

05 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change

Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

22 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 22

individuals to recognize and embrace contradictions—increases creativity. In four laboratory studies using different creativity tasks and different manipulations for eliciting paradoxical frames, participants who adopted paradoxical... View Details