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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Equity Finance class, an advanced elective course offered in the Harvard Business School MBA elective curriculum. The structure of the book follows the timeline of a typical investment. Starting with deal... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
other cities about HCZ’s approach, he stresses the importance of the long view. “Ending poverty is not something you’re going to see done within an election cycle,” he says. “It’s a lot of hard work that has to be carried out by committed... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
inability of democratically elected governments to deal with some of capitalism’s fallout, particularly inequality and migration as its consequence. They see their cities, as in France, becoming battlegrounds. The very people they need... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
HBS professor Paul A. Gompers) of two influential books in this field, The Venture Capital Cycle (second edition 2004) and The Money of Invention (2001), Lerner also created the popular second-year elective Venture Capital and Private... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
Two years later at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft’s Bill Gates announced his own commitment to social change through “creative capitalism.” “With these three events, the movement moved into the mainstream,” she said. Mainstream hit the big... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
The Zanzibar portion of the trip allowed us to slow our pace and take advantage of the seaside resort as well as a series of optional side trips. Given the legendary lure of Zanzibar as one of the Spice Islands, many of us elected to take... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
getting swept up in trends. "I think an entrepreneur should beware of so-called hot fields," says Bhide, who coteaches the MBA elective Entrepreneurial Management. "The Internet feeding frenzy, for example, resembles the California gold... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
An Orchestral Startup
two years ahead of Executive Director Lim's business plan projections and is proof that pleasure mixed with business can indeed lead to personal harmony. A second-generation Korean-American, Lim grew up in a musical family in upstate New York. In college, he was View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
include offerings not only from the current required and elective curricula of both schools but new, specially designed courses and seminars. Students will have two degree options — the Master in Public Policy/Master in Business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
Curriculum that focus our students’ attention on the role that business can, and perhaps should, play in addressing societal challenges. Some of this material is already in the MBA Program—and in the Elective Curriculum and Executive... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
teaches the popular MBA elective Founders’ Dilemmas. In 2011, the course was named one of the top entrepreneurship courses in the United States by Inc. magazine. What’s a common instance of ill-advised behavior by entrepreneurs? Splitting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
thought experiments designed in his executive MBA classes, he challenges readers to explore their cognitive blind spots, identify any salient details they are programmed to miss, and then take steps to ensure it won’t happen again. Democracy and Its View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
MOON: “Differentiation is not a formula. Rather, it’s a way of thinking.” Professor Youngme Moon, who teaches one of HBS’s most popular electives (Consumer Marketing), has recently published her first book. In Different: Escaping the... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
Cooper. “It helped me see the value of getting direct input from those on the line in order to put successful process improvements into effect.” First-year MBA students currently participate in eight simulations, and there are more than a dozen in the second-year View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
Administration. Serafeim teaches Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems, one of several electives in the MBA Program that focus on environmental and social challenges. Given the surge of student interest in the topic, Serafeim,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
insurance contracts. An elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a past president of the American Finance Association, Merton is a leading figure in the School's Global Financial Systems Project and has taught extensively in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
from corporations and boardrooms to national magazines to a project to elect a woman President of the United States. Upon graduation, Fudge went to work for General Mills and advanced from marketing assistant to marketing director in six... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
elected officials.” “Where are the grown-ups?” asked Gadiesh, referring to the lack of 21st-century institutions needed to lead in government and business. Zobel described how wealth disparities in the Philippines create popular distrust... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
J.R. Klein Oxford University Press In the wake of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, globalization is increasingly under the microscope. The view that the reversal of globalization and a return to protectionism and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
for classroom discussion. Recently augmented by advances in technology, his concept is leading to a significant shift in the nature of case discussion and classroom dynamics. Starting in 1991, Bhide asked students in his Entrepreneurial Management View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig