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  • Teaching Interest

Strategy

By: Jan W. Rivkin

The objective of this course is to help students develop the skills for formulating strategy, and provides an understanding of:

  • A firm's operative environment and how to sustain competitive advantage.
  • How to generate superior value for... View Details
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MBA Required Curriculum—Strategy

By: Benjamin C. Esty

The objective of this course is to help students develop the skills for formulating strategy. It provides an understanding of:

  • A firm's operative environment and how to sustain competitive advantage.
  • How to generate superior... View Details
  • 15 Mar 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology
  • 21 Dec 2015
  • News

When the ‘sharing economy’ doesn’t

  • Teaching Interest

MBA Required Curriculum-- Strategy Course

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

The objective of this course is to help students develop the skills for formulating strategy. It provides an understanding of:

  • A firm's operative environment and how to sustain competitive advantage.
  • How to generate superior value for customers... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage

    Joshua D. Margolis

    Joshua Margolis is James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration and the Unit Head for the Organizational Behavior unit. He is also Faculty Chair of the Program for Leadership Development. His research and teaching revolve around leadership... View Details

    Keywords: furniture; health care; insurance industry; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals

      Ting Zhang

      Ting Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the Required Curriculum.

      Professor Zhang’s research... View Details
      • September 1992 (Revised September 2010)
      • Background Note

      Executive Stock Options

      By: Henry B. Reiling
      After a brief comment on the practical problems associated with taxing options and the possible occasions on which taxation might occur, the note describes the current policy imbedded in the Internal Revenue Code and gives examples of this policy in operation. The... View Details
      Keywords: Stock Options; Policy; Taxation; Executive Compensation; Employee Stock Ownership Plan
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      • 26 Sep 2011
      • HBS Case

      HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

      Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta in New York City, was merely a supporting act in a reunion tour of the erstwhile-boy band, New Kids on the Block. "When you tell that to people now they look at you like you must have your dates mixed up," says Harvard... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music
      • January 2008 (Revised July 2010)
      • Case

      Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps

      "Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps" recounts Wal-Mart's use of interest rate swaps to hedge the fair value of its fixed-rate debt against changing interest rates. This case provides students with a foundation for understanding the use of and accounting for more... View Details
      Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Financial Statements; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Financial Strategy; Interest Rates; Corporate Disclosure
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      • 08 Jun 2021
      • News

      Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief

      • 09 Jul 2018
      • Video

      Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen

      • Teaching Interest

      MBA Required Curriculum - Strategy

      By: Quan Le

      Strategy


      The objective of this course is to help students develop the skills for formulating strategy. It provides an understanding of:

      • A firm's operative environment and how to sustain competitive... View Details
      • 27 Mar 2024
      • Blog Post

      Video: Inspirational Women in Business

      important to pull generations of other women forward. Veronica Chua: I actively seek out opportunities to mentor and uplift others, especially young women entering male-dominated fields like tech, operations, and finance. Whitley Cargile: As incoming co-president of... View Details
      • 20 Feb 2019
      • Video

      How Financial Aid Makes All the Difference

        Deborah M. Winshel

        Deborah Winshel is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School.  She teaches several MBA required courses: Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), Leadership and Corporate Accountability and the Field Immersion course (2025 in... View Details

          Juan Alcacer

          Juan Alcacer is the James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He joined HBS in 2007 and has taught the required MBA strategy course, an elective on Global Strategy and PhD courses in Strategy and International Business. Within... View Details

          Keywords: consulting; management consulting; telecommunications
          • August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
          • Case

          Jake Becraft and Strand Therapeutics: The Making of an Entrepreneur

          By: Satish Tadikonda, William Marks and Ananya Zutshi
          Jake Becraft, a PhD student at MIT disillusioned in pursuit of his dreams of becoming an academic, serendipitously finds himself discussing the potential commercial applications of his work with Tasuku Kitada, his former postdoctoral research mentor. The two decide to... View Details
          Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business or Company Management
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          • 2016
          • Book

          Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business

          By: John A. Quelch
          The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare.

          Consumers, Corporations, and Public... View Details
          Keywords: Consumer; Corporate Culture; Public Health; Consumer Behavior; Marketing Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Health; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Supply Chain Management; Advertising Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Communications Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Distribution Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Insurance Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; Tourism Industry; Transportation Industry; Travel Industry; Asia; Oceania; North and Central America; Middle East; Latin America; Europe
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          • April 2009
          • Case

          Performance Management at Intermountain Healthcare

          By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Alexander Romney
          Intermountain Healthcare is a 21-hospital integrated delivery system serving Utah and southern Idaho that is nationally recognized for its highly structured approach to managing the quality of clinical care. This case describes Intermountain's system for improving... View Details
          Keywords: Financial Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Standards; Service Delivery; Outcome or Result; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Idaho; Utah
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