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Trade publications: industry research

What are trade publications and what kind of information do they provide? How can I locate them? Trade publications are issued by commercial publishers, as well as by trade and professional organizations. There are thousands of... View Details

Richard H. Jenrette

for the firm. Jenrette was instrumental in taking the company public in 1970 making it the first publicly traded investment firm in the United States. Taking the helm of DLJ in 1973, Jenrette shepherded it through the recession. His commitment to research and analysis... View Details

Keywords: Finance

March 2007 (Revised February 2009)
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How to Crack a Strategy Case

By: Stephen P. Bradley, David J. Collis, Kevin P. Coyne, Andrei Hagiu, Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Jan W. Rivkin and John R. Wells

Addresses a common concern among strategy students: "How should I tackle this case?" Describes a process for diagnosing a strategic situation, then generating, evaluating, and choosing among strategic options. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Management Practices and Processes; Situation or Environment; Strategy; Valuation

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Educators

05 Sep 2008
What Do You Think?

Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

beauty ... is that it is not about learning to solve today's problems, but rather about developing the skills and discipline(s) which are timeless." Clinton Gerst suggested some limits of the method in commenting that "The case method is View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Education

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Careers, associations and events: medical devices

information, employment and recruiting services, as well as collaborative opportunities for people who design, manufacture, and market medical devices. See also What resources can I use for networking? Associations and Events Advanced... View Details

15 Sep 2015
Blog Post

Advice from an Intern

whatever it is you’ll be working on. You may be quite different in terms of age or background from co-workers. The organization or your team might not be well equipped to utilize you well or visualize how... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Oct 2000
News

Faculty Retirements

addition, he has held important administrative positions at the School, chairing Exec Ed's Advanced Management Program and its International Senior Managers' Program, as well as the MBA Program's Production and Operations Management unit... View Details

Lillian M. Vernon (Katz)

Arden, Avon and Revlon as well as imported goods. She also invested in several new distribution centers throughout New York and built a high-tech communications system to handle the increasingly large volume of orders. By the late 1980s,... View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Jun 2008
News

Happy Birthday, HBS

What would a birthday be without a cake? And what better cake for HBS’s 100th birthday party on April 8 than a replica of the Baker Library|Bloomberg Center. It’s a good thing the order came in well in advance. Pastry chef Jill Bernardo... View Details

Keywords: Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Career Coach

Sandra Charipper

internship recruiting/programming, and career coaching. She’s particularly well suited to discuss 1) startup recruiting via your network, pitching your own role and/or for posted roles, 2) venture capital recruiting and 3) pivoting while... View Details

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Veni Arora

product roles at tech companies. Veni has prior experience switching from consulting to private equity and then private equity to tech. She is happy to help with career visioning, networking tips, resume and cover letter reviews as well... View Details

07 Oct 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers

Mark Zuckerberg delayed action and side-stepped responsibility. Two Million Fake Accounts: Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo Coming out of the financial crisis, Wells Fargo was one of the world’s most... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Air Transportation

Profile

Tiffany Niver

path? HBS provided an educational experience in career possibilities, paths, and options. Through the classroom experience, exposure to executives and protagonists, as well as the wide variety of career resources, I am walking out of the... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Retail; Consulting

30 Oct 2014
Blog Post

Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Robert Leke...

continent. Given the lean team structure at Tana, every team member is encouraged to continuously stretch himself/herself into roles of greater responsibility and influence. This has afforded me the opportunity for great learning, as well... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Dec 2012
News

Faculty Books

Wells (Jossey-Bass) In fast-changing business environments, firms must adapt their strategies to remain at the top. But many firms fail to do so. Instead, they succumb to inertia and stick to their old strategies until it is too late. Why... View Details

02 Sep 2016
News

Building a Legacy

me is to build new things. I get very bored. And I would say, while I didn’t well in college I did well in learning the import policy of India, which were three fat books, and I knew them backwards. “Slowly,... View Details

29 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Whence IT Value?

big difference now? After all, IT has been inside most organizations, especially big ones, for well over a generation. And while it is true that IT investments have been skyrocketing recently, they've been growing steadily since the... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

11 Dec 2017
News

Growing from Within

and the competitive landscape. This led us to the comprehensive multi-year growth plan we are rolling out today. Our customers have responded very well to new menu offerings we have launched this year including our Signature Crafted... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

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ABI/ProQuest | Baker Library

ABI/ProQuest Features full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, and key business and economics periodicals as well as company/country/industry-focused reports, and major news sources. Read More Articles from over 1,000 academic... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

@Soldiers Field

Stamps Reading Room in the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center. Guests included John Connaughton (MBA 1994), Sal Khan (MBA 2003), Kelley Morrell (MBA 2009), Jonathan Nelson (MBA 1983), and Scott Sperling (MBA 1981), as well as HBS faculty.... View Details

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