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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
Ford v Ferrari. Only judges from the sound editing branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences vote in the category. Interest is confined to a small group of experts, much like a group of VCs used to talking to each other.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 17 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet
The fight was lost as consumers voted for free information supported by advertising over subscription services. Ironically, online advertising and the commercialization of the Web achieved important goals of the resisters: to preserve the... View Details
- Web
Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
for "contributions within the sports and entertainment industry," voted on by female sports and entertainment industry professionals, in 2018. Sunil Gupta : Finalist for the 2018 Paul E. Green Award from the Journal of Marketing Research... View Details
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
Key Themes: The financial cost (Sharpe ratio) of small screens is negligible. Proxy voting enables retail level engagement with companies and studies demonstrate proxy voting can influence corporate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
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50 Years of Women in MBA
Harvard Business School 50 Years of Women in the MBA Program 50 Years of Women in the MBA program Accelerating the advancement of women leaders who make a difference in the world. In December 1962, the Harvard Business School faculty View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
could continue our success as part of Cisco, but it meant I had to build Altiostar from scratch,” he says. By all accounts, Dahod has met the challenge. Altiostar is still in stealth mode, but the press recently reported that it had received a $50 million View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
classroom to vote on issues or work in small groups? Moss isn’t talking about the essence of the case method as he explains the importance of teaching civics as a dynamic and engaging topic, but he could be: “The three branches of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
had worked an average of 12 to 15 years in a variety of industries. “Consumers vote with their pocketbooks, and they’re saying they want this product. It makes the consumer feel beautiful. Who is the government or an activist organization... View Details
- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
ballot fraud have erupted and intense focus invested in possible measures to ensure election integrity. States have increasingly enacted voter ID laws as one such deterrent. But we also know that laws aimed at securing the voting process,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He envisioned himself leading a big,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Research Summary
The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
Alumni-founded startups M7 Health and Hue came out victorious in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition on Thursday, winning the Grand Prize and Runner Up awards respectively in an impressive field of eight global regional winners. During the virtual, live... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
empowered by giving them opportunities to share ideas, as Lay’s has done by asking its customers to vote on the chip flavor the brand should create next. “This is a new trend, and it provides great information, allowing companies to... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
calling to tell me?" Ruben's area had no operational responsibilities, thus would be involved in an outage only peripherally. Barton imagined his team voting on who the bearer of bad news would be. "Because everybody else is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
that being personally chosen by a sponsor as a protégé could serve as an important vote of confidence; and two, the idea that sponsors’ compensation being linked to protégé outcomes might serve as further motivation for the protégé. They... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
that a reasonable person simply gives up and walks away. A confused person might still vote yes, but only to stop the conversation and with no commitment toward making the idea become a reality. A complex topic is not needed for a... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
the researchers found a 7.7 percent increase in the average partisanship of executive teams in that 12-year period, with particularly high year-over-year increases in 2010, 2012, and 2016. Overall, executives who vote similarly are 34... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Mention for the City of Venice Award for Intellectual Property in 2007. Arthur I Segel : Honored as 2007 Man of the Year by the 21st Century Fund, a foundation in Brookline Massachusetts that supports new initiatives in public education. Arthur I Segel : View Details