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23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

reports have focused on the record number of filings among corporations with more than $1 billion in assets and spikes in filings among retail and dining firms, overall... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Rigorous research, rooted in practice | About

Rigorous research, rooted in practice The most pressing challenges and interesting opportunities facing the world today cannot be addressed without business playing a significant role. Harvard Business School faculty conduct research on... View Details

12 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery

Ted Obi (MS/MBA 2023) is a current MBA student at HBS and a third year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His previous experiences include co-founding Melanin Doc, a non-profit supporting the next generation... View Details

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

And that percolates back to retail investors, as well. But at the same time, the entrepreneurs who are still out there swinging are getting a lot done and creating a lot of... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

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Jana Kierstead | About

excellence in online business education by creating sustained and differentiated value for individuals and organizations that make a difference in the world. HBX advances... View Details

20 Jan 2023
Blog Post

The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang

especially true as the first in my family to go to grad school. The biggest influence in my life has been my parents. Throughout my childhood, my parents worked multiple jobs to give me the educational opportunities I had—that’s a big... View Details

19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

In March 2010, CEO Hiroshi Mikitani (HBS MBA '93) stood in front of his employees at online retail giant Rakuten's Tokyo headquarters and dropped a bomb: all 7,100 workers would have two years to become... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Nonprofit Board Service - Alumni

Executive Education programs on nonprofit leadership: Governing for Nonprofit Excellence , Accelerating Board Capacity for School District Board Members and Driving Nonprofit Performance View Details

November 1991 (Revised April 1994)
Case

Taco Bell Corp.

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Roger H. Hallowell

John Martin, Taco Bell CEO, brings the company into line with its competitors through incremental change during the 1980s. In the early 1990s, he adopts breakthrough approaches to improve service levels while reducing prices, providing a distinct competitive advantage.... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Food; Competitive Advantage; Innovation and Management; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; United States

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01 Sep 2023
News

Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa Alwaalan (Endeavor Saudi Arabia), and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

31 Mar 2022
Op-Ed

Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services

But leaders should be cautious about ending up somewhere in between, suffering the costs of not formalizing appropriately without gaining from scale advantages. These are the firms that risk sinking in the “Bermuda Triangle.” A version of this article was first... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

What do you do when the people with whom you are negotiating act in ways that can best be called counterproductive? Before throwing up your hands, take a deep breath and ask yourself 3 questions. Do these people lack good information? Are... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

24 Apr 2014
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Honoring a legacy

the result of a gift from a Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao and Family Foundation. The new building will serve as a learning center and social hub for the School’s Executive Education... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Leveraging Generative AI

Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

20 Feb 2024

SVMP Webinar

This webinar will give college students the opportunity to learn more about the Summer Venture in Management Program and hear from former participants currently at HBS. SVMP is a residential educational... View Details

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

webinars, a Harvard Gmail account, and education tax credit and loan deferments. Upon successful completion of CORe, undergraduate credit option participants will earn eight... View Details

08 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Applying to Business School as a Couple

sell-side deal and started dating shortly after the deal was announced. Though Kate had plans to move back to her home in Seattle, after meeting Patrick she stayed in NYC and worked in View Details

01 Aug 2001
News

Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

Stanley as a powerful presence in the world of global finance. After graduating from Princeton in 1957 at the age of 20, Fisher worked for a time in the university's admissions office and as a trainee at the Insurance Company of North... View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

June 2021
Technical Note

SPAC Space

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In 2020, over half of all initial public offerings (IPOs) in the United States were special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), blank-check companies that typically had two years to find a business to take public, usually through a reverse merger. Together, 248... View Details

Keywords: Special Purpose Acquisition Companies; SPACs; Mergers and Acquisitions; Going Public; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Strategy