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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Speak the language of alternative investments so that you can better communicate and collaborate with your colleagues View Details

11 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

their True North.’” The recollection helped Kloeblen define two dimensions to his search: that the right role for him would involve collaboration, and that it would be driven by a desire to turn companies into “positive actors” in their... View Details

20 Feb 2020
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Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology

Strategy, Marketing & Corporate Relations, Career & Professional Development Molly DeCastro – Recruiting Relations Manager, Career & Professional Development Cathy and Molly work closely with... View Details

Keywords: Technology

14 Sep 2023
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MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

pivot into venture capital and impact investing to ensure that communities like mine – Black, queer, and disabled – have access to capital to build products View Details

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

The Harvard Innovation Labs is a vibrant, cross-disciplinary ecosystem for the Harvard community to explore innovation and entrepreneurship while building deeper connections. The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab... View Details

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

"Why is there such a persistent gap between ambition and performance?" ask Robert Kaplan and David P. Norton in "The Office of Strategy Management" in the October 2005 Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

December 2019
Case

Steemit: A New Social Media?

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Alexander White and Karen Elterman

This case discusses the alternative social media site Steemit, including the principles it was founded on in 2016 and the challenges it faced in 2019. Steemit was a blockchain-based platform that aimed to differentiate itself from other social media companies by... View Details

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13 Nov 2017
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5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS

considering getting an MBA and worried about similar issues, I hope you will find this post helpful. Here were my major concerns: 1. I wasn’t interesting enough I studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Lagos, then spent... View Details

24 Nov 2015
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What is an HBS MyTake?

of seeing the world, and people they otherwise never would have had the opportunity to meet. Understanding that community is formed when we become aware of each other’s stories, the Joint Committee on... View Details

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Chase Hall | About

Business School's original campus . Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873), a politician, abolitionist, and jurist, was elected US senator from Ohio in 1849. In 1855 he became the first Republican Ohio governor View Details

11 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

underlies future lock-in. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-038.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAbraham Lincoln and the Civil War Harvard Business School Compilation 805-115 Analyzes... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

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

Bankruptcy filings in the United States were expected to soar during this year’s economic recession, induced by COVID-19. Instead, they dropped 27 percent year-over-year through August, driven by an unexpected drop in consumer and small... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

25 Aug 2003
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Why IT Does Matter

advantage. As a result, he said, companies should rethink how much they pay for IT given this reduced return on investment. HBR received a large number of positive and critical responses to Carr's piece including a letter we offer here... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

11 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas

Kikovic Each year, the small northeast Texas town of Marshall pulls out all of the stops for its annual Wonderland of Lights festival. And for years, South Korean electronics company Samsung also worked hard to make it special. The... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

year after graduating from Princeton with a degree in history. As a consultant, she evaluated community development programs throughout Indonesia and helped rural women build microenterprises. The... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

02 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 2

an instrumental variables and a simultaneous equations approach. Finally, we show that the relation is driven by both the social and the environmental dimension of CSR. Read... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Sep 2021
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Working to Change the Food System

harder to reconcile how my personal and professional experiences were contributing to this existential crisis. After much reflection, I decided that I wanted to apply cutting-edge technology to solve challenges in food (and seafood),... View Details

25 May 2016
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Backing Harvard’s Work for Children

impressed me about the Center on the Developing Child is its emphasis on rapid testing of possible interventions and strategies, not unlike how a business approaches R&D,” Tichio explains. “Jack Shonkoff,... View Details

December 2011
Article

Platform Envelopment

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall Van Alstyne

Due to network effects and switching costs in platform markets, entrants generally must offer revolutionary functionality. We explore a second entry path that does not rely upon Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. Through envelopment, a provider in one... View Details

Keywords: Digital Platforms; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Economic Systems; Development Economics; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Network Effects; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry