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- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
as engineering, computer science, accounting, or finance—are much more likely to lead to a college-level job with a healthy earnings premium. However, graduates with only a bachelor’s degree in majors such as arts View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Illustration by Peter Arkle Illustration by Peter Arkle Sandra Oh Lin (MBA 2003) has raised enough venture capital for now, thank you very much. Lin is the founder and CEO of KiwiCo, which designs and...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
Above: photo by Sarah Frankie Linder Vinyl is back. The once-anachronistic segment of the music industry was on target for its seventh straight year of double-digit growth in 2017, according to a Deloitte Global forecast, selling an estimated 40 million new records...
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April White
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Case Method - Research Resources | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Fiftieth Year by Re-examining its Mission in a New Society ,” Harvard Business School Bulletin , vol. 34, no. 2, April 1958, pp. 4-16. This Bulletin article includes a reflection on improvements to the case method View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Above: Cummings in the iconic Fisher Building, known as “Detroit’s largest art object.” Cummings and his partners are redeveloping the 28-story landmark. A trip through downtown Detroit with Peter Cummings...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
earned. And never ignore the magic of compound interest." Each day, a Tobias commentary can be found on the Internet at www.ameritrade.com. And this fall, he can be seen on public television, cohosting an...
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
stimulated by advocates of agency theory over the past two decades. And it brings to mind the old Milton Friedman axiom that the business of business is to make money (presumably more than the average for the market View Details
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by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
facing society and the economy, and this is one of them. We feel we have an ability to make a positive difference, and an opportunity to learn in...
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- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
struggled to get twenty-five people to the conference. At that conference the academics and consultants came together and created a professional society called the Family Firm...
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by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
one of those few things that every society understands and is part of that cultural fabric. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
business idea. Now. Propped up on her elbows and staring at her laptop as ideas furiously dance in her head, she considers all possibilities. What about a monthly subscription box sent to a woman just before her period? Tampons....
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
Austin’s,” says Frye, in Charlotte. “But we do have assets we can build on to really accelerate our ability to be effective and to grow.” Of course, the race to dominate financial technology is not confined to the United States, View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
already very effective political actors to use some of that influence, not just on behalf of their own interests and their shareholders interests, but to use that influence on behalf of their employees, their communities View Details
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IFC: Ghana; Africa Rising - Course Catalog
business from across Africa. In Ghana there will also be opportunities to discover the social and cultural landscape of Africa, including the changing role of women in the society View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
professional French-horn player, Brooks came to the subject of happiness by way of art. His early research focused on why people produce and consume art and beauty as well as...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social...
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Field Course: Field X - Course Catalog
side of the coin, what if it's an old family business I'll be taking over, something like that? A: Yes, that's also fine. Q: Is Field X aimed at any particular sector, like tech? A: No, Field X teams run the gamut, every year we have consumer, healthcare, finance, real...
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- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
done right, can lead to prosperity for everyone, for a greater society. Good leaders want a society where everyone prospers.” Over her career, Nick had realized the value of strong leaders and the...
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Margie Kelley
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
listings on the employment-related search engine Indeed.com, usage of “ninja” increased nearly 400 percent between January 2012 and October 2016, according to the company’s Job Trends database tool. While the word may make the job sound...
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- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
We tend to think of the moment of insight and creativity in sudden and shocking terms: the bathtub overflowing (Archimedes), the apple beaning off the head (Newton), the bolt of lightning shivering the key...
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by Michael Blanding