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- 25 Aug 2014
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Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
colleagues to invest in a regional cellular company. “I knew it was a good investment, but I had no idea mobile would reach 100 percent market penetration,” he says. Interested in building media companies with like-minded partners, Nelson branched out on his own in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Brandon Tieu
Coming to HBS is like... Arriving at HBS feels like parachuting into leadership camp where every day is a chapter from the best business book, but in an interactive format. The case discussions and conversations with peers allow you to codify some View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf
Francisco and was eventually sent to Munich to set up BCG's office there. His strong desire to "create something and leave an imprint" then led him to Benckiser. The family-owned, $300 million former chemical company was spreading itself... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Dilan Gomih
Working three-and-a-half years in foreign exchange for Merrill Lynch gave Dilan Gomih a special kind of confidence. “It's a high-pressure, risky environment; every mistake has consequences," she says. “If you can make it on the... View Details
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
A&M Vice Chairman Steve Berman, Live Nation's global touring CEO Arthur Fogel, William Morris Endeavor agent Marc Geiger, and producer Vincent Herbert. Go Big or Go Home? In the autumn of 2009, Lady Gaga was View Details
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John H. McArthur | About
HBS,” said Nitin Nohria, Dean of Harvard Business School. “He cared deeply about every member of the HBS community and believed in the School’s ability to transform lives. By encouraging us all to dream big... View Details
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and confirmed in 2015. Alsup is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, and has served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in Ghana and The Gambia. View Details
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
Setting up a home-base-augmenting site—one designed to gather new knowledge for a company—involves certain skills. And launching a home-base-exploiting site—one established to help a company efficiently commercialize its R&D in... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
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Growing on the Job - Alumni
as a destination; set tangible markers for yourself so that you can see and measure your progress along the way. Ongoing obligations Like growth itself, assessment is not static, but a dynamic process that continues throughout a career.... View Details
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
This means less "show-and-tell" presentations and more open, interactive, strategic discussions. It is only through greater focus and proactive setting of the board's agenda that boards can... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
cover debt payments owed to creditors. This could set up the perfect storm for a huge wave of bankruptcies in the weeks and months ahead, says Stuart C. Gilson, the Steven R. Fenster Professor View Details
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
This course is part of the Business in Society and Strategy track. Introduction to Global Business ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Global Business $1,850 Next 4-week session starts... View Details
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Understanding Customers
In conventional business case studies, protagonists almost never have the option of stepping back to seek a new understanding of the customer. But to be effective in practice, managers need both the self-assurance and ability to initiate and pursue, with rigor and... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
more optimistic than in prior years about the future of human space exploration via non-government firms. Mission Statement: VIRGIN GALACTIC “Our mission, to be the Spaceline for Earth, means we focus on... View Details
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
set of rollers, a pod, attached to the positive sheet, distributed a thinly spread viscous reagent that developed the negative and positive. Frederick J. Binda worked on the creation View Details
- 01 Jan 2017
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Improving Health Care Delivery
Jeffrey and Mary Ellen Jay (both MBA 1987) In the mid-1980s, Jeffrey Jay (MBA 1987) had set his sights on academic medicine, having earned his MD from Boston University. A dramatically changing health care landscape and his growing... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, their experiences permit an inside look at pushing past barriers. “I had studied Miami’s evolving entrepreneurial ecosystem for an earlier View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
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Wyss House | About
Bern, Switzerland, Wyss graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1959 and began his career at Chrysler Corporation, where he set up manufacturing plants worldwide before enrolling at HBS.... View Details
- 23 May 2018
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Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987
academia, government, and the private sector. He aims for excellence and sets the bar high,” says his longtime friend Pedro Moreira Salles, a Brazilian banker who is on the board of Insper. “What he has... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Outdoor Spaces | About
recreation, and respite. A true gateway to the campus—located between Spangler Center and Klarman Hall—it welcomes visitors arriving from the south side of campus and sets the stage for the unique landscape... View Details