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Jamie Gong

Wild daisies. Hidden ice cream. Waves lapping against our little island. These memories of childhood summers with my grandmother remain, even as her own memory fades. Seven years ago, my indomitable grandma¬—a cancer survivor—was... View Details

07 May 2014
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How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

down the top" with capital reform. Can we devise a way that doesn't involve taxes? This might include sanctions on the flight of capital to tax havens. Or should we do something to stimulate competition and technological View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Apr 2000
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Learning in Action

they were interviewed in-depth about how they went about their work and, specifically, what they did to be more productive. Using these insights, the Bell Labs team designed an innovative hands-on training program, which the star... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

target. It was also evident that the legacy of the past had not suddenly disappeared either. There were still too many brands. Innovation was still too slow. There had been major progress at cutting costs,... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

01 Mar 2024
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Leading Businesses in a Web3 World

Illustration by Daniel Hertzberg Web3 is poised to transform everything we do online by decentralizing and democratizing the internet. That transformation is already underway in the business world: built on blockchain technology that offers increased security and... View Details

February 2024 (Revised December 2024)
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Best Buy Health: Enabling Care at Home

By: Robert S. Huckman, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Antonio Moreno, Bradley Staats and Sarah Mehta

This case explores retailer Best Buy’s decision to enter health care. Best Buy Health aims to enable care at home across three prongs: consumer health, active aging, and virtual care. A key pillar of Best Buy Health's strategy is leveraging the Geek Squad—the company's... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Business Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Electronics Industry; Health Industry; Retail Industry; United States; Minnesota

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November 2022 (Revised June 2023)
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UGG Steps into the Metaverse

By: Shunyuan Zhang, Sharon Joseph, Sunil Gupta and Julia Kelley

In the fall of 2022, boot maker UGG and its parent company, Deckers, were working to position the brand in the nascent but fast growing metaverse. The metaverse, the online realm that individual users could navigate as digital avatars, was becoming more commercialized,... View Details

Keywords: Metaverse; Digital Marketing; Innovation and Invention; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Internet and the Web; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

"This course will teach you about alternative investment strategies and what you need to know to manage and strengthen your portfolio." Randolph Cohen Alternative Investments Senior Lecturer of Business Administration "Alternatives have... View Details

22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016

November 2016 Quarterly Journal of Economics Stereotypes By: Bordalo, Pedro, Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present a model of stereotypes based on Kahneman and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

based on high tech innovation in engineering, or significant scientific advances) or biotech venture that is commercializing breakthrough science. Have at least 10 employees and expect to have significant growth in the number View Details

01 Sep 2003
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Kumar Mahadeva

Cognizant provides application outsourcing services and 24/7 software project management for a small but intensely loyal client base of large U.S. and European companies. Widely praised in the business press for its View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 24 Jun 2025 By Unit View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View Accounting & Management Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits The Anatomy of Fraud... View Details

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Research - Private Capital Project

credit, in addition to several other transaction-level characteristics, we re-examine the reasons behind dollar... February 2023 Journal of Finance Disruption and Credit Markets By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina We show that over the... View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Research (JMR) , 2016) with Raghuram Iyengar and Martin Schleicher. Julian De Freitas : Recipient of a 2021 Exceptional Reviewer Award from the Journal of Vision . Ayelet Israeli : Received the 2021 Apgar... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

Sciences Track at the 2021 President’s Innovation Challenge, a University-wide competition hosted by the Harvard Innovation Labs, which identifies student ventures with significant potential. The experience... View Details

Keywords: April White

21 Sep 2023
HBS Seminar

Pinar Ozcan, Saïd Business School

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Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration

The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund

TOMMY, JULIE, AND BILLY FRIST: New fund supports fellowships and innovation in financial aid. Photo Courtesy Frist family Financial aid at HBS has received a $10 million boost, thanks to a $9 million gift from the Thomas F. Frist Jr.... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

distinct challenges of leading larger, more dispersed teams Develop strategies for planning and engineering organizational change and innovation initiatives Shape your organizational culture and architecture... View Details

23 May 2023
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Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

James W. Riley has been confronted with questions of identity and alienation since he was a teenage graffiti artist navigating 1990s Los Angeles. “I’ve always had this notion of going places and being in... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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