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- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea to friends and relatives in a... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
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Turning Millennials into Leaders
create an NGO for kids around the world with HIV and AIDS [to improve] their quality of life, which led me to teaching back in Africa with students focusing on service and leadership. “I said, ‘I’ve been given this platform and this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
services than we can take on. Organizationally, we’ve taken this from concept to reality in just about two years’ time. We need about $250,000 to meet our annual budget, but if someone gave us $5 million tomorrow we could easily scale up,... View Details
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Career Journey | MBA
Video duration: 3:11 Play Career Journeys | Rhea Choudhury video Play Video duration: 2:32 Rhea Choudhury Rhea Choudhury (MBA 2024) reflects on how HBS broadened her perspective, leading her from engineering to a passion for mission-driven work through a National Park... View Details
- October 2007 (Revised March 2009)
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Engineering a Renaissance: The Launch of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Dean Venky of the newly launched School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is faced with a range of opportunities and challenges as he presides over the launching of a new school of engineering at Harvard University. His opportunities include an ample endowment, a... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Engineering; Leading Change; Product Launch; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Alliances; Competitive Strategy
Fleming, Lee, Lynn Andrea Stein, and Thomas D. Perry IV. "Engineering a Renaissance: The Launch of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences." Harvard Business School Case 608-087, October 2007. (Revised March 2009.)
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Site Credits - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Wallace, Executive Director, Knowledge and Library Services Laura Linard, Director, Baker Library Collections, Knowledge and Library Services Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
"My wife says I flunked retirement," says Julian Earls (PMD 37, 1979) with a laugh. Maybe so, but he clearly has never flunked anything else. The holder of 10 university degrees, including six honorary doctorates, the recipient of government View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Negotiators Share Lessons from High-Stakes Global Diplomacy
Madeleine Albright was interviewed for the American Secretaries of State Project, a collaboration among faculty members at HBS, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Law School designed to extract lessons in negotiation and diplomacy for today’s leaders in public View Details
Keywords: University Collaborations
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Ask a Librarian We are here to help! Submit your question using the form below. Other ways to get help: Visit the Stamps Reading Room Service Desk during Main Desk hours Call us: 617-495-6040 Email us: infoservices@hbs.edu View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
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The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
Google ended its service to China, China would respond by creating its own version of Google." Jack Carpenter advised, "If an organization is serious about doing business in China, it must 'ride out' all government restrictions.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
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Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
Good people are essential for success. Keep the product and the process simple. Deliver the most reliable service at the lowest cost. Invest the time to connect with employees and customers. These are the basic tenets fueling the... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
Services (CMS). CMS is the government agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid, programs that provide health insurance to more than one in three Americans. Due to our size, our actions impact the entire health care system. I collect... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
developing nations will provide a greater service in the long run, Khanna argues, by focusing instead on building the infrastructure required to compete in a global economy. Adapted from Working Knowledge: A Report on Research at Harvard... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Reinventing Radio Days
guaranteed new music they’ll enjoy, unlike recommendations based on more superficial data, such as purchasing patterns. Music stores were SBT’s customers, but Kennedy’s innovative idea was to reinvent SBT as a personalized Internet radio View Details
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Physical Disabilities & Learning Differences | MBA
Physical Disabilities & Learning Differences Support Services Justin Ernest MBA 2019 "It's my hope that by raising my hand in an Aldrich classroom, I am promoting awareness for stutterers everywhere." Lindsay Rosenblum MBA 2019 "I finally... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
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Fighting Back from a Knockout
described the rating as “a knockout blow” and vowed that his administration would fight for its constituents and would turn the city around. Declared Laffey, who teaches a college finance course and is a former president and COO of Morgan Keegan, a Tennessee financial... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
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Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
societal challenges. In today’s landscape, there are many ways in which to have an impact, including board service and volunteering; for-profit ventures with a social mission; nonprofit leadership; venture philanthropy; and impact... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
designed and implemented on value principles. Beyond good intentions, we need to deliver results.” For its part, through a combination of foreign aid and its own resources, Rwanda hopes by 2011 to have a fully funded service of basic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
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Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
details). His service to HBS is long–standing: In 1981, he and his classmate, Fayez Sarofim, funded the first professorship at HBS in the field of entrepreneurship (which has been held by Howard H. Stevenson since its inception). From... View Details
- April 1996 (Revised April 2004)
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Virtual Vineyards
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Alvin J. Silk, Lisa Klein Pearo and Thomas A. Gerace
Virtual Vineyards markets wine from small California vineyards directly to consumers through its site on the World Wide Web. It also facilitates fulfillment of customer orders. The case focuses on the ways in which Virtual Vineyards provides value to end consumers... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Technological Innovation; Management; Service Operations; Internet and the Web
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Alvin J. Silk, Lisa Klein Pearo, and Thomas A. Gerace. "Virtual Vineyards." Harvard Business School Case 396-264, April 1996. (Revised April 2004.)