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- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
agreement to pay Media General $142 million for its weekly and daily newspapers and real-estate holdings, and a credit agreement that included a $400 million term loan. Speculating about Buffett's apparent change of heart regarding newspaper ownership, Esty points to... View Details
- 07 May 2015
- Blog Post
Career Change: From the Military to Consulting
with classmates, speaking with second year students in the Armed Forces Alumni Association, and through career coaches. I focused my attention exclusively on consulting during the recruiting process. Why do you think so many people pivot... View Details
- Fast Answer
Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship
population, government finances, and impact on society. Data is exclusively from publicly available government data sources. View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
and beyond. Student teams have exclusive access to advising, technical resources, and other programming. “We’ve received support with everything—from assembling an international team with diverse technical skills to navigating the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)
pledged to the investment. You have not pledged to have your salary go to a set account to pay back the bank [for your mortgage], right?” “In Europe, where there is a lot less public investment into these buildings, we almost exclusively... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- Profile
Olujimi Williams
science with a growing interest in business through a joint degree that combined mechanical engineering with business and finance. “To really understand how business works,” Olujimi explains, “I wouldn’t get that in an exclusively... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
change we’ve baked into our future.” That understanding, as well as the realization that water entrepreneurship is lagging behind other sectors focused on climate and sustainability, led Ferguson to found Burnt Island Ventures in 2020. The company invests View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
Veterans Affairs benefits, Hall and fellow Army Ranger Matthew Thompson (MBA 2010) sought to create a business that would help veterans receive the benefits they deserve. The result was TroopSwap, an online source for discounts and other goodies that companies extend... View Details
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Curriculum | MBA
Curriculum MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID The curriculum includes three courses that are exclusive for students in these two programs: the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Seminar in Year 1 and 2, and the Business-Government Integrative Course called Creating... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
mismatch can create. First, hierarchical industry organizations can "lock out" certain types of innovation indefinitely by perpetuating established business practices. Second, even when the vertical hierarchies produce highly innovative sectors in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
discovered that this compulsory secrecy program was in place during the war, and after the war it transitioned to a peacetime policy that persists to this day,” Gross says. “Everybody in the system benefits from being able to access information about the cutting edge.”... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
success in judo strategy. "Our strategy," she notes, "is as much the art of exclusion as it is the art of inclusion, or what you are going to do." Rule Two: Stay On The Offensive But Avoid Frontal Assaults Successful... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- Web
Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog
frequently thought to be exclusively mom-and-pop, small businesses. Most fail to realize that Walmart, Fidelity, Cargill, Koch Industries, and Ford, to name a few, are all family-owned or controlled businesses. Family businesses can be... View Details
- Profile
Patrick Chun
by another two with Francisco Partners, a private-equity firm focused exclusively on technology. "It was four years of rigorous advisory and deal work, without a second to spare," says Patrick, "I realized at the end of it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
to its current home in Durham, North Carolina, in 1993 and focused exclusively on personal care; by 1998, its product line included more than 100 items and annual sales exceeded $8 million. In 2003, Quimby (who had bought out Shavitz ten... View Details
- 27 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Meet the Latino Student Association
participate in an exclusive career fair for Latinos, African Americans, and LGBT students at HBS. Weekly Newsletter Companies can directly engage with our members and share their recruiting events. To learn more, check out our website at... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Web
About Us - Alumni
exclusively about graduates of HBS plus its faculty, students, and staff. Freelancers should send a one-page proposal along with writing samples to: Daniel Morrell, Content Manger, HBS Alumni Communications, Soldiers Field, Boston, MA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
Esty points to the investor's exclusion of the Tampa Tribune, Media General's largest newspaper, from his bid: "In retrospect, his targeting just the smaller papers is a big clue about his forecast for the industry. Unlike regionals or... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
Sometimes I'd be the only reporter on his plane." That kind of access enabled Tumulty to break the story that Gore had hired feminist Naomi Wolf as a consultant, an exclusive about which she says facetiously that "my bureau chief and I... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012
solstice. "The influencers and brands loved it." she says. "The attention to detail and level of intimacy made it feel different from other events." Building on its success, Cynthia produced another event in August featuring one View Details