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Entrepreneurship | MBA

develop and grow, including one-to-one advising, office hours with industry experts, workshops, and an incubator program. Harvard Innovation Labs HBS Alumni and Student Ventures Boston & Cambridge Students... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference

FDA Commissioner Mark B. McClellan doesn’t approve of Americans buying low-cost prescription drugs from Canada or over the Internet. But he understands what drives them to do so. At the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association’s fourth... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Conformity and Nonconformity Peter Glick , Lawrence University Organizational Culture as Masculinity Contest: Developing and Validating a Climate Measure Kortney Ziegler , Founder of Trans*H4CK Making Trans Visible With Technology... View Details

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Business Education & The Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Home Exhibition Business Education & The Case Method The General Shoe Company, 1921 Case Writing & Industry Expansion of the Case Method The Case Method Classroom Teaching & The Case Method Impact on... View Details

24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24

divisions. Our two studies allow us to demonstrate that spontaneous within-game dialogue and manipulated pre-game talk lead to the same results. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-039.pdf PublicationsCost Structure Patterns in the Asset Management... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

wasted, and take action to stem the tide. A third said that Data.gov should focus less attention on data acquisition than on encouraging private industry to develop applications. "Brand them as 'powered... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

19 Oct 2011
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A Good Look

dominate almost every industry that touches people. Food, supplements, personal care — we have to be at the table to talk about what ‘natural’ means. Many consumers assume it means safe, but that’s not necessarily true. Our products are... View Details

Keywords: Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

14 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Recruiting During Uncertainty: How to Meet Students Where They Are

scaling back or pausing hiring for an indefinite amount of time. In this time of uncertainty, what can recruiting partners do to effectively attract and hire talent while also building a strong and lasting brand on campus? Our team in Career & Professional View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 2000
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HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet

cash and in-kind services. They are KNUMI, which is developing technology to enable "media content providers to create a highly interactive experience for end-users"; Sound MicroSystems, which is commercializing technology for the View Details

16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany

the developed world. And is very promising in showing a pathway to address greenhouse gas emissions in emerging markets. So yes, there are many moments of optimism and of excitement, as we see this new View Details

10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

innovation, by encouraging workers to cultivate their individual strengths and to speak up when they have ideas for improvements. And they can develop and empower their employees to solve problems instead of turning automatically to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

of their corporate governance, placing them within the wider context of the economic and social history of Germany. Based on both quantitative data and archivally based case studies, this book explores how the relationship between the family and the firm changed in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53507 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock prices do not exhibit price... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Durdana Achakzai

know a little bit about everything in general management. The treks help broaden your perspective." The Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) and Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) classes have also shaped Durdana's perspective on the View Details

01 Mar 2015
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The Next Big Swing

Oscar-nominated 2011 adaption of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball. But well before baseball stats went Hollywood, Tippett was quietly turning industry heads with something decidedly less flashy: a graphics-light, stat-heavy computer baseball... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Clark; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn

capitalist by day. I teach entrepreneurship with the Middlebury Institute for International Studies. I often ask my students where they think the root of venture capital is. They'll often tell me they think it's Silicon Valley. The reality is it's much older. It comes... View Details

22 Mar 2016
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Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George

Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George “We made a legacy gift so that our contributions will continue after our deaths,” says William W. “Bill” George (MBA 1966) of the planned gift he and his wife, Penny, established to invest in students’ character View Details

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

explanations for the phenomenon and its success or failure. These included such things as the nature of the industry or product, the way such goals are implemented, and the size of the organization making use of them. There were,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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