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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
Hundreds of first-year students played a key role in this year’s Alumni Achievement Award ceremonies as they, along with this year’s five award winners, took part in a case... View Details
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Digging Into Data: Making A Career Change
Tell us about your role at HBS. As the Market Intelligence Manager in Career & Professional Development, I strive to identify, analyze, and understand MBA hiring trends that influence the strategic priorities of our office. Although... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
Service with a Smile: Classmates Nick Alexander (left) and Bryan Frist with one of Yoshi’s service-on-demand vehicles. (photo by Cayce Clifford) The first purpose-built, drive-in gas station opened in... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
to lose faith in the rationality of the market and closed his fund. Next-step options, such as a CFO or director of corporate development position, filled his head as he left... View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
first discovered at the ALS Therapy Development Institute and in part funded by the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. The drug shows promise as a treatment for neurological diseases like ALS in addition to organ... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- November 2014
- Teaching Note
Claritas Genomics
By: Robert F. Higgins and Matthew G. Preble
Dr. Patrice Milos is the first CEO of Claritas Genomics (Claritas) and she faces a number of challenges in scaling the young company. Claritas was formed around a lab spun out from Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) which had performed genomic tests for the hospital. Now... View Details
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
we understand the role and appreciate that an expert who functions as our decision-making proxy makes for a much better museum-going experience” But Harvard Business School's Ray Weaver says that what... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
last century: energy and infrastructure; agricultural commodities and food products; and natural resources, to name a few.” Kuhns is particularly bullish on China’s hydroelectric power potential. It’s a... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
redefine the concept of banking and financial access in the future." Ezuza is preparing to launch its service after six years of business development, putting partnerships together and building the technology platform. "To some people,... View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
book, which grew out of background notes Moss wrote for his MBA students, is a nontechnical, accessible explanation of broad concepts such as "output," "money," and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
But with few exceptions, organizational structure has failed to keep up with other market-fueled technological innovation. As a result, a lot of companies are stuck in View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
A Remarkable Life Story
and pushing her toward HBS. Fitzhugh first mentored Lambert at Howard University, where he was a professor and she a student. “I came to appreciate the shrewdness in his approach to me,” she relates. “Just... View Details
- February 2006 (Revised October 2006)
- Case
Veridian: Putting a Value on Values
By: Rakesh Khurana, Joel Podolny and Jaan Margus Elias
David Langstaff, the CEO of Veridian, a defense company, struggles with the decision of selling the company. Langstaff has concerned himself with inculcalating his organization with the values necessary for superior achievement over the long term. But as a fiduciary,... View Details
Keywords: Cash; Corporate Governance; Financial Markets; Law; Leadership; Patents; Values and Beliefs; Service Industry; Service Industry
Khurana, Rakesh, Joel Podolny, and Jaan Margus Elias. "Veridian: Putting a Value on Values." Harvard Business School Case 406-028, February 2006. (Revised October 2006.)
- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Creating and Nurturing a Sense of Belonging at HBS
and scholastic clubs. In college, it came from my passion for service and the uplifting of my community, and now at HBS it comes from a combination of all these things and then some. Whenever I talk to... View Details
- 20 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to be a Customer
more customized service next time. Be Engaging. Differentiate yourself as a customer by engaging the seller in some friendly conversation. You may get an extra shot of whipped... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 2016
- Working Paper
Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System
By: Juliane Begenau and Tim Landvoigt
How does the shadow banking system respond to changes in the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and shadow banks to study the unintended consequences of capital requirements. A key... View Details
Begenau, Juliane, and Tim Landvoigt. "Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-140, June 2016. (Revised July 2016.)
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
courts to prepare them to handle an unprecedented volume of new cases, should the worst case come to pass. Gerdeman: Many view a bankruptcy filing as the death of a company,... View Details
- September–October 2021
- Article
Internalization of Advertising Services: Testing a Theory of the Firm
By: Alvin J. Silk, Birger Wernerfelt and Shuyi Yu
In 1956, a group of trade associations representing publishers and independent advertising agencies signed a consent decree aimed at ending a set of trade practices that for half a century effectively precluded advertisers from owning and operating in-house agencies.... View Details
Keywords: Internationalization; Specialization; Theory Of The Firm; Advertising Agencies; Advertising; Organizational Structure; Theory
Silk, Alvin J., Birger Wernerfelt, and Shuyi Yu. "Internalization of Advertising Services: Testing a Theory of the Firm." Marketing Science 40, no. 5 (September–October 2021): 946–963.
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
recommend that a bright, young associate with five years of experience pursue an MBA, the answer was, “No, absolutely not. She would advance just as quickly staying with us.” A... View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Preaching with a Choir
Scott Barrick (MBA 1982) is general manager of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the interview, he talks about his role in leveraging the reputation and range of the choir as an ambassador... View Details