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- 09 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Anddria Varnado (Clack-Rogers)
Current Position: Vice President, Strategy & Business Development at Williams-Sonoma Location San Francisco, CA Tell us what you’re up to these days. I’m currently leading strategy for Williams-Sonoma, Inc., where I am responsible for... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
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Janelle McDonald
personal risks. Initially trained as a systems engineer concentrating in computer science, she started her career as a software developer and later became intrigued with consulting. “I liked the variety of work, the exposure to different... View Details
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Faculty - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
intellectual interests center on leadership and organizational change. His recent books include What Really Works: The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success, Changing Fortunes: Remaking the Industrial Corporation; Driven: How Human... View Details
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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 2025
- News
On The Case: The Base Factor
In her research as a marketing modeler, Professor Eva Ascarza focuses on understanding customers—and predicting, in particular, who will be a good one and how best to retain them. Without customers, obviously, there is no business. That could also be the tagline for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
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Generative AI for Business Leaders - Course Catalog
a production scale Gen AI application using a no code platform. The HBS digital transformation (DTX) team will assist in the delivery fot he project. Learn about the basic foundations of the technology as well as the latest developments... View Details
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
buries his hands in his pockets. The screen lights up, of course. It always does. This isn't magic, after all: it's science developed by WiTricity's founder, MIT physics professor Marin Soljačić, and his team, who wirelessly lit a 60-watt... View Details
- December 2012 (Revised July 2013)
- Case
The “Chongqing Model” and the Future of China
By: Meg Rithmire
Since opening to the global economy in 1979, but especially since entering the WTO in 2001, China's economy grew at rates around 10% annually by attracting FDI and promoting exports. After the financial crisis that began in 2008 and depressed demand in the United... View Details
Keywords: China; Public Sector; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Macroeconomics; Public Administration Industry; China
Rithmire, Meg. "The “Chongqing Model” and the Future of China ." Harvard Business School Case 713-028, December 2012. (Revised July 2013.)
- August 2022 (Revised March 2025)
- Case
Wasabi Technologies (A)
By: N. Louis Shipley and Mel Martin
After launching a successful hot cloud storage company, Founder and CEO David Friend is ready to scale the venture rapidly. Wasabi Technologies had focused primarily on direct sales, but an opportunity to pivot to channel sales was on the horizon. The company’s major... View Details
Keywords: Direct Sales; Channel Sales; Information Management; Sales; Product Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Divisions; Information Technology Industry; United States
Shipley, N. Louis, and Mel Martin. "Wasabi Technologies (A)." Harvard Business School Case 823-021, August 2022. (Revised March 2025.)
- February 1997 (Revised May 1997)
- Background Note
Modern India
By: Tarun Khanna and Danielle J. Melito
Describes India's move from a controlled economy toward a more market-oriented one, commencing in 1991. Highlights the extent of changes in the product, capital, and labor markets, and the political situation at the central government, as these stood in 1995. View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Systems; Economy; Macroeconomics; Government and Politics; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; India
Khanna, Tarun, and Danielle J. Melito. "Modern India." Harvard Business School Background Note 797-108, February 1997. (Revised May 1997.)
- 2002
- Chapter
Institutional Change and Economic Growth: Banks, Financial Markets, and Mexican Industrialization, 1878-1913
By: Noel Maurer and Stephen Haber
Keywords: History; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Markets; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Mexico
Maurer, Noel, and Stephen Haber. "Institutional Change and Economic Growth: Banks, Financial Markets, and Mexican Industrialization, 1878-1913." Chap. 2 in The Mexican Economy, 1870-1930, edited by Jeffrey Bortz and Stephen Haber, 23–49. Social Science History. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.
- 25 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Maria (Brewer) Palma...
Current Position: Director of Platform (RRE Ventures); formerly, Executive Director of Business Development (Eyeview) Current Location: New York, NY Tell us what you're up to these days. I recently moved into the venture world as Director... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- April 2003
- Article
R&D Comes to Services: Bank of America's Pathbreaking Experiments
By: Stefan Thomke
Thomke, Stefan. "R&D Comes to Services: Bank of America's Pathbreaking Experiments." Harvard Business Review 81, no. 4 (April 2003). (Translated into German and reprinted in Harvard Business Manager (July 2003))
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Shell and American Can Company. "All the guys who were making the decisions in the corner offices had advanced degrees," he recalls. "I wanted to call the shots." At HBS, Harris learned about leadership and motivating teams, citing courses such as View Details
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Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami - Blog - Business & Environment
Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2024 IFC India 2024 - View Details
- November 2010 (Revised August 2013)
- Case
Chrysler Fiat 2009
By: J. Bruce Harreld, Paul W. Marshall and David Lane
In spring 2009, Chrysler entered a prepackaged bankruptcy and exited 40 days later in a deal with Fiat, the U.S. Treasury, and the UAW that kept the automaker alive. Looking forward, what was necessary for Chrysler to move beyond the life support it had received? What... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Leadership Development; Alliances; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Condition; Auto Industry
Harreld, J. Bruce, Paul W. Marshall, and David Lane. "Chrysler Fiat 2009." Harvard Business School Case 811-030, November 2010. (Revised August 2013.)
- October 2005 (Revised June 2007)
- Case
Apollo Hospitals--First-World Health Care at Emerging-Market Prices
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Tarun Khanna and Carin-Isabel Knoop
The Apollo Hospitals Group, one of Asia's premier health care organizations, had come to rival the best health care organizations on the globe. Apollo offered advanced medical procedures, such as cardiac surgery using the beating heart technique, at very high levels of... View Details
Keywords: Vertical Integration; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Care and Treatment; Global Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Health Industry; Thailand; United States; India
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Tarun Khanna, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Apollo Hospitals--First-World Health Care at Emerging-Market Prices." Harvard Business School Case 706-440, October 2005. (Revised June 2007.)
- January 2021
- Article
The Pursuit of Success in Academia: Plato’s ghost asks ‘What then?’
By: A.R. Elangovan and Andrew J. Hoffman
What do we pursue as we seek success in academia? For most, the path to academic success focuses narrowly on A-level journal publications, which has caused a stealthy but steady erosion in the very essence of academia. In this essay, we explore that erosion by drawing... View Details
Elangovan, A.R., and Andrew J. Hoffman. "The Pursuit of Success in Academia: Plato’s ghost asks ‘What then?’." Journal of Management Inquiry 30, no. 1 (January 2021): 68–73.
- Profile
Rob Self
society in a positive way.” This summer, Rob will take on his first consulting assignment with Boston Consulting Group. “Coming from a product development background, I see this as a great way to transition to a leadership role; I’ll get... View Details
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Nneka Ezeigwe
different kinds of industries on the ground, looking at what drives change and takes an economy to the next level. I’ll be able to work with policy makers and business leaders who are expanding Nigeria’s economy and political landscape.... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy