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Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library
duration: 7:10 Putting yourself in the shoes of the case protagonist and working to determine what should be done is like a good detective story. Professor Jan Rivkin explores General Shoe Company, the first Harvard View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
just to compete,” she says. After high school, she worked as a maid and as a typist in New York City and Washington, DC, and then attended Howard University, where she enrolled in a View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention, the theories and practices associated with it, and the changes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
what separates a practical approach to business decision-making from a more theoretical approach that says, “There is a right answer, and you just have to find it.” Life isn’t like that in my experience.... View Details
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Shawn Tuli
is huge, Shawn believes. “Understanding how people do business in another country is impossible without being on the ground there.” “One of the most important things about HBS is the incredible sense of... View Details
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Patrick Chun
engrossed," Patrick says, "with the idea that strategic thinking and business had such a global impact, and where the world is going." Eager to learn more about "how strategy moves," Patrick spent two years with... View Details
- 14 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
The Alumni Network at HBS
responses. No matter how busy they are, they always seem to have time for HBS students. Whether it is career advice or help connecting me to people in the industry I hope to break into, they have been an... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
John, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets unit at Harvard Business School. “They assume the Bachelor can only like one type of woman.” “When you like one lake, people infer... View Details
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Andrew Kinard
It's not uncommon for HBS students to attribute their interest in business to a turning point in their lives. But in Andrew Kinard's case, that... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
on every PC shipped in the late 1990s? Researchers line up on both sides of the argument. A recent working paper by Harvard Business School professor Pai-Ling Yin and Stanford professor Timothy F. Bresnahan... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
possible. To know you’re not the first person doing this and that you’re not alone.” Throughout her time at HBS, Thompson-Woode committed herself to convincing others that a business education is not out of... View Details
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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge
sold for profit. Big institutions with long investment horizons, such as sovereign wealth funds, family offices, pensions, and endowments, put money into PE funds to diversify their portfolios. It’s a very different industry today ... There is no low-hanging fruit,... View Details
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Alex Furleigh
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I was ready for a change. Having spent my entire career before business school in operations—helping organizations do better... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
Gonzalez, a self-described “technology fanatic,” served as cochair of the MBA Technology Com-mittee, participated in the HBS Business Plan Contest, and spent the summer between his first and second year... View Details
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
Following the dot-com bust at the turn of the century, the technology business went through a gloomy period, 2001-2002, when innovation dried up, MBAs looked for careers in finance, and investors put their... View Details
- 26 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Week NYC 2023
everyday lives in sync with our professional lives, and so much of what was talked about at Solutions House throughout the week was directly tied to business action. I appreciated the original, unscripted,... View Details
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HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira
This article originally appeared in the Harvard Business School—Newsroom. Can you tell us a bit about the new role and what it means organizationally for HBS Online and Executive Education? Patrick Mullane... View Details
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Wilson Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on organizational... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
depended on bank loans instead of equity, creating the illusion that money was in infinite supply. That led Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies to make bad investments. I decided we should do something about them immediately." As a... View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Winners & Success Stories The New Venture Competition has been the launching pad for many ventures, and not just from the winning teams. With more than half of Harvard Business School alumni classifying themselves as entrepreneurs at some... View Details