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The PGA Tour (D)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Cole Magrath

In 1994, the PGA Tour (the "Tour"), the dominant incumbent professional golf circuit, had created tremendous value for its players. In the 1974 season, players competed for $8 million in prize money; by the 1994 season, the total prize purse had increased to $56... View Details

Keywords: PGA Tour; Tim Finchem; Deane Beman; Golf; Professional Golf; Business Model; Value Creation; Adaptation; Sports; Business Strategy; Sports Industry; United States

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28 Mar 2012
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Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

book The Next Convergence, Spence focuses on what he calls tradable jobs (making things like cars that can be made somewhere else—largely manufacturing jobs) and nontradable jobs (like nurses and auto mechanics, the vast majority of whom... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)

Mickelson, Henrick Stenson, and Lydia Ko. Under Brewer, Callaway’s US market share has increased 57 percent, a significant achievement as the number of active US players declines. “Melding the desire for a shorter format or more relaxed... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

09 Aug 2023

Life at HBS Chat: Conservative Voices

Virtual Life at HBS Chats are a unique opportunity to hear straight from current HBS students regarding their MBA experience. Join a panel of students from the Republicans Club who will share their backgrounds and how they have cultivated... View Details

2016
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Strategy Beyond Markets

By: John de Figueiredo, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Rick Vanden Bergh

Strategy beyond markets has been an active area of research inquiry since the early 1990s. Since its inception, the scholarship emanating from this research stream has grown substantially in quantity, quality, and breadth. Likewise, firms across the world have... View Details

Keywords: Strategy

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Class or Section Secretary - Alumni

Volunteer Class or Section Secretary Write Your Class Notes Class Notes are the main way alumni get news of their classmates. Secretaries gather news about their sectionmates each quarter, and compose a column for the HBS magazine .... View Details

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Projects - Business History

Projects Projects Harvard Business School supports a number of multi-faculty projects that focus on historical research. The projects are diverse, but all bring together the shared interest View Details

20 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

maintaining a personal balance and staying grounded can the CEO achieve the perspective required to make decisions in the interest of the company and its long-term prosperity. View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

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Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)

By: Rakesh Khurana

In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale... View Details

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Career Resources | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

experience of fellow students and alumni. Network within related student clubs and interest groups. Search classcards and the student resume book on your Career Hub dashboard to identify those who have... View Details

30 Oct 2017
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Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date

intelligent as well.” The research, published in the paper It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask: Question-Asking Increases Liking, examined data from online chats and face-to-face speed dating conversations. In addition to Brooks, the coauthors were Karen Huang, HBS and Department... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

11 Oct 2013
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Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER

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Decision Making Under Uncertainty

By: David E. Bell

Many of the decisions we face are made complicated by having uncertain consequences: how should I set my inventory when I don’t know what demand will be, should I refinance my mortgage when rates might go lower, how big a bet shall I make in a new business, and so... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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Derek Ferguson

Indeed, the surprise impact of hit songs like “Pass The Courvoisier” has not been lost on companies desperate to reach the lucrative youth and urban markets (sales of the cognac jumped after the song’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Wilder House | About

of Consumers Gas and then chairman. Wilder received the School’s highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, in 1994. At the dedication of the building that bears his name,... View Details

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Statistical & Data Services - Research Computing Services

big data Revise and Resubmits (R&Rs), such as rerunning analyses and responding to comments For more detailed information on our areas of expertise and how they might be employed in your research, please see Areas View Details

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Openings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

heighten student engagement (see below) Heighten Engagement While preparing the case, it may be useful to develop one or more "hooks" to pique the curiosity of your students. It may be less important to “sell” a case about a well-known,... View Details

11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

The crisis, which began in Thailand, was fueled largely by aggressive levels of export-led growth, the pegging of Asian currencies to the US dollar, and rising US interest... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

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Emotional Experience, Expression, and Regulation

By: Alison Wood Brooks

Once considered irrational, emotions often exert a more profound influence on decision-making and workplace outcomes than logic or reason. Professor Brooks studies emotional experience, emotional expression, and how individuals can regulate their emotions... View Details

02 May 2025
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How to Work with Search Firms

Instead of reaching out to a general firm inbox, find the partner who leads the practice area most relevant to you or the associates who support that partner. For example, a practice area might focus specifically on CMOs in View Details

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