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Product Management
A Product Manager is obsessed with the problem their product tries to solve and works to both define the product’s functional requirements and lead cross-functional teams to develop, launch and improve their product over time. Taught by an experienced former Google... View Details
- September 2017 (Revised January 2019)
- Case
Public Entrepreneurs? Picking a Path
By: Mitchell Weiss and Matthew Segneri
Direct entry into government remained an uncommon post-HBS path, with only 1%–2% of recent classes going directly into the public sector. But, for public-minded MBAs, government wasn’t the sole province for public problem-solving. MBAs could join or launch companies... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Careers; Tri-sector Athlete; Job Searching; Government Innovation; Govtech; CivicTech; Civic Technology; Civic Innovation; Government Technology; MBA Class Of 2017; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Government Administration; Job Search; Jobs and Positions; Innovation Leadership; Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
Weiss, Mitchell, and Matthew Segneri. "Public Entrepreneurs? Picking a Path." Harvard Business School Case 818-005, September 2017. (Revised January 2019.)
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- October 1997
- Case
Paula Morton
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven, Inna Feyns, Sean D. Keohane and Linda LaGorga
An MBA student is offered a job to turn around a publishing company with little chance of survival. The student is between her first and second year at Harvard Business School (HBS). The case describes both her management philosophy and the actions taken. The document... View Details
Keywords: Management; Information Publishing; Adoption; Leadership Development; Business or Company Management; Management Teams; Theory; Publishing Industry
Uyterhoeven, Hugo, Inna Feyns, Sean D. Keohane, and Linda LaGorga. "Paula Morton." Harvard Business School Case 398-037, October 1997.
- June 2008 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
Name Your Price: Compensation Negotiation at Whole Health Management (A)
By: Brian J. Hall, Deepak Malhotra and Nicole Bennett
MBA student Monroe Davies is asked by a potential employer to determine his own compensation package. This case follows Jim Hummer, President and CEO of Whole Health Management and Davies through a unique recruitment process that raises questions of compensation and... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Job Interviews; Negotiation Process; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Value
Hall, Brian J., Deepak Malhotra, and Nicole Bennett. "Name Your Price: Compensation Negotiation at Whole Health Management (A)." Harvard Business School Case 908-064, June 2008. (Revised January 2010.)
- June 2012 (Revised August 2013)
- Case
Driving Towards a Disruption?
By: Willy Shih and William Noble
As Clayton Christensen drove to the studio to deliver an online executive education class, he pondered the future of management education. How big a threat did online degree programs, corporate universities, and other innovations in the delivery of management training... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Technology; Performance Trajectories; Disruptive Innovations; Business Education; Business School; Internet And Online Services Industries; Disruptive Innovation; Higher Education; Corporate Strategy; Internet; Performance; Education Industry; Boston
Shih, Willy, and William Noble. "Driving Towards a Disruption?" Harvard Business School Case 612-101, June 2012. (Revised August 2013.)
- Research Summary
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By: Rajiv Lal
Developing a course for our MBA students on the opportunities and challenges in Building a Business around Smart Connected Products/IoT View Details
- June 2006 (Revised September 2006)
- Case
S&S Podcasts: Deciding to Launch
Describes the effort by two MBA students to find an opportunity for a new venture in the burgeoning "podcast" space. View Details
- July 2001 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Enspire Learning
An MBA student founds an e-education business and must decide which customers to target and which products/services to produce. View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Service Delivery; Education; Business Startups; Planning; Web Services Industry; Education Industry
Hallowell, Roger H., Frank J Andrasco, Hans ten Cate, and Bjorn Billhardt. "Enspire Learning." Harvard Business School Case 802-001, July 2001. (Revised February 2002.)
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In the MBA program, Professor Fearing teaches Technology and Operations Management (TOM), a required first-year MBA course.
In January 2013 he will travel with a cohort of students to... View Details
In January 2013 he will travel with a cohort of students to... View Details
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In the MBA program, Professor Fearing teaches Technology and Operations Management (TOM), a required first-year MBA course.
In January 2013 he will travel with a cohort of students to Sao Paolo, Brazil as part of the FIELD 2 Global Immersion program, also a... View Details
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Anil has taught in front of MBA and doctoral students. He was a teaching fellow in "Managing Innovation" (taught by Professor Karim Lakhani) and "Strategies Beyond the Market" (taught by Professor Dennis Yao) as well as in the MBA Analytics program. Anil also... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Overview
In the MBA program, Professor Fearing teaches Technology and Operations Management (TOM), a required first-year MBA course.
In January 2013 he traveled with a cohort of... View Details
In January 2013 he traveled with a cohort of... View Details
- September 2010 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
HBS Class of 2009: All Talk As They Prepare to Walk?
By: Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria and Dalia Rahman
Max Anderson, HBS Class of 2009, founded the MBA Oath Initiative. The oath was a voluntary pledge "to create value responsibly and ethically." Anderson and a team of students and faculty worked to launch the first MBA Oath Ceremony conducted on campus during Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Higher Education; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Value Creation; Education Industry; Massachusetts
Khurana, Rakesh, Nitin Nohria, and Dalia Rahman. "HBS Class of 2009: All Talk As They Prepare to Walk?" Harvard Business School Case 411-024, September 2010. (Revised October 2010.)
- July 1989
- Background Note
What Is Marketing?
An introductory note for MBA students on the nature of marketing and topics encountered in its study. Defines the topic then breaks marketing into two major conceptual pieces--the tools, tasks and variables of the marketer, and the marketing process. In the tools... View Details
Keywords: Marketing
Bonoma, Thomas V., and Thomas J. Kosnik. "What Is Marketing?" Harvard Business School Background Note 590-007, July 1989.
- 2010
- Book
Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads
By: Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin and Patrick Cullen
"Business Schools Face Test of Faith." "Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools?" As these headlines make clear, business education is at a major crossroads. For decades, MBA graduates from top-tier schools set the standard for cutting-edge business knowledge and skills. Now... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges
Datar, Srikant M., David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen. Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads. Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2010. (Selected by Strategy + Business as one of the Best Business Books of 2010.)
- August 2017 (Revised December 2018)
- Case
Tamarin App: Natural Language Processing
By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
In this case, students explore the challenges of using sentiment analysis to monitor and understand public perception around a software application, Tamarin SEO App. Technical topics include building a filtering classifier using naive Bayes and sentiment analysis This... View Details
Keywords: Data Science; Branding; Data Analytics; Analytics and Data Science; Brands and Branding; Analysis; Perception; Planning
Datar, Srikant M., and Caitlin N. Bowler. "Tamarin App: Natural Language Processing." Harvard Business School Case 118-015, August 2017. (Revised December 2018.)
- November 1999
- Case
Doyle's Dealmaking Dilemma: Negotiating the Job Search
MBA student Doyle Williams searches for his ideal job in a private equity group and uses his negotiation skills to try to attain the best possible compensation package. View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Job Interviews; Job Search; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics
Sebenius, James K. "Doyle's Dealmaking Dilemma: Negotiating the Job Search." Harvard Business School Case 800-124, November 1999.
- October 2007 (Revised June 2008)
- Case
Leader(ship) Development
By: Scott A. Snook
Designed for use in the first year of an MBA program, can be included within a core course on leadership or used more broadly to orient students to their upcoming experience while in school. Offers a series of robust conceptual models to help students frame their... View Details
Snook, Scott A. "Leader(ship) Development." Harvard Business School Case 408-064, October 2007. (Revised June 2008.)
- March 1991
- Supplement
Zenith and High-Definition Television--1990, Video
By: Benjamin Gomes-Casseres and David B. Yoffie
Records a visit by Jerry Pearlman, Zenith CEO, to an MBA classroom. He is shown commenting on Zenith strategy and industrial policy issues and fielding student questions. View Details
Gomes-Casseres, Benjamin, and David B. Yoffie. "Zenith and High-Definition Television--1990, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 891-513, March 1991.