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- 26 Jul 2023
Life at HBS Chat with the Entrepreneurship Club
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 Entrepreneurship Club who will share their backgrounds and how they have... View Details
- September 2023 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Kaspi.kz: Building Trust through Innovation
By: Sandra J. Sucher, Fares Khrais and Marilyn Morgan Westner
This case is written to help students explore how companies can maintain and develop trust while innovating, how to identify and respond effectively to warning signs that they may not be as trusted as they believe, and how being trusted can aid in expanding and growing... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Trust; Technology Adoption; Innovation and Invention; Banking Industry
Sucher, Sandra J., Fares Khrais, and Marilyn Morgan Westner. "Kaspi.kz: Building Trust through Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 324-022, September 2023. (Revised June 2024.)
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
Investors and market watchers noted Amazon’s less-than-stellar forays into health care, while privacy advocates raised concerns about Amazon’s access to patient medical data. Still others have voiced hopes Amazon will bring much-needed... View Details
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Adriann Dolphin
occasion he could afford to buy something I was admiring. That feeling of anticipation stayed with me and inspires me to bring those same small joys to others through my career. Who is one person from your... View Details
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Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)
Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
We can be forgiven, especially this time of year, for questioning a decision our predecessors made just over a century ago. In the 1910s, Americans decided to make personal and corporate income taxes a... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 26 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
go to an indoor cycling class with her. I didn’t understand. The bikes didn’t move – why would I do this? Nevertheless, I went to a class at Flywheel Sports and left feeling better, physically and mentally.... View Details
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Harshini Chengareddty
female partner at a consulting firm trying to navigate her very successful career alongside equally demanding personal commitments. The conversation we had in class, and for many days after, was one of my... View Details
- 14 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Dating at HBS
that for granted. HBS creates confusion personally and professionally, and that’s exactly what you want out of this experience – to think and... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
call. Can you tell me what happened next? Phillip Jones: I had gone for a run in the middle of the day. I came back and both of my phones—my personal phone and my city... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- Blog Post
Building a World of Trusted Leaders: Taking the MBA Oath
alone. My decisions affect the well-being of individuals inside and outside my enterprise, today and tomorrow. Therefore, I promise that: I will manage my enterprise with loyalty View Details
- Article
Big Ideas Feature: Time for Happiness: Why the Pursuit of Money Isn't Bringing You Joy—and What Will
By: A.V. Whillans
Adam (real story, fake name) was a good employee who was given a plum project he believed could get him a promotion and a raise. Taking it seemed like the proverbial no-brainer: Work hard, nail the assignment, get more pay. He knew he’d have to put in long days and... View Details
Whillans, A.V. "Big Ideas Feature: Time for Happiness: Why the Pursuit of Money Isn't Bringing You Joy—and What Will." Special Issue on HBR Big Idea: Time Poor and Unhappy. Harvard Business Review (website) (January 29, 2019).
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Won the 2011 Stan Hardy Award for Outstanding Paper published in the field of Operations Management from the Decision Sciences Institute for his paper with Ryan W. Buell and Frances X. Frei, “Are Self-Service View Details
- June 2018 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
Facebook Confronts a Crisis of Trust
By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
The case, “Facebook Confronts a Crisis of Trust,” starts with the crisis Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing in March 2018 over Cambridge Analytica’s accessing data from 87 million Facebook accounts in order to influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential... View Details
Keywords: Facebook; Data Privacy; Data Manipulation; Data Science; Political Campaigns; Political Influence; Voter Mobilization; Voters' Interests; Election Outcomes; Elections; Cambridge Analytica; Mark Zuckerberg; Sheryl Sandberg; Voting; Decision Making; Demographics; Ethics; Geopolitical Units; Government and Politics; Government Legislation; National Security; Political Elections; Information Management; Leadership; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Social Psychology; Personal Characteristics; Power and Influence; Society; Public Opinion; Technology Industry; United States; United Kingdom
George, William W., and Amram Migdal. "Facebook Confronts a Crisis of Trust." Harvard Business School Case 318-145, June 2018. (Revised June 2018.)
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
valued. Executing well on this component of the playbook can provide significant leverage in a few short years. 4. Invest in your product Speaking of the product development process, if sales are less frenetic and View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
restaurants. The question of ownership, however, has not been broached—and the son fears that doing so could jeopardize his business and personal relationship with his father. “The son has this acute... View Details
- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading
contributors, salespeople aim their attention at their customers and products, worried mostly about how to do their own job well. In becoming managers, they must pivot toward clarifying to their staff what... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
What is an HBS MyTake?
While it’s true that students come to HBS to develop their leadership skills and learn the fundamentals of general management, what they take away tends to be so much more. When we interview students and... View Details
- July 2021 (Revised September 2021)
- Case
Sarah Robb O'Hagan: The Rocky Road of Passion
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Francesca Gino
In November 2018, Sarah Robb O’Hagan is reeling from an unceremonious exit as CEO of Flywheel, a chain of indoor cycling studios. In the past, Robb O’Hagan had led transformational change across companies throughout the sports and fitness industry, including as... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Satisfaction; Decision Making; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; Interests
Jachimowicz, Jon M., and Francesca Gino. "Sarah Robb O'Hagan: The Rocky Road of Passion." Harvard Business School Case 422-055, July 2021. (Revised September 2021.)
- 12 May 2023
- News
Alabama's Yella Fella
Photo credit: Auburn University Photo credit: Auburn University In 1970, Jimmy Rane (OPM 11, 1986) took over a tiny treated-lumber business in Abbeville, Alabama, that was hovering near bankruptcy. Its owners, Rane's in-laws, had died suddenly in a car accident. Over... View Details