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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

value is created and captured in the economy One critical change: You have your direct labor, and also your indirect labor through the data generated by your work. The value of labor shifts from renting... View Details

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Kamen Bliznashki

has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals & career path to date? My HBS experience has been absolutely transformational for not just my career ambitions, but also my values and attitudes. It has opened my eyes to a myriad of... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing

Portrait Project

Thomas Rajan

industry one airline at a time to where value isn't just a fair ticket price or a healthy balance sheet, but where customers and employees are treated with dignity and respect as well. To lift nations to the heights of their economic... View Details

26 Jan 2017
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The Challenges and Rewards of Teaching by the Case Method

In this interview, she describes the value of using the case method in business education. “I’m a professor of entrepreneurship at Howard University, and I teach entrepreneurship by the case method. And so, of course, HBS has helped me... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Encouraging Women Leaders

from multiple fields to problem-solving. I also felt encouraged by the School’s entrepreneurial spirit, which inspired me to start my own company.” Considering the value that Serra has gained from her HBS experience, it is not surprising... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Faculty Research Online

The valuation of forecasted cash flows can be an inaccurate process, especially when the forecasts are created by optimists who neglect to consider worst-case scenarios. In this working paper, Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance Richard Ruback lays... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

John C. Emery, Sr.

Emery was a pioneer in the early air freight business – first renting space on existing carrier routes and later developing a full line of dedicated aircraft. For almost 40 years, Emery was the largest freight carrier in the world. During his last ten years as CEO,... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue

You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities

01 Mar 2025
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Forward Thinking

There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk; Space Research and Technology; Government

30 Oct 2015
Blog Post

4 Takeaways from HBS

struggles against conformity, even in an environment as diverse as HBS. Events like these showed me how much I should treasure my own diversity and unique background because these were the passions that would fuel me to make a difference. 3. Shareholder View Details

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Professor Robin Ely on Challenging Conventional Wisdom - Blog: RGE Report

without being certain my view is correct!”). In both cases, impression management is the goal, but men’s behavior may be perceived favorably and women’s interpreted as under-confident. Myth: Women don’t value work as much as they View Details

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Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog

inspiration strikes, and you write down an exciting startup idea on a napkin, you don’t know if it will work, and you don’t know how much value it will generate. Strategy for Entrepreneurs (SfE) will teach you how to effectively learn... View Details

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

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Getting Involved - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details

August 2000
Case

Developing Nurse Practitioners at the College of St. Catherine

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Sarah S. Khetani

Margaret McLaughlin has just begun her new appointment as the Dean of Health Professions at the College of St. Catherine in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. As an education leader, her charge is to develop Minnesota's health care workforce for the future. She is... View Details

Keywords: Trends; Debates; Decision Choices and Conditions; Higher Education; Teaching; Growth and Development; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Value Creation; Health Industry

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28 Sep 2022

Virtual Forté MBA Forum for Women

HBS Admissions representatives will be at this virtual event focused on full-time MBA programs. Forté’s free MBA Forums are held annually to empower you with information about the value of an MBA. This is an opportunity to make... View Details

Harold Blancke

During his CEO tenure, Blancke embarked on a massive growth plan for Celanese. Believing that success in the petrochemical industry was predicated on size, Blancke acquired several competitors and grew the company from $135 million in revenues to over $1 billion. His... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

Plato Malozemoff

Struggling to find a job during the depression, the Russian-born immigrant, accepted an entry level engineering position with Newmont in 1945. Nine short years later, Malozemoff took the helm of Newmont Mining that, at the time, was View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

07 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 7

experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 1998 (Revised December 1998)
Case

Infinity Carpets, Inc.

By: Ronald W. Moore and Thomas R. Piper

A turnaround expert must determine whether a firm in distress is worth more as a going concern than its liquidation value. If so, the finances of the firm must be restructured in a way consistent with the bargaining power of the holders of the various securities. The... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Liquidity; Crisis Management; Value; Apparel and Accessories Industry

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