Teaching - Publications - Faculty & Research

April 2006
Module Note

Cross-Border Financial Opportunities

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs

Describes the fifth module in the International Finance course at Harvard Business School. This module explores how segmented capital markets create financing opportunities for firms and the mechanisms that evolve to take advantage of those opportunities. The issues... View Details

Keywords: Opportunities; Capital Markets; Decisions; International Finance; Motivation and Incentives; Taxation

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Purchase

07 May 2021
News

A Best Buy CEO on What It Takes to Fix a Struggling Retailer

Teaching

Overview

By: John D. Macomber

Teaching and research interests center around the matching of private and instituional capital into large public infrastructure and resilience projects that shape the future of cities and urban environments around the world. The world's population is increaslingly... View Details

Gillette: Cutting Prices to Regain Share

After losing market share to low-priced competitors such as Harry’s and Dollar Shave Club for several years, Gillette fought back by launching new... View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Teaching at Harvard Business School in 2024 (also 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, and 2022). Sophus A. Reinert : Received the 2024 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

gone. This is an opportunity to learn Slack and Zoom and have a mentor teach you how to use these tools. The second thing is, working remotely is very effective if you can also restructure the organizational processes for how... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Apr 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It

Helena Rubinstein Used Tall Tales to Turn Cosmetics into a Luxury Brand Using guile, brilliant branding, and more than a few falsehoods, Helena Rubinstein lifted cosmetics from an accessory item for prostitutes to a great luxury product. A Luxury Industry Veteran View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto; Retail; Fashion

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McArthur Hall | About

1995. McArthur’s association with the School began in 1957, when he arrived as a young MBA student from Vancouver with his wife, Natty, a fellow graduate of the University of British Columbia. Remaining at the School after earning his DBA, McArthur rose through the... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Technology & Operations Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2025 Himabindu Lakkaraju : Recipient of a 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science. 2024 Ryan W. Buell : Received the 2024 HBS Student... View Details

10 Aug 2016
Blog Post

3 Benefits of the Case Method

Through exploring various options, students effectively teach each other the merits and downsides of each course of action. My classmates offered perspectives from an incredible diversity of cultural, functional, and industry backgrounds... View Details

13 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

after the launch of the Cayenne. While she hadn't set out to focus on gender specifically, she found that gender dominated the discussions about the new vehicle. (The Cayenne launch became the basis of an HBS teaching case that Avery... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

who joined the Climate Circle one year later, teaches children ages 3-11 about climate in six countries. They were recognized as a UNESCO Green Citizens Initiative for their positive and empowering approach to View Details

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

consumer believes." Along with Michael Norton, professor of marketing, Avery explores those extremes in a recent HBS teaching note, Learning from Extreme Consumers. The researchers developed the concept as part of the Field Immersion... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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C. Fritz Foley | About

alumni as lifelong learners. Foley’s research focuses on corporate finance and the role of the CFO, and he currently teaches Corporate Financial Operations, a second-year MBA elective course he created. He also co-chairs Finance for... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

History Matters

The stunning collapse of three high-profile banks in recent months—Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank—churned up a host of headlines and fears: Are these signs of major instability? The first dominos to fall? In the second edition of their... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Matthew C. Weinzierl | About

for Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE), an RC course, and as Chair of MBA Community Standards and the Conduct Review Board at HBS. He has created and currently teaches two courses in the Elective Curriculum: The... View Details

24 Jan 2011
HBS Case

Terror at the Taj

"We've mapped it," he explains. When it comes to selecting employees, Indian Hotels CEO Raymond N. Bickson describes how he first looks for "nice people who are not afraid of serving people." He can teach them to be a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accommodations

26 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

was teaching roughly 8-12 classes a week, and I loved it! I know I surprised a few co-workers the first time they saw me teaching a class: “Did you quit the firm? No? You’re nuts. Great class!” I fully admit... View Details

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

environment for doing marketing." Deighton, who is the coeditor of the Journal of Interactive Marketing, heads the required MBA course in marketing and teaches an interactive marketing elective. He explains that traditional marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

facilitate research above all other activities. While students are required to fulfill a teaching requirement, they are not required to become research assistants, nor are they required to write business cases. All students, regardless of... View Details

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