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01 Jun 2020
News

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leave the safe haven of home. The coronavirus pandemic has decimated hotel occupancy rates. What does the way forward look like? Mike Depatie: Nobody could see anything like this coming—what’s happened in the hotel View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hotels; COVID-19; real estate; Accommodation; Hospitality

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FAQs | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

career path. You may model your letter on the donor thank-you letters you wrote as an enrolled student with added personalized information on your job and how you've applied your HBS education. I participated View Details

31 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water

famous fast-food formula for the local market. Customer Feedback Not on elBulli’s Menu The world is beating a path to Chef Ferran Adrià's door at elBulli, but why? In professor Michael Norton's course, students learn about marketing from... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Food & Beverage

01 Mar 2012
News

In Memoriam

field of organizational behavior. “Paul, with whom I worked for many years as a colleague, was an extraordinary person in all facets of his life,” said HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. “He was a beloved professor and... View Details

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

30 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”

suggested by Abraham Zaleznik in a 1977 Harvard Business Review article, "Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?" Arguing that they are, Zaleznik cited one difference:Is a View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Dec 2020
News

A Path to Developing More Insightful Business School Graduates: A Systems-Based, Experimental Approach to Integrating Law, Strategy, and Sustainability

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

number of self-identified gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender executives gained 733 percent. Another benefit: "By deliberately seeing ways to more effectively reach a broader range of customers, IBM has seen significant bottom-line results," says Thomas.... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

10 Nov 2014
HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

dishes. That's also what makes growth issues harder—it's much more cumbersome to re-create. But anything less than the Noma experience would have to be called something else. As a business manager in these... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Ken Baumgartner - Sticking with It

long road trips during the season, he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration, summa cum laude, from Hofstra University in 1998. “It took fourteen years,” he says... View Details

Keywords: Amy Burton; hockey; education; family; career paths; personal priorities; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Mining

08 Feb 2018
Blog Post

WesTrek: A Recap of the Largest Professional Trek at Harvard Business School

Lands End. In the evening, WesTrekkers got the chance to mingle and meet each other at a kick-off event on Sunday evening. WesTrek at Land’s End, San Francisco Monday morning began early at 9AM. According to View Details

Keywords: Technology

28 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

rural settings. Caste in India is both less important and more important than it used to be. In some sense business is a great leveler. In the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Joseph O'Donnell | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Whitehead About This Collection Contact Us Special Collections Baker Library Search Search Search Entrepreneurs Resources Persons Joseph O'Donnell Joseph O'Donnell, MBA 1971 Boston Concessions Interview conducted View Details

March 2023 (Revised April 2023)
Case

Shelly Sun at BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leader

By: Boris Groysberg, Colleen Ammerman and Sarah L. Abbott

Shelly Sun had founded BrightStar Care, a home health care and medical staffing agency, 20 years earlier and had grown the business to over 300 franchised locations and $654 million in annual system-wide sales. Sun had spent years working to get “the right people in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneur; Family Business; Franchising; Health Care; Women-owned Businesses; Growth And Scaling; Organization; Franchise Ownership; Entrepreneurship; Work-Life Balance; Growth and Development; Health Industry; United States

2011
Chapter

American Exceptionalism?: A Comparative Analysis of the Origins and Trajectory of U.S. Business Education Development

By: Rakesh Khurana

As business education in an academic setting becomes an increasingly global phenomenon, the university-based business school in America remains a unique institution. This holds true despite the fact that the American business school as it evolved in the post-World War... View Details

Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Business History; Business Education; Power and Influence; Society; United States; Europe

March 2014 (Revised October 2014)
Teaching Note

ISS A/S: The Buyout

By: Lucy White and Carsten Bienz

Provides the opportunity to value a leveraged buyout; and to examine the nature and extent of a company's responsibilities to its bondholders. Here, the context is a "going private" transaction in Europe, where the financing plan called for the addition to the... View Details

Keywords: LBO; Private Equity; Contracts; Global Business; International Business; Finance; Ethics; Law; Service Industry; Europe

February 2014 (Revised October 2014)
Case

ISS A/S: The Buyout

By: Clayton Rose, Carsten Bienz and Lucy White

Provides the opportunity to value a leveraged buy-out; and to examine the nature and extent of a company's responsibilities to its bondholders. Here, the context is a "going private" transaction in Europe, where the financing plan called for the addition to the... View Details

Keywords: LBO; Private Equity; Contracts; Global Business; International Business; Finance; Ethics; Law; Service Industry; Europe

December 2014 (Revised March 2018)
Case

John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World

By: Tom Nicholas and Vasiliki Fouka

By the late nineteenth century scale and managerial hierarchies had extended to several major industrial sectors of the U.S. economy. Although the precise mechanisms often varied, this process mainly involved horizontal integration, some form of legal or administrative... View Details

Keywords: Horizontal Integration; Wealth; Business History; Vertical Integration; Consolidation; Personal Development and Career; Energy Industry; United States