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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Turning Point: In Good Company
campus. When they left, the depression set in. While my classmates prepared cases and exercised after class, I went to my dorm room and cried, sometimes thinking of self-harm but not acting on it. Over time, I recovered. I saw a counselor... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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Learning from the Past
specially commissioned maps, and 11 explanatory appendices as well as numerous footnotes and other study aids. Insights into contemporary human behavior and society, written more than 2,400 years ago. Insights into contemporary human... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
appreciation of his Harvard stint is one reason why he is helping HBS prepare a case study on PSA. “To learn from the experience of major companies and understand how managers tackle problems can be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
efforts center on issues affecting entrepreneurial firms and their investors. Gompers studies the structure, governance, and performance of private equity funds; the sources of financing, incentive design, and performance of private... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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Getting Personal
really the study of human behavior. Why do people buy and consume? Why do they have preferences? Of all the business disciplines, marketing is the most personal. What I try to do in every case I teach is... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
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Theory & Practice
Whether or not game theory has applications for business strategy remains unclear - to date, empirical studies have been too limited to yield any definitive conclusions. In Games Businesses Play: Cases and... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
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Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
(sent in by class-notes secretaries) Catchphrases and Mottos 1972B studied an HBO (Human Behavior in the Organization) case in which there were two hourly workers. One of them would steal the other fellow’s... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
from his study group and from Recordings for the Blind, which made audiotapes of all his cases and other required texts. He became the first blind person to graduate from HBS. “The Business School was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
of Education Arne Duncan, who first attended PELP in 2003 when he was CEO of Chicago's public schools. The popular program engages eight-person district teams in an intensive learning experience that includes analyses of education- and business-based cases, group View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
confident enough to give praise. MORE Read about "Radical Candor" in action at a high-growth EdTech startup in this 2018 HBS case study (purchase required) MORE Read about "Radical Candor" in action at a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
cooperative’s plan to rebuild its decimated workforce. Kenichi Nonomura (MBA 2012), who was on the first Tōhoku trip and attended the virtual reunion, contributed to the case study “The Great East Japan... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
data, Kimble says: “We need to justify the higher prices of our drugs, and we need to do a better job of helping hospitals understand that by using a more extensive antibiotic up front compared to the older generic version that has some... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Austin, the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, as the main curriculum anchor for the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise. In ESS, case studies on nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
record industry, 1996 was a bluesy kind of year. As revenues increased less than 1 percent and consumers bought 8 percent fewer CDs and cassettes compared to the previous year, the pause button, it seems, was hit on a decade of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
Case Study Illustration by Corbis/Matthias Kulka Sometimes, a company's history contains more drama than a Russian novel. A recent case, "LEGO," explores how the toy maker grew to global dominance from... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
developed more than sixty cases for the course, Stevenson and Poorvu also began articulation of a conceptual framework still in use today in entrepreneurial management courses. Leaving the School in 1978, Stevenson went on to manage a... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
fidelity to the course than she did about empathy for her students. “Today’s case is Progressive,” she said, starting the case study discussion in the conventional way. But... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
business of publishing technical papers. “I didn’t want to spend the next 5 to 10 years doing these little increments and never knowing whether, with the right effort, we could solve a big challenge,” Ferrucci told HBS Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih in a... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
insights to execute a more compelling product or service is a best practice we’ve studied in cases about certain companies, and it is definitely one of Randal’s strengths,” Martin said. Thomke described what... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
embracing rebellion at work and in life as well as illuminating case studies from a wide range of industries, this book encourages all to rebel against what’s comfortable so we can thrive. New Perspectives... View Details