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24 May 2017
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Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1953 Born, Ibadan, Nigeria 1975 Earns BA, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Oxford 1979 Earns JD/MBA 1980 Clerks for US Supreme Court Associate... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

November 1991 (Revised April 1994)
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Nucleon, Inc.

By: Gary P. Pisano

Nucleon is a small biotechnology company whose first potential product is about to enter clinical testing. Before Nucleon can begin clinical trials, however, its management must decide how and where to manufacture the product. Three options are being contemplated: 1)... View Details

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Entrepreneurship; Health Testing and Trials; Rights; Product Development; Production; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry

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03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

responsibilities in the new job are sufficiently similar, some courts will conclude that it's inevitable that they will use the information that they had from the earlier position. They could face an injunction prohibiting them from... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Baron Rajeev Shah Amit Patel Business Track Runner-Up TrialBridge develops Internet and software solutions which allow clinical trials sponsors Social Enterprise Track, 2003 Gyaana Raj De Datta, HBS Arvind... View Details

21 May 2024
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A New Chapter

Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

be able to discern both of these aspects of people and of organizations. They need to see how in a moment of great trial all of Shackleton's possibility could come forward to affect his future View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

being ordinary, mediocre, and forgettable. That’s because many organizations tackle customer experience by relying on haphazard efforts, Thomke says, like brainstorming, trial View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

07 Jul 2011
What Do You Think?

So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

that evidence "implies that effective planning is rare in the modern economy," that "whether we like it or not, trial and error is a tremendously powerful process for solving problems in a... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Mar 2010
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John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures

FAMILY PORTRAIT: John and Aileen Crowley with Megan, John Jr., and Patrick. When John Crowley (MBA ’97) flew to Portland, Oregon, last spring to watch the filming of a movie about his life, what he saw was... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

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Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the public sector. Herbert H. Lehman left the firm in 1928 for politics, serving as governor and senator of New York State. Irving Lehman, who never entered the partnership, was a lawyer and chief judge of... View Details

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal

And we've helped set up the New England Program for Kidney Exchange. And I'm the chair of a committee of the American Economic Association to recommend changes that we should make in the marketplace for new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate; Entertainment & Recreation

September 2010 (Revised November 2011)
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Salud Digna: Successfully Competing with For-Profit Organizations

By: Allen S. Grossman and Regina Garcia-Cuellar

Hugo Moreno, CEO of Salud Digna, was considering his growth options for the next three years. Would becoming a for-profit with access to greater capital be the best strategy or would this cause the organization to lose its social mission? Salud Digna provided... View Details

Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Health Testing and Trials; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Industry; Mexico

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01 Mar 2024
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The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

26 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

As the debate continues over whether college student-athletes should be paid for their on-field performances, a new study from Harvard Business School reveals just how much intercollegiate football and basketball programs contribute to a... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

devices—first on animals and then on humans in clinical trials. "For new chemical drugs, it's typically relatively straightforward to know how to move toward approval," says Stern. "Clinical trials take time... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

does not worry about one engineer replicating Google Search. Furthermore, it would be illegal and easy to prove in court if someone transferred software and data to themselves.... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

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Research - Health Care

organizations should... October 2024 Article Greater Covid-19 Vaccine Uptake among enrollees Offered Health and Social Needs Case Management: Results from a Randomized Trial By: Margae Knox, Elizabeth A.... View Details

23 Jun 2008
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Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

remarkably successful, generating 750,000 accounts over two years. Unfortunately, this past spring the highest court in South Africa ruled it an illegal lottery and shut it down. In South Africa as in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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Celebrating 100 Years of the HBS Case Method

The 2021-22 academic year marks the 100-year anniversary of the introduction of the case method at Harvard Business School. Today, the HBS case method is employed in the HBS MBA program, in Executive Education programs, and in dozens of... View Details

20 Jul 2021
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Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection is supposed to allow companies to shed debt and get a fresh start. Ideally, creditors recover most of what they’re owed as the restructured firm begins turning a profit. Yet, more companies are liquidated... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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