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Preview the Harvard Business School Online Learning Experience

E-Book Expand your knowledge by learning about the differences between finance and accounting and the skills all managers need. Download for Free Business Essentials E-Book Enhance your business knowledge to make an impact on your organization and be competitive in the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2004
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GLF Showcases London

forum, titled “New Barriers and New Opportunities: Leading in an Uncertain World,” is shaping up to be a truly remarkable event. Professor Nancy Koehn, the forum’s faculty chair, has done an outstanding job of organizing a lineup of HBS... View Details
Keywords: Ted Fischer; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2015
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Ink

take a product designer’s approach, determining what job it is that users are trying to “hire” their product to do. From a student’s perspective, education’s job is to make them feel successful and to have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
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Managing Service Operations - Course Catalog

depends upon it. Yet, service organizations are often designed and managed in a way that prevents us from realizing our potential. Service organizations are complex and diverse, and they continue to grow in prominence. They account for... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2011
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The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS

Rebecca Henderson, the Business and Environment Initiative is designed “to deepen our collective understanding of the environmental challenges confronting business leaders and to help them design effective... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Mar 2003
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All in a Day's Work

Sternhell and Oakes on the job. Photos by Jared Leeds One lives in a Manhattan studio five blocks from Wall Street, the other on the second floor of a triple-decker in Jamaica Plain, a culturally diverse neighborhood in Boston. Both are graduatesof the MBA Class of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Boston Community Capital; Samsung; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Real Estate
  • 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

School Case 809-063 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are best friends who enjoy pulling pranks together and talking about electronics. After several small collaborations, Jobs pitches Wozniak on starting a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2018
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An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers

create a prototype of an off-road vehicle, recruiting local mechanics and welders in the coastal town of Kilifi. That laid the foundation for the company’s latest model, the Mobius II, a sleek SUV designed and made in Kenya, with rugged... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
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Zihan Lin

the hands-on, boy-stuff of the mechanical with the mission of medicine." By the time Zi entered the graduate stage of his education, he had a firm focus "on two concentrations: design methodology and medical devices." In... View Details
  • April 2025
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Thrivent: From Insurance Agents to Financial Advisors

By: Hubert Joly, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Tom Quinn
Thrivent, a midwestern financial services company with a centuries-long history rooted in Lutheranism, had reached $10 billion in revenue mostly by selling life insurance. In the 2020s, however, CEO Terry Rasmussen began a transformation process centered around the... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Forecasting and Prediction; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Job Design and Levels; Human Capital; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Insurance Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Minneapolis
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Joly, Hubert, Leonard A. Schlesinger, and Tom Quinn. "Thrivent: From Insurance Agents to Financial Advisors." Harvard Business School Case 325-047, April 2025.
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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising

revolution after the Civil War and played an integral role in promoting mass-produced goods, one of the foundations of the modern economy. Drawing upon new printing technologies and increasingly sophisticated marketing strategies, advertisers explored an imaginative... View Details
  • 21 Mar 2019
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Helping Veterans Build Careers

designated more than $28 million to high-performing, nonprofit grantee partners across the United States and the United Kingdom, helping to place more than 50,000 vets in high-quality jobs since 2009. “But... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 01 Jun 2012
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A Better World, One Idea at a Time

offering a brand of all-natural facial moisturizing oils derived from argan oil, obtained from southern Morocco’s argan tree. The company will work with the rural poor to build sustainable business around argan oil production. Emprofit, based in Haiti, took third... View Details
Keywords: contests; awards; cosmetics; Crop Production; Agriculture; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
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Site Credits - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Team Debra Cuoco Candace Kang Lisa Clark Erin Murphy Elena Bulat Editing Julia Collins Sarah D. Westwood Catalog Design Eleanor Bradshaw, EB Fine Design Exhibition Design Chris... View Details
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Phillip Michael Strazzulla

first job out of college. It was 2008, the height of the recession, and he was working at a middle market investment bank. “It was one of the worst years of my life,” he said. “At the end of that year, I lost my View Details
  • 11 Feb 2021
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Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce

in a four-month user-experience design course underwritten by Social Finance, which also provided access to emergency funds for basic necessities such as food, housing, and child care, as well as access to a social worker and View Details
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Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Course Number 1350 Baker Foundation Professor Robert Simons Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Paper This course is designed as a capstone for graduating MBA... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

businesses." Wulf hastens to say that the research is by no means a death knell for general managers, but their jobs may change. At the least, they will likely find themselves in more meetings than ever before. "The general... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom

open-source software have been companies like IBM, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and even Apple. Talk about the role of contests. This kind of crowdsourcing has a strong historical precedent. In the 15th century, Filippo Brunelleschi won a competition to determine who... View Details
Keywords: crowdsourcing; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 10 Sep 2024
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Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

the wider consumer goods industry. I was attracted to product management by the broad range of creative and strategic activities. I felt that product design and pricing were important determinants of success. It was a function that... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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