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21 Dec 2023

Coffee Chat with Current Student in Taipei

Join current HBS student, Gina Nieh, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions! View Details

27 Jul 2018

HBS Information Session in Salt Lake City

Join us for an information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions presentation and... View Details

24 Jul 2017

HBS Information Session in San Diego/La Jolla

Join us for an information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions presentation and... View Details

08 Mar 2024
Blog Post

History of the HBS Women's Student Association

community of women at HBS. This initiative was born out of a necessity to support women navigating the challenges of a predominantly male-dominated business world, marking a... View Details

09 May 2017

HBS Information Session in Dar es Salaam

Join us for an information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions presentation and... View Details

15 Jul 2024

HBS Information Session in New York (In-Person)

We are excited to invite prospective applicants to an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed to help you learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The session will... View Details

First Quarter 2013
Article

Big Data in the Age of the Telegraph

By: Caitlin C. Rosenthal

Daniel McCallum's 1854 organizational chart for the New York and Erie Railroad resembled a tree rather than a pyramid. It empowered frontline managers by clarifying data flows. View Details

Keywords: Big Data; Telegraph; Organizational Charts; History; Data and Data Sets; Business History; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Rail Industry

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April 1990
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Mazda: Corporate Public Relations in the United States

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein

Keywords: Reputation; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Auto Industry; United States

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fall 1985
Article

Supporting Innovation and Venture Development in Established Companies

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development; Business Ventures

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September 2001 (Revised October 2002)
Case

Virgin Group, The: Filling in the Value Gap

By: Frances X. Frei, Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar and Corey B. Hajim

Chronicles the successes and failures of the Virgin Group. By examining these examples, students discover attributes of Virgin's overall service concept, which, at its core, competes on quality rather than on price. Students are challenged to consider how Virgin might... View Details

Keywords: Quality; Competition; Price; Business Conglomerates; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Market Entry and Exit

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2016
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Africa Strategy of China Nonferrous Metal Mining Group

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Jie Jiao, Dayong Yang and Shanshan Cao

Founded in 1983, China Nonferrous Metal Mining (Group) Co., Ltd. ("CNMC") is one of the earliest and largest global Chinese nonferrous metal industrial enterprises. It has investments and projects in 27 countries and trade networks in nearly 100 countries with a... View Details

Keywords: Cross-cultural Management; Global Strategy; Globalization; International Business; Strategy Management; Africa; China

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2013
Book

Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization

By: Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble

By offering specific action steps, Beyond the Idea extends the elegant conceptual insights from How Stella Saved the Farm, Govindarajan and Trimble's parable. Beyond the Idea shows exactly how to: - Build a team with a very particular structure, one... View Details

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19 Jun 2013
News

US accountable care organisations: factory-style focus calls for change in behaviour

23 Oct 2012
News

In Mobile World, Tech Giants Scramble to Get Up to Speed

11 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas

featuring music by the local symphony as 250,000 Christmas lights lit up the county courthouse. Then revelers could head to the Samsung Ice Skating Rink, the only outdoor venue of its kind in all of Texas—which also happened to be located... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

05 Mar 2021
News

The great divide: business leaders are split on long-term remote working. This is what Spotify, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, and others have announced.

09 Nov 2015
News

On Screens and in Windows, Lowe’s Gives (and Gives, and Gives) How-To Help

01 Aug 2008
What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

extraordinary goals higher than those thought achievable for the coming year. It was to set outlandish, almost unthinkable goals that business groups might achieve in the longer-run. For example, instead of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett