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01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

and fire” companies don’t. So what factors in the family and work environments foster the creation of leaders who share the founders’ entrepreneurial fire? How do some firms manage to bypass or work through family conflicts, disparate visions of the future, sibling... View Details

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

three projects: Debian, a complete non-commercial distribution of Linux; the GNU Object Model Environment (GNOME), which is a graphical user interface for Linux-based operating systems; and Apache, a public domain open source Web server.... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

02 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 2

simply using subnational cases to generate or test theories about Chinese politics; instead, they propose that subnational political economies in China are a function of endogenous change rather than a reaction to national priorities.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Lehman Brothers Collection Resources Baker Library Collections Corporate Reports Collection R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports HBS Cases Baker Old Class Collection Related Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits... View Details

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

include bodies as varied in scope as the Financial Accounting Standards Board on one end to the DSL Forum on the other. On the tech side, SSOs work both with technology sponsors and users to develop a set of standards for products to... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

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Develop and disseminate research and course material on advancing racial equity in business. - Advancing Racial Equity

race and business. Through its Division of Research & Faculty Development, HBS already provides generous support for research and course development related to race. The Division funds this research by drawing on revenues View Details

02 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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4.6 HBS Campus Demonstration Policy | MBA

from effectively conveying their message. Noise Responding spontaneously and temporarily to a speaker is generally acceptable. However, chanting or making other sustained or repeated noises in a manner that substantially interferes with... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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Action Plan: Whole Sale

of Walmart’s beauty business. Balbale was a vice president at the Vitamin Shoppe in the mid-2010s when he saw Amazon and startup e-tailers moving into the wellness category. The competition inspired him to transition into the e-commerce space himself, first as vice... View Details

Keywords: April White; ecommerce; bricks and mortar; marketing; beauty

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 - Course Catalog

frameworks of the BSSE course have become widely accepted and acknowledged among HBS alumni and beyond as a series of powerful lenses through which to understand the most important challenges facing business leaders. Course Content and... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits

making many small bets is actually much riskier. That's why Hollywood will keep making blockbuster bets even if the returns over the summer were rather disappointing. Anyone with a smartphone and a computer is now a content provider. How... View Details

Keywords: Patrick Kirchner; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Book publishing industry

(reading books and published content by type of device, etc). Technavio: Reports on a variety of global industries including publishing. Examples of reports: Global Consumer Book Publishing, E-books Market, Global Content... View Details

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, and for much of that time, Facebook's stunning growth—more than 1.2 billion users worldwide—has been the story. That said, the core Facebook functionalities have remained essentially unchanged... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

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SAS/CONNECT - Research Computing Services

Software Tools SAS/CONNECT 2ms SAS/CONNECT is an application that allows you to connect a SAS session running on your desktop to SAS on the HBSGrid. SAS/CONNECT offers two types of services, which both use desktop SAS Windows as the front end (note: the server has SAS... View Details

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Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog

through a private equity firm, search fund model or a public company that through dual class stock is still family controlled. It is also useful for everyone going into general management and / or want to be responsible owner investors.... View Details

25 Jun 2014
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An International Perspective

“I’ve been involved in international business ventures my entire career,” says Andrew L. Waite (MBA 1993), a generous supporter of global research at HBS. After majoring in civil engineering at England’s Loughborough University of... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Averting Crisis

website can see the probability that a given sector within a certain country is currently experiencing a bubble. For users seeking a longer-term perspective, the site also includes a historical database of banking, stock market, and... View Details

08 Nov 2016
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Phil Strazzulla

stories. Here's the quick elevator pitch: The average job seeker spends 2 hours researching a company before applying, and for most businesses that means they find a generic job description, career page with little on it, and some biased... View Details

Keywords: Technology

Student-Profile

A Jay Holmgren

while gaining expertise in management, which hadn’t factored into my previous graduate-level work,” he says. “When it comes to an industry as complex as healthcare, the management of the implementation of systems is just as important as the View Details

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

alumni and beyond as a series of powerful lenses through which to understand the most important challenges facing business leaders. Course Content and Objectives This is a foundational general management... View Details

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