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- 28 May 2021
- News
Unspent Love
marketing slogans, distribution strategies, five-year plans. By night: bubble baths, pillow forts, bedtime stories,” Kingston writes. But when Kingston was 3, her mother was diagnosed with an advanced breast cancer and began transferring... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
percent of total operating revenues. The largest of the School’s philanthropic revenue sources is the annual endowment distribution. The endowment distribution for fiscal 2017 increased nearly 6 percent from... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
‘How did you get there?’ ” Courtesy source Courtesy source —Jahn Karsybaev (GMP 26, 2019), CTO at ProSource IT and host of The Ivy Podcast MUST READ Can American Capitalism Survive? by Steven Pearlstein... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
Kominers: NFTs go mainstream Last year saw a huge spike in the creation and sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), digital ownership records stored on distributed ledgers called blockchains. People bought and traded NFTs of everything from... View Details
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
SHE builds confidence, promotes education, and creates jobs
countries, including Rwanda, where they miss up to 50 days of school or work per year because women lack access to these basic necessities. Through her work at SHE, Scharpf has created the enterprise’s first initiative, SHE 28, a franchise model to manufacture and... View Details
- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
Solutions? Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation Borrowing a practice that is common in the open source software community, HBS... View Details
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
of scarcity has not been repealed by the digital Long Tail prices are set by demand, not the constraints of supply." Edward Hare opened an aspect of the debate that several commented on when he said, "The rules of economics have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building, Managing, and Scaling the First Sales Team as a Founder, Investor, or Advisor - Course Catalog
salesperson Train, manage, promote, and fire your first sales team Establish your first sales plan Manage the board’s expectations on revenue Instrument an accurate forecasting model “Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- News
Last Look - September 2009
We seem to have stumped most of you with this photo showing a group of students waiting in front of an office whose front counter is closed with a grille. But Joe Bower (MBA ’61, DBA ’63) pinpointed the location as the basement of Baker: “That group of students is... View Details
- November 2010 (Revised February 2013)
- Case
Energy Security in Europe (A): Nord Stream
By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Sogomon Tarontsi
Russian and German energy firms initiated the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline project with strong political support from their home governments but encountered resistance from other states. Although the pipeline would connect Russia with Germany directly, the project... View Details
Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Leadership; Distribution; Business and Government Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Energy Industry; Russia; European Union; Germany
Abdelal, Rawi E., and Sogomon Tarontsi. "Energy Security in Europe (A): Nord Stream." Harvard Business School Case 711-026, November 2010. (Revised February 2013.)
- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) aims to put himself out of business. “That’s the real goal,” says the founder of Hope and Comfort, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that distributes basic hygiene products. Feingold estimates that, in Massachusetts... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the landscape of agriculture in Nigeria
Mezuo Nwuneli (MBA 2003) is focused on improving the quality of food, its production, and its distribution in his native Nigeria. Nwuneli is cofounder of AACE Food Processing & Distribution, a company he launched in 2009 with his wife,... View Details
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
annoyed and annoyed and annoyed, and one day you do something about it. Eric Raymond, of open source fame, calls this "scratching an itch." (Open source software... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
inequality is measured in terms of opportunity or the actual accumulation of varying levels of income and wealth. Inequality is inevitable and perhaps necessary in a free society, according to one line of thought. As Guy Higgins put it, "Inequality in the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Financial Report 2018 - Financial Report 2018
intellectual capital to educate leaders and influence the practice of management on a global scale. Completing the self-sustaining cycle, operating surpluses at Executive Education and Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) supplement revenues from MBA tuition and alumni... View Details
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Company, topic, & industry alerts
innovative products and services. Distributed biweekly each semester. ABI/Inform: Run a search on the company, topic, or industry of interest. Click Save search/alert., then click Create alert (upper right, above the... View Details
Bernard A. Edison
Taking the helm of the family business from his father and uncle, Edison went on to lead it through its strongest period of growth and financial performance. He dramatically expanded operations, opening new designer footwear stores... View Details
Keywords: Retail
David D. Glass
Glass is credited with leading Wal-Mart through an aggressive expansion program – increasing sales ten-fold (from $16 billion to $165 billion), developing the SuperCenter concept combining groceries and general merchandise, and opening... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report
Education and Harvard Business School Publishing of $169 million, an increase of 5.6 percent. These two business operations provide a major source of income to support faculty research, in addition to their critical strategic role in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
been at for the last 50 years. It starts opening doors to rationalize a new economy that isn’t as dependent on oil as the economy we created. What steps should we take now to prepare for an oil shortage? You’ve really got to go to a sort... View Details