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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

now, and how will they use their power? Will we see bigger bets on likely blockbusters, more intense competition in areas such as streaming and esports, and more industry consolidation? Drawing on dozens of recent case studies, Professor... View Details

Portrait Project

Agnes Sauvage

time I get started. Come on, I've just been educated a "responsible leader". There is no excuse left to postpone doing. What is left of my life, I plan to breathe every second intensely - into wilderness and into thin air where... View Details

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Residents & Fellows Course - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Health Care Courses Health Care Courses Executive Education Courses Health Care Curriculum Residents & Fellows Course Strategy for Health Care Delivery VBHCD View Details

Charles G. Mortimer

Mortimer presided over an intensive period of growth and investment at General Foods. He dramatically expanded the company’s production capabilities and pursued acquisitions to balance the company’s product offerings. During his tenure,... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Charles W. Nash

Not wanting to compete with the "Big Three" auto makers in the 1920s, Nash carved out a unique niche for well-designed luxury automobiles at medium prices. This strategy was very successful for Nash Motors as it became one of the few, profitable independent... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

John G. Searle

product of John Searle’s intensive research program, Enovid was a huge success, allowing the firm’s profits to grow from $7.4 million to $24.2 million between 1960 and 1964. View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

01 Mar 2007
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HBS Hosts Chinese Educators

top business schools in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore participated. Since early 2005, more than 216 business educators, including 37 deans and associate deans from China's top twenty business schools, have completed the program. HBS faculty provide View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2011
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Welcome to the Future

creativity in mind. These spaces are designed to enable and facilitate HBS’s new required FIELD course, which focuses on intensive small-group exercises and team dynamics, activity not well-suited for Aldrich-style amphitheater... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Construction of Buildings; Construction

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Rakhi Mehra

communities around me," Rakhi says. "The intensity of intellectual discussion and debate gave me a new perspective on my home country. I felt a new sense of responsibility for the effects of growth on India." Applying an... View Details

Vincent A. Gierer, Jr.

Gierer has presided over 8 years of consecutive growth in both revenues and earnings despite intense government-imposed new excise taxes. Gierer has been instrumental in expanding the market for smokeless tobacco, generating volume growth... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

Badaracco says. Furthermore, the "new invisible hand" of the markets is even more intense than the old one due to rapid global dissemination of information. Badaracco's vision suggests it's more difficult to be a responsible leader today... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2014
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Participation Guys

Sternfield. "Section C has always been a close section," he continues. "With close relationships forged from our incredibly intense first year of business school as our base, and many visits with sectionmates during business trips and... View Details

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Hayling Price

assumptions. "Digesting complicated topics through the case method has really sharpened my analytical tool kit," says Hayling. "I'm able to methodically unpack complex challenges and apply more intensive analytical rigor to... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit/Government/Education

Portrait Project

Curt Zimmermann

that life passes by very quickly and all my planning makes me focus on the future and not enjoy the present. Therefore, I have decided to give up planning my career. I want to enjoy life in its most simple way, living each step View Details

01 Sep 2005
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Flying High

regulatory issues, as well as intense competition from Europe’s Airbus. “The task here is growth,” said McNerney of his new assignment at Chicago-based Boeing. “That’s the thing we’ve got to get right over the next couple of years”... View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation

Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

Though his father had turned IBM into a tremendously successful company, the firm that Thomas Jr. inherited was largely a mix of loosely organized divisions that competed with one another for resources. After an intensive restructuring,... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Portrait Project

Cindy Thanh Tran

working, chicken farming, selling trashed papers... Still, she could not afford extra food for me to stay healthy while studying intensively whenever I was preparing for a regional competition or a nation-wide contest. So, she went for... View Details

15 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 15

Depression? By: Nanda, Ramana, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We find a negative relationship between bank distress and the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation during the Great Depression, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 12

distress during the Great Depression had a significant negative impact on the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. However, because a sufficient... View Details