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02 Aug 2016
Blog Post

The Making of An Internship: What Drives Students’ Interests

Join HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) as we follow three students throughout their summer internships, and learn best practices for creating a successful summer program. Meet three Class of... View Details

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Field Course: Business of the Arts - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Business of the Arts Course Number 6913 Professor Rohit Deshpande Senior Lecturer Henry McGee Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Ten afternoon class sessions plus 2-5 hours per week... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life

edited by Ted A. Adams "When you study the tire industry," HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow told a Class Day audience of graduating MBAs last June, "you are confronting the meaning View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

and the brightest of the HBS faculty. This fall we tried something new and presented two Executive Education courses to returning alumni. Transitions and Transformations, led by HBS professor emeritus Carl Sloane, was offered to the View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

quarantine activity: Going for runs along the Charles River with Moxie, our black lab. Boston is beautiful in the spring with tulips, crocus, daffodils popping up everywhere, and sunshine soothes the soul. I remember When the partner/family reps in my section threw me... View Details

17 Feb 2022
Blog Post

The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS

“How Star Women of Faith Succeed” with Val Mosley, chair of Valmo Ventures; Cheryl Bachelder, former CEO of Popeye’s; and MBA Class View Details

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Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising

chorus of claim-making comparisons, before-and-after scenarios, exaggerations, and even warnings about patent infringement to customers contemplating the purchase of a competitor’s product. View Details

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

on the Ideal Gas Law and its effects on a football’s pounds per square inch (PSI) of air pressure. TRADITION OF SUCCESS The class discussion evolved from whether the Patriots... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports

September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
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pymetrics: Early Days

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In 2013, CEO Frida Polli was contemplating the next steps for her start-up business, pymetrics. After receiving her PhD in neuropsychology and MBA from HBS, she was determined to put her scientific and academic knowledge to work to build a business solving real world... View Details

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31 Jul 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

the book and I talked to business people and I talk to a really fascinating woman who’s an HBS, I think class of '05, Yael Melamed (MBA 2005), who is, she's a psychotherapist and she deals with... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices

half of all EC courses, part of the traditional thirty-session class structure is now used for group project work, field research, and the preparation View Details

31 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

immigrants are responsible for a lot of great companies,” says William Kerr, the Dmitri V. D’Arbeloff — MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2011
Working Paper Summaries

How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura & Marion Fourcad; Education

04 Jun 2020
Blog Post

What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives

that “the slave trade was a trade and the plantation system was a business system,” in the words of Jan Rivkin, chair of the HBS MBA program — and vow to lead our organizations and enterprises with an... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

no longer being used as just a tactical resource, it's now fundamentally influencing business strategy and competition," says Richard L. Nolan, MBA Class of 1942 Professor of... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

dollars in value, Kominers and his co-authors reported in Market Design to Accelerate COVID-19 Vaccine Supply in the March 12 issue of Science. “The value of being able to produce vaccines at scale the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

21 May 2018
HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

a trigger point for his classes to start broader discussions about how to grow a sustainable, profitable business. They need to weigh what Thomke calls the P’s: production, pricing, products, and productivity. It also raises the question... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

media” But TV is no longer the only game in town when it comes to watching sports. Yes, in 2013, 94 percent of fans watched games on TV, but 71 percent also viewed sports online, and 49 percent got their fix... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace, Deighton explains how it continues to carve out territory in the marketplace.Lagace: Were you surprised that Webvan failed? Deighton: No. The purpose of writing the case was to have View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

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OWN: The Power of Company Ownership - Course Catalog

Technologies. Guest Speaker: Steve Felice, Former President and Chief Commercial Officer of Dell David Weekley Homes. Guest Speaker: David Weekley, Chairman and Founder Grading / Course Administration: Students will be graded based on... View Details

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