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29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

of the CDC. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/413064-PDF-ENG Predilytics Higgins, Robert F., and Annelena LobbHarvard Business School Case 813-023 The management team at Predilytics, a healthcare analytics firm, must decide whether... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2008
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Letters to the Editor

Doriot’s ARD holding a significant stake, the company had some 63 European financial institutions and banks as shareholders. Management included a stellar group of French business luminaries. The EED investment port-folio grew over time,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

15 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project

Burning Man for the year, and also to remind ourselves that there's a place for honoring our past and honoring the things we've lost as well. Hanna: Now, Burning Man is a nonprofit. But can you talk a little bit about the finances... View Details

26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

Publications August 2013 Journal of Corporate Finance Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders By: Bebchuk, Lucian A., Alma Cohen, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Golden parachutes (GPs) have attracted substantial attention from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

public, very global moment began quite simply and humbly, in Depression-era Nebraska. BW: I was born in this little town of Geneva where my family had a paint mill, they had a business there. It went bankrupt during the Depression. I was... View Details

05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

the farming aspect of the business is very capital intensive. But they’ve pursued a project financing model rather than venture financing. “Project financiers are not starry-eyed venture capitalists,” she... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

12 May 2022
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Onboarding

a member. JH: Drawing on the expertise of business leaders across multiple industries, from finance to technology to manufacturing, BENS acts as a partner, offering concrete strategies for issues ranging... View Details

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

MacCormack MS/MBA Program Faculty Co-Chair for MBA MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration; Faculty Co-Chair of the Harvard MS/MBA Program. Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of View Details

25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

fighting stage-four cancer, a battle he sadly lost in 2019. His daughter, Jane Biondi Munna, compiled his words—along with recollections from Peter Chernin, Alan Schwartz, and Sherry Lansing, to name a few—so that we can all draw inspiration from Frank Biondi’s... View Details

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

destruction of natural habitats such as forests and wetlands. On the other hand, business is gradually beginning to make efforts to reverse those frightening trends by creating new processes, products, and paradigms that take the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

September 1994 (Revised September 1994)
Case

Acer Group, The: Vision for the Year 2000

By: D. Quinn Mills and Richard C. Wei

In the early 1990s, Acer, Inc. set two goals: to be a top-five PC company worldwide in 1995 and to be a global consortium of companies by the year 2000. The company identified potential obstacles concerning capital, image, number of experienced international managers,... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Structure; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Experience and Expertise; Marketing Strategy; Production; Rank and Position; Business Strategy; Capital; Computer Industry; Japan

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Career Coach

Matt Spielman

Teacher’s College and Columbia Business School. As a former nationally recognized collegiate athlete, marathon runner and certified personal trainer, Matt places great importance on taking a holistic approach to empower and enable his... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Sports; Technology; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All)

01 Mar 2019
News

The Fight Beyond

But there were those within the US government who knew they needed more than fighters on the front lines. Green had the necessary skills to manage the business of the war, and the connections to get himself hired for the job. Green came... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

book, Who Killed Health Care? We asked Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School, to discuss her latest work and her more than 30 years of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health