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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

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Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog

majority of humanity, accessing goods and services, not through government or civil society, but through markets. Yet this remains largely unstudied. Through 24 cases, module summaries and guest protagonists, this course seeks to fill the... View Details

06 Jun 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly

Keywords: by Malcolm Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler; Banking; Financial Services

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

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

Should companies let employees keep working remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic ends? Assessing the impact of remote work has involved a lot of guesswork for business leaders, but it doesn’t have to be that... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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

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

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

28 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’

Association and an MBA candidate in the class of 2015 at Harvard Business School. The event was moderated by Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports

03 Feb 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

employed, and Petter Östlund's advocacy of "more experienced class members." This leaves us with the question of not whether, but how much View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

20 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital

we’re now on our ninth class. Over those nine classes of interns, we have had 4,200 applicants and have accepted 52 interns, so it is very competitive” Tingle said. Part of the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital / Private Equity

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RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog

Course Administration Course grades will be based on class participation (50%) and a short paper (50%). For the paper, students will apply the tools and ideas from the course to prepare, with one or two partners if they wish, an analysis... View Details

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The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports - Course Catalog

Ninja, Spotify, the NFL, MRC’s House of Cards, Disney versus Netflix, Nike sneakers, and Magnolia Network. Grading Grading is based on class participation (50%) and the final project (50%). Copyright © 2023... View Details

24 Apr 2025
Blog Post

Elevating Women at HBS: Signature Initiatives of the Women’s Student Association

year HBS admitted women to the MBA Program (only 1% of MBA students were women in 1963, increasing to 36% in 2007, and now 45% for the Class of 2026). Each semester, a group... View Details

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Clarence Kennedy and the Art of Photography | Baker Library

into his class “The Art of Photography.” The course focused on “a study of the effect of light and perspective on form. Lectures, demonstrations,... View Details

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

leisure class passengers could adjust the amount of light coming in by rotating the inner window pane. Strong sales particularly in sunglass lenses and camera filters enabled the nascent corporation to fund... View Details

05 Oct 2016
What Do You Think?

Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

accomplished, including more freedom for business, more immigration, and big bets by the government and industry to meet imposing infrastructure needs. Ron Kurtz said, “I am concerned that we are facing a decline in the size and spending power View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Parable of the Bungled Baggage And the Unhappy Customer

Sasser's presentation is part of the Faculty Seminar Series sold through Harvard Business School Publishing.One of the companies I've had chance to work with is a large global air carrier. And working for an... View Details

Keywords: by W. Earl Sasser

2009
Working Paper

Assess, Don't Assume, Part II: Negotiating Implications of Cross-Border Differences in Decision Making, Governance, and Political Economy

By: James K. Sebenius

When facing a cross-border negotiation, the standard preparatory assessments—of the parties, their interests, their no-deal options, opportunities for and barriers to creating and claiming value, the most promising sequence and process design, etc.—should be... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Corporate Governance; Negotiation Process; Organizational Culture; Business and Government Relations

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