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  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

New Ventures New Gains

venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. Each team gets feedback from the experts, and ten semifinalists are selected for the second round of judging, at which point the field is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
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Reweaving Ourselves and the World: New Perspectives on Climate Change - Course Catalog

and will not be graded, but it will be highly recommended. Required Books Please note: you won’t be asked to read these books cover to cover – just to read some selected chapters. Don’t even think about it:... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2019
  • News

The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)

in a small, confined space we want to be there too. Trash cans, diaper pails, litter boxes, you name it. Short term, we want to build our retail presence. Look for us in select Target stores this April!” What have been the most enjoyable... View Details
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Target List: screen for companies by industry, location, and size | Baker Library

criteria. Click on location to select a particular country, region, state, city, or zip code to add to search. You can also do a proximity/radius search. Click OK after making your selection(s). Click on Activities View Details
  • January 1982 (Revised December 1997)
  • Background Note

Note on the New Deal: From the First to the Second ""Hundred Days""

A brief summary of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies between 1933 and 1935. Contains three statistical tables that supplement Selected U.S. Statistics: Part I and Selected U.S. Statistics: Part II. View Details
Keywords: History; Mathematical Methods; Policy; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • 20 May 2024
  • News

Get to Know Class Day Student Speaker Erik Roberts

  • May 2017 (Revised March 2018)
  • Case

Predicting Consumer Tastes with Big Data at Gap

By: Ayelet Israeli and Jill Avery
CEO Art Peck was eliminating his creative directors for The Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic brands and promoting a collective creative ecosystem fueled by the input of big data. Rather than relying on artistic vision, Peck wanted the company to use the mining of big... View Details
Keywords: Retailing; Preference Elicitation; Big Data; Predictive Analytics; Artificial Intelligence; Fashion; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Channels; Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Analytics and Data Science; Forecasting and Prediction; E-commerce; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States; Canada; North America
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  • November 2008 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

a-connect: In Search of Talent Partners (A)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Dilyana Karadzhova
a-connect was started in 2002 by three former McKinsey partners who wanted to develop an alternative business model consulting firm, which they have positioned as a high-end staffing company. The company has been very successful, growing to revenues of CHF 30 million... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Initial Public Offering; Selection and Staffing; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketplace Matching; Expansion; Consulting Industry
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  • January 2016 (Revised November 2018)
  • Case

Match Next: Next Generation Middle School?

By: John J-H Kim and Daniel Goldberg
This case is set in 2015 as a team at Match Education, a high performing charter middle school in Boston, explores new staffing and technology approaches in their quest to obtain what they term "jaw dropping" results. The team hopes to test and model for other schools... View Details
Keywords: General Management; K-12; Charter Schools; Public Schools; Edtech; Education; Information Technology; Management; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Education Industry; Boston
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Shift Auctions

Shift Auctions are a new labor-market institution, enabled by the internet, whereby workers bid for overtime shifts via descending auctions. The goal of shift auctions is to enable efficient and flexible utilization of a firms own human resources when staffing... View Details

  • 26 May 2020
  • News

Claire Wagner Named Harvard Business School’s 2020 Student Class Day Speaker

  • April 2003
  • Case

Captain Crisis in the United States Army, The

From 1989 to 1999, the Army watched as captain attrition rose from a planned and acceptable 6.7% to a staggering 10.6%. At the beginning of a new century, the Army leadership is concerned that current and projected staffing levels for junior officers are insufficient... View Details
Keywords: Human Capital; Retention; Government and Politics; Public Administration Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

from the nonprofit and public sector to attend HBS, these fellowships enable the School to award $10,000 to a select number of incoming MBA students. Beginning with the Class of 1990, 257 incoming students... View Details
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Preface - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Kress Library of Business and Economics, written by Ruth Rogers, then curator of the Kress Library at Baker Library. The images selected by Ms. Rogers for inclusion in the catalog represent the major... View Details
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Does Communicating Measurable Diversity Goals Attract or Repel Historically Marginalized Job Applicants? Evidence from the Lab and Field

By: Erika L. Kirgios, Ike Silver and Edward H. Chang
Many organizations struggle to attract a demographically diverse workforce. How does adding a measurable goal to a public diversity commitment—for example, “We care about diversity” versus “We care about diversity and plan to hire at least one woman or racial minority... View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Diversity; Goals and Objectives; Communication Intention and Meaning; Behavior
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  • 24 Aug 2011
  • News

Bill George's corporate "Dream Team"

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Recent Insights from HBS Podcasts

Our faculty at HBS produce many podcasts on diverse business topics, designed to get you thinking, elicit discussion and provide new perspectives. Here we've gathered a few recent episodes you might want to explore. Of course, you can... View Details
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Bibliography - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

printer-friendly Selected Bibliography Alvin, Louis Joseph. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre des trois frères Jean, Jérôme & Antoine Wierix. Brussels: T.J.I. Arnold, 1866. Antwerp. Commission de la Bourse. Historique de la bourse de fonds... View Details
  • 05 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

For the last 25 years, the Harvard Business School New Venture Competition (NVC) has provided a forum for founders trying to tackle some of the world’s most challenging business problems. Student and alumni founders refine their ideas... View Details

    Shikhar Ghosh

    Shikhar Ghosh is a Professor of Management Practice in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He currently teaches in the elective curriculum and is the course head for 3 Technologies that will Change the World. Shikhar received the Apgar Award for innovation in... View Details