Bottom Of The Pyramid - Publications - Faculty & Research

Portrait Project

Alexandra Pintchouk

me from this crazy world. Yet, he wasn't even a part of it. Now fifteen years later, older and wiser, I watched him as he stood at the bottom of... View Details

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MOC Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

distinctive course platform developed at Harvard Business School by Professor Michael Porter and a team of colleagues at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. The... View Details

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Eshan Tewari | MBA

business: Going into freshman year of college, all of my exposure to technology came from a very bottoms up, research and academic approach. However, starting in second... View Details

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Skilled improvisational musicians practice alone and with others for hours every day, year after year—notes, scales, chords, and progressions. After all of this practice comes a performance, and an improvisation begins. For musicians and... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

Nicholas M. Schenck

When Marcus Loew died in 1927, Schenck assumed control over all of his holdings, including Loew’s theatre company and its production arm, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Despite the onslaught View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

Herman Brown

Brown built one of the world’s largest construction companies - Brown and Root, Incorporated. Brown also developed subsidiaries that included hotels, oil and gas producing properties, paper mills, mines,... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

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Book publishing industry

data, which represents approximately 75% of all retail book sales. BookScan is a very expensive subscription service, used primarily in the industry, and Harvard does not have a subscription.... View Details

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

visited leading banks in each of these countries in order to understand best in class solutions to reach the bottom of View Details

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Replacement Diploma | MBA

name change) The cost for a replacement diploma is $148. Please note that the replacement diploma will not be an exact replica of the original.... View Details

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Who We Are | Research Associates

could be your interviewing and writing skills. For several positions, we look for experience in a specific industry, or fluency in a foreign language. The bottom line? There is no typical researcher, because... View Details

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Yi-An Huang

Where are you now and what are you doing? I’m a director of strategy at Boston Medical Center. We have a small team, directly under the COO, that explores strategies in every area from operational projects... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

03 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains

was fair game to chat about. A typical chat might go: Full Stack Engineer: “I’m thinking of moving the ‘Learn More’ button to the bottom right... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

07 Jan 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

worried about students going into these culture industries only thinking in terms of traditional management styles and industry structures, bottom lines, and financial incentives, without thinking about what... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Technologies that Will Change the World Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Avoiding Startup Failure DJ DiDonna Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 B2B Sales and Distribution (also listed under Marketing) Lou Shipley Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Business at View Details

01 Apr 1999
News

Short Takes

facilitated by the Internet." In addition to the evolving corporate conscience, many companies are seeing human rights as an issue that affects their bottom line. They see... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

03 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

researchers use a complex mathematical model to get to the bottom of just why enemies might decide to share a locker. It boils down to a difference in how they make their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology

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Bloomberg: five useful shortcuts

What are the shortcuts for email image of current screen, display previous functions, add or remove news, print, and display list of tips and shortcuts in Bloomberg?... View Details

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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge

broad appeal. As Moonfare’s Chief Investments Officer Magnus Grufman put it in the case: “To date, the so-called ‘democratization’ has taken private-market products from maybe View Details

Profile

Funa Maduka

program, the technical skills you pick up, the daily high-pressure regimen of getting out on the trading floor by five in View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

What I Do: Philippe Hellich (MBA 1996)

Founded in Sweden in 1943, IKEA is the world’s largest furniture retailer, outfitting dorm rooms and designer homes around the globe. A company that engages nearly a billion customers every year and employs... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey

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