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25 Apr 2024
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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Introduction

Collections to show how previous generations devised creative ways of lending and borrowing long before credit cards. The exhibit also shows how the credit industry evolved... View Details

July 2011 (Revised October 2011)
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Lady Gaga (A)

By: Anita Elberse and Michael Christensen

In September 2009, Troy Carter, manager of up-and-coming pop star Lady Gaga, has to decide on a new course of action now that his artist's planned co-headlining arena tour with hip-hop superstar Kanye West has been cancelled. Carter knows that continuing the tour, but... View Details

Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Marketing Strategy; Product; Product Development; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Creativity; Music Industry

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08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

kind of ways.” By contrast, Myers argues that many companies employ knowledge management systems that favor more independent, rather than discursive, learning. “They say, ‘I am going to write everything down and everyone who wants to know... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

oil industry. I came full circle with both of those cases, having spent my career in the oil industry and as CEO of a company involved in the Macondo well disaster in 2010. Going through the Macondo crisis... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

27 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 27

Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311087-PDF-ENG Music and the (Real) World: Thirty Years of MTV Mukti Khaire and Eleanor KenyonHarvard Business School Case 812-041 The case is... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

Yet, she also needed an outlet for her creativity. Nneka knew her next professional stop would be combining her love for challenge and creative innovation at Harvard Business School. Making the connection at... View Details

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

solutions with an initial focus on industrial heat for hard-to-abate sectors.” Charley Cummings MBA 2011 | President & CEO, Walden Mutual Bank “Walden Mutual is an online bank that is helping to build a more vibrant View Details

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

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Site Credits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Jennifer Wilson DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY Boston Photo Imaging Harvard Library Imaging Services A-V PRODUCTION Northern Lights Productions PRINTING Ram Printing, Inc. LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION Alabama Department of Archives and History Barclays... View Details

03 Oct 2005
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The Box Office Power of Stars

buyers? And in an interesting plot twist, Elberse decided to design her research not around actual box office receipts, but rather around a Hollywood simulation game that has over half a million players. The results were published in her... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

unconnected, just as you do in writing,” he says. “It’s making metaphors in business. The creativity of that is appealing.” “In Harmony” is the story I wrote to better understand what that looks like for Kim—on View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

Profile

Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen

out, he embraced the oil and gas industry because "it offered excitement, good pay, plus opportunities for international travel—I wanted to explore connections in the larger global community." At... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Consulting

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) Find an incubator near you, using this tool from the NBIA. + – Organizations for Women & Multicultural Entrepreneurs Urban Entrepreneurs Network Networking group for Women & Multicultural Entrepreneurs, Small Business... View Details

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

in the development of new technologies and industries during the war, the US government had assumed significant risk," HBS Professor Tom Nicholas asserts. "The fact that several of these risks paid off–in... View Details

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Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar

By: Chet Huber

Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details

Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry

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Kiran Gandhi

don’t plan on working for a bank or for Ideo after school, but I want to apply the design skills I learn to the music industry in the long term. What might people find surprising about you? That I was a math major in college. I guess... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

on; beginning an intervention with the offender early on; providing an opportunity for attitude improvement, possibly with the engagement of a counselor or coach; and then terminating in a timely fashion the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Harvard Kennedy School’s Social Innovation + Change Initiative is a rigorous co-curricular program for change-makers committed to addressing pressing social problems in new and creative ways. The Fellowship... View Details

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Global Activities 2020

Leumi, Professor Joshua Margolis highlights the leadership style of its former CEO as she sought to disrupt the banking industry from within. Latin America Seeing the Immediate Impact of Faculty Research in Chile In this Q&A, assistant... View Details

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