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Teaching Quantitative Material - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

an answer do we need? What range would you expect given the industry or circumstance? What would happen if we changed the variables or assumptions in a particular way? How would the numbers change if... View Details

24 May 2017
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Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973

and helped take the company public. Along the way, she developed policies that enabled women to thrive at work—telecommuting (before it had a name) and flexible scheduling, among others. “There were no... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2018
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Innovation Outside the Boundaries

Kent Thiry and Denise O’Leary (both MBA 1983) Noting the accelerated pace of change in society today, venture capital private investor Denise O’Leary (MBA 1983) calls innovation in the MBA curriculum “the... View Details

31 Jul 2019
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Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

to be deliberate and thoughtful about what they offer. It’s not enough to put a ping-pong table in the office and expect your culture to change View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

01 Mar 2008
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Avoiding a Succession Crisis

The rapid changes at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup highlight the problem many firms face as they consider succession. What we are seeing should be surprising and disturbing to us... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

28 Apr 2022
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Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?

workers to get their creative juices flowing. “It turns out, on average, these gig workers are very responsive to competition,” says Zhu, who co-authored the forthcoming article Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Frist Faculty Commons | About

Frist Faculty Commons The Frist Faculty Commons, located in Baker Library | Bloomberg Center , was named in recognition of the leadership support of the Thomas F. Frist Jr. family. The Frist Faculty Commons offers a convenient gathering... View Details

25 Jan 2024
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Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

the best means of driving climate change – fast enough – to make a real dent in CO2 emissions. “Climate technology has been my fascination since high school.” – Hilton Augustine III Both of Hilton Augustine III’s (HBS MBA 2021) parents... View Details

05 Oct 2009
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The Vanguard Corporation

In her new book SuperCorp, Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues that capitalism is near a crossroads. The old ways of doing business no longer work. Traditional leadership roles are breaking down. And the public is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

MIT Sloan Management Review Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School By: Guinan, Eva C., Kevin J. Boudreau, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—Harvard Medical School seems an unlikely organization... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Melcolm Ruffin

through his high school education, he came across an article in ESPN Magazine about sports management that listed specialty undergraduate programs. Melcolm conducted his "own research and due... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

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

would need to install new headlights and windshield glass and all U.S. states would require a change in product manufacturing. Land took away valuable lessons from the... View Details

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By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

in the world. An HBS faculty member’s primary responsibility to students is to educate them, help them develop their leadership skills, and prepare them to graduate. Faculty Interaction: Important components... View Details

08 Nov 2021
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New Director Named for Mid-US Research Office

of the School’s research efforts,” said Victoria W. Winston, executive director of the HBS Global Initiative. “Alicia will work closely with HBS faculty and experts in the field, developing case studies, View Details

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

mission “to elevate the world’s consciousness” and his personal objective of “We are here to change the world; nothing less interests me.” Indeed, WeWork’s prospectus reads like a Marianne Williamson... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

27 Apr 2009
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Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

uncertainty and risk. The only difference today is that uncertainty and risk are not just tied to the business opportunity you are pursuing—you also must identify and View Details

Keywords: by Staff

November 2017 (Revised November 2021)
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Irene Rosenfeld at Mondelēz International: Crafting a Corporate Strategy

By: Raffaella Sadun, David J. Collis, Amram Migdal and Kerry Herman

The case focuses on Irene Rosenfeld’s tenure as CEO of the global snack food company Mondelēz International. Beginning in 2006, she had led the company through many acquisitions, including France’s LU Biscuit and British confectionery company Cadbury, before, in 2012,... View Details

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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

work done in less time. But only under certain circumstances! There two basic ways to use multiple cores: implicit parallelism built in to your application or library, and explicit parallelism that you program View Details

28 May 2020
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Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

filing for bankruptcy in the courts often results in a forced wind-down of the business. Management is replaced by a trustee or administrator (who is often an accountant or lawyer by training), the firm’s assets are sold off, View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

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