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16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

collections, other online stores (such as allofmp3.com), p2p file sharing networks, and other forms of piracy (like sharing between friends). A thriving p2p community acts as an engine for iPod sales.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

15 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 15

(B)." It is one of the failed ventures cited in those cases. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusiness.org/search/610027/ Intel NBI: Vivonic Harvard Business School Case 610-025 Vivonic was a start-up that was part of Intel's New Business Initiatives that sought... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 1998
News

Stephen Covey's Successful Habits

survive. Another force is unsatisfactory personal relationships. I asked a CEO of a major multinational why he had his 35,000 employees trained in the 7 Habits. He said, "My wife had told me I didn't listen to our daughter." After he... View Details

13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

about the changing nature of careers and changing preferences people have for structuring their personal and professional lives. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Krishna Yeshwant

appropriately designed. If I wanted to work in product development," he says, "I needed to be the person who used the tools as well—it ultimately leads to a better tool. I wanted to span both worlds, medicine View Details

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Career Journey | MBA

1% Europe 5% Latin America 1% Middle East / North Africa < 1% United States 88% Class of 2024 who actively sought and accepted full-time roles after graduation. Industry Consulting 18% Consumer Products 3% Entertainment / Media 3%... View Details

01 Apr 1999
News

Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

technologies include: Automobiles (electric vehicles) Bookstores (Internet sales) Department stores (discounters) Doctors (nurse-practitioners) Health insurance (HMOs) Mainframe computers (desktops)... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead

Well, did you care about Watergate or Vietnam or Enron, just a few of the countless national episodes vivisected by a vigilant press? Should you care that a credit crisis is roiling markets the world over as... View Details

Keywords: Roben Farzad; journalism; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Yaping Wang

were not sufficient "to take me beyond candy to look at health care and biotechnology. I knew that business school could help me make the transition." On a View Details

Keywords: CPG; Healthcare/Biotech; Retail/Hospitality

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

racism. ADVANCING RACIAL EQUITY See more from the online-only March Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s focus on how HBS faculty, students, staff, and alumni are addressing racism. ADVANCING RACIAL EQUITY View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2002
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Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics

President and CEO, Starbucks Coffee Company Smith has led Starbucks through more than ten years of tremendous growth, both domestically and internationally. Today, the company operates nearly 6,000 View Details

24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

theoretical framework contribute to our understanding of the nature of expert influence and how and why functional groups, such as risk managers, can become influential. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders

sabotaged some of my most important relationships-- romantic ones, friendships, and alienated the people who cared about me the most, which were my family and friends. That,... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

Angeles–based dialysis provider TRC. Thiry (MBA 1983) had just completed a difficult, ultimately unsuccessful term as CEO of another health care organization. After that experience, he pledged to join his... View Details

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

to move to Havana. The decision came in January 2017, when Gordon was working in a sales position at Castlight, a Bay Area B2B health care technology company. The couple had met while Gordon was working for... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

15 Jun 2021
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Turning Point: Tell Me More

talked about their views on everything from immigration to gun control to health care to climate change. Whenever I learned something new, I wrote about it for the Boston Globe. Over the years, two things... View Details

Keywords: politics; communication; voting; demographics

01 Mar 2025
News

Heartland

northeast of Denver. When it was introduced in 1983, DairyComp made it possible for workers to track and analyze the overall health and fertility of every cow, to ensure each... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

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2.3.1 Drug & Alcohol Policy | MBA

2.3.1 Drug & Alcohol Policy Harvard Business School’s policy on drugs and alcohol—adapted from and in accordance with other similar policies at Harvard University—reflects our concern for the View Details

01 Feb 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

(iStockphoto/Mladen Zivkovic) Several years ago, my spouse and I turned to concierge medicine. We no longer wanted to deal with a US health care system that often provides... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

it—it feels like the right thing to do, almost to the point where I believe more people should do it too. “I’m not sure it works to juggle family and work obligations. As my husband and I View Details

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