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01 Jun 2012
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Investing in HBS Giving Through HBS Giving Together From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’ FAQ Completing its second year, the School’s Minimum Viable Product Award (MVP) program attracted considerable interest, but not just from... View Details

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01 Dec 2011
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What HBS Learned from West Point

If talk of knowing, doing, and being sounds a little touchy-feely, take heart. By embracing the educational framework, HBS is taking a page directly out of the US Military Academy’s playbook on leadership development. MBA Class of 1958 Senior Lecturer Scott Snook, a US... View Details

Keywords: military education; National Security and International Affairs; Government

05 Aug 2013
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Dick Kazmaier, 82, was Last Ivy League Player to Win Heisman Trophy

Keywords: Richard (Dick) Kazmaier (MBA 1954); Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 Jan 2011
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A Precursor from the 1930s

In his State of the School address at last fall’s reunion, Dean Nohria laid out his vision for HBS organized in what we can call the Five I’s: curriculum innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion (making the HBS experience more of a level... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Feb 2017
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New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach

Geoffrey Jones (photo by Susan Young) Professor Geoffrey Jones (photo by Susan Young) Two decades ago, HBS launched the Global Initiative to strengthen the School's engagement with businesses and business leaders around the world and to deepen the faculty's... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Research Is the Foundation

language change can bridge differences and facilitate cross-border collaboration.” —Tsedal Neeley, Professor of Business Administration Private Capital Project Private capital is just that—private. As a result, little information is... View Details

04 Mar 2013
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McGee steps down from HBO, joins HBS faculty

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October 2016 (Revised October 2023)
Case

Bootstrapping at Lightricks

By: Robert White, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Christine Snively

By August 2015, two-year-old mobile imaging software startup Lightricks had developed and released two best-selling paid mobile apps, grown to a team of 30, earned a revenue run rate of nearly $10 million, and achieved modest profitability. The bootstrapped company had... View Details

Keywords: Business Startup; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Information Infrastructure; Business Startups; Digital Marketing; Finance; Strategy; Technology Industry; Israel

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01 Sep 2013
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Case Study: A Place at the Table

by Carmen Nobel Taking Care of Business: Marlene Krauss, Mary Falvey, Annon Adams, and Vicki Keller, circa 1967. Photo courtesy of Baker Library historical collections, HBS In 1962, the Harvard Business School faculty voted for women to be directly admitted to the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

November 2024
Teaching Note

Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?

By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli and Sabrina Howell

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 825-047. In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency platform Mercado Bitcoin, had to decide how to scale: go public, M&A with a bank, or take a VC big check. In a highly volatile market, Roberto Dagnoni, chairman of the board, viewed the... View Details

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January–February 2025
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Why People Resist Embracing AI

By: Julian De Freitas

The success of AI depends not only on its capabilities, which are becoming more advanced each day, but on people’s willingness to harness them. Unfortunately, many people view AI negatively, fearing it will cause job losses, increase the likelihood that their personal... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Perception

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September 2000
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Quokka Sports

By: Stephen P. Bradley, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Stephanie Mason Ogborne and Julie C. Toscano

Quokka Sports is an example of one of the new broadband services focused in total immersion sports. Quokka faces two issues: 1) the broadband infrastructure is emerging slowly so the type of services offered needs to be decided on. 2) Quokka faces an explosion of... View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Decisions; Information Publishing; Infrastructure; Competition; Advertising Industry; Web Services Industry

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01 Sep 2008
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The Business Environment in the 21st century

The business leaders surveyed for the colloquium suggested several ways in which business schools generally, and HBS in particular, could play a role. They included research and thought leadership on major challenges to capitalism; scenario planning to stimulate... View Details

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20 Nov 2014
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Strengthening America's Public Education System

“For young Americans to succeed in today’s workforce, they must out-innovate and out-produce the world’s best,” says Jan Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. He explains that because of this, education is an area of study in HBS’s U.S.... View Details

01 Mar 2006
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HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure

In a mid-December letter to all MBA students, Dean Jay Light announced that the School was dropping its seven-year-old policy that prohibited students from revealing their grades to potential employers. The change takes effect with the Class of 2008 entering this fall.... View Details

Keywords: grades; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2007
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Replica Bell for Baker Library; Historic Original Returns to Russia

In August, the bell atop Baker Library was replaced by a replica as the original, along with seventeen other bells at Harvard University, is being returned to Russia. Amid fears that the Soviets might melt them down, the bells were sold in 1930 to an American... View Details

Keywords: Soviet Union; cold war; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2015
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Opening Minds Through Expanded Learning Opportunities

History by the Case Method Professor David Moss David Moss knew his proposal to develop a history course for Harvard College students might take Dean Nitin Nohria by surprise. But it was Nohria who surprised Moss when he suggested that his History of American Democracy... View Details

April 17, 2021
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Reimagining India's Health System: A Lancet Citizens' Commission

By: Vikram Patel, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Gagandeep Kang, Pamela Das and Tarun Khanna

This commentary announces the launch of the Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System. The Commission is an ambitious, cross-sectoral effort to develop a citizens’ roadmap to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) in India in the next decade.... View Details

Keywords: Universal Health Coverage; Health Care and Treatment; Reports; India

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