Courts and Trials - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

case: http://hbr.org/search/413127-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Exercise 713-804 Competition Simulator Exercise In the "Competition Simulator Exercise," students explore through trial and error... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

13 Jun 2013
News

Learning Curve

giving the mayor partial control of the city's schools was ruled unconstitutional by a Superior Court judge. Luckily, Tuck was unfazed. "The schools still needed to improve, right?" Tuck says by phone. "So you take a blow, get up the next... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools

11 May 2021
Blog Post

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

Entrepreneurs rarely consider who will ultimately own their startups—and what that means for founders—when they court venture capitalists. New research suggests they should. A startup funded by VCs who tend to work with the same group of... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

Supreme Court cast the deciding vote to uphold the keystone of the reform: the mandate to purchase insurance. That mandate had a convoluted history. Though born in a conservative think-tank and originally... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2021
News

To Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy, We Need a Better Patient Experience

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

their strategy, and the business media even treat them as celebrities. In many cases, activists have courted both investors and the public with an informative View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

conference. The atmosphere was tense as Partners, in addition to their normal agenda, discussed the Galleon Group insider-trading trial and the recent allegations against the Firm's former Managing Director,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement

tag Biotech/pharma Clinical Trials Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care at HBS As an HBS student in Professor Vicki Sato’s Commercializing Science class, I wanted to tackle an unmet global health care need by... View Details

14 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021

go off the grid for most of each year.By the time we came to HBS, well over 50% of our relationship had been physically apart. Perhaps unexpectedly, these trials made our love stronger. Being apart taught us how to succeed through... View Details

26 Feb 2020
News

Alumni-Led Biotech Developing Vaccine to Combat Coronavirus

in the Wall Street Journal notes that the NIH expects clinical trials to begin in 20 to 25 volunteers by the end of April. Bancel is also part of a wider effort by researchers from Harvard and other local... View Details

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McKim, Mead & White - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

buildings in Harvard’s Cambridge campus—fanning out from a trapezoidal court that followed the curve of the river. At the center of the court stood Baker Library flanked by two groupings of dormitories.... View Details

02 Aug 2011
News

A Fearless Force for Change

founded with her husband Dave Linn (MBA '00) to fund research and clinical trials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Linn died July 20 at the age of 40. Diagnosed with a soft-tissue sarcoma (a... View Details

11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11

Publications November 2014 Harvard Business Review Cooks Make Tastier Food When They Can See Their Customers By: Buell, Ryan W., Tami Kim, and Chia-Jung Tsay Abstract—While existing theory suggests that increased contact between... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

tightly coupled relationships with customers to engage in trials of different product concepts, producers and users can jointly learn about and make sense of the new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007

worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of wrongful-discharge... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

obtain permanent entry for their work. Countries such as Canada and Chile actively courted those with U.S. visa troubles, including taking out billboard advertisements along highways in the Bay Area. But the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 Mar 2007
Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

Fifty-three years ago, Judge Harold Medina dismissed charges brought by the Justice Department against seventeen leading investment banks. A case built up over a decade of investigations and almost three years of View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

consumers in more-developed markets. There are few government bodies or independent publications, like Consumer Reports in the United States, that provide expert advice on the features and quality of products. Because of a lack of... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

caught his attention. First, he noticed that an industry suit to block the government's proposed system to rate tires on tread wear, traction, and temperature resistance had been rebuffed by a U.S. appeals court. Although the View Details