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07 Dec 2016
Blog Post

Marketing Reimagined: A Recap of the 2016 Marketing Innovation Conference

experts, including HBS Marketing Professor Ayelet Israeli, judged the finalists. In the end, Ross came out on top. They provided a thoughtful recommendation for Chateau Margaux, the wine manufacturer featured in the case, to open pop-up... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

15 Apr 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Kelly Ogiesoba

bleeding edge ideas and concepts for the business that had never been done before, such as deploying a residential storage virtual power plant to test the value of aggregated storage, laying out the ground work for a future Florida large scale View Details

Web

Statement on Supreme Court Decision | About

part of what makes us who we are could ever be irrelevant. Harvard must always be a place of opportunity, a place whose doors remain open to those to whom they had long been closed, a place where many will have the chance to live dreams... View Details

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Letter from Dean Srikant Datar to the HBS Community on Ukraine | About

Russia's war against Ukraine . A number of learning opportunities—some designed for the HBS community, and others open to the broad Harvard community—are taking shape, including: Mon. 2/28, 12-1pm, “ Ukraine Under Attack ” – A panel of... View Details

04 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

the long-run adoption of a new product or technology. The new product under consideration here is the drug-eluting stent: a device which props open a clogged artery to the heart and then releases medication that reduces the risk of artery... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - The Future of Green Building

as a pivotal point of discussion towards reducing global carbon emissions. The push to decarbonize the building sector stems from statistics compiled by sources such as Architecture 2030, which indicate that activities related to... View Details

20 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: December 20

innovation in open systems is an important trend in the modern global economy. In general, distributed innovation is made possible by the modularity of the underlying product or process. But despite the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Dec 2019
Blog Post

Addressing Unmet Needs in Health Care Using an MBA

firsthand (my mother has 2 J&J knees) the difference total knee replacement makes in lives of patients. That is a great source of motivation. What were some of the most helpful resources you tapped into while you were an MBA? The... View Details

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

restaurateur in Japan, Aoki eventually opened his own four-table unit in Manhattan in 1964 and called it Benihana (after a Japanese flower), the name of his father's first establishment. Watching Americans dine out, Aoki had concluded... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Oct 2002
News

Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

careers that are less financially rewarding. We need to find ways to help them focus on their ambitions rather than on the repayment of heavy debt. For all these reasons, it is crucial that we develop more sources for financial aid. Are... View Details

10 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!

customers and drive distribution for other products in a company's portfolio. A company's commitment to searching out potential blockbusters and then investing in marketing to convert potential to reality attracts and retains top... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation; Pharmaceutical

25 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

internal sources of revenue that can then finance their public goods and services – which means a strong local private sector that creates jobs and generates tax revenue. This interest in private sector development in Africa is what... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

different forms of organization. Specifically, step processes reward technical integration, unified governance, risk aversion, and the use of direct authority, while platform systems reward modularity, distributed governance, risk taking,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 21

groups and above a threshold with respect to system size. We find that the size of the Core varies widely, even for systems that perform the same function. These differences appear to be associated with different models of development-open, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2014
News

Early Impact

changing needs of the School. Three new building projects focus on Executive Education, recognizing the growing reach and impact the School is achieving through the more than 8,000 participants who come to campus each year. Tata Hall (above), named in honor of Ratan... View Details

Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Blog

Inside the Learning: How Faculty Prepare for Class

remind myself that I should walk into the classroom with my plan but also be open to going where the discussion takes us. Alison Wood Brooks (AB) (faculty for Developing Yourself as a Leader—Virtual, Communicating for Impact—Virtual):... View Details

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

were conducted during the lockdown last year in Tamil Nadu and real-time implementation of the drones delivering COVID-19 vaccines looks promising.” JANUARY 11 Ten years ago, Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) founded Hope and Comfort, a nonprofit that collects and View Details

03 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

in the path-breaking work on authoritarian regimes. In this paper, we take a deeper look at political institutions in the two countries, demonstrating that profound differences between the polities directly impact distributional choices.... View Details