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Jillian Dorans

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? The short answer: I fell in love with hospitality. I'm what you would call a career-switcher. Three years into my management consulting career, I worked on a project for a large hotel... View Details

Keywords: Services; Consulting

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315050-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 115-021 Omar Selim: Building a Values-Based Asset Management Firm (A) At Barclays Capital, Omar Selim had spearheaded the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

August 2019
Teaching Note

Back to the Roots

By: Elizabeth A. Keenan and Leslie K. John

Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: Back to the Roots HBS case No. 518-073. Back to the Roots (BTTR) is a start-up with a... View Details

Keywords: Organic Food; Startup; Crowdfunding; Sustainability; Transparency; Entrepreneurship; Product Development; Product Marketing; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Making; Food; Food and Beverage Industry

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Sid Shenai

and being accepted to Harvard Law School, Sid deferred his admission to spend a year with McKinsey & Co. as a management consultant. There, he had his second major insight. "I was brought in to work on complex mathematical... View Details

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Corporate Strategy

measures; 2) customers; 3) internal processes; and 4) learning and growth. Developed by HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan, chairman of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, and David P. Norton, co-founder with Kaplan and president of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2008
News

In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care

delivery systems of both developing and advanced countries: fragmentation, inefficiency, and organization around discrete interventions (such as delivering drugs or screening) rather than integrated care. Porter and his colleagues aim to... View Details

Keywords: HIV/AIDS; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

15 Nov 2016
News

Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success

companies prevalent in German-speaking countries—has long captured the attention of global business practitioners and scholars. Why are these firms so competitive globally, particularly in emerging markets, and how have they managed to... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

‘Green’ Trailblazers

and Santiago, Chile For-profit conservationists David Blood (MBA 1985) Generation Investment Management London, New York, and Sydney Investment management that integrates sustainability factors and... View Details

Keywords: Management; Management; Management; Management

01 Dec 2002
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

whose lives have been affected by HBS and its alumni. This moving production was developed for the capital campaign, which will be rolled out across the country and abroad over the coming months. I hope you will have an opportunity to see... View Details

28 Jul 2016
Blog Post

Why I’m Not Changing Careers after Business School

Courses (IFC). Good investing and corporate management requires contextual knowledge and an ability to differentiate among opportunities worldwide – I now feel much more prepared to operate with a truly global perspective. I also feel... View Details

15 Nov 2020
News

Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The culmination of an immersive field course, the trip brought the students’ classroom learning to life and offered insight into one of China’s major political and economic development programs. Combining... View Details

21 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

immense value for businesses that need to assess an individual’s financial information, such as lenders. Ultimately, Plaid’s mission is to empower innovators by democratizing access to the financial system. I had always been interested in Plaid and one of my previous... View Details

13 Oct 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Building a Business in the Context of a Life

Kraus comes in. Kraus teaches the second-year MBA course Building a Business in the Context of a Life (BBCL) and is currently helping to develop a similar Executive Education program called Crossroads. The two courses attract different... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

01 Jun 2012
News

Around the World

Issue Focus: The Global Manager GETTING ORIENTED: On his first evening in Cape Town, South Africa, Jan Dolezal (HBS 2013) and his FIELD 2 team explored the city's bustling waterfront. Photo courtesy Jan Dolezal Learn about hosting FIELD2... View Details

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

02 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses—and it’s hard to fault them. The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

early-twentieth-century social scientists is what we call "the meaning and organization problem." One of the main trends of modern society was the rise of large formal work organizations. Capitalists and managers encouraged the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

the Crowd: The Visibility-Enhancing Effects of IPO-related Signals on Alliance Formation by Entrepreneurial Firms Authors:Tim Pollock and Ranjay Gulati Periodical:Strategic Organizations 5, no. 4 (November 2007). (A shorter version of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

of diversification (vertical, horizontal, and tangential) available for growth and explains how they might be identified, evaluated, and effectively pursued. He also addresses the opportunities and risks of each category. Choosing the... View Details

May 2023
Case

Legacy Partners

By: Royce Yudkoff and Richard S. Ruback

Stephen Holbrook and Austin Pulsipher (both HBS '19) had been leading Nutrishare since acquiring the company six months earlier in mid-2021. The company, based in Sacramento CA, was a compounding pharmacy serving Total Parenteral Nutrition ("TPN") patients nationwide.... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Business or Company Management; Pharmaceutical Industry