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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Teamwork
TEAMWORK: What better way for first-year students to meet their Learning Teams than to gather on the lawn outside Spangler Center on a summery September afternoon? Composed of six or seven students from different sections, the teams collaborate on graded projects and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Wasserman Wins Award
Associate Professor Noam Wasserman has won the Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award from the Academy of Management in recognition of his second-year MBA elective course Founders’ Dilemmas. Based on a decade of research, the popular course examines the early... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Houghton Steps Down
James R. Houghton (MBA ’62), the longest-serving member of the Harvard Corporation and chair of the University’s 2006–07 presidential search, will step down at the end of this academic year. Houghton, chairman emeritus of Corning Inc., joined the University’s executive... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Together Again
The powerful lure of some fifty HBS and Harvard faculty presentations, section parties, and gala events — not to mention renewing old friendships — drew more than 3,000 alumni and guests from seven MBA classes to campus for spring reunions in early June. Faculty... View Details
Keywords: reunion
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Kerr, Nanda Win Fellowships
In January, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation granted two of five fellowships in the amount of $50,000 each to HBS assistant professors William Kerr and Ramana Nanda to fund ongoing research on innovation and entrepreneurship. Awarded through the Kauffman Emerging... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master
In an April appearance at HBS, Kenneth Feinberg, the special master for TARP executive compensation, denied that he was an autonomous “pay czar,” explaining that within parameters decreed by congressional legislation, he viewed himself mainly as a negotiator. Thus, his... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Fall Reunions
Fall Reunions Photos by Neal Hamberg and Susan Young Occasionally gloomy skies were no match for reunion exuberance the weekend of September 23 as more than 2,200 alumni and guests—the second largest turnout ever for fall reunions—returned to campus to revisit their... View Details
Keywords: reunion
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
Sleepyheads, Beware: An alarm clock that doesn’t mess around. Photo courtesy Nanda Home Related Links Watch Nanda explain Clocky See Tocky, the newest product Purchase the original Clocky case Purchase the "Life After Clocky" case In the spring of 2005, media outlets... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Henderson Named University Professor
In September, HBS professor Rebecca Henderson was named a University Professor, the highest honor Harvard bestows on its faculty members. Currently the second active HBS professor with that distinction (Michael Porter is the other), Henderson is the John and Natty... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
The Sound of Music
The renowned Silk Road Ensemble put on an impromptu lunchtime performance in HBS’s Spangler Center in late September, drawing an admiring crowd of students, faculty, and staff. The ensemble is led by celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma and brings together performers and... View Details
Keywords: Christianity
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Early Adopters
Omar Restom (HBS ’12, seated) and Douglas Melchior (MBA ’11) didn’t wait for the Harvard Innovation Lab’s official opening in November to relocate their base for developing Vaiad, a start-up self-serve platform that allows websites to sell ad space directly to... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
The final study found that automobiles with more expansive drivers' seats were more likely to be illegally parked on New York City streets. These findings are consistent with research showing that (a) postural expansiveness leads to a psychological and physiological... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
financial services that Washington D.C.-based Microfinance International Corporation (MFIC) had been providing for two years to a growing number of "unbanked" Hispanic nationals in the United View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
confidence that we can draw on all our past strengths and look forward to a remarkable future. I grew up in Bombay, as it was called then, Mumbai in India, came to the United States after having done my... View Details
- Profile
Patrick Connolly
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? In my life before business school, I was a concert pianist and music theorist-disciplines that require truly deep, vertical expertise. My decision to attend HBS was consciously designed to broaden my intellectual... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- News
Inside the Planning of a New Course
- January 2018 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
Christie's and Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi: The Value of a Brand
By: Jill Avery
A 16th century Renaissance masterpiece, missing for 137 years, believed by many to have been destroyed and then rediscovered less than a decade ago, becomes the most expensive painting ever sold, all the while surrounded by controversy. Did the buyer of Leonardo da... View Details
Keywords: Brands; Brand Valuation; Art Collector; Arts Marketing; Auction House; Auctions; Luxury Brand; Luxury Consumers; Luxury Goods; Marketing; Valuation; Marketing Strategy; Arts; Luxury; Value; Brands and Branding; Fine Arts Industry; Italy; United Kingdom; Europe; United States; United Arab Emirates
Avery, Jill. "Christie's and Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi: The Value of a Brand." Harvard Business School Case 518-066, January 2018. (Revised October 2019.)
- January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
Pioneer Natural Resources: Enhancing the Capital Return Strategy with Variable Dividends
In February 2021, Scott Sheffield, the CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources (an independent oil and gas company based in Texas), was considering the possibility of enhancing the firm’s capital return strategy by introducing a variable dividend tied to cash flows in... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Return; Profit; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Energy Industry; United States; North America; Texas
Esty, Benjamin C., Elisabeth Kempf, and E. Scott Mayfield. "Pioneer Natural Resources: Enhancing the Capital Return Strategy with Variable Dividends." Harvard Business School Case 224-001, January 2024. (Revised May 2024.)
- September 2017 (Revised February 2023)
- Case
Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Kathy E. Giusti, Robert S. Huckman and Julia Kelley
Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Intermountain Healthcare operates 23 hospitals and hundreds of clinics in Utah and Idaho and provides insurance to approximately 850,000 patients through its insurance arm, SelectHealth. In 2013, Intermountain, known for its commitment... View Details
Keywords: Precision Medicine; Healthcare; Innovation; Cancer; Cancer Research; Health Care; Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Leadership; Disruptive Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; Utah; United States; North America
Hamermesh, Richard G., Kathy E. Giusti, Robert S. Huckman, and Julia Kelley. "Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine." Harvard Business School Case 818-018, September 2017. (Revised February 2023.)