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01 Jun 2011
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Faculty Think Tank

A faculty team charged with designing the new yearlong FIELD course — short for Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development — in the first year of the MBA Program has been meeting regularly since January. The walls and panels of the group’s special... View Details

Keywords: FIELD program

01 Sep 2012
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New Series Look at Issues, School News

Alumni interested in learning about the latest HBS faculty research or news about the School now have a new way to do so. The webinar series Trending@HBS will launch on September 27 with Professor Clay Christensen talking about how to live a meaningful, purpose-filled... View Details

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

28 May 2019
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The Physical Campus in a Virtual World

On the north wall of my office hangs a series of framed architectural drawings that date from the early 1920s. Each of these antique blueprints depicts a different architect’s vision for what would become the first buildings of the Harvard Business School campus. One... View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

01 Sep 2009
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We Did It!

MBA Class of 2009 graduates whoop it up at last June’s Harvard Commencement ceremonies at the University’s Tercentenary Theatre. Some students flash MBA Oath cards, indicating their backing for an initiative, inspired by HBS students, that seemingly came out of nowhere... View Details

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04 Apr 2014
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Goool! HBS Scores Soccer Legend

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2006
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China Dominates HBS Business Plan Contest

The economic power and emerging opportunities in China inspired winners in the tenth annual HBS Business Plan Contest last April. Tingting Zhong (MBA ’06) won first place in the traditional track for 8Baorice, a company that aims to create an online community focused... View Details

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03 Mar 2010
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Last Look - March 2010

Our thanks to Ron Demer (MBA ’64E), who identified his male classmates in the photo as (top) Jon Plexico (E, now deceased) and Joe Collins (B); (bottom) Bob McNitt (E) and Konrad Ulbrich (F, now deceased). Demer added that “nothing was going on; just a few students... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2010
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Rare sighting

RARE SIGHTING: Four HBS Deans, past and present, share a lighthearted moment at the June 1 luncheon celebration in honor of Dean Jay Light, who retired June 30 after four decades at the School. From left, Kim Clark, Light, Nitin Nohria, and John McArthur joined a crowd... View Details

Keywords: deanapalooza

August 2008 (Revised May 2009)
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Consumer Payment Systems — Japan

By: Benjamin Edelman and Andrei Hagiu

In 2008, the Japanese consumer payments landscape featured ongoing widespread use of cash, limited use of credit cards and rapid rise of e-money systems based on contactless technology embedded in cards and especially mobile phones. The case details the alliances that... View Details

Keywords: Personal Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Digital Platforms; Alliances; Competitive Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Japan

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04 Jan 2011
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Become a Better Leader

Keywords: Professor Linda Hill; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Oct 2001
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Helping Hands for HBS

Association Boston, says she considered teaching only at HBS: "An important draw for me was the ethical component that has the potential to inform everything at the School. I find that people have a hunger to talk about these things, and... View Details

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

July 2020
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Instabeat—Crossing the Finish Line

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Nicole Tempest Keller and Alpana Thapar

Lebanese entrepreneur Hind Hobeika was just 21 years old when she launched her startup, Instabeat, which had developed the first real-time bio-feedback device for swimmers to monitor and improve their performance. It had been an extremely testing 10-year journey to... View Details

Keywords: Start-up; Wearables; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Strategy; Operations; Management; United States; Lebanon

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March 2019
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Wattpad

By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

How to run a platform to match four million writers of stories to 75 million readers? Use data science. Make money by doing deals with television and filmmakers and book publishers. The case describes the challenges of matching readers to stories and of helping writers... View Details

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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

01 Sep 2011
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Coming Full Circle

Image by John Weber Related Links Featured research: "Think Customers Hate Waiting? Not so Fast..." Read Director John Korn's blog Did you know? HBS alumni include... As an assistant professor at Columbia Business School, Modupe Akinola (MBA 2001, PhD 2009) sees her... View Details

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

01 Mar 2018
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Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

Collaboration Leads to New Programs for Business and Education Two new programs developed and led by HBS faculty in collaboration with colleagues from across Harvard University—one in business analytics and another in school leadership—are demonstrating the real-world... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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A Juicy Story

In the context of the computer industry at large, Professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that’s always been a bit different in “Apple Computer, 2006.” The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent computer market share, can Apple find... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

24 Oct 2013
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Searching for a Better Society

help searchers get to the best content as quickly as possible. We publish 20 percent of the world's scientific content. If we can help medical researchers, for example, search better—help them get access to content faster, aggregate View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services