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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
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
- 03 Mar 2010
- News
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
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
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
- March 2021
- Supplement
Facebook's Libra (B): The Privatization of Money?
By: Marco Di Maggio, Ethan Rouen, George Serafeim and Amy Klopfenstein
This case addresses the events that took place following the conclusion of the case “Facebook’s Libra (A): The Privatization of Money?” In October 2019, several months after the conclusion of the A case, multiple members of the Libra Association announced that they... View Details
Keywords: Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Accounting; Economics; Money; Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Governance Controls; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Information Infrastructure; Technology Industry; Europe; Switzerland; United States; California
Di Maggio, Marco, Ethan Rouen, George Serafeim, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Facebook's Libra (B): The Privatization of Money?" Harvard Business School Supplement 121-055, March 2021.
- July 2020
- Supplement
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
Ghosh, Shikhar, Nicole Tempest Keller, and Alpana Thapar. "Instabeat—Crossing the Finish Line." Harvard Business School Supplement 821-012, July 2020.
- March 2019
- Case
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
Keywords: Platform Businesses; Creative Industries; Publishing; Data Science; Machine Learning; Collaborative Filtering; Women And Leadership; Managing Data Scientists; Big Data; Recommender Systems; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Intellectual Property; Analytics and Data Science; Publishing Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Canada; United States; Philippines; Viet Nam; Turkey; Indonesia; Brazil
Deighton, John, and Leora Kornfeld. "Wattpad." Harvard Business School Case 919-413, March 2019.
- Web
Veterans & Active Military | MBA
Veterans & Active Military External Funding For Veterans Yellow Ribbon Program Harvard Business School (HBS) will contribute $20,000 per year to each eligible veteran, which is matched by the VA for a total of $40,000. For further View Details
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Bloomberg: Investment Management course tips
href="http://asklib.library.hbs.edu/search/?t=0&g=707&topics=Bloomberg&adv=1" target="_blank">Fast Answers for Bloomberg content. Bloomberg Academic and Bloomberg Professional Training: Self-guided training is available at Bloomberg terminals.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
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
- January 1997
- Article
The Internet, Intel and the Vigilante Stakeholder
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "The Internet, Intel and the Vigilante Stakeholder." Business Ethics 6, no. 1 (January 1997): 18–29.
- 2012
- Book
Auctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications: Second International ICST Conference, AMMA 2011
By: Peter Coles, Sanmay Das, Sebastien Lahaie and Boleslaw Szymanski
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International ICST on Auctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications (AMMA 2011) held in New York, August 22–23, 2011. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully... View Details
Keywords: Internet; Market Design; Internet and the Web; Auctions; Information Management; Computer Industry
Coles, Peter, Sanmay Das, Sebastien Lahaie and Boleslaw Szymanski, eds. Auctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications: Second International ICST Conference, AMMA 2011. Springer, 2012. (Revised Selected Papers.)
- June 2002
- Case
Tale of Two Airlines in the Network Age: Or Why the Spirit of King George III Is Alive and Well!
Describes an airline service incident that ought not to have happened in the network age. Inadequate use of available technology creates service problems. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Air Transportation; Information Management; Information Technology; Service Delivery; Problems and Challenges; Air Transportation Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren. "Tale of Two Airlines in the Network Age: Or Why the Spirit of King George III Is Alive and Well!" Harvard Business School Case 302-128, June 2002.
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
Photos by Susan Young Photos by Susan Young An Instagram-worthy sculpture in the shape of a cartoon speech bubble—and large enough to double as a bench—is one of four new campus art installations, on loan from prominent contemporary artists. Artist Hank Willis Thomas... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Where Are They Now?
Merchant When Ken Merchant arrived to begin teaching at HBS in 1978, he knew there was no other place he wanted to be. “At the time, HBS was the Mecca for the subject area about which I wanted to do research — management control systems,” recalls Merchant, who’d earned... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
MBA Cohorts Will Merge Next Year
After a scheduled review of the five-year-old practice of admitting both September and January cohorts of each MBA class, the School has decided to admit all new MBA candidates in a single September entry date, beginning with students entering the Class of 2003. In... View Details
- April 1976 (Revised September 1996)
- Background Note
Use of Cases in Management Education
Briefly describes the process of case writing, the general nature of cases, and the advantages to students of learning by the case method. An approach to studying a case, individually or as a group member, for classroom discussion is outlined. Also summarizes the basic... View Details
Corey, E. Raymond. "Use of Cases in Management Education." Harvard Business School Background Note 376-240, April 1976. (Revised September 1996.)
- July 1999
- Case
Developing a Teaching Case (A): Virtualis Systems Case Background
By: Michael J. Roberts
Designed to expose potential casewriters to the process of framing a case, interviewing a case protagonist, and actually writing the case. This case is the introduction to the case site and is designed to be paired with a video in which the faculty customer for the... View Details
Roberts, Michael J. "Developing a Teaching Case (A): Virtualis Systems Case Background." Harvard Business School Case 900-002, July 1999.
- July 1989
- Background Note
Learning by the Case Method in Marketing
Introduces learning by the case method, with application to marketing learning. Places case learning in the stream of experiential learning and explains the advantages and disadvantages of experiential learning methods. Turning to case learning specifically, the note... View Details
Bonoma, Thomas V., and Thomas J. Kosnik. "Learning by the Case Method in Marketing." Harvard Business School Background Note 590-008, July 1989.