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  • 21 Mar 2024
  • News

OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC

Marshall Toplansky (MBA 1976), known as the “Innovation Professor” at the Argyros College of Business and Economics at Chapman University in Orange, California. Marshall Toplansky (MBA 1976) The sold-out morning event was held on February... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

Last issue, the Bulletin undertook a survey of fifty years of entrepreneurship at HBS, beginning with the School's first course on the subject introduced in 1947. In this edition, we pick up in the early 1980s, when renewed interest in entrepreneurship generated... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons
  • January 2013
  • Article

The Fog of Negotiation: What Negotiators Can Learn from Military Doctrine

By: Michael A. Wheeler
On the surface, warfare and negotiation may seem to be polar opposites. The objective in war is to defeat the enemy. In negotiation, the goal is to find a solution that satisfies all the parties. Not surprisingly, little cross-learning and exchange has occurred across... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Leadership; War; Negotiation; Learning
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  • 13 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's... View Details
  • Web

Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

and every dollar invested is directed towards making objects and products which do indeed enrich the world." 98 Through the lens of a scientist, innovator, View Details
  • April 2004 (Revised September 2004)
  • Case

IKEA Invades America

By: Youngme E. Moon
In 2002, the IKEA Group is the world's top furniture retailer, with 154 stores worldwide. In the United States, IKEA operates 14 stores, all of which have been enormously popular despite their self-service requirements. The company's goal is to have 50 stores in... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Goals and Objectives; Competitive Advantage; Globalized Firms and Management; Retail Industry; United States
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  • July 2005 (Revised February 2007)
  • Exercise

Family Business System Action Planning Worksheet

By: John A. Davis
Assist in thinking critically about facilitators and inhibitors to goals and preparing for change in a family business system. View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Change Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Making the Case for Maine: HBS Club and State's CEO Discuss Business Issues

to work on making a difference. Energized by the event's success, Lane-Merrill is planning future meetings to discuss common business goals at the state level and to stimulate networking among HBS alumni. In... View Details
Keywords: Janine Brunell Looker
  • December 2012
  • Article

On the Efficiency-Fairness Trade-Off

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis
This paper deals with a basic issue: How does one approach the problem of designing the "right" objective for a given resource allocation problem? The notion of what is right can be fairly nebulous; we consider two issues that we see as key: efficiency and fairness. We... View Details
Keywords: Decision Support; Cost vs Benefits; Fairness; Resource Allocation; Performance Efficiency; Air Transportation Industry
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  • 17 Sep 2015
  • News

Seattle and Cleveland Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

will significantly increase engagement with and among alumni well in to the future. The HBS goal is part of Harvard University’s $6.5 billion campaign announced in September 2014. “This Campaign is largely... View Details
  • 11 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)

presented Sheil with an opportunity to reflect and then narrow her focus on what she wanted to be doing in the climate sustainability space. With her goals defined, it was time for HBS View Details
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 03 Oct 2023
  • Webinars: Career

Tech in the Job Search: LinkedIn for Career Exploration

CPD and a former LinkedIn insider equip you with the tools and insights you need for a fruitful data-driven exploration for the next stage of your career. Learn to better engage with fellow alumni and avoid the uncertainty of blindly committing to a new path by... View Details
  • Web

Building a Culture of Awareness and Accountability in your Organization - Recruiting

with the full humanity recognized every single day,” said Manso-Brown. Without this important aspect of organizational policy and culture, adjusting hiring practices will not make meaningful change. Create Metrics View Details
  • December 2014 (Revised January 2018)
  • Background Note

Troubled Marriages

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Daniel Fox
Compilation of articles looking at merger integration strategies: "business marriages." Problems of culture, management style, and business goals are revealed. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Goals and Objectives; Management Style; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges
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  • March 2018 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

Matching Markets for Googlers

By: Bo Cowgill and Rembrand Koning
This case describes how Google designed and launched an internal matching market to assign individual workers with projects and managers. The case evaluates how marketplace design considerations—and several alternative staffing models—could affect the company’s goals... View Details
Keywords: People Analytics; Google; Labor Market; Staffing; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Selection and Staffing; Goals and Objectives; Technology Industry; United States
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  • Web

Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Unseen looks at how companies, advertisers, and artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries used images of “the Indian” to promote the railroad, market specific messages, or sell a range of products... View Details
  • 06 Aug 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

apprentice? Probably, but it will take time and practice to learn all the tricks and perfect the art, making a lot of mistakes along the way. Yet there are machines that do produce all kinds of glass View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship

I want to show my support for an institution that has made and will continue to make a valuable contribution to management practice all over the world," says Andreas Andresen (69th AMP), a retired German industrialist who recently became... View Details
  • 27 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Driving India's EV Future: Insights from Ather Scooter and Exponent Energy

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's... View Details
  • Web

Freedom, Fear, and Feedback: Should Other Companies Follow Netflix’s Lead? | Working Knowledge

for decision-making. A staff member owned a key decision, aiming to achieve Netflix’s goals rather than “please their boss.” Managers remain involved to share context and advice, not to dictate or control... View Details