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23 May 2018
News

Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987

homeland. His tactical blueprint for doing so centers on broadening educational opportunities. “I’ve never had a long-term plan. I always wanted to participate and be present.” “I’ve never had a long-term... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 1997
News

Brice Cutrer Jones

people questioned the need for another wine operation in California. I decided - primarily out of fear - to do my best on a single product, focusing exclusively on Chardonnay. I had faith that somebody would... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

Portrait Project

Dimitra Taslim

I grew up in a Southeast Asia that was very different from the one today. I grew up in a “frontier” market. I aspired towards being Western. I wore Vans shoes. I read Hemingway. Western was better. Children of American expats would View Details

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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

investors in London and New York? Kaspi.kz’s business model is one that is unlikely to have developed elsewhere, says Victoria Ivashina, the Lovett-Learned Professor of Finance and the faculty chair of HBS’s Middle East and North Africa... View Details

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

Industries." One key aspect of the Internet revolution to keep in mind, began Applegate, is that new business models continue to draw on essential information and values that have View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

01 Jan 2013
News

Thai Lee, MBA 1985

grown into a top-ranked provider of IT products and services. With an industry-high of 99 percent in customer retention, SHI is one of the largest privately held firms in its field. The company employs more than 2,300 people at its... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Profile

Erin Kaivan

soldier, not an actress), and one leads to where she is now, at HBS. "My family has a legacy of military service that goes back at least 150 years," Erin says. "Serving, giving back to community and country, View Details

Keywords: Consulting

05 Oct 2018
Blog Post

The Reflective Leader

Professor Tom DeLong or Professor Scott Snook, there is always more than enough laughter to ensure we still had fun back on campus. Like my full-time MBA experience, the cases discussed during the course... View Details

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

FabioFilzi Key aspects of corporate sponsorship programs, while designed to advance women’s careers, may end up widening the gender gap rather than narrowing it, according to new experimental research. “We’re not trying to say that sponsorship programs don’t work or... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Mar 2016
HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

This is a lesson that actually applies to any consumer category really. I would say with pretty much any product or service that somebody is selling, word-of-mouth is always going to be important. So for the marketers that are out there... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

worked with Vectographs during the war effort, signed off on an experiment conducted by researcher Eudoxia Muller in which she transferred a negative onto a positive image. 53 One of Clarence Kennedy's... View Details

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Ignacio Lartirigoyen

backgrounds – an experience that could transform my ability to be effective." The case method, Ignacio notes, "replicates business situations on a regular basis, drawing opinions from people who all think differently. It... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

04 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

the true value of those customers has always been a challenge. This paper develops a network model to estimate the long-term impact of each additional free customer on a company's profits, factoring in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community

perhaps a bit self-congratulatory, but in retrospect this has certainly been 100% true. There’s a reason everyone always remembers the Erik Peterson case. I ended up spending the second semester of my second year with that very... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

it’s almost an unavoidable fact that blunders will be made. We might wish we could forget them and focus instead on the more successful stages of work life, but the lessons that we take from those earliest failures have a way of sticking... View Details

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

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

teaching, and consulting over the past ten years, I have come to understand more deeply than ever that the best managers are those who have an appetite for learning and are willing to work on themselves. Management is very hard; even the... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

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Capturing & Disseminating Video/Photography During Course Activities | About

Capturing & Disseminating Video/Photography During Course Activities The case and field methods, the hallmark pedagogies of Harvard Business School (HBS), are rooted in candid discussion, relying on the open exchange of information and... View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

or frames, focus too narrowly on women. A new broader approach is needed, they argue. HBS Working Knowledge's Mallory Stark recently conducted an e-mail interview with the authors. Mallory Stark: You argue that while women's presence in... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

04 May 2021
Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

and New Year’s, and why I always had to bring back a bunch of gifts for family after travelling. Over the years, however, I have become less focused on differentiating the Filipino experience from the AAPI... View Details

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