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Community Values & Honor Code | HBS Online

that would dishonestly improve your results, or dishonestly improve or hurt the results of others. Not reproduce problems or answers for quizzes, exams, or any other means of assessing participant performance. Not post Harvard Business School Online View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

directly with smelters, eliminating the need for a middleman. Think of it like eBay but for million-dollar shipments of raw minerals. Intermediaries have long played a key role in these deals because the market for metal concentrates—the raw View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres

01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

but much too dense, and ludicrously unsuccessful." Even rewriting the case and dividing it into two sections, one a broad look at German capitalism and the other an examination of Thyssen Steel, did not make the material much more... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

27 Feb 2020
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Taking the LEAP into the Case Method

students to share their experience of failure, he could do the same with the class. There were more than 60 people in the LEAP class representing different ethnicities and nationalities. It was clear that every student needed to read plenty of View Details

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Jennifer DeWhitt

While she was still in school, Jennifer DeWhitt bought sugar cubes from her classmates, which became raw material for candy pencils she subsequently sold. In itself, the effort may not seem so remarkable, except that Jennifer was only in... View Details

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Teaching Support for HBS Faculty | Baker Library

assignments, and learn how to cite their work. What we can help with Case Updates Classroom Presentations Course Materials (Course Reserves and Durable Links) Course Research Drop-Ins Custom Course Products Teach with Special Collections... View Details

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

the world about the problems they thought might constitute material threats to the sustainability of market capitalism. As part of Harvard Business School's centennial celebration a few years ago, we convened groups of business leaders in... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

07 May 2008
Research & Ideas

The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School

environment in which it exists and develop materials which generate discussion about a variety of issues which, though of critical importance, are often not susceptible to proof. The Leadership and Organizational Behavior course succeeds... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Education

03 Nov 2022
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Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series

characterize business in developed market economies. CEM has reached a worldwide audience consisting both of practitioners and consultants, as well as university professors and students who have incorporated the materials into their... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Carving a Niche

years more typical at larger ski manufacturers. “We don’t look at a manufacturing plant as a hole to fill every year,” says Hoye. “It’s more a question of observing what people are trying to do when they ski, and figuring out how to make it better and more fun using... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Prompt-a-thon Invites HBS IT Staff to Sharpen GenAI Skills | Information Technology

participants used prompting best practices to guide their work. Provide Instructions: Specify the task you want the tool to complete as well as your goal Be Detailed: Provide context and feedback to the tool Use Examples: Give the tool reference View Details

Discovery Process

all, most students don’t go on to become historians. My classes attracted lots of students interested in business, finance, and entrepreneurship, and watching how MBAs engaged with historical material gave me more strategies for... View Details

06 Mar 2025
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IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities

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 rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details

Platform for Dialogue

and schools to build creative curriculum is possible and desirable given the immense benefits it brings to debate and discussion in the classroom. As a historian, discovering new archival materials is no doubt exhilarating. And while I... View Details

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

understand which data is relevant. On average, our study found that only about 20 percent of data in any given industry is material from an investment standpoint. That has huge implications in terms of the signal-to-noise ratio. For... View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

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Historical Research - India

economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Strongly represented in the collection are works critical to the study of the East India Company. It combines the selected material from two pre-eminent collections -- the Kress... View Details

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Love and Money - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

symbolizing the transience of honor and material possessions. 37 [ Der Liebesantrag—the Ill-Assorted Couple ] view image Engraved contemporary copy, in mirror image, of Albrecht Dürer's engraving by this title. [n.p., original ca. 1495].... View Details

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Student Handbook | MBA

It is every student’s responsibility to be aware of, and compliant with, the policies of Harvard Business School and Harvard University. Students should become familiar with the material pertaining to their degree program and, together... View Details

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The Reinvention of Kodak | Information Technology

understanding and catering to the evolving educational needs of MBA students. Working with the Multimedia Development Team has been one of the most fulfilling aspects of creating the teaching materials for my EC course. Ryan L. Raffaelli... View Details

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The Coming of Managerial Capitalism - Course Catalog

impact on material prosperity. Students will encounter several different units of analysis: much of the focus of the course is on the individual business leader and entrepreneur, but the worker, the company, the industry, and the country... View Details

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