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Philippe Rival

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? After six years of working as a civil engineer, the importance and value of adding management skills to an existing engineering and technical base became apparent to me. The MBA was the best way to acquire those... View Details
  • April 2005 (Revised January 2007)
  • Case

Furman Selz LLC (A): A Tale of Two Acquisitions

By: Nancy D. Beaulieu, Boris Groysberg and Kyle Doherty
Profiles a firm that was reacquired by two companies with different degrees of success. Highlights integration challenges present in acquisition deals when the primary assets of the target are human capital. Focuses on Furman Selz's acquisition by Xerox in 1987; its... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Transition; Valuation; Human Capital; Compensation and Benefits; Integration; Organizational Culture; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 08 Feb 2016
  • Blog Post

Applying to Business School as a Couple

together.   Did you both know that you wanted to attend business school? We both decided that business school was the right choice for us. We are both from the West Coast and wanted to find a way to both transition back west and explore... View Details
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

make on us. Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Managing Partner, Burnt Island Ventures Bake Sustainability into the Core of What You Do BIO The role of business leaders is to see the writing on the wall and act accordingly. The transition to a clean... View Details
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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Julian De Freitas : Recipient of a 2021 Exceptional Reviewer Award from the Journal of Vision . Ayelet Israeli : Received the 2021 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching in recognition of outstanding work in the transition to online and... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

transition back to “normal” (whatever that means). Although we are still living in COVID-19’s grip, companies are starting to devise plans to bring their workforces back to the office in the coming weeks and months. In recent... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden
  • 03 Dec 2015
  • Blog Post

4 Things You Need to Know About Independent Projects

was a bit more academic and built upon the work I did during my J-Term, which was focused on identifying what steps hospitals need to take to transition from fee-for-service to a value-based payment model. It helped me understand how to... View Details
  • January 2021
  • Case

Saham Group: It's In the Genes

By: Christina R. Wing and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in August 2020 as Moulay Mhamed Elalamy (Mhamed), CEO of the Saham Group (the Group), a pan-African investment company that operates a variety of businesses out of Morocco, contemplates the Group’s identity, its investment strategy, and how to navigate... View Details
Keywords: Family and Family Relationships; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Transformation; Transition; Emerging Markets; Change Management; Private Equity; Investment; Strategy; Insurance Industry; Real Estate Industry; Education Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Morocco; Africa
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  • 16 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

stretched financially. My parents went through the transition in 1989 from the Soviet Union and lost their savings overnight. Fortunately, I had a great education. I was on scholarship in high school and then moved to Canada at age 18 for... View Details
  • 24 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

is considerable variation across industries. Remote work is much more common in industries with better educated and better paid workers. Respondents in better educated and higher paid industries have also observed less productivity loss from the View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 11 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

A Journey of Discovery, Teamwork, and Impact with FIELD Global Immersion

government provides tons of support for its elderly population and has the most efficient, clean, and orderly public transit system I’ve ever witnessed. Care, community, and culture are deeply engrained into the fabric of South Korea.... View Details
  • 29 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

The HBS African American Student Union (AASU) aims to create a close-knit community for its members from the time they choose to join HBS, through their transition to the second year, and beyond graduation. In this feature, we highlight... View Details
  • January 15, 2019
  • Article

Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?

By: Josh Baron
The legacy of Vanguard founder John Bogle has brought attention to the transformative influence of ownership structures within the business world. Bogle's revolutionary insight into the limitations of active fund management led to the widespread adoption of index... View Details
Keywords: Ownership Type; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strength and Weakness; Competitive Advantage
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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Competitiveness and Clusters: Implications for a New European Growth Strategy

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
This paper develops policy recommendations on the use of cluster-based economic policies and the adoption of a new concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline.
A first section discusses and derives an... View Details
Keywords: Competitiveness; Clusters; Economic Policy; European Union; Competition; Industry Clusters; Policy; Economic Growth; European Union
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  • 16 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

deposit; in the fifth, the control group, no intervention took place. As background, Rigol and her coauthors note that the federal work program featured in the study transitioned from cash to electronic payments in 2008. In late 2012, the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

revenue amounted to 34 percent of the School's total revenues in fiscal 2021, four percentage points higher than in fiscal 2020. Executive Education Executive Education tuition decreased by $65 million to $81 million in fiscal 2021 from $146 million in the prior year,... View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment

that the renewable energy market represents a $16 trillion investment opportunity by 2040. [20] Challenge One of the biggest shifts needed to respond to climate change is rapidly transitioning from fossil fuel-based electricity generation... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01

energy transition and to offer jobs and commercial opportunities to people and businesses that are currently dependent on the energy sector. What’s next for 44.01? How do you see it scaling? There is peridotite all over the world, so in... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2017
  • Blog Post

5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS

struggle to make a career transition I came to HBS to explore new industries and I was concerned my experience put me in a “business analysis” box. However, HBS has a strong brand, vast alumni network, and a tireless career services team... View Details