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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

industry-leading experts from companies like Heineken, Biogen, and Sanford C. Bernstein. Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professor Mihir Desai... View Details

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Media Coverage - Managing the Future of Work

Work Re: Christopher Stanton, Raffaella Sadun, Shane Greenstein, Prithwiraj Choudhury & Zoe Cullen 24 Feb 2025 USA Today Musk’s DOGE Email Ripped from Private Sector Playbook, Says Harvard Expert Re: Joseph Fuller 19 Feb 2025 The Project... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

scale, and achieve meaningful progress on climate solutions . Through expert panels, case discussions, and networking, participants considered the role of the firm, individual business leaders, and HBS, as well as new business and... View Details

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

networking opportunities. Description of silent animated video above: Learner types an answer in the discussion board in response to a peer's question Immerse yourself in real-world , case-based examples brought to life by industry-leading View Details

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Prizes & Benefits - Alumni

New Venture Competition Prizes & Benefits 10ms Cash Prizes Winner $75,000 Runner-Up $25,000 Crowd Favorite $5,000 Sponsors Baker Library is a lifetime resource for alumni, offering research help and access to premium resources. Our expert... View Details

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

have been recipients of it say that it’s humiliating,” she says. "It became really important for managers to ask, ‘How’s it going? How are you doing? How can I help?" Instead, Neeley takes a page from the late J. Richard Hackman, an organizational psychology View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Oct 2001
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Organizing the Family-Run Business

particular individual or branch of the family. Figure 1: Governance structures of the family business system Most experts agree that a family company board should be a relatively small group of about five to eight members. It should... View Details

21 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

profit. I believe that many companies undermine their own strategies. Nobody does it to them. They do it themselves. Their strategies fail from within. Then there is the host of strategy killers in the external environment. These range from so-called industry View Details

Keywords: by Joan Magretta

16 May 2000
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Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

graphics, to target the right audience, and to measure responses instantly. But many experts contend that Internet advertising is still in its infancy. There is a widely held belief that in the future we will compare today's Web ads with... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection

they could crowdsource in collective intelligence from the world of, in this case, it was a person who was an expert in computer vision and artificial intelligence to transform how a conservation organization works. We’ve seen very... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

30 Nov 2016
HBS Seminar

Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein, Stanford University

01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small

kirana-store experience. “I always wondered why so many kiranas fail, and I decided to dig deeper into that,” she explains. An angel investor in her travel venture introduced Shruti to Manish Kumar, an expert in consumer-goods retailing,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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Patent search: A comparative table of databases

allows patent quality analysis based on the Patent Assets Index Methodology. Such an analysis helps tech driven companies gain valuable insights into the strength and relative value of patents and patent portfolios. It informs decision makers and patent View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Wearing a Red Hat ¨C The Impact of Activist Industrial Policy on Software Development in China

The idea that the government should steer economic development by strategically hand-picking and managing certain industries is controversial but appeals to many developing countries that are eager to upgrade their industries. In this paper, I study China's recent... View Details

2015
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The Impact of Funds: An Evaluation of CDC 2004-12

By: Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, Steve Dew and Dong Ik Lee

CDC was founded in 1948 as part of the U.K. government's efforts to develop the economic resources of Britain's remaining colonies. Since then, CDC has pursued a series of strategies to "do good without losing money," as its original mission was phrased. Its approach... View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Great Britain

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Donor-Advised Fund - Alumni

income and principal. You can add to your donor-advised fund at any time. Expert Financial Management Harvard Management Company (HMC) manages the investment of Harvard donor-advised funds. HMC has significant expertise handling complex... View Details

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

experts from companies like Moderna, IBM, T-Mobile, and Royal Philips. Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professor Srikant Datar Design Thinking... View Details

19 Oct 2016
HBS Seminar

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