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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
“Yes, sir. No, sir. No excuse, sir.” —A case study in responsibility—in business or the military Chris Howard (MBA 2003) served in the Air Force in Afghanistan, for which he was awarded a Bronze Star; he retired from the reserve in 2013... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
the survey at alumni.hbs.edu/skydecksurvey. Beyond the survey, if you ever want to drop us a note, you can find us at skydeck@hbs.edu. We’d love to hear from you. Ok, now for today’s show. Cloudflare is a web performance and security... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter In the wake of the Snowden leaks in 2015, the New York Times dropped the bombshell news that one company had played a unique role in enabling the National Security Agency’s domestic spy program.... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
It is often said that two years at HBS prepares its graduates to lead a wide range of organizations and endeavors and to find solutions to a host of business and social challenges. Still, Kanwaljit Bakshi (MBA/JD 1999), known to friends... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Swap ’Em If You Got ’Em
Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Blake Hall (MBA ’10) grew up in a military family, became an Army Ranger, and was a platoon leader in Iraq for fifteen months. A conversation with a fellow veteran about the difficulty of buying and selling... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Publications The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Harvard Business Press Books, 2012 Abstract Innovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
BlackBerry Messenger limit his market? Was the decision to release a touch-screen version before the phone with a physical keyboard—a favorite of the business class—a strategic error? Should he have re-focused on enterprise users? Willy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
addiction treatment alone, but administering a program that tracks an individual’s healthy behaviors, and provides incremental rewards along the way, was difficult in traditional treatment settings. From those conversations came DynamiCare Health, a View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
business or the military A case study in responsibility—in business or the military Lance Batchelor Similarities between submarines, the classroom, and the boardroom Similarities between submarines, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
users control of other computers remotely is priced as low as $20. And business is booming. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey found that global security incidents rose 38 percent in 2015—the biggest jump in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
infrastructure. Outside help was available, but often inadequate. A similar infrastructure collapse on a national scale, Popik says, could result in millions of deaths rather than thousands. That’s why Resilient Societies has been a strong proponent of cost-effective... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
designers, and graphic artists, creates technology-based tools ranging from multimedia cases to interactive simulations. The team ran two large-scale simulations for faculty and students across campus. In the morning, all first-year... View Details
- October 2013
- Case
Oaktree and the Restructuring of CIT Group (A)
By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
CIT's prepackaged bankruptcy marked the first time a major financial institution was able to successfully restructure and emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, challenging conventional views that a financial firm could not survive bankruptcy proceedings as a going... View Details
Ivashina, Victoria, and David Scharfstein. "Oaktree and the Restructuring of CIT Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 214-035, October 2013.
- 02 Apr 2019
- News
Remembering William Wilder
William Wilder William Wilder William P. Wilder (MBA 1950), a steadfast HBS supporter and the namesake of Wilder House, passed away in Toronto on March 23 at the age of 96. A prominent business leader and philanthropist, Bill Wilder was a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Patrick Doyle (HBS '03), a former rector and adjunct professor of business ethics at Notre Dame. With heightened campus security in place, MBA and Executive Education classes resumed on September 12, but in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
With U.S. economic recovery limping along and unemployment hovering above 9 percent, the Washington debate over regulatory and tax policies needed to spur economic revival has shifted into high gear. Outside the Washington Beltway, among View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
Are big banks using bankruptcy as a bullying tactic? A recent report by the American Bankruptcy Institute suggested that a longtime—and increasingly popular—mechanism in the US code that allows for expedited, less-democratic asset sales (known as Section 363 sales) is... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog
deal structures, incentives, business models and valuation in much greater detail than TEM. Approximately one-third of the cases concern technology-based businesses, though the emphasis is on gaining... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
PublicationsUncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business Authors:Frances Frei and Anne Morriss Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming An abstract is not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
are interested in investing in startups. The class focuses on pre-product-market fit technology-based ventures in a range of information technology-based sectors. Business... View Details