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11 Oct 2024
News

Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting

mission and work of the Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS) from Debora Spar (PMD 62, 1991), Senior Associate Dean of BiGS and Unit Head of General Management, and Drew Keller (MBA 2022), Director of BiGS. Spar highlighted... View Details

01 May 2013
News

Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979

over the world.” Lessons gained from the case study method, in particular, have stayed with her. “It’s a discipline that encourages you to step back and learn from many perspectives,” Thoman says, adding that her HBS experience has View Details

18 Sep 2015
Blog Post

A Peek Inside Peek Weekend

[Peek has changed a lot since its founding in 2015! Please visit the Peek website for the most up to date information on dates, registration, and program events.] What do Wellesley, Barnard, Smith, and Bryn Mawr have in common? You... View Details

11 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

issues facing financial institutions in the Internet age. "Banks have often been slow to adopt technology and to change what they do," she observes. "But the competition that the online banks are sparking is forcing traditional banks to... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

07 Apr 2011
What Do You Think?

When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

interest to private and public institutions globally. In the case of the nuclear meltdown in Japan, the lack of timely and accurate information was an important part of the problem. Whose responsibility was... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

November 2000
Case

Wit Capital: Evolution of the Online Investment Bank (B)

Describes the evolution of Wit Capital from its origins as a small brewery to an online investment bank advising both small technology-based companies seeking to raise capital and large companies seeking to acquire Internet companies, as well as offering retail... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Disruptive Innovation; Service Delivery; Investment Banking; Entrepreneurship

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01 Dec 2002
News

Clusters and Competition

Michael E. Porter: learning more about the processes that produce competitive success. Michael E. Porter, acclaimed expert on competitive strategy and leader of the HBS-based Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, began his luncheon... View Details

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Minority Students | MBA

Minority Students External Funding American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Scholarship for Minority Accounting Students Provides awards to outstanding undergraduate and graduate minority students who plan to pursue the... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key

call centers, with their attendant voice response units, need not be frustrating. When a company manages its call center well, effectively linking a triad of service, information technology, and internal processes, both the customer and... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause

Leadership in Melbourne last fall. Over two hundred leaders of nonprofit institutions attended the event. Professor Greyser, slated as a speaker but unable to fly in the wake of September 11, led his sessions via videoconference. Although... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Georges F. Doriot: Educating Leaders, Building Companies

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

September 2018 (Revised January 2020)
Supplement

Apple Pay and Mobile Payments in Australia (B)

By: Feng Zhu, Susan Athey and David Lane

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Payment Methods; Mobile Payment; Apple; Banks and Banking; Cooperation; Problems and Challenges; Policy; Digital Platforms; Banking Industry; Australia

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26 Jan 2017
News

The Challenges and Rewards of Teaching by the Case Method

substitute for the face-to-face learning that goes on between professors and participants, between participants, among participants, with each other. “I also have a consulting business called the International Case Method Institute... View Details

13 Jul 2016
News

From Money to Ministry

responsibility to inform the Admiral and be with him as he grieved for his son. “This was a taste of the pastoral ministry of journeying with someone during one of life’s tragedies,” Quainton says. With that experience etched in his... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 2000
News

Porter's Paradox

associated institutions in particular fields that compete but also cooperate." In a recent interview in Working Knowledge, a quarterly report on research at HBS, Porter was asked whether clusters and other local economic circumstances... View Details

25 Jun 2018
News

A Philanthropic Eye Reframes Abstract African Art

trustee for the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. Alongside a successful financial career, Joyner has collected objects ranging from abstract to figurative to 3-D sculpture made from 1945 to the present. Some 100... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

Books

of their goals, write the authors, is to correct the mistaken belief among some entrepreneurs, corporations, and academic institutions that "venture capitalists can add little value to young firms aside from money." After a historical... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

01 Jun 2018
News

Floor It

The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune response to treat disease. But for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

11 May 2015
News

Washington, DC Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

increase engagement with and among alumni well in to the future. The HBS goal is part of Harvard University’s $6.5 billion campaign announced in September 2014. “This Campaign is largely about tapping into our collective imagination to try to envision the future—and to... View Details

17 Sep 2015
News

Seattle and Cleveland Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

institution the resources it will require to meet the challenges this future will bring,” said Dean Nohria. “As we do so, we need to think not only of the challenges and opportunities facing Harvard Business School, but also the great... View Details

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