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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

did total operating expenses. This landmark reflected the expansion of core programs and higher MBA enrollment. The growth also reflected the rising costs required to maintain those revenue sources while continuing to invest in the... View Details

Howard J. Morgens

Morgens is credited with leading P&G through its most significant growth period. He introduced P&G Productions, funding the first television soap operas, as a means to promote P&G products.... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

26 Jun 2025
News

The Vinyl Revival

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details

Rudina Seseri

Rudina Seseri is Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, leading the firm’s investments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled enterprise software as a service (SaaS), cloud, Information Technology (IT) software, and vertical... View Details

Keywords: Software/App;#75;#Venture Capital

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Rakhi Mehra

communities around me," Rakhi says. "The intensity of intellectual discussion and debate gave me a new perspective on my home country. I felt a new sense of responsibility for the effects of growth on India." Applying an... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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The Rankings Game

Illustration by John Kachik Depending on which business school ranking you consult, the best MBA program in 2010 was at the University of Chicago, HBS, the London Business School, or Stanford University. Among the five leading media... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Jul 2014
Blog Post

Connecting Fashion & Technology at Kate Spade

growth of three categories of product: tech accessories, watches, and beauty across all three brands, Kate Spade New York, Kate Spade Saturday, and Jack Spade, and across all channels of distributions globally. I’m specifically in charge... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

10 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

approaches were really leading to a sale. Megibow commented, "We didn't know we were leaving money on the table." THE EUREKA STORY The Eureka story is similar to the CSI story, except that it typically involves a purposeful... View Details

23 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

simply not sustainable today if we take seriously any of the solid economic history done by historians in China or the West in recent decades. Rather, we have a picture of sustained, reasonably high economic growth during the 1910s,... View Details

Keywords: by William C. Kirby

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

durations, and dispatch it as electricity on demand. Cal's role prior to HBS was an Aerospace Industry Application Engineer at Mathworks. Aditya Desai (MBA 2022, Section J), Summer Internship: MBA Summer Intern at Natron Energy Natron Energy is the world's View Details

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History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

entrepreneurs moving their organizations from start-up to growth phase. 2019 Celebrated SEI's 25th anniversary with the Frontiers of Change convening of over 300 alumni, faculty, leaders in the field, students and staff. Published... View Details

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Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog

business executives, investors, and/or consultants. First, it would be of interest to those who at some point in their career see themselves as a CEO or senior manager potentially leading a troubled enterprise (small, medium, or large)... View Details

01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy

quarterly earnings reports, reflecting the complexity of corporate restructurings and other long-term growth strategies. There are important implications of these differences for public company boards, even though they operate with a... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance

12 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Leapfrogging Traditional Agricultural Development in Africa

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series – Leapfrogging Traditional Agricultural Development in Africa Cover image features Mostafa Terrab. By 2050, the world’s population is expected to reach 9.7 billion people, with more than half of the View Details

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

the future of the global market system. In keeping with the School's learning model, we provided participants with a "case"—this one consisting of the World Bank's scenario for global economic progress, looking toward 2030. While cheered by the prospect of... View Details

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

January 2011 (Revised November 2015)
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The National Geographic Society (A)

By: David A. Garvin and Carin-Isabel Knoop

In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Information Publishing; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Internet; Publishing Industry

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18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

Commodity Trading Jones, Geoffrey, and Espen StorliHarvard Business School Case 813-020 Examines the career of Marc Rich, the world's leading commodity trader before his criminal indictment in the United States in 1983. The case surveys... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit

careers as an attorney and as an Anglican priest. “I knew that I wanted to lead and to fight for justice and social good,” she observes. “Ironically, I’m doing that now, but on a far different path than I originally intended.” That path... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations

15 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 15

instability of market shares. It shows that firm volatility is positively associated with R&D spending, and that R&D is negatively associated with the correlation of growth between sectors which View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2015
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Case Study: Sneak Peak

Case Study features alumni and faculty offering advice on strategy to alumni who are leading businesses at a crossroads. Charles Philp (MBA 2006) started Colorado-based Sneakz Organic with his business partner in 2012 after a lightbulb... View Details

Keywords: Whole Foods; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

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