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Creating Brand Value - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Creating Brand Value Course Number 1925 Assistant Professor Julian de Freitas Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Exam Career Focus: This course is designed for students who plan to create, unlock, or invest in value... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
retired Dean of the Harvard Business School. John Hector McArthur was born in 1934 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up somewhere between the right side of the tracks and the wrong side of the tracks in a suburb called Burnaby,... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
portals including PoliceLink, NursingLink, TechCommunity, and IndiaOn. While the company was well ahead of its original plan to release four portals in 2007, Michel still faced a number of challenges. He had learned a great deal from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
in subterfuge. No one of them knew the full plan for producing and distributing the posters, and each took a circuitous path to the central Warsaw basement where they would be printed. But as Maj and his friend Janek walked away from the... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
International: The Second Act Harvard Business School Case 209-110 Thomas McDonald, senior vice president of Equity International (EI), is weighing an investment in the Brazilian homebuilder Gafisa. Was this the right country? The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
in my DNA from the start, because my mom is from Chile. My father is French. And I was born in the United States. And so right from the get go, I was a little baby, I would be sent off to France, and then we went to Chile many times in my... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
leaders were trained, sophisticated strategic-planning systems were supposed to help senior managers decide which businesses to grow and which to harvest. 1 Unfortunately, all the planning and investment were unable to stop the... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
to supermarket deli departments. In 2008, he was convinced that the time was right to make a big push in the fresh food area to satisfy consumers that were demanding more convenient, natural, good-tasting, and locally-grown foods. Taylor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
rights only limit the growth of innovation"? The "societal view" of intellectual property was taken by Harsh Honmode, who said " ... a lifelong royalty on ideas will only dampen the spirit of another creative being to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
inclined and incentivized to do the right thing.” “We know what can happen when people lose faith in the markets. That’s why we’re all here working really hard to earn and to keep the public’s trust.” “We know what can happen when people... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)
years at HBS, allowed her to pick up experiences, skills, and knowledge that would help her carve a path from chemical engineering and supply chain to climate operations strategy at KKR Capstone and climate investment at KKR ESG. Sheil’s Road to HBS Sheil began making... View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Be Unapologetically Yourself: Interview with Singer-Songwriter and Banking Strategist Andrea Mendoza
performed and immersed herself in the world of music alongside her classmates the more validation she felt and her confidence rose. Meanwhile, Mendoza wanted to pressure test if returning to financial services would be the right path for... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About
academic freedom and its right to enroll foreign students. I believe it is vital for Harvard to prevail. At Harvard Business School, our mission is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. This requires us to be open to the... View Details
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Authentic Leader Development - Course Catalog
double-spaced (think blog). This reflection is due even if you are the group facilitator that week. In lieu of an exam, students will write a final paper on the purpose of their leadership, as well as complete and submit a Personal Leadership Development View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
improvement in safety climate." “They're not going to get better by picking the right problem. They're going to get better by becoming better problem-solvers.” One reason for this is that employees are more likely to buy into improvement... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
often buttress the existing social contract. When the wrong minds meet. Sometimes problems arise not because of cultural differences but instead because the right people are not involved in negotiations. For example, when two CEOs... View Details
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
disseminating information about peer behavior on savings. Low-saving employees received simplified plan enrollment or contribution increase forms. A randomized subset of forms stated the fraction of age-matched coworkers participating in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Market day also means it’s a busy day for Gregoria Alvarez Reyes, whose store sits on an adjacent corner, right in the path of foot traffic. For the past 11 years, Reyes has owned and operated Farmacia Fradoni in this northwest section of... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
Nagarjuna adds that this year it was particularly challenging to organize this capstone event given the pandemic. “We fast-tracked all aspects, from planning to execution, in order to have the event organized in time,” he says “Noom was... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
the only full-time, musician-governed orchestra in the world.) It was arrogant, perhaps, offers John Reeks, a Lower Ninth Ward native who joined the orchestra as a woodwind player right out of Loyola University in 1973. “But we said, ‘We... View Details