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Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde
I wanted to get out of my comfort zone and see the bigger picture.” Tuce has not been disappointed. “The case method makes everything interesting,” she says. “You’re not going to remember all the case outcomes. That’s not the point. It’s about shaping you. The open... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Volunteers Crack Case, Consider School's Future
for the next morning's case discussion. Jarred back to anxiety, that night I assumed the classic posture — highlighter in hand, scrutinizing the case as if my life depended upon it. Early Saturday morning, the familiar debate began —... View Details
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Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde
wanted to get out of my comfort zone and see the bigger picture.” Tuce has not been disappointed. “The case method makes everything interesting,” she says. “You’re not going to remember all the case outcomes. That’s not the point. It’s about shaping you. The open View Details
- 14 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
Looking to the Next Decade of Change: A Recap of the 10th Annual Retail & Luxury Goods Conference
with the speakers in depth. Overheard were several sound bites of attendees asking for career advice or debating about the future direction of the retail industry. As the day concluded, the conference ended in celebration of the club’s... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Making the Case for Maine: HBS Club and State's CEO Discuss Business Issues
draws for new business, including location, lifestyle, a loyal and dedicated work force, and a sophisticated fiber-optic telecommunications system. It also lays out the problems that new businesses face, such as high taxes and a lack of capital and properly skilled... View Details
Keywords: Janine Brunell Looker
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
Japanese business during the 1970s and 1980s — such as lifetime employment, cross-shareholding, and keiretsu (Japanese corporate groupings) — are going through fundamental changes. There is ongoing debate as to where Japanese companies... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
how European debates about political economy were translated with time across the Atlantic in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Through acts of translation, and in the context of intense processes of international and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- Blog Post
5 Ways the Case Method Changes How You Learn
method of learning that depends as much on the caliber of the students as it does the teachers. Everyone comes to class armed with their creativity, insight, personal biases and backgrounds, and professional experience ready to propose a solution. View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
important catalyst to accelerate change; however, policy changes are not necessary to initiate migration to value-based competition. The policy debate is complex, political, and often focuses on the wrong subjects. The View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
which executive activism affected not only public opinion but also customer perceptions. Apple CEO Cook’s actions around the RFRA debate particularly intrigued the researchers. “You can see a business reason why the CEOs of Eli Lilly and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Makyha-Tiana Bowles
The edge is where fear ends and faith begins. With these words replaying in my mind as a rhythmic chant, I went skydiving. At the same time in my life, I found myself at an impasse, debating whether to leave the only job I had ever known.... View Details
- August 2004 (Revised February 2006)
- Case
Marketing James Patterson
By: John A. Deighton
Can a successful novelist use direct-to-consumer marketing to grow his brand? The author, who in a previous career ran a major advertising agency, uses advertising with great success to build his stature as a crime fiction writer. Further, he applies his experience at... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Debates; Surveys; SWOT Analysis; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Outcome or Result; Sales
Deighton, John A. "Marketing James Patterson." Harvard Business School Case 505-029, August 2004. (Revised February 2006.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 19 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
4 Updates About Peek Weekend at HBS
business management. Participants will spend evenings analyzing real-business cases, and use morning study groups and classes to examine and debate their ideas through lively interaction with peers and faculty. The classroom experience... View Details
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Closings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Feedback Sample Class The appropriate closing for a class discussion is among the most debated elements of case method teaching. Some instructors advocate a minimalist approach, arguing that extensive commentary by the discussion leader... View Details
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a business-environmentalist can be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
still a win for humanity. Julian Zlatev: There’s been a long debate in psychology about whether people are truly altruistic: Is altruism really altruism if it reflects this warm glow or the self-interested reasons Christine is talking... View Details
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
executives to do in light of the perception by many in the public that the money was being paid out of funds provided by a Government bail-out. DeSantis' action sparked a debate regarding pay for performance in general, and retention... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
emissions reductions immediately, Henderson and the other speakers were optimistic that it is completely plausible to change today’s practices and norms. Despite ongoing debate about the cost of decarbonizing the world’s economy,... View Details
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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Woldridge SPNM 2010 In debating how to approach its support of nonprofit leaders to attend... On Course Ivy So For Ivy So (MBA 2015), the decision to attend business school was a to... Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Poverty... View Details
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
people at Google and millions more around the world before Google CEO Sundar Pichai terminated him. The ensuing debate expanded far beyond the Google campus, during which many people sided with Damore as being treated unfairly for... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George