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26 Jun 2013
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How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case

Bob Reiss Photo courtesy of Bob Reiss It was 1983, and Bob Reiss (MBA 1956) was looking for a new game to play. A Brooklyn native and former basketball star at Columbia University who had become a successful entrepreneur in the toy-and-game industry, Reiss was... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

Alternative Investments Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice "You'll learn not only what makes a great investment but the strategies and mindset needed to be a successful investor." Dates & Eligibility No current course... View Details

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A major area of Professor Torfason's research is the behavior of individual social network structures. He studies the violation of norms – specifically the use of excessive force in conflict situations – within the empirical context of a large online... View Details

November 2013
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Canyon-Agassi Investing in Charter Schools

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Nicole Shomair, Vernon Beckford and Lisa Strope

After an unusual round of doubles in May 2011, real estate investor Bobby Turner, Managing Partner, Canyon-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund (CACSFF) and Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, found himself at a loss for words. Turner was... View Details

Keywords: Charter Schools; Real Estate; Fund Raising; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Real Estate Industry; United States

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12 Sep 2023
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Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

they need is probably not a panel discussion. Rather they need someone with a high degree of expertise and lived experience in the field to brainstorm individually around their challenge. These resources sit on top of the foundational... View Details

17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

“I was so struck by that. He clearly felt he was going to become untethered from the person he’d been for many years, in a fundamental way,” says Amabile, a Baker Foundation professor at HBS, who is semi-retired herself. In preliminary... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

22 Feb 2017
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Enabling Mission Impact: Funding Strategies for High-Risk High-Reward Innovation

Governments and foundations around the world are urgently seeking strategies to optimize their investments across a range of distinctive missions targeted towards societal challenges. How should such investments be made, from early R&D spending to later-stage... View Details

11 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

Frances Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management, is an expert in the intersection of leadership and inclusion. Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration, studies how people can lead more... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint

01 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love

with winning. His expectation that everyone will work hard and strive to perform at their best serves as a foundation for firing up intrinsic motivation among team members. But Carroll couples that expectation with a soft touch. He calls... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Sports

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

University, http://condor.depaul.edu/tps/International_Suffrage_Timeline.htm [Link no longer available] Notes: Kyrgyzstan is listed in the source as achieving suffrage in 1936 Download Data Set in Excel World Trade Organization since View Details

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

outcomes and costs, the foundations of a health care value framework. The company launches a pilot project to use time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)... Dec 2014 (Revised Jan 2016) HBS Case Collection Vanderbilt: Transforming a... View Details

18 Dec 2013
HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

Foundation (now the Livestrong Foundation). Since 2004, the yellow Livestrong bracelets on the wrists of his supporters had become a ubiquitous symbol of hope and determination. When Armstrong chose to break the rules of professional... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

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Morris Hall | About

and began setting the foundation for the new nation’s economic development. Key accomplishments include his role in financing George Washington’s decisive military victory over the British at Yorktown in 1781, the last major land battle... View Details

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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni

Administration, Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society Professor Peter Tufano, Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration 10:00 a.m. Case Study Discussion: Jeff Harmening at General Mills On May 25, 2020, George... View Details

09 May 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)

aspects of my Asian heritage and to embrace what it means to be Asian American. My culture has instilled in me the values of determination, resilience, hard work, and community, which serve as the bedrock of my identity and the foundation... View Details

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Align your organization around a value-based strategy: Build a firm foundation for exploring and implementing strategy transformation Manage the issues that arise when implementing new approaches Lead strategic and organizational change... View Details

11 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

fix it. Avery is an expert on customer relationships and brand management. Schlesinger, the Baker Foundation Professor in the General Management Unit, has co-written several books on service management. Buell studies service operations... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

take leaders by surprise. Drawing on his extensive experience building high-performance organizations, Bier has created 20 foundational rituals that make your organization as frictionless as possible, allowing you to scale faster and more... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

to fellow alumni of the GLSA has proven to be lifelong. There’s a deeper layer of connection with people who’ve gone through similar experiences, and to have that bond mashed together with the aspiration of being business leaders—that’s been the View Details

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

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