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09 Jan 2020
Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

a traditional business—the gym—into an $8 billion digital offering that pulled in more than $700 million in revenue during the last fiscal year. Foley credits the magic of today’s technology, including software, data, and communication... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections Visual Resources More Exhibits Exhibition Gallery Research Links Site Credits The Art of American Advertising 1865 - 1910 National Markets Advertising Products Trade Catalogs Trade... View Details

21 May 2015
Blog Post

3 Ways to Fund Your HBS MBA

lender to lender, so make sure to really read the fine print! Private loans typically have variable interest rates, which means you may be able to secure a private loan with a lower interest rate than a Federal loan. Adding a co-signer with good View Details

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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details

Keywords: Well-being; Judgment And Decision Making; Health; Prosocial Behavior

01 Jun 2023
News

Bridging the ESG Data Gap

entrepreneurs-in-residence. Murday was at the i-lab the day Harvard’s campus-wide COVID-19 shutdown was announced. “That was a curveball,” she notes, but adds that the Harvard Innovation Labs moved quickly to set up virtual resources. She View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

March 2005 (Revised January 2006)
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Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Transactional and Translational Exposures

By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen

How should a multinational firm manage foreign exchange exposures? Examines transactional and translational exposures and alternative responses to these exposures by analyzing two specific hedging decisions by General Motors. Describes General Motors' corporate hedging... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Currency Exchange Rate; Expansion; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Risk and Uncertainty; International Finance; Auto Industry

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “It is just about the greatest thrill there is in the world, that feeling of living in a little universe in which all you... View Details

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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Lehman Brothers Collection Resources Baker Library Collections Corporate Reports Collection R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports HBS Cases Baker Old Class Collection Related Archival Collections Bibliography Site View Details

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

the front desk couldn’t find our reservation. The night manager immediately took us to our rooms so we could rest and even gave us an upgrade for the inconvenience. (We waited less than five minutes.) He didn’t ask for a credit card or... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

working world, keeping education a key priority. “Student loan debt exceeds consumer credit card debt by $500 billion,” Drake continues. “We’re buying more higher ed than we are Amazon, which is just unbelievable.” Coupled with that is... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

22 Sep 2023
News

Capital Connection

Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Real Estate

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

in life. And that not only instilled values in me and my wife Susan, but has been passed on as our greatest legacy to our three sons. JH: Fascinated by airplanes and the power of flight, Peter Crisp (MBA 1960) credits his parents with... View Details

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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877

China Trade Bibliography Manuscript Collections Related Collections Site Credits “Business is too important and interesting not to be chronicled somehow,” Albert Heard wrote. 1 He was referring to his family’s firm, Augustine Heard & Co.,... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

interested me. The timing was right. You've been credited with turning Martha Stewart Living into a multimedia corporation. What was it like when you first arrived in 1993? When I met Martha she had various fragmented businesses and... View Details

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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “Within the hour, the camera, the film, and the physical chemistry became so clear to me.” Edwin Land, "On Some Conditions... View Details

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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

a reality, Nneka focused on building relationships and has found the strength of the HBS network to be particularly powerful. “The HBS alumni network is so large you can always find folks that you connect with, personally and professionally, who you can help or can... View Details

01 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

consider some different incentives, Gallani says. The manufacturer in the study rewarded employees for their ideas with fairly small monetary awards. Increasing the size of the award—whether it’s more money or some other benefit—could help increase participation, she... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

in effective leadership. MBA Elective Curriculum (SECOND YEAR) Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under Technology & Operations Management) Willy Shih , Derek van... View Details

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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

underwriting securities for the railroads, which like other rising industries, would come to depend on a system of credit and financial markets. 21 As the railroads increased so did corruption, which took many forms: absconding with... View Details

April 2022
Case

Mastercard: Creating a World Beyond Cash

By: Sunil Gupta, Linda A. Hill, Julia Kelley and Emily Tedards

In late 2021, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach and Chairman and former CEO Ajaypal “Ajay” Banga considered how Mastercard could best position itself for continued success in the years to come. Since Mastercard’s initial public offering in 2006, the company had grown and... View Details