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- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
presents a unique opportunity for Joint Degree graduates to make a difference. Reflecting on his time at HBS and HKS, Soo’s memories center on the people he shared the classroom with. “Being in this cohort...
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- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
(Editor's note: This is the last in a series of four articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Banks are the principal...
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Minal Mehta
And when Bollywood was exploding across college campuses in my undergrad years at UC Berkeley, I was leading my dance team to sweep national competitions. It feels like BollyX had always been in the cards. "It was 18 months after I...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
"Consequently, the intermediaries in the financial services industry—the brokers—are really going to be affected. Having said that, however, I believe there will always be people who want personal interaction with a broker."...
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- 22 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
I Found My Future at HBS and You Can Too
Although I did not know it at the time, my path to business school began on March 1, 1992. It was my ninth birthday, and I was enjoying the liberty that came with growing up on a farm View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
New Year's Eve 1999 gave revelers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for celebration—the exhilarating thrill of ringing in a year that's always had an aura of science fiction mystery. When the champagne corks popped at midnight, however,...
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- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
came in? Cunningham: I was not on site, but certainly a lot of folks on the team were. We really closely monitored the results and we look at results across three different dimensions. We View Details
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
Trump. However, there was one key difference separating his potential candidacy from the others: brand awareness. Because of the public’s close identification of him with Starbucks, Schultz’s run could lead to blowback to the coffee...
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- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
exclusive than the approximately 7,000 companies worldwide that received a venture investment in 2010. Birchbox was among the just 823 companies—11.8 percent—that had at least one woman founder. The number with a woman of color View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
It is tough to think positively in a crisis. Yet one overarching lesson in a new book by HBS professor Bill George, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis (Jossey-Bass), is exactly that: See crisis as a chance to develop and enhance your...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Steve Jobs Legacy
emotions. Bruce Harreld (Entrepreneurial Management) I met Steve Jobs many times over twenty years, and one word always comes to mind—passion. Steve was always passionate about...
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- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
of things that mattered to patients that weren't necessarily the kinds of things that we as clinicians thought about. This was a new idea to us, this idea that, gee, cancer patients aren't always primarily interested in a cure. At least,...
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- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
Locations Visited: Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore Date: March and May, 2006 Purpose: Assess the progress of eighteen business schools in Harvard Business School's Program on Case Method and Participant-Centered...
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- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
concept of "Enterprise 2.0"—a term coined by McAfee on the general idea of how Web 2.0 technologies can be used in business—popped up on Wikipedia, McAfee beamed. "I was bizarrely proud when my work rose to...
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- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
Complex trends in globalization, demographic shifts, and new technologies are raising urgent challenges for managers on an everyday level. Because of the number of companies undergoing digital transformation, managers need to navigate an...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
going to be hot—and then build up a deep knowledge of who the good engineers are, who the interesting customers are, what the right channels are, and who the essential business partners are. So, when they go out on their own, they bring a...
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Laura Mackay
the opportunity to learn business principles in an academic setting. It was very important to me to use my two years in business school to focus on personal development. The HBS case method is incredibly unique and powerful in pushing...
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- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
would eventually drive people away, the sites have an incentive to steer users to the products that yield them the highest margins—which may not always coincide with the ones that best correspond to users'...
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by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
Finance II, students learn about the Rule of One Price, or why two people do not always pay the same. Students learn what professor Peter Tufano calls the "Matrix of Imperfections" in the capital...
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- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
In the fall of 2009, baseball's Anaheim Angels knocked the Boston Red Sox out of the American League Division Series in a humiliating three straight games. Within a matter of weeks, Sox general manager Theo Epstein had launched one of the...
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