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01 Sep 2024
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Meyers

01 Dec 2016
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Managing Change

from HBP and now HBX as well—Das has shepherded a process through which Executive Education has enhanced its reputation as a premier provider of executive development to leading firms and institutions around the world, while engaging more... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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Wide Angle

You're senior associate dean of Harvard Business School Online and the former president of Barnard College. What lessons can educational institutions take from the economic impact of the pandemic? I suspect that this moment is going to be... View Details

October 2009 (Revised February 2010)
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Merger of Equals: The Integration of Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York (A)

By: Ryan D. Taliaferro, Clayton S. Rose and David Lane

Less than a month after the close of the merger between The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial, managers at the two firms realized that plans for combining their asset servicing businesses—and realizing the $180 million of annual cost savings that they had promised... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Asset Management; Financial Institutions; Risk Management; Integration; Information Technology; Financial Services Industry

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01 Jun 2010
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Get Well Soon

Medical Center” (CCHMC) details how one institution has implemented its own version of health-care reform, taking overall perfor-mance levels from well below average to the top 10 percent in the industry. Coauthored by HBS assistant... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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International Students | MBA

International Students Play Video duration: 1:07 The student body at Harvard Business School is incredibly diverse, especially geographically. The Class of 2026 is comprised of 35% international students with over 150 international undergraduate View Details

02 Dec 2021
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Learning Curve

years. While she couldn’t see the future of the Joy School clearly at the time, she also wanted to build something that would outlast its founders. “It didn’t matter how big the school was; it needed to be a viable institution that really... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Inbox: From Das’s Desk

commitment doesn’t wane even after graduation. As I have met with many of you all over the globe in the last eight months, I have been blown away not just by your achievements in so many aspects of your careers and lives, but also by the affection and commitment you... View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

01 Dec 2009
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The Fab Four

school in that capacity was rejuvenating for me as well. Suddenly I was in a situation where I could really think about different kinds of business problems and potential opportunities because I wasn’t constrained by my own operating reality. It was a great way to give... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information

01 Jun 2016
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Making It Possible to Explore and Grow

opportunity to learn how to raise institutional capital for their businesses. In two inaugural cohorts that summer— one in San Francisco, the other in New York City —18 female entrepreneurs participated in 12 workshop sessions organized... View Details

July 2024
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Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc

In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details

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07 Oct 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight

part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s and became its chair in 2009. Her work with the charity has been informed by her business career, she says. A partner at... View Details

22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15325 PublicationsHow Actors Change Institutions: Towards a Theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship Authors:Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca, and Eva Boxenbaum Publication:The Academy of Management... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

investors. We find that solo investments by institutions outperform co-investments and a wide range of benchmarks for traditional private equity partnership investments. The outperformance is driven by deals where View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

the network of relationships between brokers and institutional investors shapes the information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2016
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Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

importance of an informed and rigorous historical understanding for practitioners. He visited my office later to say that he felt Chilean policymakers and business leaders lacked such an understanding, and he would like to do something... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!

paths to pedal. In 1893, the roads became a cause of concern for the federal government as the U.S. Post Office Department instituted a system of rural free delivery (RFD). Members of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry — an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Information; Information; Information; Information

01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom

eat some grasshoppers, ensuring (according to local lore) that they’ll return to Oaxaca one day. Day 3: Oaxaca Site Visits MI CASA ES SU CASA: On site visits, student groups focus on different tracks (housing, water, retail), gathering View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

21 Sep 2016
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Ideas with Economic and Social Impact

emerging countries is very encouraging.” The former executive director of the HBS Global Initiative, Wilson is the founder of the consulting firm GV Partners, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Her impressive list of clients includes global View Details

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

Wall Street: From Managing Money to Saving Souls on the Streets of New York by Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In The Missionary of Wall Street, Auth shares dozens of riveting and often funny stories about ordinary... View Details

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