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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
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Franchise Organizations by Jeffrey L. Bradach (Harvard Business School Press) How much impact do chains such as Pizza Hut and McDonald's have on today's economy? Here are some telling numbers: a new franchise opens in the United States... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
and other firms that employed what became known as the SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) in addressing the challenges of client organizations. In 1987, the Academy of Management recognized Christensen’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
Stephen Johnston (photo by Gary Laufman) For a mobile-focused business entrepreneur, Stephen Johnston (MBA 2002) is more than a bit of a contrarian. Unlike many of his peers, Johnston, 41, has his sights set not on emerging nations but on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
The Best Place for Retirement Funds Location, location, location isn’t just about real estate. Assistant Professor Daniel Bergstresser discusses his research on optimal asset-location strategies. The Hard Work of Failure Analysis We all... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
rise to the top. And for those in the lowest 20 percent of income distribution, there’s only a 7.5 percent chance they’ll move up to the top and a 35.7 percent chance they’ll remain in the lowest income range. “The crux of our analysis is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
freedom." A multifaceted research conference titled "Partnering for Knowledge Creation" was held to celebrate the center's opening last August 3-4. Prominent university academics and top business leaders from ten countries were among the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Secrets Behind a VC Success Story
teaching, Professor C. Roland (“Chris”) Christensen is remembered as a maestro who transformed the art of discussion-based teaching — and changed the lives of his students in the process. Creativity in Business and Organizations Three HBS... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
George H. Strong, MBA 1951
directors analyzes, deliberates, and decides.” Participating in case discussions and writing weekly WACs (Written Analysis of Cases), says Strong, “allowed us not only to observe, but to take part in figuring out how to solve View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
online food delivery business based in Denmark. This was our conclusion: “Just Eat seems to only work in Denmark, where business is profitable. Its other half-dozen markets are burning cash. It already has... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
Photo Courtesy MATTHEW R. SIMMONS In his new book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67) sounds an alarm about a finite resource that he believes is running dry. Based on his View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford University Press) This handbook surveys research in business history, a broad area of study generating empirical... View Details
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- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967)
surrounded by technology in other ways, he applied to business school. After four undergraduate years of problem sets and lab work, he found the class participation required by the HBS case method a bit daunting. “I was nervous about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
an in-depth analysis of the opportunities and challenges, both traditional and contemporary, of doing business in India. Great Service Made Simple by Frederic B. Sargent (OPM 2) (The Sustainable Service... View Details
- 22 Aug 2016
- News
The Future of GE
consumer businesses we were in. We’ve exited plastics and things like that. In the last 15 years, we’re one of the few leadership teams in history that’s sold $100 billion in businesses and bought $100... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
FIELD 3 Tests Students
‘plans’ to go to market,” explains Moon. “They actually had to launch a real business and generate real arm’s-length revenue.” Teams that didn’t make the cut moved to the “failed business track,” where they... View Details
Keywords: FIELD program
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
W50 Next Steps
experiences about relationships among women at work, with a particular focus on building effective, supportive collaborations across differences in race, generation, and geography. WHILE EXPANDED ANALYSIS continues and a new report is... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem
with in-depth analysis and specific recommendations, many of which will be detailed in a special March 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review. Alumni respondents received an early preview of the results and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
half-course format will play a more prominent role in the elective curriculum in the future because it gives students an opportunity to sample more instructors and ideas,” says Tom Eisenmann, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
original donation total. With a second event complete, the two business school graduates at the helm were able to do a deep-dive analysis of their concept and forecast its future. From what they saw, it was... View Details