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Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online

University Create, nurture, and manage your organization or client’s brand strategy and value. "HBS Online courses are excellent for anyone who wishes to learn more about a particular subject area or further develop their career." Corina... View Details

06 Jul 2020
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A Letter from the Women in Investing Club

organization and be consistently ranked as one of the clubs people value the most at HBS. With our generous sponsors, we were able to host over 700 registrants for our annual Summit in Klarman Hall, featuring fantastic keynote speeches... View Details

12 Mar 2019
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What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program

one’s corporate ecosystem, etc.) is essential to establishing and growing businesses in African markets. Many of the failed entry attempts we discussed were led by organizations who either failed to identify suitable local partners or... View Details

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Creating Brand Value - Course Catalog

Learnings will focus on how brands and the stories that define them can be crafted, communicated, and managed in ways that nurture relationships that create value for both consumers and firms. Course Content and Organization: The course is View Details

03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

technologies, demographic shifts, and consumption trends. They can't develop truly global organizations that operate effortlessly across borders. And they find it tough to ensure that their people adhere to values and ethics. The world... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1997
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MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96

require three or four years of work experience," says Wheelwright. "In fact, we don't. We're interested in having more students consider coming to HBS directly from college; many of our alumni who did so say the experience helped them View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis

communicate with their families, who can’t come into the hospital. That’s a new form of telemedicine that we really hadn’t thought of until this pandemic was upon us. The Health Care Initiative at HBS Robert Huckman and Peter Slavin have... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

17 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

similar on-demand companies Shyp, Washio, and Caviar. "I think it would be crazy to all of a sudden say that all Uber drivers are employees, because we would be effectively killing the business model" What to make of this brave new world of View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Technology

07 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

opportunity, to get engaged. At the Kumbh Mela there was a central administration for the festival, much as there would be for a big state fair in the United States. It worked in coordination with the smaller religious groups as well as the seventeen big religious... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate

26 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 26, 2008

of the energy company Cinergy, has led the company from the brink of bankruptcy to one of the premier energy companies through selecting a focused strategy, aligning the organization to support it, and mobilizing all the employees to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

evolved over the past several hundred years. Even more than most organizations, traditional universities are products of their history. That history is shared, because most universities have emulated a handful of elite American schools that began to assume their modern... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

21 May 2001
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From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

the ultimate weapon to help leaders meet the challenges of the 21st century.—Rosabeth Moss Kanter Kaleidoscope thinking can be encouraged at all levels through six forms of mental stimulation, writes Kanter. These include: "Regular visits... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2009
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Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985

matched by his commitment to promoting education, government efficiency, and entrepreneurship in Brazil. He is the founder and a director of both Endeavor Brasil, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs in emerging markets, and the Brava Foundation, an View Details

12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

the body of empirical research on entrepreneurial resource mobilization has grown, the literature has become increasingly fragmented. We review the literature on entrepreneurs’ mobilization of resources, spanning human, social, financial, and other View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past

for all of Poland?’ He hesitatingly responded, ‘Let’s start small,’” Diamond recalls. “In the next few years, we signed a formal agreement with the archives.” As activities grew, JRI-Poland formed an executive committee and Diamond took... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Mar 2009
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Letters to the Editor

HBS Flunks Finance 101 As regards your December Editor’s Note wherein you refer to Dean Jay Light’s remarks to the hastily organized financial crisis panels during the week of September 22: Light attributes the financial crisis to the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2008
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An American Odyssey

radicalized. A postal worker, he was a union activist and organizer and an active supporter of the NAACP. So there were a lot of conversations about social problems and the politics of race.” Young Richard grew up and went to high school... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance

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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

camera clubs, salons, and art organizations in the 1920s and ’30s. Eager to elevate the industry’s reputation, advertisers also supported and promoted exhibitions like those produced by the Art Directors Club of New York, which tried to... View Details

20 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

organizations is based on value, on average. While three-quarters of their revenue remains fee-for-service, we see a remarkable change to a reimbursement system that was static for decades. In particular, survey respondents’ View Details