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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information From the Chief Financial Officer For Harvard Business School, fiscal 2023 marked a year of innovation and strong financial performance. As part of Dean Datar’s ambitious... View Details

22 Aug 2018
Blog Post

The National Park Services: A Mini-Business with a Twist

Visitor and Resource Protection (i.e. Law Enforcement), Interpretation (i.e. Visitor Services) and Administration. The inter-working of these divisions is not distinct from how business functions might interface within a corporation. For... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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Rye Barcott

"I came to Harvard to find news of thinking about leading complex organizations. How can business principles be applied to improve government agencies and nonprofits? Where are the productive intersections? How can they be leveraged... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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Building a Movement

Business schools also have to think carefully about their curriculum. We’ve been talking about the need for corporations to adjust to a changing environment, increasing pressures to dial down the single-minded pursuit of profit and to... View Details

23 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)

maintained, the power of self-policing organizations, the question of whether the service is drifting from its core principles, and whether a Wikipedia-like concept can work in a business setting. (See... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

21 Mar 2018
Blog Post

Telling Your Story: How to Create a Powerful Personal Digital Brand

to amplify our personalities through digital media, the opportunities for personal branding have both grown more numerous – and more intimidating. Grinshpun draws upon her experience mentoring executives, MBA alumni, and students to offer a View Details

09 Sep 2024
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Basket Chase

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details

19 Mar 2019
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A Quick Study

company’s core competency is health education for patients and health professionals alike, Gaglani says, and the goal is to reach 1 billion people by 2025. It represents a massive opportunity. “I realized that there were a lot of things... View Details

Henry B. Spencer

After serving as vice president of the Southern Railway System until 1917, Spencer formed the Fruit Growers Express to transport perishable goods and provide ventilated and refrigerated car services. With Fruit Growers owning its own cars and repair shops, the company... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

01 Dec 2009
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INCAE Making Global Impact

A REGIONAL LEADER: Founded nearly fifty years ago with HBS’s help, INCAE looks to a bright future, building on its role and reputation as a center for business education in Latin America. Photo Courtesy Incae As the HBS Global Initiative... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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From Das’s Desk

amazing, profound experience.” —Stephanie Crimmins (MBA 2000) “I’ve been reflecting for some time on my core purpose and how that translates into a vision for the next phase of my professional and personal journey. As such, The Reflective... View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

Robert W. Woodruff

Resisting the pressure of other board members to diversify Coca-Cola through acquisition, Woodruff was committed to promoting the company’s core mission. In keeping with this vision, Woodruff solicited the genius of advertising great... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog

examines 3 recently developed ‘godlike technologies’ - artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and synthetic biology- that have passed commercial viability and are on-track to change the foundations of business and society by 2035. These... View Details

02 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

separates professional service firms from other businesses is that the employees are their most important assets. Yet professionals in any field — independent-minded, creative individuals—can be difficult to manage. In LPSF, we use an old... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting

20 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 20

call center operations are described in detail, as are its decision-making and business processes. At the end of the case, executives are considering whether Ctrip should actively pursue either the budget or luxury travel segments, which... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2019
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INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling

companies. You aren’t going to apply them to your core business that’s growing at 10 percent a year, but you could apply them to that area that is small but growing quickly with the potential to be the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

24 Oct 2018
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Exploring the Future of Work for Women

ways of working and their impacts on gender, “ says Kami Viswanathan (MBA 2001), who organized the conference with a core team including Vivek Gambhir (MBA 1997), Jyoti Narang (AMP 179), and Nupur Arya (AMP 192), along with Anjali Raina... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2019
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What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

financial returns and impact in the business model of investee companies. Quite a few of the large, global PE firms have launched impact funds over the last year. On the public side, I think ESG will become View Details