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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
is considering launching a COVID relief van program to help carry oxygen and basic medicines to those in need. MAY 20 Students Fight COVID was started by 250+ MBA/MS 2023 admits from across the world, including HBS, with View Details
- July 2024
- Case
Negotiating in a Hurricane: John Branca and the Michael Jackson Estate
By: James K. Sebenius and Alex Green
When the "King of Pop," Michael Jackson, unexpectedly died in 2009, he left behind an estate that was over $500 million in debt, with largely illiquid assets, and legions of creditors poised to begin to seize assets in as soon as 60 days. The task of managing Jackson’s... View Details
Keywords: Bargaining; Dispute Resolution; Negotiation; Entertainment; Financial Management; Financial Condition; Assets; Music Industry
Sebenius, James K., and Alex Green. "Negotiating in a Hurricane: John Branca and the Michael Jackson Estate." Harvard Business School Case 924-026, July 2024.
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
make decisions. But it's not all about a cost/benefit comparison...It's change and it's new and you can't know everything about that. It's the future, so at some point you do rely on something beyond analysis," in her experience on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
Evans. "We have a chance to really impact the way people think about supporting the arts." In the year since she launched VIA (which stands for Visionary View Details
- May 2007
- Article
The Governance of Open Source Initiatives: What Does it Mean to be Community Managed?
The concept of 'open source' software initially referred to software projects managed by grassroots communities in public forums. Since 1998, the concept has been adapted and diffused to new settings that extend beyond software. While the open source community has... View Details
O'Mahony, Siobhan. "The Governance of Open Source Initiatives: What Does it Mean to be Community Managed?" Art. 4. Special Issue on the Roundtable on the Governance of Open Source Software Journal of Management and Governance 11, no. 2 (May 2007): 139–150.
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About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
levels of the faculty and throughout instructors' careers. The Center's offerings and initiatives fall into four main areas: Faculty COACHING Services include class... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
business press and savvy business experts such Warren Buffett. It didn’t help when one of the most publicized RLBOs—Refco—collapsed in 2005 shortly after its initial public offering. And on September 21, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium
required. This year MBA Admissions has launched a new initiative to attract potential applicants who might not automatically include HBS in their career plans. Targeted to reach alumni, colleges, and companies worldwide, View Details
Keywords: Cindy Olnick
- 2015
- Discussion Paper
The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change
By: Claudia Steinwender
A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access to export markets,... View Details
Steinwender, Claudia. "The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change." CEP Discussion Paper, No. 1334, February 2015.
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
in order to understand how well these initiatives might work,” Coffman says. “And it was a great opportunity to work with my mom It’s always great to work with someone I admire.” Specifically, Baldiga and Coffman wanted to gauge View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Elevator Pitch: Spread the Wealth
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Sabine Tejerina (MBA 2009) Cofounder and COO, Upstreet Concept: Launched in 2020, Upstreet makes it easier and more economical for companies to reward employees and customers with shares to improve engagement and... View Details
- 2019
- Working Paper
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 15 The IBM PC
The IBM PC was the first digital computer platform that was open by as a matter of strategy, not necessity. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the IBM PC as a technical system and set of organization choices in light of the theory of how technology shapes... View Details
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 15 The IBM PC." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-074, January 2019.
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
CEO of Competitiveness.com, he brings experience in nearly 200 economic development initiatives in Europe and Latin America to his World Bank job. Comparing his previous development consulting experience in emerging economies to his work... View Details
- 30 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration
implementing carbon capture at Amager Bakke. Based on a study conducted in 2021, the potential CO2 savings through carbon capture are estimated at 500,000 tons per year. Over the next year, a demo... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
types of unique challenges do the managers and companies in your cases face? Do you have a sense of how these might be different from those highlighted by cases produced at the other Global View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
Editor's note: This article originally appeared on Harvard University's Real Estate Academic Initiative website. If Harvard Business School and the Graduate School of Design seem miles apart both literally... View Details
- June 2007 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
The Vanguard Group, Inc. in 2006 and Target Retirement Funds
By: Luis M. Viceira
The Vanguard Group is one of the largest asset managers in the U.S., with over $1 trillion in assets, ninety percent of which are mutual fund assets, and more than 12,000 employees at year-end 2006. Vanguard has built a strong reputation as the manager of reference for... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Investment Funds; Personal Finance; Brands and Branding; Retirement; Trust; Financial Services Industry; United States
Viceira, Luis M. "The Vanguard Group, Inc. in 2006 and Target Retirement Funds." Harvard Business School Case 207-129, June 2007. (Revised January 2008.)
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
PRIDE in the HBS Community
initiative where a couple of HBS students volunteer each month to share anything in their lives to the broader HBS community. In commemoration of National Coming Out Day, individuals shared their coming out... View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
important catalyst to accelerate change; however, policy changes are not necessary to initiate migration to value-based competition. The policy debate is complex, political, and often focuses on View Details
- 31 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World
from Mao Tse Tung to Bangladeshi bloggers, Reinert says the essay’s initial influence was limited primarily to North America and Europe, tracking closely with the first parts... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna