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- February 1999 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
Life as a Minor League CEO Frank Burke and The Chattanooga Lookouts
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Kirk A. Goldman
A "slice of life" depiction of the range of issues and activities experienced by Frank Burke (HBS MBA 1987), the president of a minor league baseball team (the Chattanooga Lookouts). Raises questions of the applicability of MBA skills in this role and the "quotient of... View Details
Keywords: Happiness; Managerial Roles; Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Marketing; Cost Management; Cost vs Benefits; Operations; Sports; Business Education; Sports Industry; Tennessee
Greyser, Stephen A., and Kirk A. Goldman. "Life as a Minor League CEO Frank Burke and The Chattanooga Lookouts." Harvard Business School Case 599-029, February 1999. (Revised July 2004.)
- June 1999
- Course Overview Note
Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), Course Overview (Abridged)
By: Linda A. Hill
Course overview for the first-year required MBA course Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD). View Details
Hill, Linda A. "Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), Course Overview (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 499-067, June 1999.
- March 1978
- Case
Lincoln Electric Co. (B)
Reaction of a recent MBA to the climate, motivational systems, and management practices of the Lincoln Electric Company. View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture
Matthews, John B., Jr. "Lincoln Electric Co. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 378-216, March 1978.
- August 2017
- Module Note
Distinguishing Good Advice from Bad Advice: An Introduction to the HBS Course 'Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise' (BSSE)
By: Clayton Christensen
Overview of theoretical approach of HBS MBA Course "Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise"; distinguishing theory based on correlation from theory based on causal driver. View Details
Christensen, Clayton. "Distinguishing Good Advice from Bad Advice: An Introduction to the HBS Course 'Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise' (BSSE)." Harvard Business School Module Note 318-032, August 2017.
- Teaching Interest
Overview
Professor Pérez Cavazos teaches the required first-year MBA course Financial Reporting and Control. View Details
- Article
Some Reflections on the Antitrust Treatment of Intellectual Property
By: Tracy R. Lewis and Dennis A. Yao
Abridged version in The Financial Times, The Complete MBA Companion, 1997, pp. 577-582. View Details
Lewis, Tracy R., and Dennis A. Yao. "Some Reflections on the Antitrust Treatment of Intellectual Property." Antitrust Law Journal 63, no. 2 (1995): 603–619. (Abridged version in The Financial Times, The Complete MBA Companion, 1997, pp.577-582. Harvard users click here for full text.)
- July 2001 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Enspire Learning
An MBA student founds an e-education business and must decide which customers to target and which products/services to produce. View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Service Delivery; Education; Business Startups; Planning; Web Services Industry; Education Industry
Hallowell, Roger H., Frank J Andrasco, Hans ten Cate, and Bjorn Billhardt. "Enspire Learning." Harvard Business School Case 802-001, July 2001. (Revised February 2002.)
- Teaching Interest
Overview
By: Kevin P. Mohan
Kevin teaches Negotiations and Deals in the MBA curriculum and in several Executive Education offerings. View Details
Keywords: Negotiation
- Teaching Interest
Overview
Christina Wallace teaches Launching Tech Ventures in the second-year MBA program and is co-course head for The Entrepreneurial Manager in the first-year MBA program. She created an Entrepreneurial Marketing course for HBS Online and regularly teaches entrepreneurship,... View Details
- 2011
- Article
Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads
By: Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin and Patrick Cullen
The paper seeks to examine major challenges facing MBA programs and to argue that they will have to reconsider their value proposition. It aims to explore effective curricular and programmatic responses as opportunities for MBA programs to innovate. The paper also aims... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Invention; Problems and Challenges; Value Creation
Datar, Srikant M., David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen. "Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads." Journal of Management Development 30, no. 5 (2011): 451–462.
- May 2002 (Revised September 2002)
- Teaching Note
Creating New Services, Module Overview Note TN
By: Frances X. Frei
Taught in Managing Service Operations, an elective course in the Harvard Business School MBA program. Appropriate for any service course or service module within an operations or new product development course that targets MBA or executive education students.... View Details
- October 2004 (Revised July 2006)
- Background Note
The Professional Services Course
By: Ashish Nanda
Outlines the conceptual framework, module structure, and service flow of an MBA course on professional services. View Details
Nanda, Ashish. "The Professional Services Course." Harvard Business School Background Note 905-046, October 2004. (Revised July 2006.)
- Research Summary
Understanding Customers
(To learn about Luc Wathieu's MBA course, please scroll down to the last abstract below.) View Details
- November 2005 (Revised November 2011)
- Background Note
Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital in Healthcare Fall Term 2011: Course Outline and Syllabus
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Robert F. Higgins
Provides an overview of the second-year MBA elective course Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital in Healthcare. View Details
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Robert F. Higgins. "Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital in Healthcare Fall Term 2011: Course Outline and Syllabus." Harvard Business School Background Note 806-048, November 2005. (Revised November 2011.)
- June 2002 (Revised April 2003)
- Course Overview Note
Business Marketing: Course Overview Note for Instructors
By: Das Narayandas
Details the structure and execution of the Business Marketing course taught in the elective curriculum of the MBA program at HBS. View Details
Keywords: Marketing
- January 2011 (Revised February 2011)
- Case
GLOBIS
By: Mukti Khaire, Akiko Kanno and Nobuo Sato
Yoshito Hori, dean of the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University, was planning to launch a full-time English MBA program in September 2012. GLOBIS University was already offering successful part-time MBA programs in English and Japanese. The full-time English... View Details
- November 2002 (Revised August 2004)
- Case
Globalization of HBS, The
By: Tarun Khanna, Rakesh Khurana and David Lane
Sets the stage for a discussion on the globalization of the MBA degree and variations on the idea that Harvard Business School (HBS) can play a role in shaping business education around the world. Describes the forces leading to greater convergence around the MBA... View Details
Khanna, Tarun, Rakesh Khurana, and David Lane. "Globalization of HBS, The." Harvard Business School Case 703-432, November 2002. (Revised August 2004.)
- June 2018
- Case
Burton Sensors, Inc.
By: William E. Fruhan and Wei Wang
Burton Sensors presents a realistic situation where a small, rapidly growing, and profitable temperature sensor original equipment manufacturer (OEM) reaches its debt capacity and seeks equity financing to sustain high growth. The president of the company must decide... View Details
Keywords: Financing and Loans; Acquisition; Investment; Financial Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions
Fruhan, William E., and Wei Wang. "Burton Sensors, Inc." Harvard Business School Brief Case 918-539, June 2018.
- Teaching Interest
Overview
I currently teach the history of global entrepreneurship over the last 200 years. The 28-session course called Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism has become one of the most popular second year electives in the MBA program at the Harvard Business School. The cases,... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Government And Business; International Business; Globalization; History; Government and Politics; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Banking Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consulting Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Energy Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Fashion Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Shipping Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; Oceania
- December 1998
- Supplement
John Trani on Leadership, Video
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
John Trani, President and CEO of The Stanley Works, gives his thoughts on leadership in his first year at Stanley, advice to MBA students, and some of his General Electric experiences. View Details
Uyterhoeven, Hugo. "John Trani on Leadership, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 399-511, December 1998.