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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

apply those learnings to successfully compete in a variety of business environments. Highlights How do managers determine demand to inform pricing strategy? Step into the shoes of Jim Holtzman, CEO of Ace Ticket, and learn about pricing... View Details

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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching Quantitative Material Strategies and Tactics for Sensitive Topics Featured Video In this video Professor Jan Rivkin explores General Shoe Company, the first Harvard Business School case study, how the case method came to be at... View Details

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professor V.G. Narayanan Financial Accounting Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "Financial Accounting puts you in the View Details

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

to one of your managers, bring it up with the manager and put yourself in their shoes as you help them with this employee. Be empathetic and manage your power carefully. Product If you’re a product-centered CEO/founder (versus, say,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

11 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

which means that you try to start a dialogue with the person to understand them instead of trying to guess their feelings. Frei: Or, in our language, “center” on them. Bulletin: Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes might be a natural... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint

08 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

opportunities for women to lead. At HBS, we create case studies to help teach students to become future leaders. Each case generally focuses on one organization and features a protagonist, often an executive facing a difficult decision or challenge. Learners put... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

26 Jan 2022
News

Making Peace with Anger

seats, and you could see this fear on the boys’ face that there was another shoe to drop, that we were coming back with more bad news. And to be able to sit there and say to them, “Mom and I are coming back together and Dad’s moving back... View Details

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

reacting to various leadership challenges. These exercises have been developed to let you step into the shoes of decision-makers, gain insight into your leadership style, and practice techniques taught in the course. In these exercises,... View Details

28 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Making an Impact on the Media Industry with my MBA

shoes of a case protagonist! Our discussions are illuminating given the breadth of industry and international perspectives exchanged in class. This conversation manifests beyond the classroom as 80 minutes never seems long enough! I was... View Details

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Celebrating 100 Years of the HBS Case Method

Shoes of Business Leaders In 1919, Donham took over as dean at Harvard Business School. He strongly believed that the best way to teach business education would be by discussion and not by lecture. Having experienced case-based learning... View Details

06 Nov 2008
Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

zero. Consumer confidence has plummeted with the value of 401(k) plans and retirement nest eggs. Retail sales fell 1.2 percent in September, double the expected decline. Car sales are at a fifteen-year low. And credit card defaults look like the next View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

how do you think about this? A: It's worth putting yourself in the shoes of Ben Bernanke and trying to imagine how he thinks about it. That's going to be helpful in assessing what he might do. As a central banker, Mr. Bernanke has to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Sep 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

Industries, which focuses entirely on the media and entertainment sector, and which includes sessions on basketball star LeBron James, online video aggregator Hulu, the NFL, and the Metropolitan Opera, among other cases. The first part of the new case, dubbed Lady... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

04 Apr 2022
What Do You Think?

As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

advantage of the “retreat” to discuss the company’s response to employee concerns? Or should he just cancel the meeting? Put yourself in the shoes of Susan Arnold, long-time director and recent successor to Bob Iger as chairman of Disney.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

students can’t simply rely on their modern-day political views; the Democratic and Republican parties didn’t even exist yet, and the political challenges they will learn about don’t map neatly onto today’s battles of blue versus red. One popular case puts students in... View Details

Keywords: April White

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

Students are invited to walk in the shoes of the CIO and become active participants in making these decisions and creating new knowledge about IT leadership through classroom discussion and debate. We want to send the signal that this is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Jan 2016
What Do You Think?

Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?

2015, pp. B1 and B7. David Gelles, Pushing Shoes and a Vision, The New York Times, July 19, 2015, pp. B1, 6, and 7. Roger D. Hodge, First, Let’s Get Rid of All the Bosses, The New Republic, November, 2015, pp. 27-39. View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto; Fashion

02 Mar 2021
HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

victims, you get a much more visceral experience and a sense of what is lost.” A neighborhood destroyed The massacre was ostensibly sparked by an incident on May 30, 1921, when Dick Rowland, a 19-year-old Black shoe shiner, tripped while... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jan 2013
News

Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

'They Feel Good,' yet the employees were wearing Reeboks," she recounts. "So I established new rules—don't bring a shoe in for a line review unless it feels good to the consumer, meaning comfortable, and feels good to shareholders,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

31 Jul 2015
Blog Post

Transitioning From the Military to Business School

ultimately I’d like to run a company. To me, the beauty of the case method is the opportunity to truly put oneself in the shoes of a protagonist and think through a difficult decision with the protagonist using the same values and... View Details

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