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- 24 May 2017
- News
Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979
for their first fund and bought 12 companies: airports, ports, pipelines, power plants, and a wind farm, to name a few. “We found that by applying some basic business techniques we could really make a difference,” he says. That simple strategy has View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
services, others deliver complete solutions to their customer, and still others innovate with high-technology products. About the only common element all these diverse successful strategy implementers have in common is exceptional and visionary leadership. In every... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Frequently Asked Questions | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
across academic departments) that is of significance to business and society. At their core is a broad research agenda, determined and driven by the faculty. How does the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative differ from the student club? Led... View Details
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Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
led to the enduring influence of this participant-centered teaching practice. Homepage Section2 Business Education Business Education & The Case Method General Shoe "The General Shoe Company," 1921 Case Writing Case Writing & Industry... View Details
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How to Fit in at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
later in my career. Then it just occurred to me: Well, why not now? That insight led Featured Research Should Your Start-up Be For-profit or Nonprofit? A Guide for Social Entrepreneurs By: Cait Brumme & Brian Trelstad June 2023 | Harvard... View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
46 employees, and an estimated value of $25 million. Today, Walker & Dunlop is a publicly traded company with a market cap close to $5 billion. While Walker has led massive growth at the company, he realized several years ago that the way... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
centers on a citywide effort to improve public education, led in part by an alliance of 50 business and community leaders. This focus on education is a new one for the partnership, which has historically worked on economic development.... View Details
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About
analytics, and financial information to subscribers across the globe. While building his business, Bloomberg became engaged in civic affairs through his philanthropy. In 2001, just weeks after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, he was elected mayor of New York City – and... View Details
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Brian Kenny | About
Brian Kenny Chief Marketing & Communications Officer Bio Brian Kenny is the Chief Marketing and Communications Officer (CMCO) at Harvard Business School. He has led marketing and communications work for several global institutions. As the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Engaging Students More Deeply
Students at Success Academy stay more focused on the dot rug. Photo courtesy HBS Multimedia Development To tell the compelling stories of a developer working to revitalize Miami Beach, a Maine lobsterman confronting the economic risks of climate change, and a charter... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Leading The Cleveland Clinic's Transformation to Value by Dr. Toby Cosgrove A protagonist video of former Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove who discusses how he led the transformation of the Cleveland Clinic to become a value-based... View Details
- 28 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years
Pushing my comfort zone at the Kilimanjaro summit, led by HBS outdoors club #6 Self-reflection is important and helps you plan your future. Each year graduating students are asked to answer the question from the last lines of the poem... View Details
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
can focus so much on reaching the stretch goal that they fail to realize how this has dumped other work on their co-workers, led the company to accept mortgages that are too risky, etc. This behavior prompted by stretch goals is leading... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time
arrangement that shared the risk of car loans between dealer and manufacturer. Its goals were, initially, to smooth out seasonal fluctuations in sales, but the ultimate effect was to dramatically increase the numbers of units sold. Henry Ford’s refusal to follow suit... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
and real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation - now NationsBank - in the early 1980s. With the enrollment of his two... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 09 Feb 2021
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Investing in Entrepreneurship
Scientific), to name a few. As a founder and managing general partner of Venrock Associates, he led the venture investments of the Rockefeller family during a 45-year career. Now retired and serving on numerous corporate and philanthropic... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- June 2023
- Case
The Business of Campaigns
By: Vincent Pons and Mel Martin
In 2022, the U.S. Congress examined the Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act, the latest in a long series of campaign finance reforms. According to its authors, the law would be the “most consequential overhaul of federal... View Details
Keywords: Political Elections; Government Legislation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; United States
Pons, Vincent, and Mel Martin. "The Business of Campaigns." Harvard Business School Case 723-039, June 2023.
- September 2021
- Article
Network Interconnectivity and Entry into Platform Markets
By: Feng Zhu, Xinxin Li, Ehsan Valavi and Marco Iansiti
Digital technologies have led to the emergence of many platforms in our economy today. In certain platform networks, buyers in one market purchase services from providers in many other markets, whereas in others, buyers primarily purchase services from providers within... View Details
Keywords: Network Interconnectivity; Platform Competition; Market Entry; Networks; Digital Platforms; Competition; Market Entry and Exit
Zhu, Feng, Xinxin Li, Ehsan Valavi, and Marco Iansiti. "Network Interconnectivity and Entry into Platform Markets." Information Systems Research 32, no. 3 (September 2021): 1009–1024.
- July 2013 (Revised October 2013)
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United Rentals (B)
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante
In April 2012, Jenne Britell, the Chairman of the board of directors of United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) was preparing her notes for an upcoming stockholders' meeting. It was a meeting unlike most other meetings she had chaired. Stockholders were about to vote on a... View Details
Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Board Committees; Chairman; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Construction Industry; North America
Lorsch, Jay W., and Kathleen Durante. "United Rentals (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 414-031, July 2013. (Revised October 2013.)