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18 Aug 2016
News

Four Harvard Business School Faculty Members Named to Most Influential Black Corporate Directors List

November 1989 (Revised August 1994)
Supplement

Du Pont's Titanium Dioxide Business (D)

Provides students the opportunity to track industry evolution over time, to explore the role that signaling may play in such evolution, and to construct and validate industry scenarios. View Details

Keywords: Analysis; Supply and Industry; Chemical Industry

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Past Programs - Crossover Into Business

early to get ready for life outside basketball. ” Lance Thomas NBA Player Apply Past Participants Kellyn Acosta MLS Steven Adams NBA Kristie Ahn WTA Kayla Alexander WNBA Al-Farouq Aminu NBA Calvin Anderson NFL Henry Anderson NFL Ciara... View Details

13 May 2014
News

Top floor traps: What's really holding business back

January 1989 (Revised October 1993)
Background Note

Note: Valuing a Business Acquisition Opportunity

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

Describes how to value an acquisition opportunity as a capital budgeting problem. Cash flows are discounted at the cost of capital and debt is deducted to value the equity capital of the target company. A key contribution of the note is the discussion of five methods... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Acquisition; Opportunities

11 Feb 2016
Blog Post

First Came Love, then Came Business School

the aerospace industry. Jocelyne knew for a number of years that she wanted to go to business school – and HBS was the dream. Cory was planning View Details

December 1996
Case

Du Pont's Titanium Dioxide Business (F)

Provides students with the opportunity to track industry evolution over time, to explore the role that signaling may play in such evolution, and to construct and validate industry scenarios. View Details

Keywords: Industry Growth; Chemical Industry

18 Apr 2011
News

Harvard Business School Announces New Leadership Fellows

April 2005 (Revised April 2005)
Background Note

Corporate Strategies in Media and Entertainment Businesses

By: Bharat N. Anand

In recent years, many debates in corporate strategy have centered around information goods markets, and the media and entertainment sector in particular. Vertical integration is the norm in many parts of the media sector, despite conventional wisdom that it offers no... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy

20 May 2015
News

Are You Solving The Right Business Problem? Here Are 5 Ways To Get To Your Question Zero

10 Feb 2020
In Practice

6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy

Even though the internet has been publicly available for almost three decades, executives at just about every company are wrestling with how to use digital technology to advance their View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

17 Jan 2014
News

Micromanagement won’t deliver value says business guru

Video

Climate Change Adaptation vs. Mitigation | Business Explained

14 Apr 2015
News

History Has Its Place in Business

21 Jun 2017
News

Meet the Oddball Entrepreneurs Who Invented Green Businesses

26 May 2016
Video

Harvard Business School Commencement 2016

08 Aug 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurship and Business History: Renewing the Research Agenda

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & R. Daniel Wadhwani

The New Rules for Bringing Innovations to Market, Harvard Business Review, March 2004

It's tough to get consumers to adopt innovations--and it's getting tougher all the time. That's because more and more markets are taking on the characteristics of networks. The interconnections among today's companies are so plentiful that often a... View Details

November 2018
Case

Yatooq: Longing for Arabic Coffee

By: Mark Roberge, Gamze Yucaoglu and Samer Al-Rachedy

As one of the few female entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia, Lateefa Alwaalan had been trying to produce the perfect cup of Arabic coffee for over a decade. In 2007, she began testing various coffee blends, which she later branded Yatooq, the Arabic word for “craving” or... View Details