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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
choice. For Lopez, that has meant deploying a multifaceted strategy with an underlying premise: Make the customer feel at home while providing a sense of escape. "My career has always been about consumer persuasion," says Lopez, who came... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
dilemma" in which a startup's resource dependence drives a wedge between the startup's value and the founder's ability to retain control of decision making. I develop hypotheses about this tradeoff and test the hypotheses on a unique... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
or place. Although the choice for business schools that Biddle presented nearly a century ago has yet to be decisively made, a number of factors suggest that all is not well within the institution of the university-based business school:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
create given their love of the outdoor life. Still, it was a strange alliance between a scruffy, eccentric outdoorsman and two clean-cut East Coast, Ivy League Republicans on the fast-track for careers in finance or politics. After... View Details
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
parties and then decide whether to attempt to raise new capital, declare bankruptcy, or try to lead a controlled wind-down. The case explores crisis management, decisions by principals operating in the zone of insolvency, construction... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Does realizing the American Dream deliver a good life? In this book, Kaufman develops a fundamentally new understanding of how elite undergraduate educations and careers play out in lives, and what shapes happiness among the prizewinners... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
1972 mentioned that "Harvard has the largest number of women students in any of the major business schools." By 1975, the magazine reported that two hundred women were enrolled at the School and that the Women Students Association was holding an annual View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
had an engineering degree from Princeton and an MBA from HBS. He had a good job at a sugar company in his native Mexico City. His career path seemed set. Music, though, was innate. His grandparents on his father’s side had been friends... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
career-convinced you should be achieving more. You may even wish you had chosen a different career altogether. These feelings often stem from a common error: buying into others' definitions of success. To reach your potential, Kaplan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16
publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) to her fellow board members and company management. The case explores interpersonal communications, influencing one's peers, leadership style, and board dynamics. The case also chronicles Stewart's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
“punishment posting” or perhaps a move that signaled her desire for a slower-paced lifestyle after a fifteen-year career in various areas of ICICI Bank. “There were no visible indicators that signaled the potential for private equity in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
Commodity Trading Jones, Geoffrey, and Espen StorliHarvard Business School Case 813-020 Examines the career of Marc Rich, the world's leading commodity trader before his criminal indictment in the United States in 1983. The case surveys... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
products—including soap, toothpaste, and shampoo—to thousands of children and young adults in need in Massachusetts. “During COVID-19, what we are doing is more important than ever,” says Feingold, who retired from a 23-year career at... View Details