Publications

01 Sep 2023
News

Bless this Stress

National Geographic for Disney+/Craig Parry In the first episode of the National Geographic docuseries Limitless with Chris Hemsworth, Modupe Akinola (MBA 2001/PhDOB 2009) and the Australian actor gaze across downtown Sydney to a skyscraper in the distance, teetering... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

06 Oct 2016
Cold Call Podcast

The Munich Oktoberfest: From Local Tradition to Global Capitalism

Keywords: Re: Juan Alcacer; Tourism

August 1990 (Revised November 1990)
Background Note

Note on Buying a Franchise

Helps the potential franchisee analyze the issues to be faced when considering opening or buying a franchise. What are the opportunities--what makes franchising attractive? How does someone look for and then evaluate a franchise? View Details

Keywords: Franchise Ownership

10 Jul 2024
Video

Entrepreneurial Insights: Christina Vosbikian, HBS Rock Summer Fellow

Video

Financial Analysis & Valuation for Lawyers

Video

Financial Analysis & Valuation for Lawyers

31 Aug 2017
Video

Perfecting Your Pitch

Narayanan Vaghul

Keywords: Finance

Program

Managing Turbulence

time to grant admission. Read More Answering Your Questions Our Program Advising team can help you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning and development goals.... View Details

01 Jul 2020
News

20-30% of Small Businesses Will Fail Despite PPP

10 Apr 2023
Video

Career Journeys | John Guzek

Career Coach

Adelina Pak

Informed by her prior experiences in the Technology industry, Adelina enjoys helping students understand the various roles within tech and navigate recruiting specific to the industry. She has experience working at both software and... View Details

Web

Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

to this challenge will make a huge difference for the world that we experience in the coming decades—for our children, and for the world that future generations inherit. The Climate Leadership Panel, moderated by HBS Class of 1974 MBA Roger Shamel, will offer a variety... View Details

August 2008 (Revised June 2013)
Background Note

Note on the Nonprofit Coherence Framework

By: Allen S. Grossman and Stacey Childress

This note presents the Nonprofit Coherence Framework. It helps nonprofit leaders identify the key elements that support an organizational strategy focused on attaining high performance, bring those elements into a coherent relationship with the strategy and each other,... View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Performance Improvement; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Strategy

October 2017 (Revised April 2019)
Case

Eastern Bank: Innovating Through Eastern Labs

By: Karen Mills, Dennis Campbell and Aaron Mukerjee

Eastern Bank is a 200-year-old New England mutual bank with a community focus. Eastern specializes in small business lending, having made strategic investments to become the top SBA lender in New England in the midst of the Great Recession, when other banks were... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Management

18 Sep 2017
Blog Post

Applying HBS Lessons in an African Context

Nigeria, I realized that I had much more to learn about doing business in my home region. I applied to Harvard Business School because I thought I would gain skills in finance and management, as well as gain access to an alumni network that would View Details

March 2024
Case

From “BIG” Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

In the summer of 2023, Eduard (“Eddie”) Croitoru, Vice President (VP) of ICL Group (“ICL”) Corporate Initiatives, was reflecting on ICL’s internal ideation program, the Business Innovation for Growth (BIG) Accelerator. When Raviv Zoller became the CEO of ICL in 2018,... View Details