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Shabrina Jiva
interviewing for her first post-MBA position, one thing is clear. "I decided not to do private equity," says Shabrina. "HBS helped me realize that I don't enjoy the financial modeling part as much as the hands-on View Details
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Paul Wang
materials.” The joint MBA/MPA-ID degree, Paul believes, “offers a mix of perspectives. The Harvard Kennedy School provides economic models that can build on what I learned at J-PAL. HBS exposes me to multiple functional areas, to the... View Details
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HBS - From The Dean
management. Our research agenda must reflect the shifts that are occurring in the world of business, such as digitization and data science. But this must not come at the expense of the human element, designing business and operating View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
very large organizations. Several respondents commented on dangers to the Walmart business model. Benn Manning commented that "The real dangers for Walmart aren't competitors or new business models but are instead itself and how it... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
years, we developed a model—the Alignment Model—that provides a market standard against which to analyze a company’s pay relative to its performance,” Ferracone says. “So, for a given company, in terms of its current revenue size, its industry or peer group, and its... View Details
- June 1999 (Revised October 1999)
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Eli Lilly, 1998 (B): Emerging Global Organization
By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Thomas W. Malnight
Examines major issues faced by Eli Lilly as it evaluates the appropriateness of a focused matrix organization with extensive use of cross-functional teams. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Geography; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development; Knowledge; Management Teams; Product; Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry
Yoshino, Michael Y., and Thomas W. Malnight. "Eli Lilly, 1998 (B): Emerging Global Organization." Harvard Business School Case 399-174, June 1999. (Revised October 1999.)
- July 2009 (Revised March 2010)
- Case
Sotheby's & Christie's Inc.
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Catherine Jane Wise
The fine art auction business has remained a duopoly over its 250 year history. The industry is dominated by Sotheby's and Christie's Inc. Curiously, neither competitor has been able to overtake the other by a notable margin despite the clear network effects of this... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Business Model; Restructuring; Economics; Auctions; Market Entry and Exit; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Operations; Competition
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Catherine Jane Wise. "Sotheby's & Christie's Inc." Harvard Business School Case 710-412, July 2009. (Revised March 2010.)
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
labor organizations should be in their death throes." The kind of thinking needed to meet these challenges for organized labor can be found, according to Walter Blass, in Japan. In his words, "I suggest you look at Japanese unions for a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015
bring their internal and external agency resources together and arrive at a more collaborative operating model for advertising services. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
helped more than 1,200 people around the United States. Sontag thinks big. “If this model works for brain cancer, this model can work for other serious diseases,” he says of the Sontag Foundation’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
Harvard’s initiatives in stem cells, bio-inspired engineering, systems biology, chemical biology, and innovative computing. The colloquium featured a number of case studies about academic labs as well as private-sector firms that are setting View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
interfaces have allowed Twitter to focus on their unique plug-and-play component. Beyond that, they have created impressive and scalable operating capabilities of their own though an impressive combination of resources and processes. They... View Details
- 22 Feb 2019
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Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
invoicing of other services. Mallory says the kids would shop at each other’s companies, but only “after the company was operating and employees were paid.” In the weeks prior to JA BizTown, students get instructions on how to start and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Meet the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Club
What is Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition? Through ETA (search funds), individuals can acquire an existing business, become its CEO, and build a larger and more successful enterprise. The search fund model gives relatively... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
stations,” he says, adding that ClimaCell has partnered with telecom operators around the world to turn their networks into massive sensor arrays. Everything is a potential weather station to ClimaCell—connected vehicles, street cameras,... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
social e-commerce operated there in lower income areas. During that trip, he identified an opportunity to bring a similar model to Latin America and the entrepreneurship seed was planted yet again. It was... View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for profit. The model is solved using game... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
than 350 interviews in 20 countries to identify the leadership practices and operating methods of major companies seeking profitable growth through innovation that benefits society. For example, when the tsunami and earthquake struck... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Taking MBA know-how on tour across America
mobile consultation service for entrepreneurs called MBAs Across America. “We felt a responsibility to use our resources for a nobler purpose,” says Gerald. The MBA students met with American business owners, advised them on everything from business View Details