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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
responsibilities or job termination, will call for board withdrawal as well. These are all important considerations that should be left to a responsible board to evaluate on a case-by-case basis - without being bound by the inference of... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
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Akshay Ghulati
his summer internship, Akshay will join the Parthenon Group in London to consult in private equity firms as they conduct due diligence. "As a potential entrepreneur – one of my long-term goals – I want to be able to evaluate the... View Details
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Jonathon Bunt
internship through an HBS soccer teammate who led him to an energy-drink start-up in San Francisco. “It opened my eyes to the beverage industry,” Jonathon says. “When I came back to HBS for my Elective Curriculum year, I used my independent study to View Details
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Transforming Education Through Social Entrepreneurship
support equitable opportunities for all learners. EdTech Magazine - explores technology and education issues that IT leaders and educators face when they’re evaluating and implementing a solution. Includes two publications EdTech:... View Details
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Mariama Keita
four different schools to evaluate her MBA options. "I felt completely at home at HBS," she says. One of the things that impressed her was an article in the school paper, The Harbus, that reported on the efforts of HBS students... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
advancement, and firms who endorse such meritocratic beliefs paradoxically practice more bias in evaluating workers (Castilla & Benard, 2010). [Read "6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees"] Reprinted by... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- Blog Post
5 Ways the Case Method Changes How You Learn
Each course is taught by evaluating and discussing the decisions and/or actions of a protagonist in a case. A case is essentially a story about a business problem. Each case contains background information,... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Hire an MBA: The Benefits and Misconceptions for Startups
they can add. Sample projects might include: Competitive/Pricing Analysis Market Analysis & Segmentation Business Partner Evaluations Due diligence & ROI analysis New View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School Press) The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail demonstrates why outstanding companies that focus on competitiveness, listen... View Details
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
Editor's note: Please see related story, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective. To what extent companies contribute to a sustainable society is a question increasingly important, not only to the companies themselves, but also to investors, the countries... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- August 1993
- Case
Applichem (A) (Abridged)
By: Janice H. Hammond and Gary P. Pisano
Applichem manufactures the same chemical product in four plants, each of which is located in a different country. The company has completed a major study comparing the productivity and performance of these plants. Using the data from the study, students must decide... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Strategy; Judgments; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Exit or Shutdown; Chemical Industry
Hammond, Janice H., and Gary P. Pisano. "Applichem (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 694-030, August 1993.
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Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills - Course Catalog
master consulting and advisory skills. Educational Objectives: MCAS has the following key learning objectives: To equip students with the tools, skills, frameworks, and mindsets to quickly add value by tackling business challenges in a... View Details
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog
restaurant to scaling to leadership of multinational chains, and evaluate opportunities inherent in typical restaurant business models as well as those created by disruptive changes affecting and shaping the... View Details
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Eligibility | New Venture Competition
following criteria: Harvard Business School (HBS) MBA student Current Center for Public Leadership Graduate Fellow ; or Adrian Cheng Fellow (graduate students only). Full-time Harvard graduate student enrolled in one of the courses during... View Details
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Paul Lenehan
Atlas Ventures, "a VC firm concentrating on early-stage life-science startups. I've always had a passion for technology; Atlas was my first exposure to its business side. I found that I enjoyed View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
boundaries and making the relationship between organizations and markets much more complex." To address such complexities, Jensen, the School's Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, presents a new, integrated theory of... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
Publications March 2015 Journal of Financial Economics Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors By: Hanson, Samuel G., Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein, and Robert W. Vishny Abstract—We examine the business model of traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
the draw anymore. By conducting a series of diagnostics, companies in any industry can quickly identify the most promising opportunities. This article shows how to conduct customer, portfolio, and competitor diagnostics to pinpoint the highest-potential opportunities... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
PublicationsHarder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Authors:Austin, Robert D., Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract Being a great leader today is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
Rojie Kisten (GMP 5, 2008), Cape Town, South Africa NN: When I first came to Harvard Business School in the 1980s, excluding the first-year BGIE [Business, Government, and the International Economy] course, there were virtually no global... View Details