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B2B Sales and Distribution - Course Catalog

Objectives: This course is designed for students who would like to gain an understanding of the complexity of managing large sales and go-to-market organizations. There are three main themes to the class – people, go-to-market strategy... View Details

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

Back in 2001, I wanted to test some theoretical predictions about negotiations versus auctions. At the time I was co-course head for the first-year required course on Negotiation at HBS, so I designed an elaborate View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2010
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Alumni Books

designing a new model and developing it into a profitable and thriving enterprise. The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity while Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work by Laura Liswood (MBA ’76) (Wiley) This book takes its... View Details

Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance

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Admissions | MBA

Events More Events Visit Campus Our vibrant residential campus is designed to build relationships to last a lifetime. Visit Campus Take a Virtual Tour Featured Videos More Videos Play Video duration: 2:35 The MBA Admissions team walks you... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Faculty Research

Associate Professor John Gourville considers the alternatives in this Q&A. Enron’s Lessons for Managers Just as the Challenger space shuttle disaster was a learning experience for engineers, so too is the Enron crash for managers, says... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

competitive landscape, Cineplanet, the leading movie cinema chain in Peru, hired a team of IDEO designers to reinvent the movie-going experience for Peruvians. Cineplanet’s management team wishes to better... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2023
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Family Matters

obstacle.” The experience helped shape her focus as she later pursued her career. “Being able to help my community—that’s what I’ve always wanted to do.” Engineering was the first step for Thompson-Woode. A first-generation college... View Details

Keywords: April White

17 Feb 2022
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A Big Bet

Finance, and Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992), founder and CEO of Year Up. The initiative tackles training for the nearly two-thirds of American workers who lack a four-year college degree. Palandjian’s Social Finance is designing the... View Details

Keywords: jobs training; social enterprise; upskilling; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
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What’s New in Educational Innovation? A Few Highlights

Senior Executive Leadership Program (SELP) SELP is a new yearlong four-modular program designed for experienced senior executives to further their business management and leadership skills. Two in-class modules are held on the HBS campus... View Details

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Bei Guo

As an analyst at Citigroup in Japan, Bei Guo gained firsthand experience on the impact of equity capital markets on Asian business. "There are many excellent companies in Japan," Bei says, "and China is on a growth path in... View Details

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

researchers design an experiment among themselves, only going to the field when they're ready to conduct the experiment on members of the community. In this case, though, the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Jul 2015
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The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

Companies change strategy, operational processes, and policies all the time, each shift creating a new group of winners and losers. When Steve Jobs became CEO of Apple for the second time, the culture shifted, with designers enjoying... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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Understanding Africa: Business, Entrepreneurship, Political Economy and the Complexities of a Continent - Course Catalog

expand their knowledge. Course Framework Understanding Africa, formally known as Africa Rising will be taught through an integrative method, and one that will draw upon the rich expertise and experiences of alumni and other experts from... View Details

18 Nov 2021
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Strength in Numbers

Mark Verdi Jan Swartz Rob Swartz Mark Verdi Jan Swartz Rob Swartz In 2018, long-time friends Mark Verdi and Jan Swartz (both MBA 1996) were part of the first cohort of MBA alumni to attend The Reflective Leader, a program designed for... View Details

Keywords: April White

07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

2011) Abstract In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation. We analyze the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.

“Creativity does have a reputation for being magical,” says HBS professor Teresa Amabile. “One myth is that it’s associated with the particular personality or genius of a person — and in fact, creativity does depend to some extent on the intelligence, expertise,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

09 Mar 2021
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New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk

BEI’s associate director: “Lynn’s experience and expertise, passion and commitment, and problem-solving orientation, make her uniquely poised to lead BEI at this critical juncture.” Jennifer is pleased to pass the torch to Lynn: “Lynn... View Details

08 Sep 2021
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Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

possibilities. He joined Teach for America where he designed and taught a “Social Justice” course in an economically distressed community for two years. “This experience reinforced something I was beginning... View Details

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Teaching Support for HBS Faculty | Baker Library

Teaching Support for HBS Faculty We work with faculty to enhance the student learning experience in the classroom and help students with course assignments and independent projects. Baker Library works with faculty who are View Details

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