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02 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

Four Companies that Conquered America

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Accounting... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

Missing Quarterly Analysts Forecasts (revised) Authors:Richard Mergenthaler, Shiva Rajgopal, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We find that missing the quarterly analyst consensus earnings forecast is associated with career penalties in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2012
News

Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big

realized that he wanted to learn more about the dilemmas inherent in launching ventures. He returned to HBS, first to earn a PhD (in 2002) and then as a professor, dedicating his research to the pitfalls of founding and how to avoid them.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

January 2024
Supplement

Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (B)

By: Joseph Pacelli, ZeSean Ali and Tom Quinn

GlassHouse Research identified accounting red flags at Catalent. Fiat Lux Partners countered most of GlassHouse’s claims. Who was right? This update explores the aftermath of the short seller duel. View Details

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07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

clustering affect the American economy as a whole? Harvard Business School’s William R. Kerr sets out to explore those questions, and their implications for US immigration policy, in a new working paper, Social Networks, Ethnicity, and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Transportation; Beauty & Cosmetics; Retail

17 Apr 2014
News

A Family Investment

Field. “I was thrilled by the learning. The case studies, the class-room discussions, everything we did was so relevant to my future,” Özyeg in says. “I loved it.” After earning his MBA, Özyeg in joined Fiba, where he currently serves as... View Details

23 Apr 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

hooked.” Scholarship with Relevance Condo says he “bumped into” the idea of a pursuing career in academia in the early 1990s, while earning his master’s at INCAE, Latin America’s renowned business school.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

16 Aug 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

Harvard Business Publishing has released new toolkits to help managers make key marketing decisions on market analysis, breakeven analysis, customer lifetime value, profit and pricing, and analyzing the competitive environment. The five... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

24 Aug 2017
News

Unlocking Potential

path for criminal justice. A family dinner-table conversation about the concept of recidivism eventually led Anderson to pursue a business education, jobs working on private-sector approaches to the problem, and ultimately to found her... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services

Profile

Joe Khoury

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? As an engineering school graduate, I felt that I needed to acquire new skills related to business, economics and management. Having worked in the Middle East and Asia, I also wanted to... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consulting; Investment Banking

02 Nov 2010
News

Commanding Officers

fingers on his left hand and was hospitalized for months. After recuperating, Jefferson earned degrees from the Kennedy School and HBS. He was both a White House and a Fulbright Fellow. He worked in state government in Hawaii and later... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

Profile

Lindsay Steinmetz

Why was earning your MBA here important to you? After working for a small, entrepreneurial organization I wanted to build a stronger foundation in general management. HBS expanded my knowledge of industries, types of organizations, and... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

02 Dec 2018
News

Fostering Great Leadership

Ken Olivier (MBA 1979) and Angela Nomellini While an undergraduate at Stanford, Ken Olivier met a Ford Motor Company executive he admired. “I asked his advice on how I could get to his position,” he says. “That’s how I ended up earning... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Class Day, Commencement Mark New Beginning for Newest Alumni

Commencement was held the next day, on June 5, with Dean Light presiding over the awarding of diplomas to 886 MBA students. Six doctorates in business administration were also conferred, along with twelve Ph.D. degrees in several fields,... View Details

Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Profile

Fereshteh Zeineddin

Why was earning your MBA here important to you? I was at a point in my career when I wanted to transition into brand management. I knew that to become a great brand manager, I needed to gain a better understanding of all aspects of... View Details

Keywords: Retail

18 Sep 2019
News

Level Up

There was a very specific moment when the crisis underway in the sports industry became clear to Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014). It was August 4, 2015, when Disney CEO Bob Iger announced in the company’s quarterly earnings call that its... View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery and Dan Morrell; illustrations by Matt Chinworth

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

senior executives specializing in everything except sales. “The number of executives reporting to the CEO in the average S&P 500 company has doubled in the last 20 years,” says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2015
News

Estonia, Incorporated

running a business so simple there. “The whole thing works because Estonia is one of the most advanced e-governments on the planet,” Kumar says. The government offers some 600 e-services to its citizens and 2,400 to businesses, and... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

a business opportunity from the perspective of a "triple bottom line"-a performance evaluation scheme focused on "people, planet, and profit" that construes success in terms of social benefits, environmental... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2016
News

Off Script

control. They also control health funding deficits by encouraging, or even requiring, their main populations to aggressively set aside medical savings during their earning years to help with older age health care. Such actions are much... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

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