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- 22 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
The National Park Services: A Mini-Business with a Twist
teams must collaborate to ensure they are creating a product that can be marketed and sold. The park divisions, similarly, have discrete and overlapping responsibilities. For example, while Law Enforcement and Interpretive Rangers have unique View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports - Course Catalog
are creative businesses affected by - and how can they benefit from - the rise of online channels? The course ends with an examination of firms that fall outside the core entertainment industries but that seemingly face similar challenges... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Importance of Philanthropy
Thanks to the generosity of alumni and friends over many years, HBS is fortunate to have an endowment that provides a foundation of support for core priorities. However, contrary to popular belief, the endowment does not cover all our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
the Metropolitan Opera. "There's no other technology out there that can get to the core of music-making the way we do," she says. "When I watch and listen to someone use the product, it gives me a glimpse of how we could transform the... View Details
Henry B. Spencer
After serving as vice president of the Southern Railway System until 1917, Spencer formed the Fruit Growers Express to transport perishable goods and provide ventilated and refrigerated car services. With Fruit Growers owning its own cars and repair shops, the company... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- Profile
Limor Moshkovich
take a leadership role outside of my element?" In addition to her immersion duties, Limor became co-Chief Technology Officer of the TechMedia Club where she is "strengthened by a core community of students and alumni. At an... View Details
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Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks - Course Catalog
the level of individual actors. What are the core tools and skills for analysis of green and healthy buildings, sustainable infrastructure, large project finance, and public private partnerships? How do legacy and new cities realize both... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Liberal Smarts
by making sure that all students will be exposed to a core curriculum of liberal arts. That has long been my credo—that if you want to turn out balanced leaders, not just one-dimensional people coming out from a factory conveyor belt, you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie
taught to analyze the likelihood of various consequences, these students learn that the best decisions are those that minimize expected costs and maximize expected benefits," the authors write. The best decisions typically are those that "enlarge the pie," thus... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
the jobs most central to product security. According to one report, “The leader of the Core OS Security Engineering team, Dallas DeAtley, left the security division last year to work in a different part of Apple. Mr. DeAtley was one of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
$3.94 billion in sales from its more than 3,000 retail stores and its online auction site. Even so, Goodwill’s core mission is to provide job training and placement to people with disabilities, criminal backgrounds, and other challenges... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Jul 2014
- Working Paper
The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game
Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation's private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
An Wang
After receiving his Ph.D., Wang began work on a complex memory storage problem, which lead to the development of the first magnetic core memory. Building on this success, Wang went on to set up his own company focused on making business... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Michel C. Bergerac
Bergerac devoted his energies to increasing the distribution of the company’s core cosmetics lines, which were suffering at the hands of fierce competition. Marketing and advertising schemes became more elaborate but paid off for Revlon,... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
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Financial Report 2018 - Financial Report 2018
faculty research. The model performed well in fiscal 2018, as revenue grew faster than expenses for the fourth straight year. The resulting income from operations enabled the School to continue strengthening core programs and investing in... View Details
Robert W. Woodruff
Resisting the pressure of other board members to diversify Coca-Cola through acquisition, Woodruff was committed to promoting the company’s core mission. In keeping with this vision, Woodruff solicited the genius of advertising great... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- Career Coach
Sereena Tucker
Having worked in Investment Banking and Private Equity, Sereena can provide insights into how these industries recruit, what the job experience will look like, and how to create a list of target firms. She can help students create a game plan to network and recruit for... View Details
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Program Policies - HBS Online
respectfully in team activities and discussions. Credential of Readiness (CORe) Students who complete and pass all three courses—Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial Accounting—will earn the Credential of Readiness. View Details
- 15 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Coming to HBS with a Non-Finance Background
to campus. One example of this is that they put tools in place to identify incoming students who will benefit from completing certain pre-requisite work. As one of these students, I completed CORe (online coursework) over the summer and... View Details