Publications

April 1999 (Revised November 1999)
Case

Adams Capital Management: March 1999

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Bill Wasik

On February 24, 1999, the advisory board of Adams Capital Management convened for its quarterly meeting at the firm's headquarters. One point on the agenda: whether or not to proceed with due diligence on an investment in Three Points, a maker of Internet-based team... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Systems; Investment; Goals and Objectives; Financial Services Industry

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25 May 2023
Video

Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Address

Web

A Separate Campus - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

were dispersed in classrooms around the Cambridge campus. HBS Professor Emeritus George Bates, who had been a 1925 graduate, remembered, “You had to hurry and you didn’t often stop to talk to people. We had View Details

23 May 2024
Video

Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Address

11 Feb 2019
HBS Seminar

Peter Belmi, University of Virginia Darden School of Business

30 May 2014
Video

Commencement 2014: Dean Nitin Nohria Speech

July 2010 (Revised August 2012)
Case

Assistant Professor Jo Worthington (A)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard

A relatively inexperienced professor struggles with managing a case discussion in a class based on numeric analysis. The class is lethargic and time is tight; she considers both a number of possible reasons for their disinterest and different teaching strategies to... View Details

Keywords: Education; Teaching; Strategy; Communication Strategy; Training; Leadership Style; Education Industry

06 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Short Intensive Programs 2024 Preview: From Climate Change to Formula 1

it’s one of their only chances to be in a class outside of their sectionmates, and for both RCs and ECs (second year, Elective Curriculum) to learn together in the same... View Details

13 Jul 2022
News

A Banner Year for Reunions: Q+A with Mary Jane (MJ) Keough

28 May 2015
Video

Commencement 2015: Dean Nitin Nohria Speech

26 May 2022
Video

Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Address

September 2003 (Revised January 2004)
Case

Wal-Mart Stores in 2003

By: Pankaj Ghemawat, Stephen P. Bradley and Ken Mark

Examines Wal-Mart's development over three decades and provides financial and descriptive detail of its domestic operations. In 2003, Wal-Mart's Supercenter business has surpassed its domestic business as the largest generator of revenues. Its international operation... View Details

Keywords: Wages; Fairness; Corporate Strategy; Operations; Labor Unions; Problems and Challenges; Gender; Globalized Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Retail Industry; United States

June 2013 (Revised September 2015)
Case

Procter & Gamble

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante

On July 12, 2012, Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management announced publicly that it had purchased about $2 billion of Procter and Gamble (P&G) stock. Shares in the company closed up 3.75% the day the disclosure was made public. Ackman told the New York... View Details

Keywords: Ackman; P＆G; Pershing Square Capital Managment; Disruption; Management Succession; Crisis Management; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; Financial Services Industry

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Educating Business Administrators - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

President Charles W. Eliot with grandson. In 1869, the year he became president of Harvard University, Charles Eliot penned an article in which he voiced a pressing concern. “I want to give [my boy] a practical education; View Details

January 1993 (Revised March 1993)
Case

Kronos (A)

Mark Ain is the founder and manager of Kronos, which has grown to a $33 million dollar company in 13 years. The case focuses on Ain's rrole in the company. Presents data from a personality assessment of Ain and his senior management team as input to this decision. . View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Management Skills; Managerial Roles; Personal Characteristics; Management Style; Behavior

November 2004 (Revised April 2005)
Background Note

Math for Strategists

By: Tarun Khanna and Jan W. Rivkin

Great strategists rely heavily on numbers as they go about their work. Offers an overview of the high- and low-brow quantitative tools that students encounter during the Strategy course. The class explores high-brow tools in detail; the focus here is on low-brow... View Details

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Strategy

2016
Working Paper

Innovation Network

By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit and William Kerr

Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Growth; Networks; Patents; Industry Growth; Technology Industry