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01 Jun 2008
News

Immersion Program Digs Deep

“It was case teaching in real time,” she says, describing how students were divided into teams and sent out into Shanghai with Chinese translators to complete a variety of one-day field projects with the goal of identifying View Details

Keywords: immersion; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Mar 2008
News

HBS Records an “Excellent” Year

Fiscal year 2007 “proved to be an excellent financial and operational year for Harvard Business School,” declared CFO Richard Melnick (MBA ’92) in the School’s newly released annual report. He cited continued growth in the global economy... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

31 May 2016
HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

substantial number of humans live. That’s big. If you have grand goals of how to change the world, there’s nothing bigger than space.” Back on earth, Weinzierl is looking forward to building up a robust treatment of a sector that hasn’t... View Details

Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace

09 Jan 2023
News

The Pursuit of Profit with Purpose Requires Patience

05 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Student Conferences at HBS: The 2021 Climate Symposium

can accomplish our climate goals is to invest in all solutions that can bring short- to long-term benefits, small and large. It felt like there was a unique sense of camaraderie among the companies that stems from a unified purpose. 3.... View Details

November 1999 (Revised February 2000)
Case

Woodland Partners: Field of Dreams?

By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Theodore D. Seides

Elizabeth Lilly, Richard Rinkett, and Richard Jensen are pondering whether to launch a new investment management firm and, if so, what growth strategy to chart for the potential firm. View Details

Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Decision Making; Problems and Challenges; Business Startups; Business Processes; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry

February 2010
Teaching Note

Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (TN)

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Keith Chi-ho Wong

Teaching Note for [308058]. View Details

Keywords: Business History; Global Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Vertical Integration; Goals and Objectives; Mergers and Acquisitions; Auto Industry; China; United States

01 Sep 2006
News

Light Years Ahead

and advance our goal of establishing HBS as the leading business school in the health-care sector. I also would like to find new ways of interacting with our colleagues throughout the University. There’s... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

29 Nov 2017
News

Inbox: From Das’s Desk

your lives. We can achieve this goal most completely when you join us. Across the arc of your career and life, there will be ever-changing ways to engage and re-engage. The question today is, how can you––and the School––benefit from your... View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

August 2008
Case

Progressive Corporation: Variable Dividends

By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Brenda W. Chia

In 2006, Progressive Corporation announced a change in its dividend policy. Henceforth, dividends would be paid annually rather than quarterly and, more importantly, would be set according to a formula that would result in considerably greater year-to-year variability... View Details

Keywords: Capital Structure; Policy; Goals and Objectives; Performance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Insurance Industry

01 Sep 2016
News

Making Progress on Strategic Priorities

for reentering the workforce. “Our goal is to help graduating MBAs get ready for the next chapter in their adventures, and remind them of the many bridges they have back to HBS.” Kristin Williams Mugford, Melvin Tukman Senior Lecturer of... View Details

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

their work," says Amabile, a professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. (Kramer, a developmental psychologist, is her husband.) To prepare for the book, Amabile and Kramer collected confidential,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2006
News

East to West

“The case was very appealing because the CEO’s goal was to create a governance structure that would be transparent to investors and stakeholders anywhere in the world. The more we talked, the more it seemed like a way to understand the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

November 1994 (Revised April 2012)
Case

National Electric Corporation

By: David F. Hawkins and Norman Bartczak

A company meets financial analysis year-end earnings per share estimates, which have been progressively lowered during the year. View Details

Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Quality; Business Earnings; Stock Shares; Analysis

01 Sep 2018
News

A Growing Array of Engagement Opportunities

Astrong, vibrant, and active alumni community is crucial to the School's ongoing success and relevance. One of the goals of The Harvard Business School Campaign was to broaden and deepen the ways in which... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

on the quality of alumni programs and services. Monty, we salute you! As I reflect on my two years as president of the HBS Alumni Association, I am moved by the potential we all have to help the School meet its goal of continuing to... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

November 2021 (Revised March 2022)
Case

AppHarvest: Rebuilding the Appalachian Economy Through Agriculture

By: Joshua Lev Krieger, William R. Kerr and Christian Godwin

In 2021, AppHarvest completed construction of a 60-acre indoor farming facility, one of the world’s largest, recorded its first sales, and went public in a multi-billion dollar IPO. Described as “a force of nature,” Jonathan Webb founded the company to bring jobs back... View Details

Keywords: Agricultural; Entrepreneur; Business Startups; Development Economics; Sales; Goals and Objectives; Going Public; Growth Management; Buildings and Facilities; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; North America