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Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online

digital marketing. The course provided tangible and tactical strategies that can be immediately implemented. Reagan Weeks Design and implement strategies to launch or grow your business in the digital space. "This was an excellent course... View Details

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Mariama Keita

four different schools to evaluate her MBA options. "I felt completely at home at HBS," she says. One of the things that impressed her was an article in the school paper, The Harbus, that reported on the efforts of HBS students... View Details

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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog

Care contains the analytic framework for students who want to innovate the sector. It is entirely taught through current field-based case studies of health care innovations. Innovating in Health Care (Q1) is the prerequisite for the next two field courses, Field... View Details

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Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills - Course Catalog

master consulting and advisory skills. Educational Objectives: MCAS has the following key learning objectives: To equip students with the tools, skills, frameworks, and mindsets to quickly add value by tackling business challenges in a... View Details

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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog

restaurant to scaling to leadership of multinational chains, and evaluate opportunities inherent in typical restaurant business models as well as those created by disruptive changes affecting and shaping the... View Details

02 Jul 2018
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Pursuing A Passion in Health Care

assessing the opportunity for a new medical diagnostic tool that targets a previously unaddressed customer segment. My job involves reaching out to our different country teams across the globe to evaluate the opportunity in their market,... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

01 Jun 2006
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Managing Family Assets

internal evaluation of your values, your resources — financial and human — and your ability to communicate with your family. How should people’s values influence the way they manage their money? If you have money and don’t have good... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Management

03 Oct 2023
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Hire an MBA: The Benefits and Misconceptions for Startups

they can add. Sample projects might include: Competitive/Pricing Analysis Market Analysis & Segmentation Business Partner Evaluations Due diligence & ROI analysis New View Details

Keywords: All Industries; Entrepreneurship

01 Jun 1997
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The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School Press) The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail demonstrates why outstanding companies that focus on competitiveness, listen... View Details

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2.2 Recruiting Standards of Conduct | MBA

must notify both the Career and Professional Development (CPD) Office and the organization of accepted offers before withdrawing from a scheduled interview. Students who have received an offer are expected to attend all scheduled interviews. View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)

bank account, and family support system.” Up the structure. Build your own board of directors. “You need a group of people who will offer outside support and call you to account,” Burton advises. Evaluate your approach on a monthly basis.... View Details

04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808074 DW Healthcare Partners Harvard Business School Case 208-005 No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

strategies and tactics for managing risk vs. reward. Historically, most entrepreneurship courses (at HBS, and elsewhere) disproportionately focus on consumer- and /or software-centric business model and product experimentation tools... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden

what to do. You ask them questions, engage in dialogues. Key elements in evaluating a business proposal I look for something that has a major impact on the area that it's supposed to affect — major cost... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

2019
Working Paper

Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Institutional Environments and Monitoring Program Design

By: Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel and Andrea R. Hugill

Activism seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply chains has led transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor suppliers for compliance, but it is unclear whether these formal organizational structures raise labor standards. Drawing on... View Details

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Chris Wilson-Byrne

the environment," says Chris. "It reminded me of the things I liked about being on the college swim team – the fast pace, the excitement, and the energy." In his senior year, Chris began to evaluate his options. On the HBS... View Details

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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog

Associates How and why investors structure deals How PE firms add value How investors screen and choose investments Getting a deal through the Investment Committee Role of debt providers and where incentives overlap and diverge Different PE View Details

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IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog

Singapore, offering an in-depth exploration of the country's ecosystem with particular focus on the government’s efforts to facilitate an innovation hub that is durable and relevant. The course is specifically designed to expose and View Details

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action

to the unrealistically purist view that it was in the business of producing only high-performance footwear for competitive athletes. Nike has since changed its ways, but several years of less-than-stellar sales was the price the company... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

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Fola Folowosele

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? At Mesoamerica Energy, the wind energy company I worked at prior to business school, I held a cross functional role that straddled engineering and business... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products

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