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June 2017 (Revised August 2018)
Supplement

Making Target the Target: Boycotts and Corporate Political Activity (B)

Supplements the (A) Case. View Details

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Demo Day | New Venture Competition

have advanced to the semifinal round in the New Venture Competition Business and Social Enterprise tracks. Select teams will deliver pitches to early-stage investors. Networking rooms will be available for students to meet with a... View Details

20 Apr 2015
Blog Post

India Conference 2015

India at the time of the event. This year, the Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School hosted over 75 speakers and 600 attendees over two days in early March. The event was kicked off on the 7th of March with an exciting debate... View Details

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Class Profile | MBA

Class Profile A truly diverse student body — in experience, nationality, interests, and ambitions — is the foundation of the Harvard Business School experience. Play A Mosaic of Perspectives video Play Video duration: 1:27 Indeed, a... View Details

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

http://www.people.hbs.edu/liyer/BCCI_JEBO_Final_Sept2013.pdf August 2013 Contemporary Accounting Research The Role of Performance Measures in the Intertemporal Decisions of Business Unit Managers By: Bouwens, Jan, Margaret A. Abernethy,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2024
News

Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade

Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2024
News

Far-Reaching Impact

Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2001
News

Q&A: Donna Dubinsky

system. Handspring’s Visor quickly distinguished itself from the competition through the addition of an expansion slot that allows users to add a variety of capabilities — digital camera, MP3 player, or cell phone, for example — to their basic handheld device. With... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; PalmPilot; Apple; Telecommunications; Information

05 Aug 2014
News

A Diversified Portfolio

extensive strategic and financial experience included consulting at McKinsey, investment banking at Salomon Brothers, and leading business development at several Internet and media companies. The pair... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

16 Jul 2013
News

Embracing Chaos

Ravi Venkatesan If anyone could write the recipe for business success in emerging markets, it would be Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992). After all, he's led not one, but two, major multinational companies—Cummins and Microsoft—in India and... View Details

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

02 May 2005
What Do You Think?

Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?

the high cost of replacing iPod batteries (since corrected). The newsgroups, discussion boards, and blogs may contain the seeds of ideas and notions about cutting-edge behaviors suggestive of everything from future business opportunities... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5

is all too familiar and similar to how I felt seeing the human dignity stripped from Tamir Rice, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Michael Brown, and many others. There were no iPhones and no social media then, though. We watched the story of... View Details

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

Raffaelli, a professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. “All the ingredients were there for the independent sector to see the end of its days.” Something miraculous started happening in 2009, however. After... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

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Verification | HBS Online

Congratulations on earning your Certificate of Completion or Credential of Readiness from Harvard Business School Online! Your successful course completion can be verified directly from your digital resume or LinkedIn profile by adding... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region

that caused injuries, landslides, power and transportation outages, and $1.3 billion in damages. Takeuchi says, “our plans for a joyful celebration of Tōhoku’s rise from the 2011 disaster” shifted to a show of gratitude and continuing support for local civic and View Details

30 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One

important implications in an election year marked by widespread protests. Harvard Business School Professor Vincent Pons teamed up with Amory Gethin, a fellow economist at the World Bank Development Research Group, to study 14 major... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 1999
News

A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

an odd experience for Kramer the journalist: SEC rules prohibited MarketWatch from covering its own much-anticipated debut - or even from running stories by other news media that might mention it - so as not to unfairly promote its stock.... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)

audience, engagement, and revenues. It’s like producing Seinfeld every day, every week of the year. So did I create a hard-driving culture? Yes, to a big extent. We got a lot of negative media attention, but I decided early on to spend my... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; alumni

01 Sep 2014
News

Case Study: Declawing the Competition

excellent customer service. However, we know this is a race that others can compete in, too, and that—with enough investment—our differentiators are replicable. What fundamental changes can we make to this market dynamic and/or our View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Screen Saver

same as it was in 1977, and certainly not in the entertainment space." As CEO of AMC Theatres since March 2009, Lopez has been addressing that discrepancy with a passion and drive not usually seen in a business often considered a sleepy... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment

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