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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
the Bible, and Wheel of Fortune. Here, just two of the artists, philosophers, fictional characters, and others who make cameo appearances in this guide to finance and the good life: (Getty Images/Bettmann) (Getty Images/Bettmann) Wallace... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
the business but no day-to-day role). The case is fictional but is based on a combination of several real businesses encountered by Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA 16, 2017), managing director at Semper8 Capital, a Toronto-based investment firm.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
greatest wizard of all time. Although Barron's novels are generally found in the science fiction or young adult sections of bookstores, his intentions transcend such categories. "I'm writing for thoughtful people of all ages, people who... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
something,” he explained. “I couldn’t do sculpture or drawing on the road, but I could write.” The idea for a novel came to him one day in a Beijing bookstore when he discovered a paucity of fiction titles about China written for an... View Details
- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
take-charge author, the publishing industry, and the business of book clubs to analyze the success of various modes of marketing. Patterson, a former chairman of J. Walter Thompson, published his first mystery novel in 1976 and made View Details
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
commission on every sale. (E-book editions of most new fiction and nonfiction releases will cost between $12.99 and $14.99.) "Publishers are worried that more and more customers are going to get used to the sort of cheap prices that... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
The Art of Naming a Start-up
approached the naming process eagerly at the beginning, since as an amateur writer I enjoy picking names for fictional characters and places. But there were rules to follow, as my cofounder pointed out when the three of us began... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
a fictional case study on new product development and improvement after the successful launch of a first breakthrough product. Topics include business planning for brand name products, finance and investment for the development of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
having some serious unintended consequences, one being the fiction that there is actually a real CEO labor market. Let me elaborate. It is natural to wonder why boards routinely bypass thousands of internal candidates for the ninety or so... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
When science fiction writer Neal Stephenson dreamed of the metaverse—a term he coined in his 1992 novel Snow Crash—he envisioned a long city street that’s “always garish and brilliant, like Las Vegas freed from constraints of physics and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Broughton (MBA 2006) (Harper) A compendium of practical knowledge, trivia, and worldly wisdom for boys of all ages, designed as an informal full-color family scrapbook treasured by generations of one fictional family at their Adirondack... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
Illustrations by James Steinberg It’s been said that in this century, carbohydrates will replace hydrocarbons, and biology will supplant physics as the innovation-producing science. As science fiction becomes science fact, and with... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Jo Tan (MBA 2021) Draws on Experience
the classroom with text that states, “I love you like an overachiever loves participation grades.” She enjoys the satire of the piece, as she pokes fun at the Type A personalities of many MBA students. Her other favorite is a series of illustrations with View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Huang I like to switch up what I’m reading—so I often alternate between fiction and non-fiction, different time periods and settings, and books that I’m reading for the first time read versus books that I’ve re-read dozens of times. I... View Details
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
Ever wanted to judge a Harvard Business Review case study? Here's your chance. In its June issue, Harvard Business Review published an account of the fictional company, DataClear, authored by Harvard Business School associate professor... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
"Blessed Assurance" is a story that often leaves a strong impression on the MBA students who take his course, called The Moral Leader. Like many other works of literature in The Moral Leader, both fiction and non-fiction,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA
support her family and community, of leaving a lucrative job, and of not fitting in. The soon-to-be published Esperanza case is co-authored by Lulu Curiel (MBA 2010), Professor Jose Alvarez, and Eric Calderon (MBA 2013). While she is a View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
by Alex Haley and Malcom X, but can’t seem to find my copy as I think I lent it to my son just before he left for his gap year. Laura Huang I like to switch up what I’m reading—so I often alternate between fiction and non-fiction,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
entitled We Shall Not Surrender this Television Station. As Tom Wolfe says, who needs fiction with reality like this! Writing and teaching a case with material like this is a real pleasure. Q: Can you identify the key miscalculations made... View Details