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  • 15 Nov 2018
  • Blog Post

Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense"

challenges. While case discussions lend themselves to abstracting away general principles, the value of engagement with business issues of all shapes and sizes can’t be overstated.  Similarly, personal... View Details
  • January 2017 (Revised January 2017)
  • Case

Susan Cassidy at Bertram Gilman International

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Michael Norris
In 2016, Susan Cassidy, VP of sales and marketing for the packaged foods division at CPG firm Bertram Gilman International, has to make a promotion decision. Should she choose the person she has been grooming for the position or another candidate recommended by central... View Details
Keywords: People Analytics; Algorithms; Promotion Decision; Human Resources; Business Processes; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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    Bushra Guenoun

    Bushra is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. Her research interests include trust, morality, social identity and mentorship/advising. She received an A.B. in Psychology from Harvard College in 2017. Previously, she worked as a... View Details

    • 28 May 2018
    • News

    Read This Story and Get Happier The most popular course at Yale teaches how to be happy. We took it for you.

    • 20 Sep 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It

    and why we come to snap judgments about coworkers (and how to fight that natural instinct). The article was cited as a "Breakthrough Business Idea" for 2009 by Harvard Business Review. "The... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 19 Dec 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: December 19, 2006

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-036.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsThe Bollingers: Negotiating with Wal-Mart Harvard Business School Case 907-009 More information and purchase:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back - MBA

    Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
    • 28 Nov 2023
    • Book

    Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

    With democracy retreating worldwide, businesses with global aspirations increasingly face the challenge of setting up shop in geographies where autocrats rule. In doing so,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the Social Safety Net

    By: Gareth Olds
    This paper explores the role of public health insurance in small business ownership among immigrants, a group with high rates of entrepreneurship. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 created a five-year “waiting period” for legal... View Details
    Keywords: Insurance; Entrepreneurship; Welfare or Wellbeing; Immigration
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    • December 2019 (Revised August 2022)
    • Exercise

    Janet Ames (B)

    By: Brian Trelstad and Brian Trelstad
    The series of Janet Ames cases follow a fictional alumna of Harvard Business School into her consulting career in Boston. Over the series of cases, Ames is first offered the opportunity to join the board of a Boston-based non-profit organization, which offers students... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy; Board; Non-profit Management; Career Changes And Transitions; Evaluation; Personal Development and Career; Opportunities; Decision Choices and Conditions; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Management; United States
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    • September 2013
    • Case

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
    In July 2012, retired United States Army Major General Gale Pollock created Elevivo, a venture that worked on developing a comprehensive disease management software system to support the growing number of visually impaired individuals by providing them with tailored... View Details
    Keywords: United States; Health Care; Health Care Education; Insurance Companies; Disease Management; Technology; Military; Leadership Skills; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Education; Insurance; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; United States
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    • 12 Feb 2020
    • News

    Research: It Pays To Be Yourself

    • 09 Apr 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

    personalized approach. Van Binsbergen hesitated whether Lexoo should increase its focus on the new vertical or not. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/619019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 30 Jan 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship

    Keywords: by Ramana Nanda

      Matthew C. Weinzierl

      Matt Weinzierl is Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program at Harvard Business School, where he is the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, and a Research... View Details

      Keywords: aerospace
      • December 2006 (Revised January 2007)
      • Case

      Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola and Nigeria's Manufacturing Sector

      By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo, Foluke Otudeko and Mark Benson
      Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola was an important contributor to Nigeria's manufacturing sector, creating a multimillion-dollar conglomerate including three factories, a retail franchise, a cattle ranch, a 5,000-acre plantation, a sawmill, and an exporting business before... View Details
      Keywords: History; Business Conglomerates; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Success; Leadership Style; Business History; Market Entry and Exit; Personal Development and Career; Business Startups; Manufacturing Industry; Nigeria
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      • 25 Jun 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Collaborating Across Cultures

      a "snake." The story illustrates a common challenge to Hollywood filmmakers as they attempt to break into China's more than $2 billion-a-year film market—and to businesspeople in all industries as foreign markets become increasingly... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • June 2021 (Revised December 2021)
      • Case

      Suzhou Good-Ark Electronics: Creating and Implementing a Sage Culture

      By: Sandra J. Sucher, Nien-he Hsieh, Susan J. Winterberg, Nancy Hua Dai and Shalene Gupta
      Suzhou Good-Ark, a Chinese semiconductor implemented "Sage Culture" management based on traditional Chinese philosophy. Productivity doubled, turnover decreased, and employee satisfaction shot up. By 2015, more than 2,000 companies had toured Wu’s factories, and Wu had... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Philosophy; Leadership; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Transformation; Performance; Semiconductor Industry; China; Singapore
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      • 04 Jun 2018
      • Blog Post

      How to Create a Presence Without Being Present

      business – knowledge we can share with our students and alumni.” Apply virtual tools – but be smart about them In a digital age, job candidates expect digital conveniences as a natural part of the recruiting... View Details
      Keywords: All Industries
      • 17 Jun 2015
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      Excellence Comes From Saying No

      background in the topic. "Often we don't need better ideas, we just need to frame them more effectively," says Frei "To describe something simply, you must really understand it deeply." Mixing It Up The class had just... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding