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13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

private firms differs.” So when Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Joan Farre-Mensa learned he'd been granted access to a database of accounting information on tens of thousands of private American firms, he knew it was an... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

24 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality

It used to be that you risked detention for disrupting an elementary school classroom. Nowadays, disrupting the entire school system can earn you millions of dollars in startup funding. Consider AltSchool, the idea of entrepreneur Max... View Details

Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education

12 May 2016
News

Food Rescue Is on a Mission

remote parts of the continent. The organization expects to feed 17 million meals to the country’s poorest families this year, an astounding achievement reflective of why the Carsons earned the 2015 Social Entrepreneur of the Year award... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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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... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Where Are They Now?

Glauber earned his doctoral degree in business administration at HBS and joined the faculty in 1964. He taught courses on corporate finance and investment management, and served as faculty chair of the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Sep 2003
News

Richard Edelman

well. Appointed the firm’s CEO in 1997, he believes that there is usually an intersection of corporate and public interest. “Change is rarely revolutionary,” he says cheerfully. “You do better by being inside the tent.” Since earning his... View Details

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

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CORe Final Exam Preparation | HBS Online

module deadline. Participants do not need to make appointments to take the final exam. The exam is divided into three parts — Business Analytics , Economics for Managers , and Financial Accounting — and you have 60 minutes to complete... View Details

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

whose jobs rely on getting ideas to market. All of a sudden, you’re not in the car business. You’re in the business of being fast. Local Motors’ 3D-printed car, the Strati, takes about 44 hours to print and has an electric engine that can... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Oct 1997
News

William K.L. Fung

Fung's proposals, and by April 1973, Li & Fung was listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange. This early success was only the beginning of a distinguished business career that has established Fung, now 48, as one of Hong Kong's ablest and... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

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Lucky Ones Coffee: Employing People with Disabilities | Information Technology

Featured Case Lucky Ones Coffee: Employing People with Disabilities Katie Holyfield and Taylor Matkins founded the The Lucky Ones Coffee in 2017 with a mission to create jobs in Park City, Utah for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The company... View Details

28 Jul 2016
Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

Funding. TripAdvisor recently compromised perceived objectivity by accepting hotel bookings on which it earns commissions. Previously, TripAdvisor revenues depended on travel-related advertising on the site. Having become the highest... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

01 Feb 2000
News

William Jones: Builder with a Mission

At an early age, William D. Jones (MBA '89) learned about the fragility of a stable urban community. From their home in the Skyline Hills section of San Diego, he and his family watched their neighborhood gradually decline as businesses... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Dec 2000
News

Taiwan Club President Thrives on Region's Entrepreneurial Energy

age of 12. He earned a degree in engineering from MIT but decided to pursue a career in business because it offered more diversity than engineering. After graduating from HBS, he worked at Citibank for... View Details

Student-Profile

Ryann Noe

A blended course of study is nothing new for Ryann (she/her) - she earned her undergraduate degree in Economics and English at Williams College, and wrote her honors thesis on children’s literature. “That may not appear to be a common... View Details

Student-Profile

Dafna Bearson

remains uncharted territory,” Dafna explains. “I have the opportunity to pursue actionable research impacting real phenomena we read about in the news every day, and to contribute to state of the art knowledge about issues that matter for people’s livelihoods and View Details

11 May 2021
Blog Post

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

company to a larger one. In contrast, startups funded by a VC syndicate with less familiar co-investors are most likely to exit through a potentially splashy IPO that could let founders retain more control, says Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

04 Sep 2019
News

Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

who spent six years commercializing drugs and diagnostics in East and West Africa before earning her MBA. “There are frequently delays in diagnosis, where the turnaround time for a biopsy could be several weeks or months.” That lag time,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
Supplement

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal

The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details

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Cherian Kurien

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? For me the purpose of an MBA is to develop and refine one's political, economic and social worldview, by debating, listening to and understanding the views of the faculty and fellow... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Retail

Profile

Mike Watitwa

with technology, the world around me was shifting at a very fast pace and business models were getting disrupted. I could not think of a better opportunity to grow in these areas than a program that would expose me to hundreds of View Details

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