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18 Dec 2014
Blog Post

Turnaround & Restructuring Club Conference Recap

Advisors). Each panelist shared personal anecdotes about prior turnaround experiences, with some specifying why they currently view certain industries as more attractive than others. This portion of the event wrapped up with a... View Details

03 Apr 2006
What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

Summing Up The global corporation and globalization in general are poised to achieve new and different heights, if responses to this month's column are to be believed. As Greg Bownik put it, "for globalization to peak businesses... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

rescue of 33 Chilean miners. More and more people in nearly every industry now work on teams that vary in duration and have constantly shifting membership. Teaming presents technical and interpersonal challenges: people must get up to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

Happiness, artificial intelligence, and climate change were just some of the themes that caught the attention of Harvard Business School podcast listeners in 2023. Here are some of the most-downloaded episodes of the year: Deep Purpose How Framebridge Founder Susan... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

16 Jun 2021
HBS Case

Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

prepared for an extended, indefinite lockdown. The company cut its annual operating expenses by $1 billion, as well as its capital costs by hundreds of millions. While some of those reductions came from laying off 820 people and furloughing an additional 537 for View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Travel

03 Aug 2017
Blog Post

“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”

Sometimes inspiration does come from the likeliest places. For Rahil Mehrotra, MBA 2018, it emerged from a combination of HBS courses and experiences: The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) course, the winter break Startup Boot Camp program,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

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PRIMO Alumni Profiles - Doctoral

labor economics. Read more about Jo here. Stella Jia UC Berkeley, Class of 2025 Stella Jia (she/her) was born in the Bay Area and grew up in California. The unique presence of technology in the Bay Area led her to study statistics and... View Details

02 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable

also picked up by major news outlets, including The New York Times. “It actually got a real response from United Airlines,” says Pacelli, noting that the CEO publicly apologized for the incident and United later agreed to settle a lawsuit... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Technology

22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety

speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. Psychological safety describes an environment of low interpersonal fear. The fear of making a negative impression can drive all kinds of sub-optimal behavior—such as not speaking... View Details

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By: Anywhere Sikochi

Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

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1.4.3 Required Curriculum (RC) - MBA

students have up to 15 classes each week scheduled Monday through Friday, with three classes on some days and two classes on others. Most RC classes are 80 minutes long and a typical three-class day runs from approximately 8:00am-4:00pm... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

That Was Then, This Is Now

It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details

Keywords: Photographed by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002); edited by Julia Hanna. Above: Heidi Brooks, photographed in 2003 and 2023.; life experience; family; leadership

08 Sep 2022
Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

But, frustrated Gen Xers and Millennials need not give up—their time will come, and they need to prepare now. “We desperately need this generation to learn how to manage diverse people, and manage through... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

September 2015
Supplement

Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan (B)

By: Geoffrey Jones and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

This (B) case takes up the story of the Afghan female entrepreneur Kamila Sidiqi between 2009 and 2015. The case opens with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praising her achievements at a State Department dinner in March 2015 for the newly elected President of... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Afghanistan

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07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Case Research & Writing Group - Faculty & Research

products. Library cases, supplements, rewrites, revisions, abridged cases, teaching notes and teaching plans, and multimedia supplements make up the balance. Team Overview The CRG team currently has 15 members. While all CRG case... View Details

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Administrative Costs Associated with Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health Care System

By: Phillip Tseng, Robert S. Kaplan, Barak D. Richman, Mahek A. Shah and Kevin A. Schulman

The federal government mandated adoption of certified electronic health record systems (EHR), at least in part, to reduce administrative costs for physicians. This study used time-driven activity-based costing to determine the administrative costs associated with... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Insurance; Problems and Challenges

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20 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say

Bhargav Srinivasan (MBA 2019) is a Senior Manager at Bain & Company. If you were to describe your HBS experience in 3 words what would they be? Unforgettable, reflective, and thought-provoking. Was an HBS MBA worth it? It was 100%... View Details

November 2019 (Revised December 2020)
Case

Grupo Éxito: Facing Colombia's Competitive Grocery Retail Industry

By: José B. Alvarez, Carla Larangeira, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Miguel Diaz Moreno

Grupo Éxito, a leading South American retailer, faced declining market shares in Colombia in 2019 with the arrival of low-cost competitors and emerging digital trends. Originally founded in Medellín, Éxito had over the course of its seventy-year history evolved from a... View Details

Keywords: Grocery; Market Share; Information Technology; Trends; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; Colombia; Latin America

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August 2017 (Revised November 2021)
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Ryan Greene at Rainier Wearables

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Christopher Payton

This case provides a platform for discussing mental health and depression in entrepreneurship. Why do entrepreneurs have more mental health issues than other professions? What can an entrepreneur do if they face a situation where their mental well-being is being... View Details

Keywords: Mental Health; Depression; Entrepreneurship; Well-being; Personal Development and Career

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