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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

    • October 2008 (Revised February 2011)
    • Case

    Apple's Core

    By: Noam T. Wasserman
    Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are best friends who enjoy pulling pranks together and talking about electronics. After several small collaborations, Jobs pitches Wozniak on starting a company together to sell computers based on Wozniak's design for a personal computer.... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Equity; Managerial Roles; Partners and Partnerships; Conflict Management
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Intelligent Design of Inclusive Growth Strategies

    By: Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim and Eduardo Tugendhat
    Improving corporate engagement with society, as advocated in the Business Roundtable’s 2019 statement, should not be viewed as a zero-sum proposition where attention to new stakeholders detracts from delivering shareholder value. Corporate programs for sustainable and... View Details
    Keywords: Inclusion; Sustainability; Performance Measures; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Strategy; Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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    • 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
    • 12 Jan 2016
    • First Look

    January 12, 2016

    funding in these environments. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50237 Harvard Business School Case 616-032 Integrating Avocent Corporation into Emerson Network Power... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • TeachingInterests

    Field Global Immersion

    By: Archie L. Jones

    The FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) is a semester-long first-year (RC) MBA course. The course is a capstone of sorts, and it requires students to build on learnings from their first-year courses and apply them to real-world business problems. At the beginning of... View Details

    • 04 May 2021
    • News

    Hubert Joly from Best Buy

    • 04 Oct 2016
    • Blog Post

    Why We Recruit: CVS Health

    million patients each year, and expanding specialty pharmacy services, the company enables people, businesses and communities to manage health in more affordable and effective ways. CVS Health serves 5... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care
    • Web

    My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015) - 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
    • 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
    • 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.

    • July 15, 2022
    • Article

    Does Elon Musk Have a Strategy?

    By: Andy Wu and Goran Calic
    Does Elon Musk have a strategy? Or is he just out there winging it? Looking at Musk’s many companies, common themes stand out across three areas: what fits into his vision for problems to solve, how he designs an organization as a solution to those problems, and why he... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Strategy; Vision; Resources; Organization; Platform; Closed Systems; Leadership; Complexity; Organizational Design; Vertical Integration; Problems and Challenges; Success; Auto Industry; Aerospace Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Energy Industry
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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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    • January 2021
    • Article

    Sales Hiring Is Hard to Do (Don't Make It Harder)

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    In the aggregate, hiring in sales is more expensive than many companies’ cap-ex decisions. But it rarely gets the same attention and companies fail to deal with challenges inherent in sales hiring. Unlike many other business functions, there is no easily identified... View Details
    Keywords: Salesforce Management; Selection and Staffing; Human Resources
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    • 19 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023

    Soon after ChatGPT debuted in late 2022, business leaders began taking their first steps into generative artificial intelligence, approaching this powerful technology with a mix of awe and trepidation. It’s... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • March 2016 (Revised January 2023)
    • Teaching Note

    Carla Ann Harris at Morgan Stanley

    By: Lakshmi Ramarajan
    This case follows Carla Ann Harris, an African-American executive on Wall Street, from her childhood to the eve of her 20th year at Morgan Stanley. In addition to her professional identity as an investment banker, Harris is also an accomplished gospel singer, an... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Identity; Personal Development and Career; Success; Values and Beliefs; Social Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry
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    • June 2024 (Revised September 2024)
    • Case

    Driving Scale with Otto

    By: Rebecca Karp, David Allen and Annelena Lobb
    This case asks how startup founders make scaling decisions in light of their priorities for their business and for themselves. Otto was a technology company that applied artificial intelligence technology to sales. It deployed natural language processing to find sales... View Details
    Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Natural Language Processing; B2B; B2B Innovation; Scaling; Scaling Tech Ventures; Business Startups; AI and Machine Learning; Finance; Sales; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology Industry; United States; Cambridge; New York (city, NY); Spain
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    • 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
    • March 2017 (Revised June 2019)
    • Case

    Mubadala and EBX: To X or to X It?

    By: Nori Gerardo Lietz, Ricardo Andrade and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
    In April 2012, Mubadala, Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund invested $2 billion in Brazilian conglomerate EBX, believing the company to be undervalued by the public markets. Shortly thereafter, however, EBX and its multiple business lines began to spiral downward. Hani... View Details
    Keywords: Sovereign Wealth Funds; Conglomerates; Investing; Corporate Structure; International; Sovereign Finance; Business Conglomerates; Investment; Financing and Loans; Restructuring; Organizational Structure; Economy; Brazil; Abu Dhabi
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    • March 2011
    • Article

    Zoom In, Zoom Out

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    Zoom buttons on digital devices let us examine images from many viewpoints. They also provide an apt metaphor for modes of strategic thinking. Some people prefer to see things up close, others from afar. Both perspectives have virtues. But they should not be fixed... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Cognition and Thinking; Perspective; Leadership; Opportunities; Decisions
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