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14 Sep 2018
Blog Post

10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

faith. Since then, I found the answers to the things I wondered from a distance. Pursuing a joint degree impacts your regular MBA experience, but for the better, giving you another family on campus. It is a lot of work, but with... View Details

17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

year later that he had never really identified with his career, that work was just for pay, and that his self-concept as a family man was—and had always been—most important. Maintaining a life philosophy: Many people mentioned holding... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

24 May 2017
News

David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

a freelancer who had worked for the Atlantic and was held hostage in Libya in 2011. Bradley gathered interested parties—Gillis’s parents, journalists, lawyers—to brainstorm how they could help, and their initial success led him to bring together other View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

06 Aug 2021
Book

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

play? We are given to believe that Steve was very much of two minds about his next move. He was not a boy wonder anymore. He was forty-two, with a family and with more than a billion dollars in assets. His marriage was a success. He loved... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

09 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

working paper, Ascarza and coauthor Nicolas Padilla, a doctoral candidate at Columbia Business School, show that a statistical tool known as a deep exponential family model can effectively sort the most relevant variables and account for... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service

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Cotting House | About

students, MBA fellowships, and faculty development each year. Cotting belonged to the fourth generation of a venerable New England family that figured prominently in the early development of Boston as a city and business center. Through... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

Illustration by Lincoln Agnew Pete Stavros (MBA 2002) got his first lessons in labor relations as a kid at the dinner table, when his father, who operated a road grader at construction sites, told the family about his day. The elder... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Carlos Emilio Larreategui

My grandfather cut through the tension of a family political discussion: “If, with all our flaws, God loves us infinitely, who are we to deny each other love?” Ecuador, the place I call home, was treading polarized waters that pitted... View Details

28 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

headquarters maximize an organization's overall revenues by efficiently (and effectively) monitoring the desires of consumers representing a wide range of ethnicities and income levels, large families and singletons? Much has been written... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

25 May 2011
HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

another family issue." Conversely, workers who aren't doing their part hear about it sooner rather than later, whether it's from a manager or coworkers. "Slow movers are not meant to work at QuikTrip," says Ton. If an... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

06 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

not thousands of retirees saw their nest eggs evaporate because of their unwitting participation in a deliberately contrived Ponzi scheme that, in time, became the largest ($50 billion) in Wall Street history. By this measure, or in terms of the View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

25 Aug 2014
News

Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

Boston University, and Boston Medical Center. In Mumbai, the Dahod family helped build Saifee Hospital, a state-of-the-art facility that offers subsidized care for people in need, and they are involved in an “upliftment” project to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

public companies, which enabled family ownership and control and most of the past traditions of the former partnerships to continue with little hindrance. This was not exceptional in the corporate context of Britain of this period — the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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HBS Cases | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details

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Dillon House | About

Museum of Art. Dillon’s close involvement with Harvard University included two terms on the Board of Overseers, service on 11 visiting committees, and leadership of numerous fundraising campaigns. In addition to Dillon House, over the years the Dillon View Details

01 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

Next, the newcomers spent 15 minutes writing answers to questions such as, "What did you hear about Wipro today that you would be proud to tell your family about?" Finally, the group members discussed their answers with each other. At the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

October 2023 (Revised January 2025)
Case

Ӧzyeğin Social Investments: A Legacy of Giving

By: Christina R. Wing, Zeshan Gondal and Brittany L. Logan

This case explores the work of Özyeğin Social Investments, founded by Hüsnü Özyeğin, one of Turkey's most successful entrepreneurs. With a focus on education, health, gender equality, rural development, and disaster relief in Turkey, Özyeğin Social Investments and the... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Family Business; Business Model; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Turkey

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24 Nov 2015
Blog Post

What is an HBS MyTake?

your favorite MyTakes with us? Of course! While some are quite private, we have some really outstanding stories that I can't help but share. One of my classmates told a story of how her high school track and field coach really pushed and inspired her to overcome... View Details

14 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Jewish Student Association

family while living in a small town with very few Jews, I am passionate about sharing my culture and beliefs with others to build awareness and understanding with the larger global community. Prior to HBS, I helped lead the traditional... View Details

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