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- 15 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Prepare for Your Interview with Research
a structure of the corporate family, current news about the company and biographical information on key executives. For public companies, financial information from corporate reports is easily accessible. The beauty of OneSource is that... View Details
- 23 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
How I Sourced My Internship Outside of the US: Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu
cycle in international markets isn’t as structured as in the US and things may not move as quickly as you’d expect. It’s important not to get disheartened and to continue networking, staying involved in... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
in the US, one that its parent sold for about $9 billion just nine years after its founding. Third is a piece of newly published research. In it, Robert Arnott and Lillian Jing Wu analyzed market capitalizations of firms in the US over a... View Details
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
Point’s market opportunity and growth rate but can be seen as a change in their growth strategy. The founder needs to decide his strategy for his next board meeting. Should he focus on past performance? Or should he spend time outlining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
tax shields of majority-owned PE-backed firms, which reduce their need for nonconforming (i.e., more aggressive) tax strategies. Lastly, we examine how different private ownership structures (e.g., majority PE ownership vs.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
process and convince companies to consider the human cloud? The Answers: Seems like a good mix of broad PR and market education, together with high-value customer selling, will be required. The incubators and startup competitions are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
humor Professor Sahlman and sign up for his adventurous new course. Wouldn’t they? Sahlman believed he had a conceptual structure for the course that might protect him from the dreaded Onion Outcome. “My goal from the beginning,” he... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 10 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice
particularly important right now, given companies’ increased focus on diversity and inclusion in light of recent events that have highlighted structural racism in our society. Brian Hollins (MBA 2021), Founder, The Aspen Fellowship: The... View Details
- February 2000 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
QuickenInsurance: The Race to Click and Close (A)
ES Technologies started in 1976 as a storefront in Tempe, Arizona selling personal computer kits to hobbyists. Twenty years later, revenues exceeded $3.5 billion, and the business had evolved from a computer store to a master reseller and full-line integrator of... View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; Arizona
Applegate, Lynda M. "QuickenInsurance: The Race to Click and Close (A)." Harvard Business School Case 800-295, February 2000. (Revised November 2002.)
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
the current Boston Stock Exchange building, a structure that was considered something of a white elephant after Fleet Bank moved out. After buying the building for $10 million, Intercontinental invested $6.5 million in the property before... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
federal policy would really be helpful to create a uniform landscape for the capital markets and the technologies to respond to.” Matt Sonnesyn (HKS 2002) and VP of infrastructure, energy and environment at the Business Roundtable—which... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
promising distance learning initiative that will enrich the prematriculation process for incoming students. In Executive Education, the Program for Global Leadership now includes distance learning modules on global financial markets and... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
both organizations and employees benefit by emphasizing newcomers' authentic best selves. Paper: http://www.francescagino.com/publications.html First-Party Content and Coordination in Two-Sided Markets Authors:Hagiu, Andrei, and Daniel... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
or "shepherds," rather than micro-managers of the creative process. How the market interacts with creativity and the impact of this interaction on creativity in organizations. The relationship between creativity and... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
rest of us. An imaginative, tech savvy caregiver we employ in our home dreamed up a business based on an unsatisfactory personal experience. Despite her lack of formal training, resources, and investment, she devised a way to test her idea, order the necessary... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
course developer. As Dean, he led HBS through some of the most momentous and challenging times in its history. In 2008, as the global economic crisis unfolded, Light acted swiftly to strengthen the School’s financial structure and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
philanthropic structures Foundations, DAFs, and other vehicles are most often, in my experience, “pass through” entities wherein the donor uses the benefits of tax planning and simplicity of donation to give the money and then, over the... View Details
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
specifically, we show how forgetting in a firm's ongoing rhetorical history-here, the bulletins' repeated omission of contradictory elements in the firm's past (i.e., structural omission) or attempts to neutralize them with valued... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
Were equity markets highly efficient, these actions would be recognized; an immediate decline in share price would occur; and, anticipating this, managers would not be tempted toward misconduct or "short termism." Unfortunately,... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- Profile
Minal Mehta
And when Bollywood was exploding across college campuses in my undergrad years at UC Berkeley, I was leading my dance team to sweep national competitions. It feels like BollyX had always been in the cards. "It was 18 months after I had graduated from HBS. I had... View Details