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    William R. Kerr

    William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the... View Details

    Keywords: communications; computer; consulting; high technology; information technology industry; management consulting; manufacturing; telecommunications; venture capital industry
    • 25 Nov 2014
    • Blog Post

    Checking out Dublin's Tech Scene

    Career & Professional Development recently spent a week in Dublin at the 4th annual Web Summit. It was evident from the attendance and energy at the conference that the technology and entrepreneurship scenes are thriving in Dublin. In... View Details
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    dollarDEX (1998-2007)

    Retired chief executive, non-executive chairman

    One of world's top 30 in online finance (Institutional Investor, March 2003). Wealth management firm in Asia, and has... View Details

    • 11 Oct 2017
    • Blog Post

    Designing Internship Projects for Greater Impact

    Although internships have long been a staple of an HBS education, today’s MBA candidates have different expectations – with a new set of challenges for interns and employers alike. Students are interested in working in a variety of... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship
    • 14 Aug 2023
    • Blog Post

    Crossing the Bridge: A Reflection on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program

    decide to pursue an MBA and your other degree program, and why? I was blessed to have a dynamic career before pursuing my dual master's degrees. I climbed the corporate ranks as a consultant, dabbled in entrepreneurship by working... View Details
    • June 2016
    • Article

    When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs

    By: Damir Ljuboja, Brian W. Powers, Benjamin Robbins, Robert S. Huckman, Krishna Yeshwant and Sachin Jain
    There has been substantial growth in the number of physicians pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees over the past decade, but there is continuing debate over the utility of these programs and the career outcomes of their graduates. The authors... View Details
    Keywords: Medical Education; MD; MBA; Physicians; Executive Education; Training; Personal Development and Career; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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    • 08 Nov 2021
    • Blog Post

    Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

    where his passion for entrepreneurship was reignited and he founded a software company, Certant, in 1999 after graduation. Shortly thereafter, the dotcom bubble burst and Certant ran out of funding. However, the co-founders and team... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship
    • February 2008 (Revised May 2011)
    • Case

    The Travails of Rubber: Goodyear or Badyear?

    By: Tom Nicholas and Andrew Ferguson
    Explores the reason why Charles Goodyear, inventor of rubber vulcanization, was unable to profit from his discovery despite securing international property rights over his invention through a patent in 1844. Considers the utility of patents as an incentive for... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Motivation and Incentives; Commercialization
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      Frank V. Cespedes

      Frank Cespedes is Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He received his B.A. from the City College of New York, M.S. from M.I.T. and Ph.D. from Cornell University.

      At Harvard, he has developed and taught a variety of MBA and executive... View Details

        Archie L. Jones

        Archie Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School, where he currently teaches Venture Capital and Private Equity, Field... View Details

        • February 2001 (Revised September 2005)
        • Case

        Howard Schultz and Starbucks Coffee Company

        By: Nancy F. Koehn
        Investigates the entrepreneur's strategic initiatives to develop a mass market for specialty coffee in the 1980s and 1990s. These initiatives included the development of premium products, rapid expansion of company-owned stores--each with attractive retail environments... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Groups and Teams; Brands and Branding; Growth Management; Employee Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior; Organizational Design; Leadership Style; Customer Relationship Management; Competitive Advantage; Vertical Integration; Food and Beverage Industry
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          Robert C. Merton

          Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

          Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

          Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
          • January 2021 (Revised February 2021)
          • Case

          Tech with a Side of Pizza: How Domino's Rose to the Top

          By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Susan Seligson
          After hitting an all-time low in 2008, Domino’s Pizza underwent a vigorous rebranding, product development, and embraced innovative technologies to become the world’s leading international fast-food retailer. Domino’s considered itself as much a tech company as it was... View Details
          Keywords: Digital Marketing; Digital Technology; Innovation; Scaling; Data Analytics; Turnaround; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Strategy; Management; Marketing; Operations; Human Resources; Entrepreneurship; Change Management; Analysis; Performance; Customers; Growth and Development; Competitive Advantage; Employees; Training; Leadership Development; Food and Beverage Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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          • January 2017 (Revised November 2018)
          • Case

          Vox Capital: Pioneering Impact Investing in Brazil

          By: Julie Battilana, Marissa Kimsey, Falko Paetzold and Priscilla Zogbi
          Vox Capital was the first certified impact investing fund in Brazil. Founded in 2009, it provides early-stage capital for companies offering innovative and scalable solutions to enhance the lives of low-income Brazilians, while aiming to simultaneously generate... View Details
          Keywords: Impact Investing; Social Performance Measurement; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment Funds; Social Enterprise; Brazil
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          • February 2019 (Revised November 2024)
          • Case

          Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (A)

          By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Christina R. Wing, Emilie Fournier and Anna Resman
          This case covers the rise and fall of Theranos, the company founded by Elizabeth Holmes in 2004 to revolutionize the blood testing industry by creating a device that could provide from a small finger prick the same results and accuracy as intravenous blood draws. As... View Details
          Keywords: Health Testing and Trials; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Culture; Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Entrepreneurship; Lawsuits and Litigation
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          • August 2023
          • Case

          Kariyer.net: Recruiting AI

          By: Shunyuan Zhang, Fares Khrais and Namrata Arora
          In 2017, Fatih Uysal (AMP 2021) became CEO of Kariyer.net. By then, the business was already the industry leading online job board in Turkey. However, faced with stalling growth, a turbulent macroenvironment, and growing competition from international players, Uysal... View Details
          Keywords: Online Technology; Marketing; Websites; Artificial Intelligence; Innovation; Two-sided Platforms; Internet and the Web; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Job Search; Employment; Transformation; Volatility; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Management Practices and Processes; Business Growth and Maturation; Competitive Strategy; Business Startups; Talent and Talent Management; Cost vs Benefits; Macroeconomics; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Digital Platforms; Employment Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; Turkey
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            Maria P. Roche

            Maria Roche is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit. She teaches the MBA elective Innovating at Scale and contributes to teaching in executive education programs. Her research examines how specialized knowledge is commercialized and how... View Details

            Keywords: education industry; biotechnology; high technology
            • 18 Jul 2024
            • Blog Post

            Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

            Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2024-25 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s eleventh cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is part of a gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation to... View Details

              Andy Zelleke

              Andy Zelleke is the MBA Class of 1962 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. A member of the General Management unit, he is the Faculty Chair of HBS’ Middle East & North Africa Research Center.

              Since Spring 2021, Dr. Zelleke has taught “Unpacking... View Details

              Keywords: federal government; professional services; defense; financial services

                William C. Kirby

                William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard... View Details

                Keywords: education industry; wine