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  • 19 Jun 2014
  • News

Turning "Black Gold" to Green

be big enough to support a company, and then you see where you can grow from there." After graduation, Dawe worked as a project manager in Maine for Horizon Wind Energy, led by fellow HBS grad Michael Skelly... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

different could things be?” It’s only been thirteen years since I graduated from HBS, and we in the Class of 1988 were remarkably forward-thinking about technology. Ours was the first class to have a subject called Management Information... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 19 Aug 2013
  • News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

entrepreneurs to become franchisees. Keshavjee is also involved in a large affordable housing project in Thika, on the outskirts of Nairobi. He is bullish on Kenya, noting the country has "a youthful, well-educated population and is now... View Details
Keywords: Management; Management; Management; Management
  • Web

IT Strategy: Empowering the Future of Generative AI Innovation at HBS | Information Technology

responsibly. The impact of the project has extended throughout HBS IT and the larger School community. HBS IT’s AI Alliance works to champion experimentation with AI tools and share collected knowledge with HBS IT to encourage continued... View Details
  • September 2006 (Revised April 2007)
  • Supplement

Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (C)

By: Boris Groysberg, Christopher Marquis and Ayesha Kanji
Supplements the (A) case. The (C) case includes Keller's actual 2006 mid-year and self evaluations. View Details
Keywords: Projects; Management; Leadership; Organizations; Situation or Environment; Competition; Rank and Position; Attitudes; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Evaluation; Consulting Industry
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  • 08 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Brooke Carter (MBA 2019)

other environments where you present and defend your ideas daily in front of 90 people. How long was your deferral (2, 3, or 4 years)? My deferral was 2 years. I considered deferring longer, but I felt like I was at a natural point in my career to go back to school. I... View Details
  • 28 Nov 2023
  • Blog Post

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Duolingo

taste of the product world.” A sample task might include picking a specific feature on a Duolingo app and walking through what you would change, what analytics you’d be tracking, and what would be the product road map. As Shehata noted, this is a high-level product... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • February 1993 (Revised December 1994)
  • Exercise

Corporate Financial Management: Options Exercises

By: Timothy A. Luehrman
This case presents four exercises designed to introduce students to applications of option pricing and decision-tree analysis to real corporate investment problems. Two of the four problems involve decision trees and two involve option pricing. Students should be... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Investment; Projects; Corporate Finance
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  • 18 May 2021
  • Book

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

Starting a job can feel like stepping onto a movie set without a script. Everyone knows the plot; the challenge is figuring out the role. Managers often know what they want from top performers but rarely explain it. That perspective... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Books

Connecting the Dots by Cathleen Benko and F. Warren McFarlan Selling China by Yasheng Huang What Customers Think by Gerald Zaltman Connecting the Dots by Cathleen Benko and F. Warren McFarlan (Harvard Business School Press) A recent study by the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • Web

Field Course: Value Creation in Small and Medium Firms - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Value Creation in Small and Medium Firms Course Number 6453 Senior Lecturer Jason Pananos Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 12 2-hour Sessions Project Overview: VCSME is a field course focused on operating and... View Details
  • January 2012 (Revised September 2012)
  • Case

Aadhaar: India's 'Unique Identification' System

By: Tarun Khanna and Anjali Raina
Keywords: Business Government Relations; Information; Information Technology; Organizational Design; Infrastructure; Leadership Style; Business and Government Relations; Change Management; Crime and Corruption; Identity; Projects; Information Management; Information Technology Industry; India
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  • 20 Nov 2014
  • News

Strengthening America's Public Education System

business in America’s education system. Among its findings: Business is involved in 95 percent of school districts, but largely through “checkbook philanthropy” supporting short-term efforts. Most superintendents would welcome deeper business engagement. In response,... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • News

Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges

faculty members. Finding “Hidden Workers” Even before the pandemic upended the workforce, American companies complained about the “skills gap” that left essential jobs unfilled while millions of Americans remained unemployed. HBS’s View Details
  • 25 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

skills building boot camp, a global immersion field study, and a team-based entrepreneurial project designed to integrate knowledge from the first year curriculum—FIELD teaches students that what they have learned about business in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

New Wave

Verdant Power cofounder Ron Smith (MBA 1979) stands aside the East River in New York, where his company launched the first commercially licensed tidal power project in the United States. It’s a muggy July day in New York City, and Ron... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them

By: Kevin J. Murphy and Michael C. Jensen
Almost all CEO and executive bonus plans have serious design flaws that limit their benefits dramatically. Such poorly designed executive bonus plans destroy value by providing incentives to manipulate the timing of earnings, mislead the board about organizational... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Competency and Skills; Cost of Capital; Executive Compensation; Risk Management; Performance Evaluation; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Value
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Influencing Practice | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Education Courses Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation (DNPI) Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) Summer Institute PELP Accelerating Board... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

HBS Student Battles ALS

face of this frightening disease. “The diagnosis was shocking,” says Kremer, a former officer in the Israel Defense Forces and project manager at a high-tech Israeli defense-industry firm. “I had so many... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • Web

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

management and agile product development. He is also a Venture Partner at the early-stage venture firm Accomplice. Ann Dewitt MBA ’09, Harvard University; PhD ’01, Chemical Engineering, Systems Biology,... View Details