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03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608070 The Time Warner Center: Mixed-Use Development Harvard Business School Case 208-081 Despite the failure of other attempts to bring mixed-use development in New York... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2024
News

Counter Intelligence

When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

30 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?

home improvement goods. Low-end department stores and clothing retailers avoid the practice more often. “We hope this research will help companies formulate the essence of their pricing strategies and messages” “There are View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

over a specified time period. The bundled payment should be contingent on achieving good outcomes for the patient, with the provider bearing financial responsibility for poor outcomes, such as avoidable complications. Download working... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Sep 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Perspectives from the Boardroom--2009

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch, Joseph L. Bower, Clayton S. Rose & Suraj Srinivasan

14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

provide illustrations from the Toyota Motor Company to show how deliberate perturbation enables efficient exploration in the midst of intense exploitation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-011.pdf Employee Selection... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2023
News

A More Accommodating Approach

Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

22 Dec 2020
Blog Post

The Forward Fellowship Convinced Me That I Belong at HBS

Fellowship, but I am now part of a developing community of other recipients who share similar journeys. All in all, my time at HBS has been transformative (one of the truest clichés that you’ll hear about HBS). I wear my background like a... View Details

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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

enterprise became Lehman Brothers. Henry Lehman died five years later of yellow fever in New Orleans, and Emanuel and Mayer ran the company over the next four decades. New York Cotton Exchange, c. 1884. Prints & Photographs Division,... View Details

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Events - Business & Environment

capital for a number of years, and he is an active investor, and Board director & advisor for several companies and VC/PE investment groups including The Engine and Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Download to Calendar Keywords: MBA Program;... View Details

02 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

the valuation is right, it could still be a good venture deal. In a decent IT market, a $50 million revenue company should be worth at least a $100 million to $200 million outcome. At that point, we're making a good venture multiple,... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Barley

30 Aug 2023
Blog Post

I’m From the South and Going Back: Why HBS Was the Best School for Me

overwhelmed by insecurity - thinking that my background did not measure up to what I perceived to be the "prototypical" HBS student, and that Birmingham, Auburn University, and Georgia-Pacific are not hometowns, institutions, or companies... View Details

09 Jun 2022
Blog Post

The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

career exploration. You may come into HBS wanting to pursue something specific, but this is the time to test uncharted waters and learn from all your peers who have worked in diverse fields! What is your favorite memory of your View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Strategy and the Internet

a strong focus on profitability rather than just growth, an ability to define a unique value proposition, and a willingness to make tough trade-offs in choosing what not to do. A company must stay the course, even during View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter

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Becoming a Board Member - Alumni

your value statement to align with the board's focus and organization's needs. + – Highlight Relevant Expertise Board experience - for-profit or non-profit Fundraising experience Industry knowledge and contacts M&A experience IPO experience Experience running a View Details

10 Apr 2014
Blog Post

HBS FIELD 2 - A good sneak-peek into consulting

One of Harvard’s most interesting experiences during the first year of the MBA is FIELD 2. FIELD 2 is a program where students work in small teams to complete projects for companies operating in emerging economies around the globe. In my... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

05 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Intensive Bootcamp Kicked my Entrepreneurship Goals Into Gear

When I started at HBS in the fall of 2020, I had one goal in mind: to challenge myself. I previously worked in communications at Cloudflare, a security, performance and reliability company founded in 2009 by two HBS alumni. Cloudflare had... View Details

13 Aug 2020
Blog Post

The U.S. Job Search for International Students

do international students approach the U.S. job search? As a student, it is important to understand the timing of recruiting for a given industry or company, and the degree of networking that you will have to undertake in the job search,... View Details

12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

connect babysitters and parents online, at a time when no one else had thought to manage care-giving connections via the Web. She had started the company right out of college while working full-time, but by... View Details