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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment

Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production... View Details

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Introduction - The Collection - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Throughout the university’s expanding libraries, museums, and research departments, photographs were acquired to support research and teaching in newly emerging disciplines. Like other fields in the sciences and humanities, business... View Details

13 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 13, 2007

shift to professional management in 1983-1986; the Xerox acquisition in 1987; the MBO in 1993; and the ING acquisition in 1997. Presents the transactions from multiple points of view: the founders and their associates; the professional... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Naiyya Saggi

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I am passionate about creating social impact (specifically improving healthcare outcomes in emerging economies). At HBS, leadership is not interpreted narrowly: it is not sectoral,... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Consulting

17 Jul 2019
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Tech for the People

high-impact civic challenges. He knew the city had worked with Airbnb to make emergency housing available after the recent disaster, and he reasoned, why not establish a proactive registry of Airbnb providers to be on View Details

01 Sep 2005
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Making History, Starting Over

British government to declare a state of emergency and place businesses on a three-day workweek to conserve electricity. It would take more than luck to grow a business in such conditions. By 1977, two of the founding partners had moved... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

21 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

of each segment is changing, and how the company's products and services address the needs of each segment. The product was developed by Gail McGovern, a professor of management practice, and John Quelch, the Senior Associate Dean and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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1.4.1 HBS Learning Model | MBA

this learning model. Case Method The primary form of instruction at HBS is the Case Method, an interactive process in which students and faculty teach and learn from each other. HBS cases are firsthand accounts of actual management... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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The Latest Model

Prysm Group Cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging technologies Prysm Group cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; blockchain; cryptocurrency; economic models; innovation; consulting; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2015
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Exploring Global Business Practices

today’s classrooms reflect our global society. In the MBA Program, all students in the first year get hands-on exposure to organizations in emerging markets through the January module of the FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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and skilled people to accomplish what relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that managed the flow of relief supplies. IBM’s actions exemplify an emerging business idea: the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

March 2009
Teaching Note

Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll: The MTV Approach to Tackling HIV/AIDS (TN)

By: Tarun Khanna, Sonali R. Bloom and David E. Bloom

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Keywords: Advertising; Emerging Markets; Health Pandemics; Announcements; Social Issues; Customers; For-Profit Firms; Business Strategy; Infrastructure; Multinational Firms and Management; Music Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Africa

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09 Sep 2024
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McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

Will Hurwitz. McDonald’s emerges from a slump With 40,000 mostly franchised restaurants across the world, McDonald’s serves some 63 million customers daily and employs more than 2 million workers. The brothers who founded the chain in... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

February 2009 (Revised December 2009)
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Merck: Global Health and Access to Medicines

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee

The case describes the effort of Merck, a global leader in pharmaceuticals, in making available its medicines to the poor. The challenge for the company (or for that matter, any pharmaceutical company) is how to integrate its business strategy with its corporate social... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Poverty; Business Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry

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Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

government, cities are the closest thing to a business. Strategically, it made sense to look at public sector service at the city level.” Tactically, San Jose emerged as Henry’s optimal Leadership Fellows opportunity. “It involved tech,... View Details

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Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog

while still responding to ever-changing policy directions in Beijing, Washington, and Europe. Our course will examine case studies of firms that have faced these challenges and will equip students with strategies for managing geopolitical... View Details

29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

in the area. The product had been in development for years prior to the disaster, says Polatoğlu, developed to address a rise in natural disaster–related emergencies caused by climate change. “Moreover, we have designed a special... View Details

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Business Education & The Case Method | Baker Library

Above quote from “Business Teaching by the Case System,” 1922. 1 Founded in 1908, HBS was one of the country’s earliest graduate programs in business administration. Management as a profession—and the teaching of management—were new. The... View Details

05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

7, I argued that sponsors of large technical systems (including platform systems) must manage the modular structure of the system and property rights in a way that solves four inter-related problems: provide all essential functional... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Mar 2014
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From Marx to Marketing

steeped in decades of Marxism and anti-Western dogma. In 1990, the two men coauthored Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and U.S. Enterprises, a book about US-USSR management systems that itself View Details

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