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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
identify details related to business efficiency and performance that I may have missed in the past was fine-tuned in the program, and my understanding of the business is now much stronger. Pankaj...
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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
your work to catalyze system-level change. 3 weeks 7-9 hours per week 3 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn. Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs...
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Business & Environment Business & Environment July 2015 Article BYOB: How Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags Leads to Treating Yourself, and the Environment By: Uma R. Karmarkar and Bryan Bollinger As concerns...
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
How should I list my certificate on my resume? +– Once you've earned your Certificate of Completion, list it on your resume along with the date of completion: Harvard Business School Online Certificate in...
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- November 1999 (Revised April 2002)
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International Business Machines Corporation (B)
By: David F. Hawkins
IBM changes pension plan from a defined benefit plan to a cash-balance plan. Teaching purpose: To understand pension accounting.
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Business or Company Management;
Transformation;
Business Earnings;
Private Sector;
Personal Finance;
Cash;
Information Infrastructure;
Taxation;
Computer Industry;
Accounting Industry
Hawkins, David F. "International Business Machines Corporation (B)." Harvard Business School Case 100-033, November 1999. (Revised April 2002.)
- February 2022 (Revised January 2024)
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Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (C)
By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and...
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- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
Tips for Applying to Business School
There’s no doubt that applying to business school can be a stressful process. Researching MBA programs, taking the GMAT, writing essays, chasing after recommenders (often while also trying to balance a full time job) can be downright...
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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online
exam Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Credential of Readiness from HBS Online. What you earn. Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Apply Now Key Concepts Analyze and interpret data to inform View Details
- 15 May 2023
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From Scientist to Business Leader
Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) When she was little, Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) fell in love with the hard sciences and expected to eventually go to medical school or earn a PhD. But her plans changed after college. Kim grew up outside...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Christensen Center: Open for Business
students.” Appointed director last October, Emmons brings to the center his own experience as an award-winning teacher — he was a member of the HBS faculty from 1989 to 1999 and taught at Georgetown from 1999 to 2004 — and as a student at Harvard, where he View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
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The Business of Social Justice
A born adventurer with a passion for social justice, Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) uses her business savvy to effect social change. Since 2014 Brooks has served as chief operating officer of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a...
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- 02 Mar 2012
- HBS Seminar
Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
the value of the assets." In their paper, the authors recount how, over the past decade, risks have been repackaged to create triple-A-rated securities. By mid-2007, they write, 37,000 structured finance issues in the United States had View Details
- October 2016 (Revised October 2023)
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Bootstrapping at Lightricks
By: Robert White, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Christine Snively
By August 2015, two-year-old mobile imaging software startup Lightricks had developed and released two best-selling paid mobile apps, grown to a team of 30, earned a revenue run rate of nearly $10 million, and achieved modest profitability. The bootstrapped company had...
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Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Information Infrastructure;
Business Startups;
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Technology Industry;
Israel
White, Robert, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and Christine Snively. "Bootstrapping at Lightricks." Harvard Business School Case 817-051, October 2016. (Revised October 2023.)
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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First Big View Details
- 31 May 2023
- HBS Case
Why Business Leaders Need to Hear Larry Miller's Story
served time in prison. While incarcerated, he earned an accounting degree, but after a prospective employer rescinded a job offer, he vowed not to reveal his past. In this video, Gibson discusses why View Details
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Online Business in Society Courses | HBS Online
Nien-he Hsieh Develop a toolkit for making tough leadership decisions. 6 weeks, 7-9 hrs/weekApply by August 12$1,850Certificate Complete any three courses within this subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization in View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
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Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
Building sufficient cash reserves to launch a business and managing subsequent fundraising are challenges for every entrepreneur, but they are particularly daunting tasks for women. Women often come up short of cash at start-up and, when...
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- September 12, 2022
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Merit or Inherit: How to Approach Succession in a Family Business
By: Josh Baron
One of the most critical questions facing family businesses is how to treat the next generation. They are clearly different from other employees, as current or potential owners of the company, whose wealth and reputation are on the line. On the flip side, most parents...
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Baron, Josh. "Merit or Inherit: How to Approach Succession in a Family Business." Harvard Business Review (website) (September 12, 2022).
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
(Editor's note: This is the last in a series of four articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Banks are the principal...
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