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- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ali Evans (MBA 2019)
student business manager within HSA, I gained valuable business and leadership experience managing teams of up to 25 employees and helped launch a startup that was venture funded and is still growing today. As I approached my final year...
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- April 2004 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Confronting a Necessary Evil: The Firing of Alex Robins (A)
A manager recounts his experience firing the person he was asked to replace and reflects on the challenges of the experience. Teaching Purpose: To role-play and reflect on tasks that entail harming other people to fulfill one's responsibility.
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Problems and Challenges;
Leadership Development;
Behavior;
Decision Making;
Resignation and Termination
Margolis, Joshua D. "Confronting a Necessary Evil: The Firing of Alex Robins (A)." Harvard Business School Case 404-125, April 2004. (Revised May 2005.)
- 07 Sep 2012
- News
Who's responsible for your happiness at work?
- 2023
- Book
The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card
Pouring yourself into a single full-time job is the riskiest move you can make. Your parents’ advice to focus on one career path? It doesn’t work anymore, for reasons ranging from recessions to student loan debt, the gig economy, climate disasters, and a global...
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Wallace, Christina. The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card. Balance, 2023.
- Web
Admissions & Financial Support - Doctoral
Strategy Charles Wang Accounting & Management Andy Wu Strategy Student Research Incrementality Representation Learning: Synergizing Past Experiments for Intervention Personalization By: Ta-Wei Huang, Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli 10 JUN...
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- 08 Oct 2021
- News
Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day: A Q+A with Danielle Kost
- Web
Curriculum - MBA
genes to circuit function, metabolism to neurological disease, and cell biology to neural computations. Students will learn to design, quantitatively analyze, and interpret experiments that address a variety of questions spanning...
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Jill J. Avery
Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details
Keywords:
consumer products;
arts;
advertising;
automobiles;
retailing;
fashion;
hotels & motels;
food;
beverage
- May 1994
- Case
Colgate-Palmolive: Managing International Careers
Colgate-Palmolive, the U.S.-based consumer products firm, has long emphasized international experience for its managers and has developed a comprehensive policy to manage expatriate assignments. The rise in dual-career families has made some managers reluctant to...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Personal Development and Career;
Experience and Expertise;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
Rosenzweig, Philip M. "Colgate-Palmolive: Managing International Careers." Harvard Business School Case 394-184, May 1994.
- June 2009 (Revised January 2011)
- Case
Target Corporation: Ackman versus the Board
By: Krishna G. Palepu, Suraj Srinivasan and James Weber
After 15 years of great performance, Target's faltering performance during an economic downturn led an activist shareholder to initiate a proxy fight. Target Corporation, the second largest discount store retailer in the U.S., had competed successfully against industry...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Investment Activism;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business Strategy;
Value;
Retail Industry
Palepu, Krishna G., Suraj Srinivasan, and James Weber. "Target Corporation: Ackman versus the Board." Harvard Business School Case 109-010, June 2009. (Revised January 2011.)
- August 2017
- Supplement
CareMore Health System (B)
By: Robert S. Huckman and Brian W. Powers
This supplement to “CareMore Health System (A)” discusses the company's early experience introducing its managed Medicaid model in the Des Moines, Iowa, market. It also provides an update on the Memphis program discussed in the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Health Care Delivery;
Health Insurance;
Medicare;
Medicaid;
Managed Care;
Extensivist;
Social Determinants Of Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Insurance;
Business Model;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Health Industry;
United States
Huckman, Robert S., and Brian W. Powers. "CareMore Health System (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 618-009, August 2017.
- 25 Aug 2017
- News
Shame, Prestige Drive Returns at Some of Japan's Biggest Firms
- 27 Apr 2023
- Video
IFC Intro: GEO, Financial Aid, Registrar Services
- Web
Reunions - Alumni
Resources Frequently Asked Questions Find more information about the reunions experience and your login. Volunteer Reunions simply aren’t possible without a team of diverse classmates helping to make them happen. Just a few hours of your...
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- 25 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress)
Breaking the ‘shame spiral’ In another recent paper, Jachimowicz and colleagues found that people experiencing financial difficulties experience shame, which leads them to avoid dealing with their problems and often makes them worse. Such...
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by Michael Blanding
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MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences - MBA
Admissions & Financial Aid The program seeks a diverse group of outstanding students who have an undergraduate degree in life sciences and/or significant workplace experience in biotechnology or life sciences. Frequently Asked Questions...
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Summer Venture in Management
greater impact. An MBA degree gives you the leverage make the most out of every opportunity that comes your way.” OLAMIDE OLOWE (SVMP 2017) SVMP Stories 24 JAN 2023 MBA Voices Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
"Luxury, Technology, Integration"
The above title was my answer when I was asked earlier this fall to sum up my experience in Milan in three words, working as an MBA intern within the office of the CEO of the YOOX Net-A-Porter (YNAP) Group. In a world where technology and...
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Keywords:
Consumer Products / Retail
- April 2006 (Revised October 2006)
- Case
Dansko, Inc.
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Victoria Winston
For the past 18 months, Mandy Cabot had worried that the shoe business she had built into a thriving operation with $90 million in annual revenue and over 110 employees might instead be a "house of cards." The management philosophy that had guided Dansko's growth,...
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Keywords:
Organizational Culture;
Revenue;
Experience and Expertise;
Employee Relationship Management;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Management Teams;
Apparel and Accessories Industry
Edmondson, Amy C., and Victoria Winston. "Dansko, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 606-071, April 2006. (Revised October 2006.)