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- September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
- Supplement
Student Success at Georgia State University (B)
By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
This is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that Georgia State conducted to test education technology start-up AdmitHub’s chatbot solution as a strategy for improving...
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Education;
Higher Education;
Learning;
Curriculum and Courses;
Demographics;
Diversity;
Ethnicity;
Income;
Race;
Values and Beliefs;
Leadership;
Goals and Objectives;
Measurement and Metrics;
Operations;
Organizations;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Outcome or Result;
Performance;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Evaluation;
Performance Improvement;
Planning;
Strategic Planning;
Social Enterprise;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Social Issues;
Wealth and Poverty;
Equality and Inequality;
Information Technology;
Digital Platforms;
Education Industry;
Atlanta
Toffel, Michael W., Robin Mendelson, and Julia Kelley. "Student Success at Georgia State University (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-039, September 2020. (Revised September 2021.)
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
attend HBS. Together, they have launched PowerUP, a nonprofit organization that gives disadvantaged Atlanta youth new opportunities for personal development by providing scholarships to pay for martial arts training. Learn more about how...
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- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
Coca-Cola and Walmart, and governments like South Africa and Bhutan and even China, investing in sustainability," he says. The 51-year-old Atlanta native is married to Jackie Prince Roberts, director of sustainable technologies, climate...
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- 14 May 2020
- Blog Post
A PRIDE Farewell
very own @prideathbs accounts. Re-established a working relationship with the HBS LGBT Alumni Association to further club recruiting efforts. Attended the Reaching Out MBA Conference in Atlanta where several of our members landed...
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- 25 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Not Waiting for Progress: Diversity and Inclusion in the Film Industry
Atlanta University Center, and the distinguished civil rights movement leader Reverend Ralph Abernathy was Diamond’s godfather. Diamond credits his mother—who worked in sales with Mary Kay cosmetics—with instilling in him a “high level of...
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- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
up in Atlanta, Georgia,where he was student body president in his high school. He comes by his passion for community engagement and activism honestly; his grandfather and stepmother were both ministers, his dad taught theology at the seminary of the View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
http://hbr.org/product/rough-justice-stuart-eizenstat-and-holocaust-era-asset-restitution-b/an/914026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-001 Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance The widespread cheating scandal that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- August 2002 (Revised June 2003)
- Case
New Wachovia (A), The
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Jeremy Swinson
In April 2001, First Union Corp. announced an agreement to merge with Wachovia Corp., a fellow North Carolina-based commercial bank. While the banks were preparing to consummate the merger, SunTrust Banks, Inc. of Atlanta, made a hostile offer for Wachovia, setting in...
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Keywords:
Voting;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Conflict and Resolution;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry;
Atlanta;
North Carolina
Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Jeremy Swinson. "New Wachovia (A), The." Harvard Business School Case 903-033, August 2002. (Revised June 2003.)
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
however, listings were sparse by comparison. "It's important to note that not all cities are affected by Airbnb," Farronato says. "In Atlanta or Houston, there are enough hotel rooms to satisfy the demand, so peer hosts...
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- April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
- Supplement
Fleet Oil Company: An Exercise
The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company...
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Keywords:
Business Headquarters;
Crime and Corruption;
Decisions;
Non-Renewable Energy;
Cost;
Production;
Performance Productivity;
Research and Development;
Energy Industry;
Atlanta;
Houston
Gavetti, Giovanni. "Fleet Oil Company: An Exercise." Harvard Business School Supplement 711-512, April 2011. (Revised April 2011.)
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
Calgary Olympics and won a silver medal in figure skating in the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France. More information here. Mike Murphy (MBA 2006B) competed for Australia in men’s three-meter springboard diving at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the 1996 View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
holds dual Italian-American citizenship, grew up on the go, spending time on both sides of the Atlantic. He says his six years in Atlanta is the longest he has ever lived in one place. “I’m really a product of both of my parents,” he...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
over a course of a career or in the flash of an eye—just ask Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, who was a top endorsement target of clients such as Coca-Cola until he was disgraced earlier this year in a dogfighting scandal....
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- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
feedback. Based on the success of the beta test program, she expects the program to run again. "Next time," she said, "it will not be in Boston but rather in alumnae hot spots such as New York and possibly San Francisco, Chicago, or Los Angeles....
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
The miracle, she says, is when the child starts making wise or mindful decisions on their own. After giving some talks about the book to local parent groups in Atlanta where she lives, Jones has started presenting webinars to HBS and...
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Margie Kelley
- April 2017 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
The U-Turns of National Truck Stops
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Alexander W. Schultz
Raj Makam had spent months trying to restructure a 2006 investment he had made in National Truck Stops, Inc. (NTS) as a senior member of Oaktree Capital Management’s (Oaktree) Mezzanine finance business within their Corporate Debt platform. It was the first time they...
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Keywords:
Mezzanine Financing;
Corporate Debt;
Bankruptcy;
Real Assets;
Financing and Loans;
Borrowing and Debt;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Restructuring;
Private Equity;
Cost vs Benefits;
Atlanta;
New York (city, NY)
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Alexander W. Schultz. "The U-Turns of National Truck Stops." Harvard Business School Case 217-062, April 2017. (Revised August 2020.)
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
so, whether she could attract the means to expand to Atlanta and Newark, where airport lease negotiations were again proceeding. Whatever external resources Rhyne would need to sustain her vision, her 18 months of mostly lonely,...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
Covington. It’s far enough outside Atlanta that you’ll see cows grazing in fields just beyond the school entrance. But it has a big-city student enrollment of 2,300 and six assistant principals. One of them, Carla Hull, walks us to a...
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- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is...
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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
expressed in historian Kevin M. Kruse’s 2007 book White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. WHITFIELD LOVELL(American, born 1959)Strive, 2000Charcoal on wood with found objectsSchwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business...
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