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Staff | Information Technology
Staff Harvard Business School (HBS) IT delivers and supports the strategic technology solutions you need to help HBS shape the future of business. Whether we're behind the scenes ensuring the security and availability of mission-critical...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
School’s Financial Picture Brighter than Expected
million to $132 million. Although Harvard Business Publishing experienced planned increases for expenses to boost its technology platform and expand its sales organization, revenue grew by $17 million to $152 million. Together, Executive...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
corporate clients wishing to develop such programs. After various positions in the firm's sales and strategic planning areas, she eventually became director of new product development. "I loved creating new...
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Linda Goodspeed
- January 2023
- Case
Thomas Buberl: Refounding AXA
By: Hubert Joly, Mihir Desai and Amram Migdal
In 2022, AXA and its CEO Thomas Buberl faced new types of challenges, including systemic risks such as climate change, geopolitical instability, public health crises, and social tensions caused by economic risks. AXA was one of the world’s largest insurers. Since...
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Change;
Change Management;
Transformation;
Transition;
Trends;
Environmental Management;
Climate Change;
Ethics;
Values and Beliefs;
Finance;
Insurance;
Management;
Management Succession;
Risk Management;
Organizations;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Planning;
Strategic Planning;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Society;
Human Needs;
Social Issues;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Insurance Industry;
Europe;
France;
Paris
Joly, Hubert, Mihir Desai, and Amram Migdal. "Thomas Buberl: Refounding AXA." Harvard Business School Case 523-059, January 2023.
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
continuing to focus on our category," Stemberg reports. His strategic response? "More of the same," he says, noting that he plans on opening one thousand more stores worldwide in the next five years. Yet...
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Paul Michelman
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
You just can't see that far," says John D. Pratt (MBA '71), associate director and chief financial administrator of the Whitehead Institute. "Yet, if you're financing a new research facility, for example, sound planning generally requires...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Applying Business Principles to Military Problems
Donald Reidy (MBA 1990) is director of strategic planning and resource allocation for the Naval Special Warfare Command, in California. In this video, he talks about applying business management principles...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
of the Juvenile Justice Fund in Atlanta, which provides resources and services for youth and their families who are involved with the juvenile justice system. “I was able to come back and, with my case studies and notes as a guide, retool our View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
to be ideal candidates to scale it to those greater heights. Yet, despite their passion for the cause, the Linns knew better than to make the commitment quickly. “HBS taught us to dream big while also using the strategic and analytical...
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- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
and value. But health care has been treated as a commodity and cost reduction has been the dominant approach. Employers have gone to their vendors, health plans, or third-party administrators in the case of self insured plans, and tried to bargain the maximum...
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- July 2013 (Revised November 2021)
- Module Note
Exploration vs. Exploitation
By: Willy Shih
This module note introduces James March's concept of exploration and exploitation, and the management challenge of balancing the allocation of resources to the two activities in the firm. The note also touches on the O'Reilly and Tushman paper on the ambidextrous...
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Knowledge Acquisition;
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Resource Allocation;
Strategic Planning;
Research and Development;
Science-Based Business;
Corporate Strategy;
Knowledge Sharing;
Biotechnology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Semiconductor Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Shih, Willy. "Exploration vs. Exploitation." Harvard Business School Module Note 614-004, July 2013. (Revised November 2021.)
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
uses ratings, and how they are used. The case concerns the strategic options facing a new entrant hoping to exploit the potential crack in the dominance of Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P. Becker was spurred to write it when he realized the bond...
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Phil Wong
operational foundation for running healthcare practices. Prior to pivoting into healthcare, Phil was a portfolio manager at a fund of hedge funds managing $1Bn+ on behalf of pension plans and insurance companies. His investing role...
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Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Finance;
Financial Services (All);
Investment Banking;
Financial Services (All);
Investment Management;
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Private Equity;
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Health Care;
Startup - Founder;
Entrepreneurship
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
department stores will once again redefine themselves." David Overton, vice president and director of strategic planning and research for JC Penney, said, "Our biggest competitors are no longer the...
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
faculty, staff, and alumni over the next decade, the School launched a campus framework planning process. Designed to align future capital needs with the mission of HBS, the process will inform strategic...
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- 04 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Black History Month at HBS
graduation. Learn more about the paths and passions of individual AASU members through our MBA Voices blog post series: Spotlight on the Midwest, Spotlight on STEM, Spotlight on HBCUs, and Spotlight on the Public Sector. Meet the Inaugural RISE Fellows As part of the...
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- Portrait Project
Jessica Gelman
peers, pursue lifelong learning, climb five more 14,000 ft. mountains, teach others whenever possible and be open to new dreams and ideas. These are my goals. In realizing these goals, I plan to live my life the only way I know how: full...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
served as senior associate dean for Faculty Planning and Development and coordinated the opening of HBS's research office in Hong Kong in 1999. Hayes has written and published widely. Three of his articles have won McKinsey Awards for the...
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- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
One spring day in 1983, Mark Weinstein (MBA 1981) sat down in his Watergate Tower office at Strategic Planning Associates in Washington, DC, looked out at the Kennedy Center, and worked out a View Details
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Maureen Harmon
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Strategic Value Advisors—predict environmental performance. We find that firms that have more KLD Environmental Concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory violations in later years than firms...
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Sean Silverthorne