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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
designing soft robotic gloves that aid with upper extremity issues. A patient with a spinal cord injury may use the glove to pinch fingers together, making lifting a glass easier. Future work will focus on...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
over time and may be tempted to ape someone else's system, and so they will find it difficult to align different parts of the organization with shared priorities. As Corning, a leader in glass and materials science, has found, an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
stall a company’s scaling efforts. To prevent this from happening, companies must make core processes like recruiting, interviewing, and development a real priority in daily practice. As Aristotle emphasized a long time ago, “Excellence...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
Foley. As consumers move away from the formal dining experience to more casual entertaining, Foley says that his company’s brand must preserve its aspirational quality while maintaining its relevance in people’s daily lives. “Luxury goods are so wrapped up in the...
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- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
thrilling as that news is, huge challenges remain to make a meaningful dent in the transportation sector’s CO2 emissions. "I have cut the cord with gas guzzlers. I have two electric vehicles!"– Erika MyersErika Myers’ professional View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
Rangan Illustration by Randy Glass Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, now fifteen years old. Back in 1993, most people took a “spray and pray” approach to philanthropy — writing...
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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Bailey notes, “I am also influenced by family members, by my mother, my children, and my grandparents. My mother was quietly creating experiences for me to make art when I was a child. She was my first art teacher and is, today, my most...
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- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
30, 1975). “In our very first class he opened my eyes to how people are motivated to make decisions. Before, I thought as an engineer — the best attributes and the best price sells the product. From that day on I focused my attention on...
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- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
of Illusion: American Leadership in the Media Age. The book weaves together insights from economics, leadership studies, history, geopolitics, and national security to make a case for strategic independence and improved leadership...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
declined. As the twenty-first century unfolded, many families found themselves caught between the rock of expanded consumption and the hard place of seemingly static incomes. And to make matters thornier, the costs of some of the most...
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- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929. Despite their failures, this first generation of economic forecasters...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
he should put a glass window between the production area and factory outlet store. Maybe the workers wouldn’t like being watched by customers while they worked. No, they said, it’s fine. We’re helping the clients, and we like looking at...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
solved for that as a nation.” Part of the problem, Bonaparte says, is marketing: “We have to rebrand security.” The trick is not just selling it as cool and exciting, but making that message appeal to a broader audience. “Security is...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
home-care medical team would be nearby. On a Monday afternoon draped in mid-October grays, Dr. Komei Umeda and a nurse make the 20-minute drive from the clinic in Tokyo’s western Setagaya ward. They walk up the stone path, under a...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
everything from mangoes to light bulbs to plastic flowers. Just across the road is Fort Railway Station, a major transportation hub used by over 200,000 people every day. For now, this spot at the water’s edge is no more than an ad hoc parking lot, spotted with broken...
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- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
his leadership team weighed that risk with the reward: the opportunity to prove the value of its mRNA platform, bring its first commercial vaccine to market three or four years faster than anticipated, and make history. As of August 31,...
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- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
of financial and social objectives warrants significant rethinking of organizational democracy’s merits compared both to hierarchy and to nondemocratic alternatives to hierarchy. In making this argument, we draw on some parallels with...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
focus on what they are doing completely avoids exploring the why. The hopelessness and desperation that one must have to walk through a broken glass window, risking their lives and freedom in an already intensified moment, to get some...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
“Economic development became my passion. I never really imagined going to business school — I visited HBS almost on a lark. But after walking around the campus and talking to students who were interested in development issues and in business as a path to View Details