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08 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Staying Connected to the Harvard Veterans Community After HBS

worked with staff at the Cambridge Innovation Center to establish programming for Veterans interested in pursuing the world of entrepreneurship. Second, I advised Veterans in... View Details

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

Love at HBS is a celebration of the diverse expressions of love that exist on our campus and in the world around us. This project showcases stories of love from students at... View Details

27 Sep 2019
Blog Post

HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis

Talking About Climate Change in the MBA Classroom Cause or solution? Risk or opportunity? How business leaders should own up to and tackle climate change is at the forefront of View Details

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

case was taught, the general consensus was that the economics of the business were very shaky. Q: How so? A: There were two parts to the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

course, we need to have a holistic view of ESG.” But in my view this reality has not yet been sufficiently reflected in our finance courses at HBS. So we’re trying to bring this important phenomenon from the real View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Scrapbooks & Collectibles- The Art of American Advertising

Collectibles The Art of “Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “The number of people who save handsome advertising cards when they get a chance to get them is larger now than ever. . . . The... View Details

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

documents. Skilled negotiators therefore focus on continuing to learn at the negotiation table as they carefully gauge reactions and responses while testing hypotheses by asking questions and putting offers on View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

01 Aug 2008
What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

flat-footed on the issue of fuel efficiency? Granted, Detroit was busy catering to consumer demands for more profitable, lower-mileage vehicles. But at the same time, could stretch have given greater urgency... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Sep 2003
News

Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives

Course Platform, a significant enhancement to our already innovative Web-based tool that allows faculty and students to post and share class schedules, assignments, video, and handouts. Additionally, our faculty experimented with new ways to bring View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

newest issue of the renowned British research journal, the oldest scholarly journal in the world dating back to View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

16 Mar 2017
News

Making Rapid Progress in the Fight Against Cancer

Sir Harpal Kumar (MBA 1991) is CEO of Cancer Research UK, which is the world’s second largest cancer research organization. In this video, he talks about the challenges facing cancer researchers and doctors... View Details

06 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

Staffing, risks, benefits, and regulatory compliance are all increasingly externalized, most often to parts of the world where need routinely trumps prudence. Rather than manage their own corporate assets,... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

26 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More

Osaka, Japan. Trump said on Twitter last week that he would have an "extended meeting" with President Xi Jinping of China at the summit, a welcome development for rattled investors and other world... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail; Manufacturing; Steel

11 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Opportunities in the Plant-Based Economy

total addressable market, but also from a narrow number of potential applications of the technologies being explored. This SIP shattered that view by showing the huge amount of interest in View Details

31 Mar 2023
News

How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

March 2013
Article

From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana

This article draws on historical material to examine the co-evolution of economic science and business education over the course of the twentieth century, showing that fields evolve not only through internal struggles but also through struggles taking place in adjacent... View Details

Keywords: Professions; Disciplines; Neo-Liberalism; Education; Economics; Finance; Society; United States

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25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

build a scholarly community that reflects what is happening in the broader world while creating new learning materials for students and practitioners." Iansiti and Lakhani's MBA elective course Digital... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

25 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

you over and right away you will be a star working for us." (Indeed, at the end of the 2009 season, Epstein had publicly stated that his team was "kind of in a bridge period." This was... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking

01 Dec 2019
News

Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment

“Those are the questions students want to explore: not ‘How do we batten the hatches?’ but ‘What are the opportunities for new products and services in a View Details

Keywords: April White

14 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Future Leaders Dive into the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

around the world who comprise the first cohort, which started in the fall of 2018. The two-year program confers... View Details

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