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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andrés Alonso for a prized spot on the team that represents the district at a weeklong summer institute run by Harvard's Public Education Leadership Project (PELP). Harcum's assessment of the...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
exploding. "Over the next 20 years, we have to generate 80 million jobs," Masha says. "That's the population of Germany, the world's fourth-largest economy." But endemic corruption has scared off many foreign companies. "Nigeria is a nightmare country. Things just...
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- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
intersection of autonomy, sensing, and connectivity, you’ll find we are rapidly approaching that day.” Cell phones may also be a potentially rich source of useful data for cities, but citizens might be wary of having that data collected. Chicago is moving ahead with a...
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- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
project flopped, don't attack the person"). Deborah Blagg: Classic productivity books often focus on time management, but Extreme Productivity takes a much broader look. It reads more like a businessperson's handbook. Did you intend...
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by Deborah Blagg
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the...
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- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers...
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- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Capitalism: Volume 2. The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present Firms and Global Capitalism By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This chapter forms part of the two-volume Cambridge History of Capitalism, a definitive new reference work...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
unexplored, Whitman and Katzenberg say. (photo by Getty/Bloomberg) The demo is the work of director Doug Liman, one of several filmmakers Whitman and Katzenberg consulted to reimagine how a film could be shot, edited, and rendered with a...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
that related to risk. Here’s a bunch of people giving money at 50 percent to projects that really should only be charged 10 percent. Well, if markets work correctly, after a little while people will come...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
president of Ceramics Process Systems Corporation (CPS), a firm he cofounded with several MIT professors in 1984. A former Boston Consulting Group project manager, he was instrumental in founding the firm's manufacturing strategy...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Before he attended HBS, Katzir worked on a pro bono education project at Bain & Co. "I found it fascinating that the business skills I was learning at Bain were so applicable to public education," he...
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- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?
incompetent entrepreneur that wants to steal from the better firm and distort the market is accountable only to his bank account and ethics. So we need someone capable enough to make sure markets remain free and fair an AI czar would work...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Mukand, India’s largest producer of specialty steels. As part of the Bajaj Group, Mukand also works on infrastructure projects and manufactures machinery equipment. “The upside is that the focus shifted to...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created...
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Meet the Team | Information Technology
began working at the Harvard Business School as an instructional designer. In her time with the team, she has developed skills as a producer, video editor, and project manager. She has assisted HBS faculty...
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- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
thing not to do is make long-term bets. In budgeting for operations, for example, lots of effort is wasted by thinking that we can project with any accuracy the timing for getting the answers to the important questions that will define...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
life as a trained assassin, working directly for the South African government to take down prominent political players when requested to maintain national security and apparent order. Join the Dots by Patrick Moffett (AMP 111) Vanguard...
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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social...
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- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
it was achieved. These results clarify our understanding of the correspondence bias using evidence from both archival studies and experiments with experienced professionals. We discuss implications for both admissions and personnel selection practices. View Details
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Anna Secino
- 21 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Articles of 2021
Mentor Directory’ through which we and 70 classmates shared our contact info on LinkedIn to extend our professional knowledge and networks to underrepresented groups. After two weeks and 200+ inbounds, it became clear that this could become much larger than a summer...
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