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- 08 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens
artificial lighting. While this practice has the admirable effect of reducing the energy Koppert Cress requires for lighting, it might be more energy intensive to regulate the temperature of larger greenhouses than to light smaller ones....
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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
Johnson to a position as the nation's dominant health-care brand-a $9 billion empire comprised of the main operating company and some 150 wholly owned subsidiaries. In addition, J&Jwas regularly rated as one of the most admired and...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
of analysis that said, ... Look, it was a perfectly good business and things like that. But I saw Bob Iger at Disney doing things that we weren't going to do. And so, you know, like I observed somebody that I knew and, and admired and...
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- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
five-year-old Jeff Bezos, who watched Neil Armstrong take humankind’s first steps on the moon, an experience Bezos said “deeply imprinted” him. It fostered his interest in and admiration for the space sector and the work NASA was doing...
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- 07 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
"control" or "structure" that may inhibit freedom of inquiry. If it's done well, we know that discipline and excellence of execution can enhance the research environment and learning process. In fact, it's liberating. I think people View Details
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The...
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- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
associated with large, well-established organizations that I studied and admired in graduate school, the kind that Collins and Jerry Porras wrote about as being "built to last." Then I read biographies of today's business...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
quantitative approach. There are many admirable things about the way in which finance became more statistically sophisticated over the past twenty or thirty years. But many of the assumptions on which the more elaborate mathematical...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
better and more productively. They help establish a company's good name and reputation, an invaluable asset in the community and among consumers, which in turn can provide an important boost for employee morale. Because IBM and Levi Strauss are not only among the most...
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Garry Emmons
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
practitioners admire in organizations like Tesla, Amazon, and Salesforce. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) How to...
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by Euvin Naidoo
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
editor’s remarks in “The MBA at a Crossroads,” as well as the comments regarding the book Rethinking the MBA. My use of and admiration for the MBA I received decades ago remains, and I would not change it one bit. I see business being...
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- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
thirds of them thought the guy was an idiot, that he should have just sent the jobs to China, where he was going to build a factory anyway, or [to] Mexico, where the costs would be much less," Sucher recalls. "The other third View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
Now there seems to be a third group, which is just trying to figure out what is going on. That group hasn’t been served very well by this tendency for people to interpret information in this heroic way, to make everything more extreme. Even people I View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
ship-from-store (SFS), to increase their store productivity and expand their integrated presence across multiple retail channels (i.e. brick-and-mortar store, web, and mobile; also known as omnichannel retailing). The Scale Of The Threat Nonetheless, we hold that these...
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- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
countries. At the same time that the region was enjoying the spoils of admirably executed cluster initiatives, it was being threatened by the destabilizing violence of the Basque separatist extreme, a slowing global economy, and an always...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
research on admired companies from four continents, followed in over 20 countries, to derive six propositions about the role of humanistic institutional logic. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-119.pdf Cases &...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
“I was 95 percent sure I wanted to be a general manager. But after I got to HBS I recognized that you can stay in the field you love and be an academic at the same time,” says Gartenberg, adding that HBS professor Tarun Khanna made a “huge” impact. “I View Details
- 13 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Students Reflect on COP28
there’s still a long way to go before we achieve what is necessary to ensure that health through decarbonization is achieved.” Hugh Shirley (center) at COP28 Riad El Soufi, Harvard Graduate School of Design “I think it’s very admirable...
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- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
expand their work.” ***** Mary Jo Veverka and Climate Story author, Jacqueline Adams, were HBS section mates. They have been friends ever since they sat together in Aldrich 8 more than four decades ago. Adams continues to admire MJ’s...
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- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
an active role in the Harvard Club of Vero Beach. He loved to spend his days admiring the view of the Atlantic Ocean while listening to music and reading. He served seven years as president of his condominium association, initiating and...
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