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- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
the most popular items (e.g., bread, milk) in the furthest possible place from the entrance; that shopping malls seem designed to make sure you get lost at every single visit; and that popular magazines drown the content they carry in a... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- March 27, 2017
- Editorial
In Praise of ‘B’ Journals: Academic Publishing is Becoming More about Establishing a Pecking Order and Less about Pursuing Knowledge
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. (MBA 1988)
between hard work and good luck. Leading us through the pivot into the digital era has been gut-wrenching at times. People didn’t care about the 50 years of work that had come before. It was a process of dissolving while evolving. In addition to our print View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Last Look
you on what we have learned in the next issue. Thank you! Last issue’s LAST LOOK: Thanks to Floyd Bradley (MBA ’75), Vern Brown (MBA ’74), Laurence Golding (MBA ’84), and Olivier Manuel (MBA ’03) who, along with former Harvard Magazine... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Spreading the Words
income from national syndication of their daily word puzzle called Rootonym.) Even as they invest more time in developing the Web site, the Cooks wouldn’t think of charging users an access fee. They told Gentry Magazine (October 2003)... View Details
- 16 Sep 2010
- News
Idea Takes Root
Web site, Eccles hailed the IIRC’s formation. The Financial Times covered the story in its August 3 edition. But the American press all but ignored the event. A database search of major newspapers and magazines turns up a single mention —... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- News
How Joe Shoen Got U-Haul Back on Track
The most recent issue of Forbes magazine has a long piece on Amerco, U-Haul’s parent company, and its return to dominance following decades-long internal turmoil. Leading the charge is Amerco CEO Joe Shoen (MBA 1973), who has a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
As we wrapped up our writing assignments for this issue, I was struck by how many stories dealt with the same topic: entrepreneurship. The articles themselves aren’t big, but what they say about HBS is. The heady dream of starting and running a business is alive and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Global Mission
Just in case “global” isn’t an adjective you readily ascribe to HBS, consider this. Nearly 30 percent of the School’s more than 78,000 alumni live abroad, scattered across 167 countries. That means there’s almost no nation you can visit that isn’t home to at least one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
WSA Speakers Kick Off W50
women themselves that feminism is a social movement. It's not a 12-step program for personal perfection." Director of Policy Planning in the US State Department until early 2011, Princeton professor Anne-Marie Slaughter spoke on her much-read Atlantic View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
entrepreneurial management of technology companies. He is a director of the Harvard Management Company, which oversees the investment of the University’s endowment. The announcement of Light’s appointment as Dean came as the magazine was... View Details
- July 1972 (Revised September 1985)
- Case
Saturday Evening Post (Revised)
Permits analysis of the need for adapting strategy to environmental change and for choosing among strategic alternatives in the light of new environmental opportunities. Management and board failures in these areas may be traced to some of the underlying causes,... View Details
Keywords: Journals and Magazines; Management Style; Values and Beliefs; Governing and Advisory Boards; Adaptation; Leadership Style; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
Christensen, C. R., and John Wynne. "Saturday Evening Post (Revised)." Harvard Business School Case 373-009, July 1972. (Revised September 1985.)
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
No Rain Delay for Graduation 2008
magazines and forty Web sites. She urged students to follow their dreams, cautioning that “inaction may be regretted more than action.” For all her business successes and frequent world travels, Moore said that her “biggest thrill” is... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Burger Art
director Casey Keller (MBA '89), Adweek Magazines Newswire reported (October 15, 2001). Assigned to reinvigorate the company's ketchup sales, Keller talked to children, the condiment's biggest fans, who told him the bottles were too... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
For Angie’s List, a New Niche? I enjoyed the profile of Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) in the March issue. While pursuing a post-HBS PhD, I supplemented poverty fellowship wages by pounding nails at a small, conscientious hardwood floor installation company of the sort... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
high distinction in 1933 and received a doctorate of commercial science — the precursor to today's doctorate of business administration (DBA) — from the School in 1939. Named an assistant professor at HBS in 1940, Hunt became a full professor a decade later (and was... View Details
- Web
Introduction - The Audience - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
fast-growing genre of employee magazines such as Western Electric News were written for, and from the point of view of, the worker. These publications featured employee profiles and full-page occupational portraits with accompanying... View Details
- Forthcoming
- Article
How Important Is Editorial Gatekeeping? Evidence from Top Biomedical Journals
By: Joshua L. Krieger, Kyle R. Myers and Ariel D. Stern
We examine editors' influence on the scientific content of academic journals by unpacking the role of three major forces: journals' missions, aggregate supply of and demand for specific topics, and scientific homophily via editorial gatekeeping. In a sample of top... View Details
Keywords: Editors; Biomedical Research; Editorial Gatekeeping; Scientific Homophily; Intellectual Capital; Mission and Purpose; Journals and Magazines; Intellectual Property; Innovation and Invention; Human Capital; Higher Education; Publishing Industry
Krieger, Joshua L., Kyle R. Myers, and Ariel D. Stern. "How Important Is Editorial Gatekeeping? Evidence from Top Biomedical Journals." Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming). (Pre-published online May 29, 2023.)
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Service with a Smile
In an effort to understand the role that suppressing or exaggerating emotions has on employees, HBS assistant professor Laura Morgan Roberts and a colleague from the University of Toronto, Stéphane Côté, set about to measure the relationship between emotion regulation... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy
pardonable hyperbole of the guidebook, into a "stupendous, gigantic, super-magnificent ... greatest show on earth." Time magazine called it "the biggest, costliest, most ambitious undertaking ever attempted in the history... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow