Time As Money - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

counter-intuitive such as a focus on individual achievement." The Courage To Be Bad At the core of Frei's philosophy is an appeal that Harvard MBAs are not used to hearing: in order to achieve excellence, you need the courage to be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

nation's wealth. After all, new tools—from the telegraph to the PC—enable expedited production of goods and services, eventually facilitating economic growth. Technological tools also improve a country's perceived standard of living, as... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2002
News

Michael F. Cronin

Boston office. In 1991, with Michael Lazarus, he founded Weston Presidio. Cronin and his wife, Marian, whom he met while at HBS, have been married for 22 years and are the parents of three teenagers. He has given generously of his time... View Details

20 May 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

entirely brick and mortar body coaching business. Several months later when it was time to implement the plan Surette developed, Brady asked Surette to join his team full-time and drive progress forward. Growing the Team Before Peters... View Details

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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links New Levels of Capitalism: Finance The rapidly growing industry required an extraordinary amount of capital for construction and operations. View Details

Profile

Dilan Gomih

digestible. When you transfer knowledge to someone else, it's a spark, a multiplier effect. They no longer need me to do things for them; they can do it themselves, and teach others, too." The right time for HBS While working in... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Entertainment/Media

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

dedicate my time and energies toward. This year you’ll be co-president of the Food, Agriculture, and Water Club. What motivated you to pursue this role? What goals do you have as co-president? I think to the... View Details

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

of it as superhuman—especially if AI is solving complicated problems such as 100 percent accuracy in self-driving cars and medical diagnosis. You have to help them understand that the performance of ML... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

brief time 200 clones poured into the market. While few of the clones survived, the U.S.-produced and U.S.-mass-marketed personal computer transformed the computer industry. In no major industry has a single enterprise so shaped its... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

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Career Support - Business & Environment

industry in which environmental challenges are front-and-center, such as energy, agriculture, or real estate. Work in finance, incorporating environment, social, and governance (ESG) factors. Engage in entrepreneurial ventures that... View Details

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

managers, HR specialists, and data scientists work together to use data to improve employee-related decisions and practices. New analytic approaches and new sources of digital data are starting to revolutionize this field, he said, such View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2022

2016. We met via an infamous app my final year in undergrad at Harvard and his first year as a PhD student in the American Studies program. The first time we hung out, we went to quite possibly the worst... View Details

01 Oct 2014
What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

process, they provoked a new round of questions. David Physick teed up the discussion nicely by commenting, "The wonderful American motor racing driver, Mario Andretti, who was as focused an individual View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 16

had full access to corporate archives and executives and provides us with a unique insight into the workings and strategies of one of the world's oldest and largest multinationals. Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution As a System of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

information could have been especially helpful earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite similar COVID-19 infection rates, Black people are almost three times more likely to be hospitalized and twice as... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Apr 2020
Blog Post

The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1

developing solutions with significant technical content. Here, MS/MBA student, Amelia Elverson, shares her experience learning through the sprint method and talks about her 5 key takeaways from Launch Lab 1. As a future product manager,... View Details

16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting

time and resources into this important work. Review Job Descriptions Job descriptions have always been an important element of the hiring process. They serve as a marketing tool to attract candidates and the... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

accountability once a problem of trust arises-a scandal in the sector or in their own organization, questions from citizens or donors who want to know if their money is being well spent, or pressure from regulators to demonstrate that... View Details

Profile

Ignacio Lartirigoyen

After applying his skills at ExxonMobil – "a very exciting time because of the company's size and its level of professionalism"– Ignacio moved to an agribusiness closer to his roots, Adecoagro, where he joined the planning team... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

02 Mar 2021
HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

The result is a new HBS case, “The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations,” which grapples with the question of how justice might be done for victims of the massacre a century after it occurred—as well as the larger question of what... View Details