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Admissions Resources - Doctoral

faculty at HBS and departments across the university, and much more. Watch this video to learn more about why HBS may be the right home to launch your career into business academia. PhD Admissions Info Session Are you considering getting... View Details

Walter B. Wriston

Soon after assuming the presidency, Wriston built Citibank into the nation’s second largest bank in terms of total assets. He was instrumental in the convergence of Citibank and the First National City Corporation (Citicorp) which by 1976 doubled of the bank’s overall... View Details

Keywords: Finance

27 Apr 2015
News

“A Unique Leadership Experience”

walk—“To see the sunrise I saw colors I had just never seen before”—and his nightly ritual of watching thunderstorms over Central Africa from the space station’s observation cupola. The lightening is so bright, Virts said, “you can View Details

Keywords: April White; NASA

13 Jan 2021
Blog Post

Staying Curious with the Harvard Innovation Labs Ahead of the 2021 Virtual President’s Innovation Challenge

will continue to be challenged by physical distance. As we keep our focus on innovation happening across Harvard, the question becomes, “How do we bring the physical and emotional connections that keep us human into the digital experience of a virtual event?” View Details

Portrait Project

Meredith Cantrell

experienced a moment of such beauty, such power and exhilaration that, for an instant, the whole world stopped? Five years ago, I found myself seated beside an older gentleman at an opera. As I watched him soak in the singers' final notes... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment

For most of the past 25 years, Jeff Sagansky has followed the same ritual every morning. He gets up early and pores over the previous day's Nielsen ratings, those omnipotent numbers that detail who's watching what on television from dawn... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Arts, Entertainment

03 Feb 2023
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Immersive Field Courses Take the Classroom on the Road

As part of the HBS Elective Curriculum, MBA students can enroll in an Immersive Field Course (IFC). These courses are driven by faculty research and industry connections and provide students with an opportunity to get out of the classroom and put the skills they’ve... View Details

11 Jan 2018
News

Taking the High Road

lack of exposure. What you have to do is ignore what they say and watch what they do, because the opposite of that is a lot of people know how to be extremely politically correct and have no positive intent whatsoever. “So, let's just... View Details

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Stereograph Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

landscape. Stereographs and photographs appear in Series XVIII in the collection guide. Pinion making room, fine watch department , ca. 1900. Waltham Watch Co. Collection Mss: 598 1854–1929 52 stereographs... View Details

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

For sports fans, this time of year is like a chocolate addict's free pass to Willy Wonka's factory. Horse racing's Triple Crown. The National Basketball Association and National Hockey League championship playoffs. And next up, the most View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

01 Oct 2002
News

Andrew H. Tisch

its five subsidiaries — the Bulova Watch Company, insurer CNA Financial, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Loews Hotels, and the Lorillard Tobacco Company — and from other investments. Since 1997, when the founders passed the baton to the next... View Details

Alexander Civetta

levels of complexity, in addition to negotiating or advising on hundreds of technology, IP and commercial contract matters every year. Alex has been nationally ranked in Chambers USA for Start Ups and Emerging Companies every year since 2022; he is nationally ranked... View Details

19 Dec 2016
Blog Post

The Making of An Internship: Impact

influence an organizations’ success longterm. Watch as three Class of 2017 students highlight the projects they worked on during their summer internships, and the impacts they made. Francesca Ioffreda created the business case for a new... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

27 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

ingredients for a romantic dinner, but ends up spending an hour comparison shopping for organic dog food and craft beer. A college student resolves to spend every Wednesday evening studying in the library, only to spend most of that time View Details

Keywords: Re: Francesca Gino

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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

1900 to 1904. Collection Guide Waltham Watch Company Records, 1854–1941 . Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School. The Waltham Watch Company, known as American View Details

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

said. Men, on the other hand, "attach everything on the table—we call them Frankenberries." The watch industry might be a good analogy as to how devices will evolve, he said. For next to nothing, you can get a View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 20

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/514084-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-031 Jean-Claude Biver (A): The Re-Emergence of the Swiss Watch Industry In the early 1980s, the Swiss watch industry... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2018
HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

make some of the building tools themselves because commercial ones aren’t precise enough. Every watch is hand assembled, twice, in the German workshop. When the first assembly is complete (and working fine), the View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion

25 Aug 2022
News

Turning Point: Dream Weaver

books. How do you get out of the Bronx? Being good at science. I was valedictorian of my class at Bronx Science and that was the ticket to Harvard, a school I had only visited by watching the movie Love Story. As an undergrad, I realized... View Details

Keywords: career; life experience; Hollywood; movies; film

01 Dec 2013
News

Double Vision

from last year's Super Bowl—where a reported 36 percent of viewers watched the big game on TV with a small screen in hand—and explains which approaches score big and which ones fumble. GoDaddy: Husbands from around the world explain to... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

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