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01 Mar 2019
News

Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot

millions if not billions of miles. And those scenarios vary from city to city. Plus, autonomous cars are very expensive today. Those costs will have to come down before it can scale. How will autonomous vehicle fleet operations... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Oct 1999
News

A Constructive Summer at HBS

was completed on July 1. HBS chief of operations David Moffatt describes the site as an easy one to work with. "We are operating in a limited space, but because it's an on-campus site, we don't have the kind... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

Portrait Project

Grace Hou

powerful weapon than corporeal force. A community of supporters — from the nurse stroking my hair on the operating table, to the neighbors who sent me a lifetime's supply of lollipop trees, to the physical therapist who pushed me to walk... View Details

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U.S. Competitiveness Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the U.S. economy. The Looming Challenge to U.S. Competitiveness In a March 2012 article of the Harvard Business Review , Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin outlined the looming challenge to U.S. competitiveness. The United States is a competitive location to the... View Details

07 Jun 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

Condo says, “but they also learn about business plans, seed money, and marketing.” All 100 students in each undergraduate class create and operate sustainable agribusiness ventures during their first three years of study. Condo calls... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Fred Newman

with giving him the courage to found Talking Dog Productions, his one-man operation in New York City that enables him to view his work as a business — “like selling shoes” — and inoculates him from the rejection that stymies many actors... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jan 2009
News

Robert F. Greenhill, MBA 1962

financial advisory services. The firm, which has grown at a steady but significant pace, went public in 2004 and recently expanded operations into the insurance, financial services, and industrial markets. Today, Greenhill & Co. has 10... View Details

Career Coach

Troy Peterson

pursue, to making choices about different opportunities or redefining priorities. Troy started his career as an Infantry & Special Operations officer in the US Army, including deployments in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Jordan as well as... View Details

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Event Guidelines | About

and related use of name policies and guidelines. Lighting & Special Equipment : No lighting or other special equipment may be installed or used without the prior approval of HBS Operations or HBS Information Technology/IT. Public Safety... View Details

07 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 7

managing the operations of companies whose activities stretch across national boundaries. The purpose of this book is to provide a conceptual framework showing the interplay between the multinational corporation, the countries in which it... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

corporations and governments alike need to focus on. Consequently, the career opportunities for MBAs are now unlimited- you can shape sustainability strategy at traditional companies and banks, drive products and operations at startups... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Cleantech

18 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

the first patent for the medical use of the herb. “This knowledge had been locked in their home country for decades, if not centuries, and now these skilled ethnic migrants were able to transfer the knowledge here,” says Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury, assistant professor... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

01 Feb 2017
What Do You Think?

Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

won’t be lost such as highly personalized services such as child care until I considered that my 2 year-old grandson can operate iPhones, computers, and other electronic devices which means he’ll soon have access to HBX and electronic... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

We are on the cusp of a new millennium; yet the face of corporate power in the United States remains overwhelmingly white. People of color hold less than 1 percent of all senior executive posts. But what about leaders such as Kenneth Chenault, president and chief View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

paradox the result of an in-depth comparative analysis of two of the organizations in their sample. The two WISEs appeared to be extremely similar: Both operated in the recycling industry with similar work-training missions, and both had... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Nov 2012
Op-Ed

Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities

The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

28 Nov 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

to numbers such as operating profit. This does not mitigate the argument against short-term incentives. Nor does it address the tendency of compensation committees to rely on numbers rather than judgment. Going even further, perhaps... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

were: What part of the job demands rationality? Yaron Kaufman suggested that "Managers must be rational when it comes to planning, financing, operating and measuring business performance . Irrational thinking is needed when you think... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Nov 2008
What Do You Think?

How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

much relevance for operations and human resources as it does for marketing. Blackshaw argues that organizations that regard their web sites as marketing devices run the risk of destroying the credibility of information presented there,... View Details