Filter Results:
(8,628)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(8,628)
- People (27)
- News (2,218)
- Research (4,837)
- Events (46)
- Multimedia (177)
- Faculty Publications (2,990)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(8,628)
- People (27)
- News (2,218)
- Research (4,837)
- Events (46)
- Multimedia (177)
- Faculty Publications (2,990)
- Profile
Tariro Goronga
engineering.” His first post-university assignment as an electrical engineer gave him the variety he sought. “I did pretty much everything: power supply and generation, motors, electronics.” But after two... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
inevitable, in its progress. Not long ago, 80 percent of heroin users began by first abusing prescription opioids. Now it’s estimated that 40 to 60 percent of addicts are skipping prescription drugs and going straight to heroin. At the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Character Studies: The Class of 2001 Graduates
year’s 844 graduates appear destined to influence the world of business — and the world at large — as they make their mark in the decades ahead. From this group, the Bulletin had the difficult task of... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see the steel mills that were its... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
brand-name multinationals that contract out the work. “In a sense, global supply chains are serving a regulatory function, with companies imposing an additional layer of rules and investing resources to enforce them,” says Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
Rene C. McPherson
McNealy has created one of the most powerful and influential computer manufacturers in the world. His laser focus on the networked computer model has enabled his firm to supply the backbone computing View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
relationships that are successful over time, the parties, despite obvious power disparities, work together to develop a spirit of mutual trust and cooperation that gradually brings a degree of balance to... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- Portrait Project
Prash Agarwal
teaching myself: I think I am doing OK. I want to remain clumsy and amusing. I wish to remain a dependable friend and to trust and be trusted implicitly. I want to have the... View Details
William C. MacInnes
so doing, he secured a safe and reliable source of power and embarked on a successful vertical integration program that enabled TECO to be one of the best performing utilities... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- Portrait Project
Tomiwa Igun
I want to light up West Africa! Dark nights, paper fans, candlelight, kerosene lanterns, and aching backs from fetching well water — seems like medieval times! But these were the days of my youth growing up in Nigeria's most vibrant city,... View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
passionate advocate for businesses to engage in water innovation and governance. Since her graduation from HBS in 2008, Nicole has been at the forefront of the interrelated water and View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
Related Links Martin discussing his book One of the most influential papers defining the role of business, “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” was coauthored in 1976 by Michael Jensen, the... View Details
- Web
Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
Jan Rivkin conceived of a data-based, research-driven effort to influence the national dialogue and shed light on the crucial issue of the ability of US companies to compete in a global economy while... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
last century: energy and infrastructure; agricultural commodities and food products; and natural resources, to name a few.” Kuhns is particularly bullish on China’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
products—such as price and the number of similar products sold at the same time—that we could map to features of new products as a way to predict demand. We also took into account the need to price multiple products in the same category... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
directly to dealers in Seattle and mangoes to buyers in Europe.” Lack of infrastructure is a major challenge, notes Duch. “We’re helping them to establish logistics platforms, sales forces, and phone-based... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Roadmap for Moms
RABIN AND COHEN: Drafting a blueprint for stay-at-home moms hoping to rejoin the workforce. Despite raising five kids at home, Vivian Steir Rabin (MBA ’86) felt alone. Before she came back to HBS for her 15th Reunion in 2001, Rabin... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?
implicit effort to not seem negative, but reserving that input has performance consequences later on,” Whillans says. “A better understanding of how advice-seeking closes those gaps would be a really powerful effect of this work.” For... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
second birth), requiring, as Zaleznik described it to me in a recent e-mail, "a turning into one's self ... following which one emerges with a deepened sense of self, and relatively free of dependency on the social structure."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett