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Events - Business History
management and business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Dec 15 15 Dec 2023 Conference Using Oral History in Research This conference considered the ways oral history including the interviews undertaken by the Creating View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
one centimeter on a side and function at the same unimaginably low temperatures as the company’s quantum processors. The latter measure only half a centimeter per side and sit directly on top of the control chips, effectively squeezing a View Details
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1.12 Clearance for Return - MBA
General Policies 5. Technology, Copyright, & Publishing Policies 6. Important Contact Information After a hospitalization or emergency room visit by one of its students that raises serious concerns about the... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
okay, so you've got me in the room now. You're one of four African American CEOs in the Fortune 500. Does it make any difference to our people that you're in the room? And that's his question. Neeley: all of us have to be present and... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- Portrait Project
Milly Wang
that I remembered most—my second-grade teacher encouraging me to speak up in class despite my poor English, my friend staying by my side overnight in the emergency room after I broke my ankle despite having... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
Professor of Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, conducted the research with Katherine Baicker of the University of Chicago and Mark Shepard, associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School. Addressing the high costs of health... View Details
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
increasing danger of highlight glare at night. Land entered Harvard College in 1926. After the fall semester, he took a leave of absence to live in New York City. Over the course of the next three years, in the reading room of the New... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
with a focused strategy concentrates its resources on a specific task or intervention—such as the homeless shelter that focuses on providing overnight beds and a warm meal, or an ambulance service that focuses on getting patients to the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Managers Stifle Creativity
you don’t need to be a coding genius in a dorm room to birth a breakthrough, says Harvard Business School Professor Teresa M. Amabile, who has studied the interplay between creativity, productivity, and innovation for more than four... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 10 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
What I Did Differently Before Reapplying to HBS
myself for the worst, I read out the first few words of the letter. "Dear Arman, The answer is YES!" I will never forget this moment. I was sitting in my living room and was overwhelmed with an immense sense of relief and... View Details
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Drug & Alcohol Policy | About
Harvard’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP). The Harvard University Police Department brochure Playing It Safe contains helpful information as well. Additionally, any member of the University may make use of the Health Services on an View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
steadily solves unique problems, it builds the ability to do whatever is required to succeed in its context. When the incumbent has retreated into the highest tiers of its market and has to fight because there is no room for further... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
export-led growth strategies can work, policy makers face the question as to whether it is a feasible approach for all countries at all times. One body of literature, emerging already when Asian economies focused on exports to regain... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
hundred years, all of us sitting in this room today will be gone. Just at different times, some sooner than the others. So then if death is the ultimate truth, what should really matter most in life? I feel the only thing that truly... View Details
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
about disruption vis-à-vis public education? Where do you see the most room for innovation? A: The lesson from all industries is that the most promising areas for innovation are pockets of what we call "nonconsumption"—areas... View Details