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- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
auditors. Building Capacity for Change Both studies—considering factors in countries where factories are located and at the makeup of the teams that audit them—may be helpful in arriving at an accurate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Research Brief: Weatherproofing Renewables
From its seat at the tip of South America, belted by the equator, Colombia enjoys fairly steady temperatures—an evenness that’s counterbalanced by the seesawing of two rainy seasons and two dry seasons every year. Those peak periods of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
Illustration by Chris Gash Last spring, as the number of air travelers plummeted, airlines and their meal suppliers were left holding the bag—an enormous snack bag filled with individually wrapped cookies, salted pretzels, View Details
- Profile
Tessa Vacher-Desvernais
strategy simulations. The variety helps the learning stick with you and creates a lifelike sensation of being in the protagonist’s shoes.” In the short run, Tessa wants to apply the pragmatic approaches she learns to “build View Details
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Ravi Belani
out of my environment – get out of the Valley – so that I could reflect on what I had learned and on where I wanted to go.” Harvard’s large class sizes were also attractive. “The beautiful thing about HBS is... View Details
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
about self-image. Two months ago, Unilever's Dove brand uploaded "Dove Real Beauty Sketches," a web-exclusive mini-documentary in which a forensic artist sketches each of several women twice, first based solely on their descriptions of... View Details
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Africa: research, news, analysis
Where can I find country, company, industry/market, and news about Africa? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related industry reports across a variety of... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
a beauty feature on the needs of women with different types of skin, showcasing a range of actresses of different backgrounds with large close-up shots. Holmes began to throw out some names, including Eva Mendes, Lucy Liu, View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
build things was useful when it came to shaping a company, moving people around, and planning new strategies." When asked to explain the strategy behind his acquisition of so many beautiful homes, Jenrette... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Web
Instrument of Pictorial Publicity - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
image of confidence in both the production and sale of consumer goods. On display at Rockefeller Plaza were works by artists whose Machine Age photographs revealed the geometric beauty of factories View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
redoubled his professional reading. Beck learned to trust her instincts, even when they flew in the face of convention. Rather than follow industry practice and hire part-time employees, she insisted on full-time workers who were serious... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
Beth Thoren (MBA 1992) was a teenager in Japan the first time she saw the ocean. “I thought it was the most beautiful and fragile thing I’d ever seen,” she recalls. The experience sparked a lifelong interest... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Rob Self
there’s a singular theme of continuity: sustainability. “It started with the Boy Scouts,” he says. Originally intended as a way for Rob and his father to have fun on weekends (eventually joined by his two brothers), Scouting “gave me an... View Details
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DAY IN IFC: Safiya Karsan (MBA 2017), United Kingdom - MBA
beautiful estate which was built by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in the 19th century to display his expansive art collection. We visited the Flint House, Windmill Hill, the Main Manor House and were even... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
space for their two-person team. Now LS is getting queries from $100 million mega brands. “These are companies that invest a lot in design to make their sites beautiful but they’re not functional in a meaningful way, View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
The cashew trees growing into a beautiful shady forest in Fass Koffe, a two-acre community garden in Senegal, are a sight to behold. “Visitors can’t take a step without stepping on a plant,” says Louise Fenn Ruhr (MBA 1977), chief... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 29 Jul 2024
- News
Leading the Way
they bought Standard Printing Company, a provider of bill printing and mailing services located in Phoenix. Since then, Trejo has been learning the ropes as president and CEO, while Trujillo serves as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Maasai Village
the tribe’s cultural mores, including circumcision during adolescence for males and females, arranged marriage, and tribal leadership. Most of us felt uncomfortable a few days later when we visited a Maasai... View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
be second-order to these other traits." Specifically, Kerr and his research colleagues found that increased employment of young skilled immigrants impacts the employee makeup of firms in three main ways: 1.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
and indeed very beautiful, it’s the story of ‘an almost perfect crime.’ Set in a monastery in the Quebec wilderness, Chief Inspector Gamache—one of my favorite detectives in crime fiction—is one of the few outsiders allowed in this... View Details