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- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
There has been much recent discussion about which objective the United States should pursue—democracy for them vs. security for us—in instances where the two seem at odds. The problem with this debate is that it stems from an imprecise articulation of View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
and American Industry in Europe (1960). His 1989 Harvard Business Review article "General Managers in the Middle" was a bestseller for many years. Beyond the Harvard Business School campus, Uyterhoeven consulted regarding international... View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
first may offer slim chances for a deal. To improve the odds, try to discern who influences the target player and to whom that player defers. In a 1993 New Yorker article, Sidney Blumenthal described how Bill Daley, then President... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
and Poor's. Unfortunately, it won't do us much good. The damage has been done. This downgrade was probably bound to happen once Speaker Boehner and President Obama failed to agree on a "grand bargain" of $4 trillion in... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
commercial images as art and offered a prestigious social milieu that brought together photographers, executives, art directors, and socialites. In New York, the mission of the Art Center, a federation of seven societies including the Pictorialist Photographers of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
What is it about HBS that has produced such a steady stream of remarkable entrepreneurs whose endeavors have changed American life in the postwar decades? The creative impact of the case method, as noted earlier, should not be... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
casual but cultured lifestyle of California's Napa Valley, his coach Fern Mandelbaum, cofounder of toy maker Skyline, questioned whether other Americans shared his concept of Napa. "I thought, 'Come on, Fern, I will tell you what it... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America Globalizing Latin American Beauty By: Jones, G. Abstract—This article discusses the growth over time of the beauty industry in Latin America and its bias towards celebrating whiter rather than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
Island Promise. The state legislature approved it in 2017, making Rhode Island one of some 20 states that have adopted similar programs. Sara Enright (MBA 2004), vice president of student affairs and chief outcomes officer at the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
In the fall of 2009, baseball's Anaheim Angels knocked the Boston Red Sox out of the American League Division Series in a humiliating three straight games. Within a matter of weeks, Sox general manager Theo Epstein had launched one of the... View Details
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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Innovation and Entrepreneurship TIMELINE POLAROID FILMS RESEARCH LINKS Digital Archival Resources Archival Collections Bibliography SITE CREDITS 31. Land, "Research by the Business Itself," 1. 32. Harold C. Livesay, American Made: Men Who... View Details
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
Tightly packed workers and other weak protections allowed COVID-19 to sweep through American slaughterhouses during the past year, infecting at least 45,000 employees and killing an estimated 240 people. To Harvard Business School... View Details
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
use this as a natural experiment to test whether a waiting period would impact homicides and suicides in states that were subject to the policy. The federal law—named after former White House press secretary James S. Brady, who was shot during an assassination attempt... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
changes that took root after the last crash. “Everything we do today grew out of the dark days of the early ’90s,” says Slaughter, managing director and head of North American real estate investment banking for Morgan Stanley. Some refer... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
jobs that provide a sense of dignity for individuals.” Terry is riding the crest of the electric vehicle wave. The White House has an aspirational target of 50% of all new cars sold in the U.S. being zero-emissions models by 2030. And View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
President Neil L. Rudenstine added, "He was one of Harvard's, and the world's, rare human beings, capable of guiding discussions, courses, or institutions with the kind of ingenuity that is born of deep knowledge and experience."... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule (see sidebar), the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
Despite increased attention to public education in recent years, today’s schools are still not producing graduates equipped to meet the demands of the 21st-century economy, many business leaders contend. Most Americans seem to agree.... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
two-thirds are still going to western Europe, where typically they are in an enclave of other American students, speaking English, learning from an American professor; and it’s pretty far from the immersive,... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
president at Boston Globe Media Partners, in 2012 Perlmutter helped launch Quartz, Atlantic Media’s award-winning business news site. Quartz, along with CityLab, Atlantic Media Strategies, and original online content developed for... View Details