Filter Results:
(138)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,264)
- News (138)
- Research (656)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (7)
- Faculty Publications (388)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,264)
- News (138)
- Research (656)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (7)
- Faculty Publications (388)
Sort by
- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
alternative-energy initiatives than George W. Bush (MBA ’75). Boone’s 11th hour-conversion highlights a peculiar business penchant: a tendency to shoot itself in the foot and harm its own best interests by hurting the larger economy. (At this writing, View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
like trying to catch a cloud with a butterfly net. But stepping inside the building’s glassy entrance, a sense of direction takes hold and draws visitors toward the central gallery space. The exhibition this fall afternoon, Aesthetics of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
and PwC have to say about peer-to-peer lending, online marketplaces, and the experiences small businesses face when trying to secure funding for growth. Take a step back in time to learn about the origins of the credit industry by exploring Baker Library’s View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
and members of the HBS faculty serving as speakers and panelists. Sessions were devoted to "Bandwidth and Hardware," "Technology and Services," "Content, Commerce, and Community," and "Financing the Next Millennium." Looking ahead, the club's Entrepreneurs' View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Let’s Celebrate! HBS is 100 Years Young
and others. The day’s final activity took place in a tent at HBS, where music and dance performances by community members showcased their enormous “other” talents. (Equally impressive was an exhibition in Spangler Center of paintings,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
New Idea: State of the Art
museum, visitors are also given a special digital pen that they can tap on various exhibits to record their experience and later explore online what they saw in person. But of all the new features, it’s a historic survey of human... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
goals: assessing strengths and weaknesses; understanding passions (and translating them into career opportunities); knowing themselves; exhibiting character and leadership traits that help them go from good to great; creating mutually... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes Abstract African Art
trustee for the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. Alongside a successful financial career, Joyner has collected objects ranging from abstract to figurative to 3-D sculpture made from 1945 to the present. Some 100 works from her collection are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Making of a School
today was planned and constructed. Students who like to lounge in an armchair at Spangler or work out at Shad might be interested to hear what life was like before a Soldiers Field campus existed. “You had to hurry, and you didn’t often stop to talk to people,” the... View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
I’d say, ‘a doctor,’” says Downing. “I was always intrigued with medicine. I guess it’s just in my DNA.” But, as often happens with childhood dreams, Downing set aside his medical aspirations. His father had launched Downing Enterprises, a manufacturer of trade-show... View Details
- 10 Jan 2013
- News
From Wall Street to Visual Art
the "everyperson" profile have been featured in several major museum exhibitions and more than a dozen public art installations around the world over the last decade. From home bases in Tel Aviv and Los Angeles, Bussel creates the heads... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
the difference between consulting and finance and marketing and entrepreneurship,” says Polli. Career paths in accounting or consulting, for example, usually correlated to attention to detail and a lack of impulsive behavior, she says; high-performing salespeople... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 28 Feb 2011
- News
Rebooting the Human Condition
Enriquez: Exploring in Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia. The future is so yesterday. It's already here, and everywhere around us. The problem is, most of us just can't see it. Fortunately, the future is on exhibit this week, and Juan... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
opted for the walking tour began by visiting an Arab fort and then the Sultan’s Palace — the first building to have electricity in Zanzibar — where we saw exhibits of copper and ivory artifacts, hippo tusks, wooden masks, and weavings. As... View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
Reservoir; fund a permanent New England Forest Exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History; and establish an environmental scholarship at Harvard College, his undergraduate alma mater. Another Zofnass project in the news recently... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East
led him to start creating public art—often combining Arabic calligraphy and graffiti—on the drab post-civil-war walls of his hometown of Beirut, Lebanon, in 2009. His success with guerilla art eventually led to commissions and exhibitions... View Details
Keywords: Inclusion
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
“Self-driving cars today know what they are seeing and how fast the object is moving, but they aren’t good at predicting what a human will do next,” explains Misra. “We want to help machines understand humans.” For Perceptive Automata, the road to CES (where the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
materialize," says Stewart. "As a trade lawyer, I see missed opportunities for American firms caused by the West's failure to set up lines of credit to deserving enterprises and by the unimaginative approach to doing business in the region View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
collections and for exhibits linking the past and present, such as the recent “Buy Now, Pay Later: A History of Personal Credit”. Conservation work performed by Anderson and Clark is slow, tedious, precise, and absolutely essential to... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 28 May 2019
- News
Look Again
(MBA 1980) recent exhibition at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery did just that, focusing attention on how black figures have been depicted in artwork ranging from the often-overlooked servant in Édouard Manet’s Olympia to artists... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna