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Collections | Baker Library
Collections Special Collections & Archives collects and makes available the records of business dating from the 14th century to the present and the records of the Harvard Business School since its founding in 1908. These varied... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Reinventing the Wheel
(courtesy Martijn Lopes Cardozo) Carbon black is everywhere. The dark, powdery substance can be found in inks, dyes, polymers, rubber, and tires—almost everything that looks black has used carbon black in its production, says Martijn... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 28 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking
The “Know Your Audience” series on the HBS Recruiting Blog highlights trends in recruiting for various industries. Learn more about student interest, effective recruiting strategies, and best practices from HBS staff dedicated to your industry. Meet the View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
white-collar employment is structured," he says. Gathering data from four temporary staffing agencies that focus on managerial and professional talent, Bradach interviewed 26 skilled temporary workers serving as independent contractors and 17 of their company clients.... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
heck out of it,” recalls Holley, a former consultant and finance executive. “The question was whether it could be profitable. I was pleasantly surprised to find that both were true.” Last summer, Holley wrapped up his acquisition of Eddyline Kayaks, a family-owned... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
INCAE Making Global Impact
A REGIONAL LEADER: Founded nearly fifty years ago with HBS’s help, INCAE looks to a bright future, building on its role and reputation as a center for business education in Latin America. Photo Courtesy Incae As the HBS Global Initiative... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
Malaysia, earned an engineering degree in England and spent fifteen years in the corporate world, first with Hewlett-Packard and then with Apple Computer. In 1991, he was part of the management team that View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) on Finding Entrepreneurial Success with HBS Resources
his own company. But first he embarked on a couple of ventures that fell flat. "I started those companies for the wrong reasons," he says. Everything came together in 2011, when Schrader teamed up with Harvard Kennedy School... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
helped. One Hindu woman we interviewed kept a Muslim gentleman in her home who didn’t want to migrate to Pakistan. A neighbor found out and accused the woman and her sister of hiding him. But she said, “No. Don’t you know, this is our... View Details
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
ventures are likelier to engage in commercial activity" Overall, social ventures founded by women are much less likely to engage in commercial, revenue-generating activity than those founded by men.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise
factors, and consequently, I focused solely on basketball. Does this team win a lot of games? Do I think I’ll get to play? Did I have fun on my recruiting visit? Despite my highly flawed decision-making process, I landed at the University... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
universities were participating in its two-year teaching fellowships in more than 87 rural Chinese schools. The organization had grown from a founding team of three in a shoebox office to an 80-person... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
located across town or around the world. The research team found that the more an outsourced radiologist works with a particular hospital, the more efficient he or she becomes reading that hospital's scans.... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
fruit virus. Founded in 2000 from the merger of the agrichemical units of Novartis and AstraZeneca, Syngenta is a provider of a broad range of agricultural science and technology products focused on seeds and crop protection. They spend... View Details
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
percent) were satisfied with their job 54 percent (versus 38 percent) were satisfied with their work-life balance We also discovered that significantly more of those on PTO teams found the work process to be... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
Describes the challenges of using the Balanced Scorecard to implement a triple-bottom-line strategy for delivering excellent economic, environmental, and social performance. The owners and senior executive team of Amanco, a producer of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
well, because the senior team is tackling important problems and engaging people throughout the organization in solving them." One of the key players is Dr. Uma Kotagal, a neonatologist with a deep-seated passion for improving the... View Details
- 26 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
I sat there silently screaming. Eyes flitting across the room at the faces sitting around the table gathered for a Brita leadership team meeting. They couldn’t possibly do it, I thought to myself, clutching my 3D-printed prototype like a... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
Video Embed At the 2016 New Venture Competition finale 12 teams competed from 3 tracks for more $225,000 in cash prizes. The opening video portrays inspiring companies founded by HBS graduates and students... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
their careers unless they work for an all-remote company. But also I’ve studied how productivity changes, which is the third leg. I found that in the US Patent Office, causally, not correlationally, they saw a 4.4 percent increase in... View Details