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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
$4 a gallon, stunning American motorists. The results were predictable: Prices for everything skyrocketed, and an already recessionary U.S. economy, soon to be slammed by the mortgage and credit crises, began slouching toward the 1930s. View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
opportunity often lay in the problems that they and their peers faced in their personal lives. Take Michel, for example. A naval flight officer prior to attending HBS, Michel joined a Navy reserve unit in California after graduation. View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
and downtown Beijing, and during the trip we saw maybe one other car every five minutes or so.” Fast-forward 37 years, and that same roadway is 10-lanes wide and jammed with traffic from 7:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. During more than 70 visits to China,...
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by Deborah Blagg
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
of the battery-powered quartz watch, mechanical watches and the Swiss watchmakers who built them were predicted to be nearly obsolete (Landes, 1983). Unexpectedly, however, by 2008 the Swiss mechanical watchmaking industry had...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
model, its message, and its impact on people’s lives.” Dubin adds that while the virtual event was “a bit different,” it reached more people as a webcast, and clips from the recorded conversation with Jeong will be made available online for anyone to view. “They can be...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
would walk in, pick out a student, and say, “You may begin.” That is a defining moment, not just for the person who is called on, but also for the entire class. You can watch the students thinking, “What have I gotten myself into?” It...
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- 14 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?
Technology, on the working paper Internal Deadlines, Drug Approvals, and Safety Programs, released by the National Bureau of Economic Research in November. Danielle Kost: How should people interpret your research as they watch the...
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- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
your smartphone to how to earn a seat on a corporate board and make socially responsible investments. They gathered Thursday evening to watch a screening of a new documentary on the history of women at HBS, "A Woman's Place."...
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by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
administration at Cornell and then joined Loews in the marketing department of one of its subsidiaries. When Loews acquired the Bulova Watch Company in 1979, Tisch visited the company to assess it. “The place is a disaster,” he told his...
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- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
using the resources of large corporations to build new businesses, and he tried to identify opportunities where he personally could make a big difference. Watching the smoke rise from Ground Zero, however, he knew that once again it was...
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- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
University of Verona and the University of Amsterdam, Daniel Houser of George Mason University, and Marco Piovesan, a research fellow at Harvard Business School. Key concepts include: Experimental research finds that subjects who were told to resist the temptation of...
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
suit, would climb onto the dunk tank. Any student had three throws to drop him into the water. I was standing watching this spectacle with some students I had just taught. I’m not sure quite how it happened, but my students goaded me up...
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- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
1973, captures the essence of denial. You didn't have to be a genius to see "these things." Thanks to the transparency of retailing, all you had to do was to walk into a store and try to buy a steak, try to buy broccoli, watch your child...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
and the Middle East—and we've watched the number of global cases written rise to more than 50 percent in 2012–2013. Beyond that, we have begun offering Executive Education programs in locations beyond Boston, and the FIELD [Field...
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- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
the market in terms of shipments—next only to Apple and Samsung. As they finished watching Cook’s presentation, Yu and Cheung thought about the Mate 10 series, Huawei’s most advanced smartphone that would be launched on October 16, 2017,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
Sadun says. "Regardless of whether they were professional or family CEOs, they'd all leave early, and according to our interpretations, they were all leaving to watch the game." However, the data showed that the professional CEOs on...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Jason A. Kilar
I could about who created all this. I’d watched Disney movies and all that but I now had a passion and desire to find out about Walt Disney, the entrepreneur. So much of my middle school and high school years were about understanding who...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Zobel de Ayala Photographs by Tom Epperson Issue Focus The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS The City Solution Green Day Related Links Watch Ayala discuss sustainability Sixteen years...
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- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
joined Professor Das Narayandas in a case discussion around the reasons for Cycle for Survival's spectacular success. HBS alumni are invited to watch the video of this presentation.
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- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
methods—and with attention to ecosystems—we are watching “up close and personal” as managers build innovation labs or corporate accelerators to facilitate innovation in their companies. We are interested both in understanding how to most...
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by Martha Lagace