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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Inside MTV’s Global Fame
numbering in the billions and making MTV one of the most powerful global brands. In his fascinating account, What Makes Business Rock: Building the World’s Largest Global Networks (Wiley), Roedy relives deal-making in 175 countries, from... View Details
- 04 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets
our research, conducted in a broad range of emerging economies including those of Chile, India, and South Korea, demonstrates that even with the best intentions, it takes longer than a decade to build the kind of institutions that can... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu
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Plymouth Motor Corporation Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
accompanied materials in an exhibition about Plymouth that was mounted at Baker Library in the mid 1930s. Photographs illustrate various stages of automobile production from building engine blocks and... View Details
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
particular product priced very attractively for consumers. With the XO laptop, action pricing met a new level of complexity. OLPC set a price goal, $100, which seemed challenging but doable based on the XO's technological building View Details
- Portrait Project
Damir Ljuboja
In the dead of Sarajevo winter, my mother’s hands shook as she waded through the Miljacka River, carrying a four-year-old above her head. That child, terrified and gray, was me. The medical clinic was five blocks from our apartment View Details
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Deals - Course Catalog
negotiations; and between two parties and multiple parties. Course Content and Organization : In previous iterations, this course has been split into four modules. Module 1 introduces the different perspectives that law and business training bring to transactions.... View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
that it’s time for platforms to admit defeat when it comes to trying to flag, edit, or block misinformation on their sites. Instead, they should focus on curtailing specific information that can lead to direct harm, such as hate speech or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
Knudsen Cowles: building for the future at the family vineyard in Oregon’s Willamette Valley (photo by Hilary Bobel Cronon) When they inherited the family vineyard a decade ago, Page Knudsen Cowles (MBA 1983) and her three brothers knew... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 16 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Delivering Solutions During a Crisis: an Interview with Hans Kristian Furuseth
unique way. The Building Blocks for a Beautiful Career Prior to joining HBS, Furuseth began his career in consulting at Bain working across Europe and India. He then went on to found his first company,... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
Harvard students, equip scientific startups with the lab resources and programming needed to grow and scale life science ventures, and generate insights and expertise about what it will take for Harvard to continue to build a successful... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
i-Cube, and he was able to put all his energy into realizing his dream. Ready to return to the Boston area, where Kate had gone to college, the Chertavians moved to Cambridge with their first two (of three) children, and Gerald began to use his network to put the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
You can see the subtle changes when a neighborhood is on its way up—streets get cleaner, building facades improve, new businesses start moving in. Across an entire city, however, it’s harder to track such changes, to understand in real... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Action Plan: Border Crossing
has taught me to find beauty in things such as the unintentional color blocking in a row of buildings or the intricate designs of an ordinary fire hydrant or doorknob. Opening your eyes can open your heart.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
environment. HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?In a recent field study seminar, Professor Forest L. Reinhardt discussed the case "Woolf Farming & Processing," which illustrates how access to water—a basic building View Details
- Portrait Project
Margarita Golod
I want to have the courage to ask questions. Serious questions, embarrassing questions, aspirational questions, even silly questions. The power of questions is undeniable. Questions have been the building View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
"It was very bizarre," Jones says. "A neighborhood of 150,000 people suddenly didn't have a proper place to buy food." Jones learned that the city was eyeing the supermarket location for a police station and that a new elementary school was to be built three View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64) Continuing education (lifelong learning) has emerged as one of the School's highest priorities and can be viewed as one of the major building blocks for long-term connectedness to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
compressed time frame, or "Internet time," requires that firms generate and respond to new information for a greater proportion of a development cycle, with much of the feedback coming from customers. In fact, early and continuous contact with users is a key View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
development, and review in quantitative reasoning, accounting, computer skills, and business writing and logical expression. From January 8 to January 30, they became the first group to encounter "Foundations" - the "sequel" to Essential Skills that View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
How often have you heard that, when entering a negotiation, you should get your allies onboard first? Conventional wisdom, but not always the best advice. When the United States sought to build a global anti-Iraq coalition following... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius