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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
of excreted pollutants wither the leaves on the trees and sicken the livestock. We hate our cars, Detroit .They are expensive, murderous junk, and they manage to look glassily contemptuous of the people who own them.” (Pale Gray for Guilt, 1968) “This is a View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
colada, the standard offerings for non-drinkers—even at special occasions—can feel like real kids’ table fare. Royle and Wood saw a demand for adult beverages as interesting and complex as a satisfying cocktail, just without the alcohol.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Allston Plan’s First Building
A 500,000-square-foot science complex will be the first building of Harvard University’s new Allston campus. The complex, which will house the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and a number of cross-departmental science initiatives, will be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Allston to Get Harvard Museum
A new Harvard art museum will join the University’s planned life-sciences complex on Western Avenue across from HBS — the first two structures in Harvard’s long-range expansion plan in Allston. University officials announced the selection... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Managing the challenges faced by a local nonprofit
Norm Merritt (MBA 1988) talks about using his management expertise to assist his local Audubon Society solve some complex operational issues. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
negotiation, not the least of which is the corporate arena. "Brokering a deal requires the same ability to assess complex situations and craft breakthrough strategies as brokering a peace agreement," says Watkins. "Leaders of companies... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
what management is all about,” he said. Lawrence described how his work on large, complex companies caused him to wonder about organizations outside business, leading to his studies of cities, hospitals, schools, and governments. His most... View Details
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
Helping California Wildfire Victims Rebuild
wildfires, the article notes, and also saw how other homeowners struggled to rebuild. “As we watched people try to navigate the process and the complexity of everything they had to do to build a home, we knew there were really simple... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
Michael Norton and colleagues. Career Advancement without Experience Lacking experience, contract workers find it difficult to advance to a job with expanded responsibilities. But it can be done. Assistant Professor Siobhán O’Mahony discusses her research on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
W50 Next Steps
than 6,400 alumni, Professor Robin Ely is readying a follow-up survey. Her goal is to better understand the complexities of our alumni population and delve deeper into the challenges and opportunities women face and the choices they make. View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
addition, online retailers have a vast amount of data at their fingertips; solving complex problems with data seemed like a natural fit. Tell me about the research you did with Rue La La. Rue La La is in the online flash sales industry,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Allston
subsidiary to oversee development, with former Massport CEO Thomas Glynn serving as CEO and Dean Nohria as chair of the governing board. Initial plans for the first phase of development include a 14-acre complex of research-focused... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
with senior researchers James Weber and Mary Louise Shelman, examines the complex political and economic underpinnings of the ethanol industry and the dilemma facing the farmers of Mid-Missouri Energy (MME). The farmers must make major... View Details
- 20 Nov 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
only thing missing was ominous John Williams theme music playing in the background. CollaborateUp specializes in bringing corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations together, to take on big, complex issues,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
An easy-to-use glossary and over sixty charts and diagrams define and illustrate complex financial terms and concepts. The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History’s Best Investment Strategies by John P. Reese (MBA ’79) with... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
A Four-Point Plan for Teresa May
With 20 years of practical negotiations experience under his belt, Malhotra, author of Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (Without Money Or Muscle) offers some bracingly clear-cut advice for an historically View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
One key to becoming more integrated into the global marketplace will be southern Africa's ability to respond to the radical economic and social changes taking place in its own backyard. "This not only poses complex challenges for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Chances Are
Understanding complex odds relative to something more universal—say, a baseball game—makes math and probability more palatable, he argues. "The world is increasingly dividing between those who understand this kind of math and its... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit
Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism, an exhibit in the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, confirms there is still much to learn about railroads, whose scale and complexity spawned modern business’s management model. Recent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
colleges to develop programs to meet specific needs. There is still some distrust on both sides: Higher education institutions see their mission as instilling skills for lifelong learning, not to pursue a good salary, and businesses can be daunted by the View Details