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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
understanding of the oceans. When the Five Deeps Expedition is completed, Vescovo hopes to sell the Triton-built Limiting Factor and other essential equipment for the dives to a government, philanthropic organization, or university. “We’ve now View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Tower” lingers, though it has been covered in green terra-cotta since the end of World War II. The cost to construct the building in 1928 was $10 million, $135 million in today’s dollars. Last June Cummings and his partners—including... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
demographic and electoral data to construct measures of the extent of redistricting in a given constituency. We find the redistricting process to be politically neutral for the most part, though a few politicians who were advisory members... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
credentializing strategies (Power, 1992); they mobilized and drew on different cultural resources to construct the reliability of their techniques and to discredit and "minoritize" the others. This credibility contest was won by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
consultants. Instead, I modeled constructive conflict myself by creating a more challenging atmosphere in our executive meetings. This meant asking probing questions, insisting that managers present each situation in objective terms... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
constructive agreement. As disagreement and conflict intensify, sophisticated negotiators should expect biased perceptions, both on their own side and the other side. Less seasoned players tend to be shocked and outraged by perceived... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
plans, detailed blueprints, elevation drawings, and construction photographs demonstrate the process behind the planning and building of the campus. The Human Relations Movement: Harvard Business School and the Hawthorne Experiments,... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
in technology, serving in senior leadership roles in Latin America at SAP and Facebook. However, his entrepreneurial story started years earlier with his family business. “My dad had a small manufacturing company that made construction... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
StarNight Hotel Construction Bid: Real Time Competition on Schedule, Scope, and Cost Harvard Business School Case 209-067 The case is intended for use with the HBS Educational Technology Group "Construction Bidding Simulation."... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
Voting rights, things like that. And so if you break down some of these, at times, difficult to understand topics into their component parts and act on those, it can be a huge boon. I had a friend who runs a huge construction company in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Park has two parts. The first discusses the geological and social history of the site, focusing mainly on the park’s construction in the late 1850s and 1860s. The second part has essays on the 200-plus tree species and varieties. This is... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
Abstract Using annual will indexes, a series of wealth concentration is constructed for the north of Ireland on a decennial basis for the period 1858 to 2001. Wealth was highly concentrated at the beginning of the sample period, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
R. Kerr Publication:The American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Why do firms cluster near one another? We test Marshall's (1920) theories of industrial agglomeration by examining which industries locate near one another, or coagglomerate. We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
to come up with changes. Could we get together to brainstorm constructive ways to improve our industry faster?” Within 48 hours, nearly everyone on the email chain agreed to participate. “Founders are the customers of venture capital. If... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
entrepreneurial ventures. For example, he figured out quickly that he could make more money selling ice cream to construction workers if he offered whole containers, not just individual bars. He started earning money at a young age. BW:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
in VC is just not OK. We have a window to come up with changes. Could we get together to brainstorm constructive ways to improve our industry faster?” Within 48 hours, nearly everyone on the email chain agreed to participate. “Founders... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
scrutinizing the behavior of customers, suppliers, and competitors to identify new ways of doing things; (4) Experimenting: constructing interactive experiences and provoking unorthodox responses to see what insights emerge; and (5)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
the comparability of such studies has been hampered by the lack of a precise definition of the community construct. In this paper we review prior definitions (implicit and explicit) of the community construct and other suggestions for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
Cavallo, Alberto, W. Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer Abstract—We show that online prices can be used to construct quarterly purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne