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09 Mar 2023
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Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind

built near this location to convert wind energy into green hydrogen. Photo source: Prof. Willy Shih Next on our tour, we climbed inside the nacelle of a wind turbine. The nacelle sits at the top of a turbine... View Details

29 Aug 2024
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Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark

intricate manufacturing process of Vestas' V174 nacelle, a vital component of the 9.5 MW wind turbines. The nacelle, a housing unit that encapsulates the generator, gearbox,... View Details

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

themselves, are strongly influenced by biases. Perhaps the best example of this insider/outsider distinction, among even well educated consumers, can be found in their negotiations with contractors for new View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

01 Dec 1999
News

Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

without understanding technology. I admire the School's commitment to these areas," said Rod Hawes in a campus interview during his 30th Reunion in October. Hawes Hall, to be located at the northeast edge of Aldrich Hall, will View Details

10 Oct 2024
Blog Post

High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details

13 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

If you've spent any time on Twitter, then you're probably familiar with the "humblebrag"—a brag veiled in a complaint, so as to sound less blatantly like a brag. Here's an example from the Twitter account of Ari Fleischer, former White... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

mid-19th century, the family partnership evolved from a general store to the fourth-largest investment banking house in the country. Photography and Corporate Public Relations: The Case of U.S. Steel, 1930 -... View Details

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Politics and War - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Foreign Secretary Charles James Fox's bill to replace the directors of the East India Company with seven commissioners. Supporters of the bill hoped it would rid the Company of... View Details

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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog

era where our notions of ‘value’ and money itself would be redefined, were under house arrest for fraud. Further in the background, a quiet revolution has been taking place in reengineering life itself.... View Details

13 Jul 2017
News

Making Friends with Mother Nature

Donald K. Clifford Jr. wrote the book on how high-performance, midsize companies beat their competition, but growth in the world of nature has always been closest to his heart. “The natural world was always my great interest,” says... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

04 Nov 2020
News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

Fienning, MBA Class of 1970, Section C. Five years after graduation, I was a partner in a mobile-home retailing company in Greensboro, North Carolina. I was a bachelor, living in a mobile home, and trying to create a manufactured View Details

17 Aug 2015
News

The Play Alchemist

When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was designed to provide a clean source... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Dec 1996
News

Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business

to click your knitting needles if there is no demand for sweaters. You should get out of your rocking chair and prod the market. Managing complements is a smarter way of doing business, and there are endless... View Details

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Guiding Principles for Conscious and Inclusive Description | Baker Library

descriptions when we become aware of issues or omissions.For materials housed in folders or other items such as photographs and audiovisual materials, staff retain the creators’ own descriptive language,... View Details

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

passed since risky mortgage lending, excessive borrowing, and soaring housing prices collided in 2008 to trigger one of the more severe financial crises in American history. Since then, economists have been... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

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Artist Support | Baker Library

cultural significance of instant photography among Morse, Adams, Kennedy, and Land came full circle in 1973 when Polaroid opened the Clarence Kennedy Gallery to house and exhibit the Polaroid Collection. The... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire

book titled Ironclaw (the radio call sign of his carrier squadron). He completed the nonfiction account in 1995 during the last year of a final tour of duty in Washington,... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

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Virtual Campus Tour | MBA

bring the case method alive—there are passionate debates, lots of laughs, and an energy that is unparalleled. Each section of approximately 90 students will spend their entire first year together in a single... View Details

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

Photo by Mary Ellen Mark At first glance, perhaps, the writer John Irving might not seem to have a lot to teach the corporate world. As the author of such celebrated bestsellers as The Cider House Rules and... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

13 Dec 2022
News

The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

everyday workers and families. Christine: "We've been able to contribute to the state in the following ways: "We presented an economic development policy proposal to the state's Speaker of the House and... View Details

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