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- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
and what subjects to teach, without concern for economic or political agendas. Responsibly exercised, this freedom is a great intellectual and competitive advantage. Traditional universities benefit society not just by producing... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
behavior? What do you think? Original Article We've supposed for a long time that certain behaviors foster relationships that can determine success or failure. Now improved technologies (such as brain imaging) combined with imaginative research are View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
existing strengths and capitalize on those,” advises Duch, who is currently applying that strategy to the challenge of helping rural farmers in Haiti sell their produce directly on world markets. Since joining the World Bank in 2013, Duch... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 27 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant
lime are added to produce liquid iron and the finishing steps that form final steel products like coils and bars. We learned that the blast furnace at Dolvi produces the greatest volume of liquid iron in the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A revolution in healing
Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) is president and CEO of Moderna Therapeutics, which is producing a new drug application that could revolutionize the biotech world. It hinges on messenger RNA, or mRNA, the molecules responsible for transporting... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Harvard MBAs Rule?
GE among them. As if that weren’t enough, it noted that even the newest occupant of the Oval Office, George W. Bush (MBA 1975), “spent some time hanging at Harvard.” With HBS producing so many entrepreneurs in recent years, Fortune... View Details
- Web
Industrial Film Collection | Baker Library
manufacturing shop processes. In addition, the collection includes films produced by HBS for teaching topics like labor relations, the human aspect of administration, business policy, and management. Use the Collection Industrial Film... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- News
Curing Parkinson’s Disease
properties of a virus known as M13—properties first recognized by Solomon’s mother, a leading Alzheimer’s researcher—and produce a medication to treat diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimers’s. As Solomon tells Palreman: “A single... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
In partnership to support a mission
education, civic engagement, and international peace and security initiatives. Jenkins explains that she and Lew divide the portfolio, each serving as the primary manager for one-half of the investments, while acting as devil’s advocate for the other half. They have a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Desert Dust-Up
Simmons “raising a ruckus in the oil patch,” said Barron’s (November 29, 2004). Simmons is chairman of Simmons & Co. International, a Houston investment bank active in the energy sector. As part of a small group invited to Saudi Arabia in 2003, he noticed that Saudi... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
per kilo. One big tree produces about 30 kilos per year. “We are beating Indonesia in the world market,” he said proudly. After smelling a root that was turmeric, picking a reed that was lemongrass, and identifying cassava, a starch that... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
Germany, despite having the highest labor costs in the world, also enjoys the world’s largest export surplus, at 7 percent of GDP. The United States, by contrast, ranks lowest among the world’s largest manufacturing nations in “export intensity,” the ratio of... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
depends on tidal currents just as wind farms depend on wind. Like wind and solar energy, tidal and other forms of marine power such as wave energy consume no fossil fuels and produce no carbon emissions, yet they are far more reliable... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
successful brands do differently, he believes, is to target powerful ideological contradictions produced by society. Through popular culture, society paints a picture of its ideals: What is a successful person? What is the good life?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Research in Black and White | Baker Library
earliest Polaroid film, Type 40, produced sepia-toned prints that had limited tonal range. Morse and her lab would next focus on producing black-and-white images that exhibited greater detail, a wider tonal... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Report
Enriching the Ecosystem
and produce scalable models. In all four of these areas, promising models have already begun to emerge. By highlighting the most successful ones and what can be learned from them, Kanter shows how America can create a richer, more... View Details
- Portrait Project
Monica Gupta Adractas
received as the first-generation daughter of Indian immigrants. The jobs, life-improving consumer products, and educational opportunities I produce should enable others to do even more. Suppose I create twelve jobs, and one employs a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
While China’s Communist Party still controls the country’s political machinery, the nation’s booming economy is increasingly in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs, with an estimated 70 percent of the nation’s GDP now produced by the private... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
lemonade, ice cream, and organic foods. By 1997, Newman's Own had reached $62.6 million in gross annual sales, producing a before-tax surplus of $8.5 million. The company had contributed over $90 million to charities since its inception,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
You’ve Been YouTubed
media, analyzing the reach and impact of a clever customer complaint music video produced by Canadian musician Dave Carroll when his attempts to recoup the value of his guitar (broken in transit) are stonewalled for over a year by United... View Details