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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
Georges Viana surveyed a factory floor filled with silent, outdated machinery. Then, a quick, scuttling movement caught the corner of one eye: rats. He hadn’t known what to expect when he arrived in the city View Details
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Historical Research - India
include the records of the Tudor Ice Company, 1752-1902, which exported ice and other merchandise. They owned ice houses in Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, Singapore, Jamaica, Havana, etc. and the trade was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
ensuring the physical well-being of the library’s priceless treasure of business books and records. “No other business school has a historical collection to rival HBS,” Anderson proclaims. The raw numbers... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Uncovering the Virtual Advantage at Humana
manage the logistics of housing and travel. However, virtual recruiting and virtual internships allowed us to be more flexible with our timeline,” said Layfield. A virtual process also allowed for Humana to... 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
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
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
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
gender and racial barriers (“crashing through the glass ceiling and the ‘concrete wall,'” as the New York Times put it) when she was named president of Maxwell House in 1994. Three years later, she became... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
implement a “cap-and-trade” framework—capping the total amount of emissions and allowing companies to trade permits to pollute on the open market—fell apart in the midst of partisan bickering. As Washington... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
When Clinkscales received three thousand subscription cards back - an unheard of response rate in the magazine business - he knew he had found a niche that needed to be covered. By 1988, when Clinkscales... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
Lillian Too (MBA '76), formerly Kim Lim, is the executive chairman of her own publishing and investment company in Malaysia. She is the author of eight best-selling books on the ancient Chinese science View Details
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
The problem with big data is that there is, well, so much of it. Analyzing it is like trying to sip from a firehose. Just in time, a new book on the art and science of quantitative analysis arrives this... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
There's a classic cartoon plot device that represents a struggle with temptation. A tiny angel pops up on the conflicted character's left shoulder, urging him to follow the path of righteousness. A tiny devil sits on his right shoulder,... View Details
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
The Initiative at the Bok Center is currently partnering with FAS academic departments, staff, and other Harvard partners to develop ways that the methods of theatre can act as vehicles for maximizing effective pedagogy. The Applied... View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
suggest matches with employers based on the nature of the crime, the amount of time since the conviction, and the nature of the job. For instance, “a low rating might be... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
2022, up from $22 million in the prior year. Campus renewal initiatives included the renovations of Cash House and Cumnock Hall, the addition and fit-out of new leased... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
Image by John Ritter Back in January, the leadership at Massachusetts General Hospital, including President Dr. Peter Slavin (MBA 1990) (pictured above, right), took note of a virus that was spreading in China. They decided to activate... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
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
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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
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Allston
together in this cross-collaboration,” she says. As the Science and Engineering Complex, which will house SEAS, nears completion, plans for the adjacent 36-acre Enterprise Research Campus are advancing at a brisk pace. In November View Details