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- 10 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs
Why did you choose to attend an HBCU? I come from a strong HBCU family. My grandmother, mother, and many other members of my family have attended HBCUs. I knew from an early age the value of an HBCU education as well as the importance that HBCUs have played in View Details
- 09 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from CPG to a Self-Driving Car Startup through my Summer Internship
working at a pre-revenue startup. For example, at my pre-MBA role, producing a video entailed big budgets and an entire agency team to help coordinate the shoot day. At Cruise, creating a video involved my acting as both the client and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
six HBS Global Research Centers, Hill and her Leadership Initiative team hosted a series of virtual roundtable discussions on the pressing issues that accompany digital transformation. The goal: to examine how leadership has evolved in the 21st century and to View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
clear of the frozen-food aisle, thanks to the lingering associations that the meals are clogged with sodium and preservatives. Frozen-food titans have been actively trying to reverse the stereotypes: ConAgra and Nestlé have decreased the sodium in their meals, and in... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 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
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
Summing Up Is intellectual property becoming community property? Is a new generation of users and consumers of intellectual property produced by new technologies bringing totally different assumptions and attitudes to bear on its... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
measure of originality, I find that competition has an inverted-U effect on creativity: some competition is necessary to induce agents to produce radically novel, untested ideas over incrementally tweaking their earlier work, but heavy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
existing corporate transport and storage partners to implement a new strategy of moving bulk produce to remote areas, as well as serving its traditional outlets. SecondBite also found different ways to serve food to people in isolation,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
doctoral degree. “It was made clear that choosing academia requires a great deal of perseverance,” she comments. “It’s a long and difficult transition from being a consumer to a producer of knowledge, but it’s also stimulating and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Someone whose ideas have become so ubiquitous and ingrained that we cannot separate his foundational thoughts from our own.” Remarkably, Schumpeter, an only child with deep and conflicting emotions, produced his sweeping body of... 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
J. Paul Austin
Austin was instrumental in building Coke’s international presence. This was dramatically exhibited by his development of an exclusive agreement to market Coke in China in 1978. During his tenure as Coke’s third CEO, the company produced... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
John A. Ewald
Ewald is responsible for taking Avon public and beginning Avon’s international expansion. He is also credited with introducing the historic “Avon Calling” advertising campaign. During his CEO tenure, Ewald produced 23 years of consecutive... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 23 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Status: When and Why It Matters
evidence that buyers are willing to place a premium on status, holding constant quality and the reputation for quality." What sounds easy in theory may be difficult in practice, however: "Look around and you may be hard-pressed to find a high-status View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
breaks down safely in the environment. Enter Full Cycle Bioplastics, a California startup that has found a cost-effective way to produce mass quantities of PHA, which is an eco-friendly alternative to plastic that harmlessly degrades on... 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