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- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
muckraker Lincoln Steffens as a personal hero and who confesses that his heart still quickens when he hears the songs of the International Brigade. At OPM, Navasky wrote later, “My Nation self still tended to regard the profit motive as... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?
the "masculinization" of women. Society won't change until we change ourselves, Boteach said, referring to both sexes. When a woman student in the audience queried him about whether it would not be better for a woman to develop... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
partners established Fundaï§ï£o Estudar ("Study Foundation"), which is currently helping some sixty needy, high-potential students engage in business studies at the university and postgraduate levels. Sicupira also works with Endeavor, an... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash buffers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
two months. A team of faculty and students from five Harvard schools attended the Kumbh Mela to learn from the phenomenon. The festival was a planning, organizational, financial, and spiritual success-in stark contrast to the understood... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
three-day school trip weaving woolen swatches on a collection of old-fashioned floor looms. Later that day, he notes, the students will learn about—and even pet—indigenous Appalachian wildlife (including a pink-eyed albino corn snake)... View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
to teach but are largely silent on what to teach. Manufacturing Morals demonstrates how faculty and students are exposed to a system that operates on open-ended directives that require significant decision making on the part of those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
résumé audit study, we examine racial minorities’ attempts to avoid anticipated discrimination in labor markets by concealing or downplaying racial cues in job applications, a practice known as "résumé whitening." Interviews with racial minority university View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
'69) — who was known as Arthur S. Warshaw while at HBS and is now an American Sikh — has helped weave spirituality into the very fiber of Khalsa International Industries, a Sikh-founded, $100-million group of service and product companies... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
LEVITT The details differ slightly, but the story, in its telling, is always the same. Ninety or so MBA students sit nervously awaiting the start of their first Marketing class. At the appointed time — not a minute more or less — a slight... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
sectors, this year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor demonstrate the powerful combination of strong values, fearless risk-taking, and a clear sense of self Finding PRIDE Former members of the LGBTQ+ student club reflect on their... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
foundations of strategic costing systems. The breakthrough came by combining an idea I had while writing Cost & Effect with an innovation developed by Steve Anderson, an HBS MBA, who was a student in my second-year elective, Cost... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
style and channel our inner Frank as we navigate life’s challenges and opportunities. Nothing They Won’t Do By Benjamin Campbell (MBA 1992) Teutoburg Forest Press Mason Wright is living the dream as a first-year student at the most famous... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
every state. I have every age. I have an even number of conservatives, liberals, people in the middle. I have pretty good mix racially, in terms of sexual preference, all that. I will tell you that I'm doing a new project now with a group of View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
relaxed way of life. And I was explaining my fascination with this part. So it starts like this. In 1989, a group of American students arrived for a study abroad year at Yunnan University in Kunming, where I was studying. They were from... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
countries. Our results are close to those reported by the International Comparisons Program (ICP) in 2011 and the OECD in 2014 and can be used to obtain more up-to-date estimates of real consumption across countries without the need for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
1926–2014 and international sector returns 1985–2014, we present four findings: (1) Fama is correct in that a sharp price increase of an industry portfolio does not, on average, predict unusually low returns going forward; (2) such sharp... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
of local and global companies, government organizations, and universities in Hong Kong. A group of high school students also attended at the invitation of the club’s Board Director Max Burger (MBA 1981). “Hong Kong, today, is in the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
its currency. Investors started to flee Asia, and the crisis rapidly spread to other countries. Central banks spent billions of dollars to try and defend their currencies, only to seek emergency bailouts from the International Monetary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace