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- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
managers can team with creative talent in six "culture industries": Fashion, publishing, art/architecture/design, film, music, and food. Her subjects include fashion pioneer Chanel, publishers Penguin and Atavist, film icons Variety and the Sundance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
FedEx for shipping some of their products, driving up demand from three packages a day to thirty. It was enough to save the company. FedEx’s strategy in these early years was simple: deliver time-sensitive packages with speed and... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Web
Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni
12:00pm (noon) ET Apply to GO:ASIA Demand for the program (i.e., the size of the applicant pool and availability of funds) determines the number of GO: ASIA Fellowships granted each year as well as the amount of each fellowship award.... View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders
their family after years spent working in house cleaning and other physically demanding jobs . He decided to stay in the US “I loved it here, this was home now,” he explained. So Westphal stayed on his own... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
basis, the riskless asset is not a nominal annuity or Treasury bond, but rather inflation-protected annuities and Treasury bonds (also known as TIPS). The demand for TIPS has grown considerably since they were created in 1997 when current... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
behavior. In a laboratory experiment, I show that crowd out in response to public incentives is much less likely among those with public, as opposed to private, reputations. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50190 Observability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
Despite increased attention to public education in recent years, today’s schools are still not producing graduates equipped to meet the demands of the 21st-century economy, many business leaders contend. Most Americans seem to agree.... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
John F. Kennedy School of Government, presented the second scenario, a view of a world where "the demands of networks in houses are as different as their floor plans" and where "there are a range of options... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct-selling... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
extra minutes to look for the answers to those questions,” says Gino, who has four children. “Now we have an opportunity to do just that. Even learning something small can give you pleasure and a sense of accomplishment.” And if the house... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
leadership of Professor Jim Cash in whose honor we named Cash House on the campus. And Jim has helped us assemble a phenomenal advisory board. And the board consists of individuals like Ken Frazier, the CEO of Merck, Ken Chenault, the... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0809.html#wp09-108 Corrigendum to 'Resource-Monotonicity for House Allocation Problems' Authors:Bettina Klaus and Lars Ehlers Abstract Ehlers and Klaus (2003) study so-called View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
managers and recruiters are questioning conventional business education. Their concerns? Among other things, MBA programs aren't giving students the heightened cultural awareness and global perspectives they need. Newly minted MBAs lack essential leadership skills.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
other business practitioners. Much of the science discussed will unfold in the Allston complex's four buildings, which will house Harvard's initiatives in stem cells, bio-inspired engineering, systems biology, chemical biology, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
to try the drug at a friend’s house hops in the shower first. Looking down, she sees blood running in the water and, screaming, turns to confront a future version of her meth-addicted self, emaciated and covered with sores. (A 2012 study... View Details
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
value to the table. For example, if two potential buyers have bid up the asking price of your house and then one drops out, the other offer shouldn't go down. In fact, if you sense that the remaining bidder loves the property, you might... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
marketplace status quo. Demanding a voice and sometimes a hand in the products they buy, these digitally empowered consumers― “Me’s”―have inverted the traditional power dynamics of retail into metail. To put it simply, your customers are... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
exacerbated by the workplace flexibility of the COVID era has put increasing demands on businesses to offer or expand benefits that support family schedules. In this episode of Skydeck, contributor April White talks to Stephen Kramer (MBA... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
Tucson and then stop by my house in my cul-de-sac and drop off two boxes of ingredients and drive back to Phoenix. And I started these backyard parties with that wood-fired oven to build my skill, but I also began to meet people. And it... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
the top 10 leaderboard this year. But the fact is, America has been slipping since the year 2000, long before the housing bubble burst and recession swept the country, say Harvard Business School Professors Michael E. Porter and Jan W.... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin