Installment - Publications - Faculty & Research

Web

Online Management Course | HBS Online

and forward-looking business skills, self-reflection, and an immersive cohort-based learning experience with a diverse global network. 1 year, 5-9 hrs/week Apply by September 10th, Enroll by September 13 $15,000 (four installments of... View Details

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

or install lights. In this, canal employees were greatly aided by the peculiar place the canal held in America's national mythology. Conservatives who would have been horrified at employee capture of other public enterprises such as, say,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

Web

Git and GitHub - Research Computing Services

on how to use Git, please see the excellent, self-paced materials for Git at the command line from Software Carpentry. For a GUI version of Git, we recommend GitKraken , and our own GitKraken usage tutorial . Git and GitKraken are View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Donald J. Chiofaro

policeman who loved talking to people, Chiofaro says, "I can talk to anyone in my business, from bankers and politicians to the guys who install the elevators." (In fact, at HBS, while his classmates went off to corporate summer jobs,... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

Web

Loeb House | About

ground, reducing the amount of polluted storm water to the Charles River. The renovations also incorporated lighting upgrades to reduce energy usage, such as installation of high-efficiency LED light fixtures and additional occupancy... View Details

07 May 2024
Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

and renovation practices. HBS has installed solar PV* and solar thermal along with green roofs on many of our buildings. (*Note: SRECs, which represent the environmental benefit, are sold to the Harvard Utility to meet State Renewable... View Details

15 Dec 2023
News

Like-Minded

would like to launch the second fund in a couple of years, then possibly a third, and maybe the fourth to get to a billion dollars. We want to prove that we can maximize the return by installing ESG-thinking in younger companies and,... View Details

Web

The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

circuit boards replace transistor technology First ATM installed Influence: Medium 70 1970 s 19 Beginning of biotech industry Fiber-optic wire Pong (first video game) UPC bar code Supercomputer Influence: Medium-Low 80 1980 s 19 Software... View Details

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

15 Jun 2021
News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

says. “And if the company wins, the employees win, and the shareholders win.” In fact, so many of those shareholders now work in the company’s manufacturing facilities, Zeitz observes, they have asked that a stock ticker be installed on... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

21 Sep 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?

a variety of circumstances. Battilana answered questions from participants in a recent installment of “Office Hours,” an Instagram series (@HarvardHBS) in which Working Knowledge makes experts available to Instagram users to ask questions... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

Web

Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

global network. 1 year, 5-9 hrs/week Apply by September 10th, Enroll by September 13 $15,000 (four installments of $3,750) Credential Leadership Principles Professors Joshua Margolis & Anthony Mayo Learn to bring out the best in others by... View Details

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

The company Blocpower works with EJ principles as well, centering “the clean energy future in low-income communities and communities of color to create jobs and develop skilled workers.”[84] They install low-infrastructure Wi-Fi networks,... View Details

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

makes consumers more willing to pay for safety features." Already during the pandemic, companies have been creative in identifying "low-hanging fruit" that could be quickly implemented in their operations. Grocery stores View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

of the inaugural India Climate IFC, students visited a semi-urban public healthcare facility which was outfitted with a full rooftop solar installation and multiple solar powered technologies provided by SELCO. SELCO (“Solar Electric... View Details

10 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Veterans in the MBA Program: Profiles of Service

the case method, research, and life as an HBS student, planting a seed of opportunity that he came back to following his service in the Marine Corps. Born and raised in Hampton, VA, Scott grew up surrounded by the military—with Langley Air Force base, a myriad of Army... View Details

07 Dec 2022
Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

Finalist ventures included: Active Surfaces: Flexible, lightweight solar (photovoltaic) cell innovation for any surface. StepWise: Retail electric panel add-on that significantly reduces the fixed costs required to installing... View Details

Web

Jaume Plensa Inés 2013 | About

through the installation of four monumental cast-iron portraits of young girls. Inés was one of the four sculptures included in 1004 Portraits at Millennium Park. Her portrait, in the artist’s words, is “all at once specific, anonymous,... View Details

Web

Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Business School acquired the mosaic, which has been installed in Morgan Hall since 1991, and is part of the HBS Art Collection . At nearly twenty-one feet in diameter, the massive Roman floor mosaic is thought to date to the mid-fourth... View Details

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

and sales advice. He changed the structure of his company and figured out the manufacturing challenges (all in the midst of the pandemic – no small feat). Now Harvard is looking to install one of his chargers on the HBS campus. Here’s how... View Details

Publications