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- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
And Tuesday is the day that you solve for trust. So you run the experiments on rebuilding trust with the stakeholder at the center of your problem. Wednesday, we ask you to do things that adults generally don't like to do, which is to... View Details
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Software Tools - Research Computing Services
NoMachine/Gnome Applications menus: Application > Other > Set Defaults Run the set defaults script at /usr/local/app/scripts/set_user_defaults.sh . Follow the menu prompt to set one's one defaults, reset to system-wide defaults -- erasing... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
with the near-impossible job of drug discovery and development.” Back to top Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) COO and Treasurer, Ford Foundation Founder, Moms of Black Boys United In my solitude: “I was born in Rome, Georgia. I’m an... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
as full-blown panic hit in 1997, causing a run on Thailand’s uninsured banks. Overnight, the family lost everything. Sityodtong’s father eventually abandoned his wife and two sons, forcing them to move to a concrete-floor shack found... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
recalls the remark about magazine piles. "That has come back to haunt us," Fahey says. "People today don't want clutter." It turns out that many things that made National Geographic one of the world's top brands during... View Details
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
"In some sense people in these societies are running faster than their rules and laws can keep up. So they are creating the rules as they go along. And entrepreneurship is, after all, doing things in new ways, ahead of social norms... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2023
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Build as Much Buzz as Booze? Inside the Epic Challenge of Cannabis-Infused Drinks
Pennsylvania. “The regulatory issues faced in this industry are ones that most other entrepreneurs don’t run into. The challenges are quite unique.” The study follows the business challenges faced by Luke Anderson, who received an MBA... View Details
- 01 May 2020
- Blog Post
5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS
post-graduation. In addition to putting leadership in practice, leading a club is also a shared experience that lends itself to developing deep relationships with other students during EC year. Aaron Hancock (MBA 2021): This Spring, I decided to View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993
with J.P. Morgan. A member of the firm’s operating committee, she has run the Asset Management division, a global leader in investment management and private banking, since 2009. Her group’s record-setting performance is unheard of in... View Details
- 01 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself
my SVMP experience feeling so energized and ready to take on the world! By the time I completed my internship and was back at MIT for my senior year, my eyes were set on finishing up my classwork and securing a job. My first semester was... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
8 Reasons the Section Experience is the Best Part About HBS
and out of case method learning. #2: Flag Ceremony Every November, each section hosts a Flag Ceremony. We hang flags against the back wall, each representing a country where a student calls home. While we have culture nights as a section... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
liberal arts education he received at Hamilton and now serves as chairman of its board of trustees. Kennedy says he has developed "an appreciation for a tolerable level of risk" in trying to decide which companies to underwrite at Goldman. "It's painful every time you... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- Portrait Project
Brandon Angelini
but that weekend, it was something we built collaboratively as a family. I remember my mom asking me what it should look like (“you can choose?!”), learning that we needed an extra board running diagonally (“to prevent it wiggling View Details
- 28 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)
From neighborhood to neighborhood—even from block to block—customers have different tastes in the products they buy and the retail experience they find most enjoyable. As a business owner operating stores across multiple markets, is it possible to please everyone? Can... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
charitable arm. He spends several days a month at corporate headquarters, working out of a small, cluttered office that belies the deep influence he’s had on the firm. “I always assumed that today was my last day here and that I had to earn the right to be invited... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
as glare. Land found that placing one polarizing filter over another at a right angle halted all light vibrations. Moving the second filter back and forth created variable vibrations of light. In 1929, with Donald L. Brown, a patent... View Details
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
decline, and even the spike created by the delta and omicron variants could not stop corporations from recalling workers to the office. Many companies want to go back to the way things were, but that would be a mistake. “Organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
right place at the right time. Others argued differently, emphasizing in particular his unique style of investing and his focus on selecting the right people. Was this a case of luck or a classic example of the principle: back the right... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Veterans in the MBA Program: Profiles of Service
the classroom. Here’s a look at three MBA student veterans. Julie Guzman (MBA 2022) Photo courtesy Julie Guzman On an early morning run in 2010, Julie Guzman noticed that the only other people active on her undergraduate campus were ROTC... View Details