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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
but living roofs aren’t a new idea. They’ve been used in Europe for hundreds of years and were common in 19th-century sod homes across the American prairie. The recent surge of interest in green roofs stems from a modern-day concern for... View Details
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
focus groups. "Focus groups tend to be like the law of the hammer," says Zaltman. "Teach a kid to hammer, and everything begins to look like a nail. You don't get a lot of depth in a focus group. People tend to say what... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
York Yankees. That’s where I started, and then reality closed in. Leadership roles of one sort or another were always fun for me, whether it was on the Little League baseball team or guiding a field trip. I enjoy people, and I enjoy groups of people getting things... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
ability to use customer information for pricing or whether even larger rewards could be found in leveraging the connection to the GM family. However, although jointly selling auto insurance and cars is common in many countries, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
which she interviewed women at several law firms, noting both positive and negative interactions among peers and supervisors. In terms of positivity versus negativity, the consistent mediating factor was whether the women considered their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
but still). Most of us are really, really glad we chose business school rather than law school (except those of us, like one classmate-friend of mine, who chose both and now hobnobs regularly with the world elite). And almost all of us, I... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 19 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The Road to Impact
opportunity for the citizens of 80 countries. Originally, Offensend thought he’d propel himself into that nonprofit career through law school. But then, he jokes, he realized what lawyers actually do on a day-to-day basis, and so instead... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209021 Clifford Chance: Repotting the Tree Harvard Business School Case 207-073 Clifford Chance, LLP, a global law firm headquartered in London, needs to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
forcefully than we have in the past. The project has also given us the chance to engage more than a dozen of our faculty who don’t normally work together around a common agenda. It’s given us an opportunity as a group of scholars to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
creative guy. Since high school, he’s paid homage to both — becoming an engineer who also loves to act in community theater. Still, the question loomed: Could his seemingly opposite sides be united in a common career goal? As a youngster... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
fatalities. Second, mass shootings account for a small portion of all gun deaths but have an outsized influence relative to other homicides. Third, when looking at bills that were actually enacted into law, the impact of mass shootings depends on the party in power.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
authors go beyond the common belief of retail as a monolithic industry and provide a framework that any brick-and-mortar retailer can use to respond to the eCommerce threat. Through six examples, this book demonstrates how this framework... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
across space? Why does the law of gravity apply? How do the costs of transporting goods, tasks, and technologies influence firms’ decisions to separate tasks geographically and locate relative to one another? We discuss a variety of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
common issues most Latin American countries are dealing with. It's a factor that constrains business strategy across the region." Latin America's equity markets are thin and capital is scarce, Ghemawat says, with the result that companies... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
art." Choudhury recently teamed up with colleague Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at HBS, to examine and highlight the history of herbal patent applications. From a policy perspective, they wanted to challenge a common... View Details
- 30 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)
does a lot of work with brands to increase the focus on female athletes, and they had taken a strong stance on common sense gun laws both lobbying in Washington, D.C. and pulling guns from their stores,”... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
wonderful businessmen who were very good role models. I loved the idea of marketing and serving customers, and I planned to go to business school right after college. My father talked me into going to law school first, but after I... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
actually hinder the most important part of problem-solving: actually solving the problem. Research by Ethan Bernstein and colleagues. The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs (34,436) David Yoffie and Michael Cusumano find View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
opportunity for the citizens of 80 countries. Originally, Offensend thought he’d propel himself into that nonprofit career through law school. But then, he jokes, he realized what lawyers actually do on a day-to-day basis, and so instead... View Details