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03 May 2023
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Five Ways to Build Community at HBS

Activities There will be so many ways you can spend your time at HBS, and there’s no “one way” to do it. This can be going to an event hosted by one of the student-run organizations or having a picnic in the park with a few new friends.... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

interactive DVDs based on one of the top selling kids book series of all time. Sapphire Joseph Park Jason Liu Fai Leong Business Track Runner-Up Mobile local information service provider. Social Enterprise Track, 2004 Sun Edison Brian... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Action Plan: Wild at Heart

Goodman (and inspired an HBS case); later, she took a break from her marketing gigs to open a boutique hotel in the Grenadines. Even her own place in Park Slope, Brooklyn, caught the eye of the tastemakers at House Beautiful, who featured... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; gardening; entrepreneurship; sustainability

January 2023 (Revised April 2023)
Case

Cobalt Robotics: Scaling Workplace Robotics

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Nicole Tempest Keller and Kyung Keun Park

Founded in 2016, Cobalt Robotics, based in Fremont, California, was a Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) company that built autonomous workplace robots that were designed to replace or supplement human security guards. Outfitted with over 60 sensors, Cobalt robots patrolled... View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Channels; Customers; Technology Industry; United States; California

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01 Aug 1998
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Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

special student advisory committee, call for a building that will serve both academic and practical functions. Sited across the lawn behind Aldrich Hall (see rendering), the new structure will extend into a small portion of the parking... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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Outdoor Spaces | About

designed to encourage continued learning outside of the classroom, promote collaboration, and build a sense of community. The firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York’s Central Park and Boston’s “Emerald Necklace” system of... View Details

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

the innovation process (as Pete Clekurs pointed out). The park is designed to create fast-response product development by linking product designers to manufacturers in a way that minimizes the need to ship liquid ingredients over long... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

July 2023 (Revised November 2023)
Case

The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades: A Miami Climate Action Story

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim

The Miccosukee Indians, a small tribe of indigenous people in South Florida, have a long-standing interest in protecting the land, waterways, and habitats of the Everglades, their ancestral home, which serves as a watershed for urban areas in Miami-Dade County and a... View Details

Keywords: Native Americans; Climate Change; Change; Leadership; Natural Environment; Florida; Everglades National Park

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25 May 2011
HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

clean bathrooms and parking lots, along with quick, friendly service. The result? In 2010, its by-store profit was almost double that of the top quartile of competitors. Since its founding in 1958 by Chester Cadieux and Burt B. Holmes,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

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Drew Keller

took off! What is your favorite childhood memory? Thankfully I have a lot to choose from. But I think my all-time favorite memory is a day I spent with my parents and sister on Lake Powell in Utah, in the middle of a trip we took traveling to various national View Details

13 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

cab or you could park in a lot that’s more expensive and closer (to the venue). You’re not walking far. You’re not rushed. You enjoy a glass of wine before your friend meets you there. With that free time, you’ll enjoy your experience... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Portrait Project

Auden Laurence

sister. The next three years passed pleasantly, filled with Bob books and park days together. But our parents’ divorce rocked our safe, sweet world. My mom moved us south to be near family. Barely three, my sister was fragile, uncertain... View Details

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Additional Outdoor Sculpture | About

— Aldrich Lawn | Learn More John Safer Search, 1983 — Mellon Courtyard | Learn More Joel Shapiro Untitled, 2003 — Peterson Park | Learn More Exhibitions Sentinel (Mami Wata) Exhibition 2022-2027 Originally commissioned for the art... View Details

25 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

first time. "I'm saying the pace is not going to attract a more action-oriented, younger demographic." Park attendance, however, continues its nine-year decline, and MLB trails the NFL, NBA, and English Premier League in annual... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

offer. They do not necessarily have to be about cash; they could be something like a reserved parking space near the front of the building or a day off. “Cash is not always king,” John says. “I think you can get more bang for your... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Megan Maloney

only is the park incredible, but the people are even better! As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be a famous singer. Then when my sibling told me I couldn’t sing (as all siblings do), I wanted to be a... View Details

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Jaume Plensa Inés 2013 | About

worldwide and is perhaps best known in the United States for his Crown Fountain in Chicago’s Millennium Park (2004). In 2014, he returned to Chicago to do a solo exhibition for Millennium Park, titled 1004 Portraits , which expanded upon... View Details

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Ellen Mahoney | About

resources professionals from business schools across the US and Europe. Ellen serves on a variety of non-profit boards including the Soldier’s Field Park Children’s Center Board of Directors and Friends of Belmont Lacrosse. Ellen holds a... View Details

26 May 2016
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Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993

summer vacations consist of touring national parks in an RV. “To be successful you need to have a passion not just for the job itself, but for the people you are doing it with.” “To be successful you need to have a passion not just for... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

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