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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School, including an extensive collection of student reports from the Manufacturing course. This collection also contains documents from Doriot's involvement with American Research and Development (ARD), including his... View Details
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
discreet—smartphones are easily concealed. A banning policy often itself causes escalation of a conflict. “The video that this store doesn’t want you to see!” is that much more likely to get attention. And when store staff enforce a ban by calling security or even the... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management
or an old idea applied to a new setting. (More broadly and more famously, he described capitalism as a form of "creative destruction," often involving the dismantling of old modes of doing business.) Schumpeter's definition of... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Chasing a Dream: My Summer Internship at Chelsea Football Club
ultimately accepted an offer from Chelsea Football Club, my boyhood team since I was five years old. Johann Farhat (MBA 2025) and John Terry Can you describe a typical day in your internship? A typical day in my internship involves... View Details
- 15 May 2017
- Blog Post
Exploring Career Options at HBS
their pre-MBA industries, either through involvement in on-campus activities and events, industry clubs, or summer internships. Even for those not necessarily considering a change of career, many students find it a valuable time to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
given, a day that so many of my dead comrades would love to have?” As an infantry officer, when every decision involves life and death, you develop greater patience with small inconveniences, an understanding of what really matters, and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2021
- News
Building Hope
gained attention in recent years as an off-label medication for treatment-resistant depression. Zapolin says that unlike plant medicines that involve intense psychedelic explorations, ketamine has a short period of onset lasting about an... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Morrell
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ecuador, Kenya, Pakistan, and Rwanda, and aims to expand that reach to 100 million farmers. According to Cole, the beauty of the work is threefold. First, it’s meeting a demand. “The majority of the world’s poorest people are View Details
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
time for something new. Although she had been involved in volunteer efforts in education, the arts, and economic development since high school, Pitter-Armand’s path to a career in the nonprofit sector wasn’t obvious to her. The phrase... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
optimistic about young people from 18 to 29, citing their high energy and entrepreneurial spirit. Combining those youthful traits with the wisdom of baby boomers is a pairing of forces and generations that the ALI seeks to advance, at Harvard, through mentoring and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
a booth every Saturday at San Francisco’s Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.) No stranger to weathering economic downturns (she met employee payroll out of her personal checking account in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks), Thomas is as deeply View Details
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
of being out here, I was working on a pilot," d'Arbeloff says. "It was an amazing experience to be involved with someone like that." Through the late 1990s and early 2000s, he produced several films (Trick and Lovely & Amazing), and the... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
involving green baby products when his partner interviewed for a job running The Nature Conservancy's Boston office. The partner returned from the interview saying he thought Roberts would be much better suited for the job. Roberts held... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
research associates Erika Ferlins and Laura Feldman, students are assigned the parts of six managers or engineers who were involved in the Columbia mission. After logging into their password-protected role, students watch, read, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
HBS Association of Ireland: Connecting at Home and Abroad
social and more business-oriented activities on return is crucial. I hope to build on the variety of events we offer, including those involving HBS faculty, so we can continue to strengthen connections across the broad base of our... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
Doorway to Dreams (D2D), a Boston-based nonprofit founded in 2000 by HBS finance professor Peter Tufano, where one of Maynard’s many tasks involves leading the organization’s financial literacy video game initiative. Devoted to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
were given a majority of the company's stock in exchange for almost $5 billion in wage and benefit concessions. The two cases are fascinating contrasts. Scott Paper's restructuring involved large-scale job reductions, while United's gave... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
foreign financial institutions. "We also looked at some financial measures of performance ... By far the strongest influence turned out to be the influence of family involvement and the particular form that family View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
exported—those involving personal services such as face-to-face retailing and repair work. The Wal-Martization of work in the U.S. is emphasized while the fastest-growing types of service jobs in medicine, high-tech maintenance and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
role in several of them," says Laguë. "I learned that you spend 90 percent of your time on the companies that don't make it. Investing in fewer companies is more interesting than investing in many, and you have better outcomes. The outcome also tends to be better if... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley