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Commencement 2019 Address | About
to drive improvements in education, to invest in reskilling the workforce, to foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, and to develop innovative ways to combat climate change. We are relying on you to restore society’s trust in... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
quickly and cheaply than ever before. The reason? Tools are being developed that have more knowledge baked into them, meaning manufacturers don’t have to develop as much custom technology to compete. Sean... View Details
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
Internet you can target the demographics of the segment you're looking for. And there are a variety of mechanisms for identifying them. Q: BMW Films has received a lot of praise. Is this a good example of broadband advertising? A: It's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
economies. What is the last country you visited, and what did you do there? I travel a lot, so this answer will be outdated. I recently gave a talk at the University of Ghana on the need for African countries to develop a unified economic... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
That They Are Now Losing Authors:Michael I. Norton and Samuel R. Sommers Publication:Perspectives on Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Although some have heralded recent political and cultural developments as signaling the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
on the board of directors for Women’s Voices Now, an organization that empowers women and youth from under-resourced communities to drive social change through film. With the organization’s films reaching more than 190 countries, Snehal... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
monthly panel discussion series called "The Future of ," which offers experts' perspectives on emerging technologies, demographic shifts, and macroeconomic developments and highlights the leadership skills required to navigate a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
settlement and formally apologizes on behalf of the British government, June 2013 Shortly thereafter, John Hart, the movie producer behind Boys Don’t Cry and Revolutionary Road, bought the rights to develop a View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
presented at HBS’s first Gender and Work conference in 2013. As a visiting Professor of Management and Organizations at Northwestern University, he co-designed the Kellogg School of Management’s first diversity management course. Along with Dr. Robert Livingston... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
through its development bank (BNDES), we find a positive effect of those stakes on firms' return on assets and on the capital expenditures of financially constrained firms with investment opportunities. However, these positive effects are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
self-control. We focus on children aged between 5 and 15 as the literature suggests that self-control develops within such age range. We ask each child to toss a fair coin in private and to record the outcome (white or black) on a paper... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
licenses properties from blockbuster films such as Star Wars and Harry Potter. “It's really easy for them to be nimble and meet demand” LEGO's ambition has at times exceeded its reach. By 2004, the company's overdiversification into theme... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a period of four months.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
place for the brand in the emerging counterculture, developing a "slacker allegory." Holt also described the transformation of American ideology in the early '90s. The country idolized extraordinary athletes like Michael Jordan... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
set to become the highest grossing film ever in the U.S. and earn over $2 billion worldwide. Frozen had just surpassed $1 billion in box office to become Disney animation’s biggest success ever. In live action movies, Disney franchises,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
depends on a scientific breakthrough: a time machine. It’s his only hope to regain the full life intended for him. When the film was made, Fox was a boyish 24-year-old, vigorous, athletic, and graceful. Six years later, in 1991, he... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
experts in the selection and development of early-stage ideas. Our context is the movie industry, in which customer appeal is difficult to predict and investment costs are high. The Black List, an annual publication, ranks unproduced... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
diversity-performance relationship in teams, while research on knowledge and practice explores the situated activities and logics of diverse experts in great depth. Both streams thus shed light on team diversity, offering complementary insights. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
could have on families who didn't have a lot of resources at their disposal," says Elana Silver, now a talent development consultant at State Street, a Boston-based financial services company. "For most of my classmates, and for... View Details