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- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Former Blackberry CEO Uncovers Historic Shipwreck
history and to our future.” This week, Balsillie’s exploration uncovered another famous wreck—the HMS Terror, which was abandoned alongside the HMS Erebus and whose fate remained a mystery for 168 years. That is, until this Sunday. A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
you have cash, customers, and a product. The beauty of this turnaround is we have all three. It’s more of an organizational and cultural turnaround. I want to get people inside, as well as people outside, thinking about Massport as a professional organization. How do... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
have more requests for meeting rooms and the auditorium than we can possibly accommodate.” Not on the approved list of uses, despite frequent inquiries, are weddings, funerals, and bar mitzvahs, she adds.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
its relevance to HBS alumni. What is Baker best known for in library circles? Baker is regarded foremost for having the richest collections in business and business history in the country, if not the world.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
proposal for an Open Profile Standard [OPS] that is widely supported by the online industry." OPS is based on the concept that users should get something of value for their... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
in its performance. The case illustrates the power of a great leader. All of the reforms Ghosn implemented were originally proposed by middle managers who had been working for Nissan View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
Managing Across Borders by Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal (Harvard Business School Press) A decade ago HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett and London Business School professor Sumantra Ghoshal proposed a revolutionary new... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
Bloom: In Mali with local dignitaries at rice harvest in newly irrigated fields. Photo courtesy Jonathan Bloom It seems poetic justice when someone named Bloom is involved in an exciting experiment that’s blossomed and bearing fruit. Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972), View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
Civilization (1933) and Roethlisberger’s Management and the Worker (1939) document. 1948 Research Center in Entrepreneurial History launched at HBS by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole. 1953 More than 30 foreign educational... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
others.” The 52 students in his cohort spent eight days in May working on challenges proposed by nine partner organizations in Mexico City. The trip was the culmination of the yearlong FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
aerospace sector, proposed a different approach for Aero, one that took its cues from other profitable airlines that own their fleets: “We’re a low-cost carrier on the back end and a premium service on the... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
request from a florist that finally clarified the concept: “Beautiful products,” the florist said, “but do you do bulk rentals?” “It suddenly made a lot of sense to me. People want access, not necessarily ownership, and nothing like that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
Photos courtesy of Baker Library Archives Photos courtesy of Baker Library Archives Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell appointed Wallace Brett Donham the Dean of Harvard Business School a century ago in October. The School’s longest-serving dean, Donham led HBS View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
FDA to work 1 million acres of forest, a concession worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Every word of the company’s forty-page proposal was plagiarized from a U.S. Forest Service report on woodlands 7,000 miles away. And even though I... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
The winners of the 1996 R. Hugh Uhlmann Award for outstanding research in the field of agribusiness have a truly global perspective -- all three recipients are international students. For their prize-winning... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
governance benchmarks based on objective, third-party assessments. Once eligible, countries put forward their own proposals showing what they need money for and how they will use it. Overall, of the Western... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
"Taxation, meet Representation." Following up on his pledge to provide greater support for manufacturing, President Obama has announced a proposal to cut the effective tax rate View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Ted Anthony
hastily drawn that morning, were debated. The discussion was pointed but not strident. . . . A motion to request that May 12 be designated an open day for an organized program directed to the issues was... View Details
Keywords: Ted Anthony
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Jon Kingsdale. For years, argument has raged about how to fix these problems. Proposals range from tinkering with the current employer-based system; to moving to a more deregulated system with high-tech,... View Details