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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
pricing puts it on the cutting edge of arts organizations. See how other orchestras, theaters, and performing arts organizations are experimenting with business model and pricing innovations – it’s probably no surprise that Disney has a killer algorithm. Or, look more... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
University of Southern California, in a book called High Flyers, that I finally found a theory that could help people make better hiring decisions. To begin with, McCall has a very different view of the right stuff—and it explains why so... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
origins and evolution of the idea of the individual, finishing with the modern-day ideas of political theory and public policy. By identifying the key characteristics governments should either adopt or avoid to enable their citizens to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
relate to your areas of interest and expertise. Then we'll discuss some of the challenges they pose. Brian, what about the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
Or in the lower right one? There we find what separates the extraordinary from the ordinary. In that HBS faculty meeting on the morning of September 12, 2001, the message Frances heard was: class is important. In this moment of tragic destabilization, routine is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
the transformation of markets. From the auction theories powering Google’s ad algorithms to the models that online retailers use to prevent internet fraud, even the most high-tech modern businesses are empowered by View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of Einstein's elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much? Grounded in real history—and inspired by the solar eclipse of 1914—A Bend... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
Another area that we’re interested in is how parents should think about these things with their kids. How should we think about teaching our kids about time and money so that they make decisions that science says are good for them? What are parents’ View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
Hayes III, who, with Frank E. Vogel, an assistant professor at Harvard Law School, is the coauthor of Islamic Law and Finance: Religion, Risk, and Return. The book explains the theory behind Islamic religious law and contemporary practice... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
good? And if we believe profit, purpose and social returns are not in conflict, how do we put that theory into action as a corporate executive, entrepreneur, or investor?” Cissy Chen (MBA 2019), who helped organize the event for the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
departments. “The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft,” says Light. “So intellectually, though this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
most storied multinationals in the West have, by and large, fallen flat on their face. There are some exceptions, but not a huge number. I have a theory of why this is the case. If you come in and say, “I need to sell you soap,” you may... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
21st century," says Stevenson, "we realize that our field is not likely to build a unifying, comprehensive theory by the time we reach that milestone." The group, however, has developed three "conceptual cornerstones" on which to base its... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
picked the word “zipper,” and one of the guys from England made up this elaborate business theory that intertwined something or other (I can still picture him intertwining his fingers as he spoke) that in the end he claimed was called the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
we can test our findings, knowledge, and theories developed elsewhere, as well as define new hypotheses that can be tested in other areas. We haven't just discovered Asia today, but we do need to strengthen our presence and increase our... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
is one of the key reasons why I wrote my book. Back in 2006, Chris Anderson [author of the The Long Tail] got people thinking that new technology would change what consumers would be choosing and, therefore, what content producers should be making. His View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
senior associate dean for International Development. “More importantly, in an insidious way, we never acknowledged that the concepts and theories we were teaching students really were based only on US data. We were teaching them as if... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
those students whose perspectives could take a case discussion to the next level. Andreas was fascinated with management theories and brought a great deal of enthusiasm to the classroom." After completing the AMP, Andresen faced the... View Details