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  • 24 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

that they waited too long to develop good habits for honing their skills or for thinking deeply about what they wanted. Does any of this sound like you? Are you making the most of your capabilities? Do you feel as if you're on someone else's path? If so, is it too late... View Details
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution

trucks unload their just-in-time goods from automated distribution centers on a weekly basis, and the variety of products available is seemingly infinite. A typical department store now stocks some 800,000 items, with that number climbing... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

An Rx for Small Business Recovery

efforts. Beyond the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), these included 90 percent guarantees on SBA-backed loans, a tactic first deployed by Mills during the Great Recession. “Early-stage cash infusions have been critical,” she notes, “but navigating the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

environment being among them. The Wyss Foundation, for example, focuses on preserving extraordinary landscapes in the intermountain west and the Colorado Plateau, where Wyss first hiked and climbed as a 23-year-old exchange student.... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

Here is an excerpt from the chapter, "The Dangers of Going for the Max." One of the most ironic aspects of the fiftieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's scaling of Mt. Everest was how ephemeral the standards of climbing... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • 25 May 2015
  • Blog Post

RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition

father climbed up the ladder to clear the roof.  My father remembers it as a blur, but in an instant he was lying in the driveway with the excruciating pain of a shattered hip and broken wrist. Surrounded by only the snow piles of our... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2002
  • News

Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

Wall Street has left the caffeinated powerhouse virtually untouched. The price of Starbucks stock has climbed steadily over the past ten years, gaining approximately 2,200 percent on the ten-year anniversary of the company's 1992 IPO. Net... View Details
  • 26 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

intense research with individual employees, try to make them partners in the research," she said. (HBS professor Nava Ashraf discussed this idea of co-producing knowledge in the Working Knowledge article, Climbing Down from the Ivory... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy

period when overall GDP grew by only 5 percent. "Through the years of the 'Great Recession' and the very slow climb back, the businesses that live on the Internet have been a conspicuous exception to the general pattern of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Publishing
  • 09 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind

built near this location to convert wind energy into green hydrogen. Photo source: Prof. Willy Shih Next on our tour, we climbed inside the nacelle of a wind turbine. The nacelle sits at the top of a turbine tower and houses the generator... View Details
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MBA Program at Harvard Business School: 1963 - 1970 | Baker Library

rise significantly. At HBS women in the MBA program climbed from 11 percent in the class of 1975 to 40 percent in the class of 2014. (7) 1959 document Policies and Programs committee document. Wickham Skinner quoted in Dana Wechsler... View Details
  • 21 May 2018
  • HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

watchmakers to put the most pristine parts, screws, and oil in the perfect locations. “When you think about capturing value from innovations, pricing is quite possibly the most important decision that you’ll ever make” Prices for A. Lange & Söhne products start... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion
  • 04 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

were really losing their share for software patents compared to non-software inventions,” Kerr says. The ripple effects of invention Tech clusters, it turns out, are also important for non-software related patents, with those areas of invention View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 05 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

use gatekeepers to impose stringent controls on care—were resisted by patients and physicians. In response, the managed care organizations began relaxing their controls, allowing patients more freedom to see specialists and out-of-network doctors. Costs began to View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
  • 01 Jan 2006
  • News

Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

climbing a steep learning curve." Tackling big projects is nothing new for Yeo. As a high-school student, concerned that the chemistry lab's hours were too limited, he spearheaded a yearlong effort with his classmates to fund and build a... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968

change the face of the consumer marketplace. Effortlessly rattling off a string of statistics, he notes that while China and India now represent more than one-third of the world's population, that figure will climb to two-thirds for Asia... View Details
  • 16 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

however, internees could go hiking and climbing in the nearby mountains for nine hours at a stretch. Germans who were interned during WWI lobbied on behalf of their countrymen during WWII. Several, for example, penned a letter to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • 03 Apr 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

two-year MBA program. More important, those climbing the ladder in this manner must not be penalized for doing it this way. The point is that organizations will, as a result, be just as productive and also able to choose leadership from a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 30 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

3 Growing Pains from my First Year at HBS: Academic, Social, and Career

things in a way that I can be proud of instead of trying to climb up the ladder in the most efficient manner possible. The goal is to accept and learn from whatever the outcome is.  Social: from desperately looking for "best... View Details
  • 20 Apr 2020
  • News

To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual

we ask, ‘how can we have a positive impact to bring down the COVID-19 numbers?’” Lundgren says attendance has steadily climbed as the pandemic wears on, as people seek both practical guidance—how to stay safe, wear a mask, etc—as well as... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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