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- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
mid-1970s, young Dal ended up with a backside full of splinters. His penance, as he searched for a pair of tweezers with needle points to pull out the painful shards of wood, was to discover the difficulty of finding any kind of suitably surgical tweezers. This led to... View Details
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About
science and machine learning. And I know I could not have done this work at any other business school. What I have heard from faculty, students, staff, and alumni groups about the challenges we face and the opportunities we see, the few important View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
impersonated Donald Duck on a call with Jacob, his two-year-old son with novelist Laura Dave—but he’s a researcher at heart, more comfortable asking questions than answering them. “Josh is one of the best reporters I’ve ever known,” says... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
United States around 1900, and the initial "wow" factor that visitors experience when entering these buildings is often a partial reaction to the scope and beauty of their architecture. There is nothing like walking into the Field Museum... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
Wruck cites one case she followed in which the initial match looked great. The target and bidder had operations in the same industry, creating a potential for synergies. But integration of the target into the acquiring firm and its... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
Photo Courtesy The Timken Company Product innovation and customer service initiatives have also been key to development of The Timken Company, a 104-year-old bearing and steel maker based in Canton, Ohio, with 28,000 employees worldwide.... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
economics perspective. I thought maybe that was an approach, but, you know, there are all these paradigms, economics is so locked in this paradigm of demand and supply and prices, clear markets, and things like that. A few years later after this, they started calling... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
rapidly changing. Harvard Business School Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl’s new research explores the business opportunities hidden among the stars, particularly in data from and through space, but also in tourism, manufacturing,... View Details
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
The Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) invested over $4 billion in 332 institutions, with more than 68 percent increasing their small business lending by 10 percent or more. The federal government also partnered with state governments through the State Small Business... View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
to 2 million people by 2020. Is this private model needed at all? Why can't cities take the time to grow organically, like London or Jakarta? Here's why I believe we need to go faster and better, with seven steps toward how. My research... View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
run? “It's a question of who will make money and which business models are effective” "There's a huge opportunity to make money here," Henderson, codirector of the Business & Environment Initiative at HBS, told students who... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
had a meeting last winter, and the mentorship program was born. The college manages student selection and registration, Mallory manages the mentoring process, and Comer serves as the liaison between the college and the program. Both Mallory and Comer are mentors as... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
leading global player in the baking industry, expands into China while at the same time undertaking initiatives to make its U.S. and South American operations more profitable. Allows students to analyze the company's entire global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
Kathleen McGinn, senior associate dean for Faculty Strategy and Recruiting. A key goal of the program is to increase the amount and depth of research conducted at HBS on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We hope to attract to this... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
managerial demands of the war had prompted new courses in, and research emphasis on, human relations and control. Commensurately, the School began to boost its faculty (it had 98 members in 1946). By 1950, HBS was a commanding presence in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
declining. Banking and other financial services are now more important to the national economy. Security forces initially fired upon demonstrators, but withdrew after President Obama intervened with a phone call to the king. Some... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
and written about Apple for the last decade, generating several case studies. His latest case, Apple Computer 2004, co-written with research associate Debbie Freier, was recently published by Harvard Business School Publishing. Yoffie sat... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
shared #MeToo stories of abuse after Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault in October 2017. “With the Weinstein story, a dam broke,” says Colleen Ammerman, director of Harvard Business School’s Gender Initiative, which supports View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, strategy firms initiated a growth-driven hiring spree. However, as economies slowed, these firms faced a significant imbalance between their staffing “supply” and the declining demand for their... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
telecommunications technologies, particularly the Internet, which enabled entirely new ways to communicate with customers and suppliers, as well as internally. This was the era when everybody was developing new initiatives in B2C... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace