Memory - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

first made contact with the firm five years earlier. In a relationship-intensive business, service, communication, and institutional memory are necessary, but not sufficient, he says. Ultimately, quality and beauty are paramount.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

strong foundation of facts and a very comprehensive search for the facts. At the same time, he was an incredibly systematic thinker and researcher, a social scientist in the truest sense of the word. If you looked at his desk at 1010 View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

activities possible and my kids loved spending time with all the aunts and uncles. I have so many wonderful/funny memories of my kids playing at HBS or at section events -- the baby shower they threw me (where my section mate had everyone... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

the government of Angola on foreign direct investment. That experience, coupled with childhood memories of the painful structural adjustment programs foisted on Cameroon by the IMF (her own mother lost her job due to austerity-induced... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

let up on himself, either, continuing to work and play tennis even as his body failed. "He loved tennis, but it was a constant struggle for him," remembers his son Peter. "We held his memorial service at the Belmont Tennis... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

Portrait Project

Daniella Yacobovsky

Visiting has become harder as his memory slips away. First short-term memory faded, and then long-term memory followed, and finally my name has joined that list of items just... View Details

Portrait Project

Stephen Elliott

My wife Serap and I got married in June, 2009, on a boat on the Bosporus. And our family and friends from all over the world danced with us into the evening as the Istanbul city lights came alive. It's one of the sweetest memories we... View Details

Richard J. Egan

Egan co-founded EMC and built it into the world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory storage devices. Between 1979 and 1986, EMC’s revenues doubled each year catapulting it into the Fortune 500 in less than 10 years. View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

07 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

than any statistic, chart, or slide deck. However, this is not necessarily because stories are more inspirational or persuasive. Rather, it is because of how our memory works: People are more likely to remember the story as time passes.... View Details

09 Mar 2015

HBS 2+2 Information Session at the University of Oklahoma

Join us to learn more about the 2+2 application process to the MBA at HBS. The event will include a presentation and an opportunity to ask questions to an Admissions Officer. Registration is not required but encouraged. The session will begin at 5:30PM in the... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Professor Thomas Kennedy Remembered

industry. In 1950, he became director of industrial and public relations at the Atlas Chemical Company in Wilmington, Delaware, before joining the HBS faculty six years later. A memorial service will be held in Pennsylvania this spring.... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2008
News

Say “Green Cheese”

Housenbold told Newsweek (June 2, 2008). Taking over as CEO in 2005, Housenbold has expanded the company’s product line and boosted revenues to $187 million last year. Next up for Shutterfly is entering the social-networking realm, as it works to figure out appropriate... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Printing and Related Support Activities; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2008
News

Historic HBS Photos Online

To mark the School’s Centennial, archivists at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center compiled significant collections of historical photographs. The Institutional Memory project’s more than 400 images can be accessed at:... View Details

25 May 2021
Blog Post

The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work

actually works. When people engage in nostalgia, they’re accessing personally meaningful autobiographical events typically shared with family, friends, and other close connections. It isn’t just a happy trip down memory lane — in fact,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

09 Sep 2011
News

Remembering 9/11 at HBS

As the world recalls the events of 9/11 this week, we are reminded of two articles from the Bulletin that offered contemporaneous accounts of that historic moment. Read how the School reacted to the tragedy and memorialized members of the... View Details

09 Sep 2011
News

Ten Years Ago: HBS and 9/11

As the world recalls the events of 9/11 this week, we are reminded of two articles from the Bulletin that offered contemporaneous accounts of that historic moment. Read how the School reacted to the tragedy and memorialized members of the... View Details

Keywords: HBS Alumni Bulletin; 9/11; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

doesn't manufacture—computer memory systems. It makes money by licensing its patented designs to other companies, who manufacture computer memory and sell it to computer makers. Over the course of the 1990s,... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

it evokes emotional memories that touch on all of our drives. Memories of a hot day when all you wanted to acquire was an ice-cold Coke; memories of your first date when you... View Details