New York (city, NY) - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 20

School Supplement 310-077 After its successful new U.K. venture, the Hospital for Special Surgery wants to do more of the same, without decimating its core New York City... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Nov 2024
Blog Post

Thoughts on the JD/MBA From a Recent Grad

program for me. We had frequent gatherings, including happy hours, brunches and dinners, holiday parties, and the annual New York City trek. The alumni network is also active, with a biannual newsletter and... View Details

01 Jun 2025
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2025

Partners LP Finance 101: “When I was 10, my father took me to the New York Stock Exchange. It was chaos. People were throwing paper at each other and yelling. I thought, ‘This looks like fun.’ ” Life skill:... View Details

Keywords: leadership; Alumni Achievement Awards

29 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying

the spread of COVID-19—airborne transmission—is largely reduced by wearing face masks, with 78,000 fewer infections in Italy in a month and 66,000 fewer in New York City over a three-week period once masks... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

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From Concept to Product | Baker Library

running or ready to run,” she wrote to Land on July 26, 1957, in reference to remarks by David Skinner, vice president of manufacturing, regarding Polaroid’s new plant in Waltham. In the same letter she recounted, “My visit to View Details

15 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

businesses, I’ll let Speed Trap’s content speak for itself. With respect to the book’s conservative tone, I do think I was reflecting the Zeitgeist. If you are skeptical, read Michael Lewis’s 2002 New York... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology

18 May 2017
News

Pioneer Spirit

affordable housing, but figured he’d give it a shot. “I really enjoyed the work,” he says. “It was such a contrast. You could be working with attorneys in New York and Washington in the morning and working... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

Career Coach

Jill Huggett

Jill Huggett (Carroll '00), Principal, Bridgepath Career Advisors, is a certified professional career coach and certified professional resume writer. Jill combines professional coaching theory with her previous experience as a financial services management executive... View Details

07 Jul 2015
Blog Post

From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again

A native Miamian, HBS alum Maxeme Tuchman (MBA 2012) spent the early part of her career working as a Teach for America corps member in her hometown. Maxeme later went on to work in the New York City Mayor’s... View Details

11 Jan 2017
Blog Post

Leadership and Diversity at HBS

Bruce Hampton (MBA 2017) was born and raised outside of Cleveland, Ohio. Growing up in the heartland of America, Bruce was a standout athlete and academic in high school. He went on to play football at Indiana University and, after graduating, he joined a bulge bracket... View Details

05 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program

LLP, a multinational corporate law firm headquartered in New York City. While there, I divided my time between their Private Equity/Mergers and Acquisitions group and their Capital Markets group. I had the... View Details

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Club of New York Business Statesman Award, 3 May 1966," 1. GFD-HBS. 19 Cruikshank, Shaping the Waves: A History of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School (Boston: Harvard Business School Publications,... View Details

26 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

smarter trades, according to the findings of a study by Soltes, an assistant professor at HBS, and David Solomon, a professor at the USC Marshall School of Business. To conduct the research, the duo obtained investor meeting records from a mid-cap company traded on the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jan 2005
News

Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

later adopted by the Securities and Exchange Board of India and the nation's stock exchanges. Bajaj's expertise in these matters has also been tapped by the New York Stock Exchange, where he serves as a... View Details

09 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

landscape. Small, innovative, entrepreneurial companies are popping up everywhere to address the small business credit market." Mills cites the example of OnDeck Capital, a New York web-based company... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Financial Services

01 Jun 2014
News

Screen Saver

it's news to no one that moviegoers have many more entertainment options that don't involve getting in a car and driving to a theater. A weekly or monthly outing to the movies is no longer as prevalent. Stream a movie from Netflix on your... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

by what might be the shortest dot-com career on record. He accepted a job offer at an Internet startup in New York City at the height of the bubble, only to have the business fold just as he and his wife... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

13 Mar 2019
Blog Post

There's No Quick Shortcut to Success: Zorpads Takes Off

in New York City working as a healthcare consultant, and Wiegele, who spends his days working in product marketing for Hot Wheels in Los Angeles, credit their partnerships for allowing them the freedom to... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

20 Nov 2019
News

Lifting Fallen Families

that unit. Gibbs and the family he left behind never strayed far from Kim’s mind as he returned home and pursued a career in private equity, first as principal at Butler Capital in New York and later as... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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