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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Innovations Under Way Will Shape HBS’s Future
lasting impact on tomorrow’s leaders. Another exciting initiative is the Harvard Innovation Lab. This University-wide collaboration, led by HBS, will support teams of next-generation entrepreneurs. This is a much-needed resource given... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
multilateral negotiations, and tedious wordsmithing that led up to the Paris Agreement. It also examines the consequences of President Donald J. Trump’s 2017 withdrawal from the accord; the emerging leadership of the European Union and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
An Orchestral Startup
tour director and led the group on a highly successful 1992 European concert tour. Returning to Cambridge, Lim and his classmate, first violinist Scott Y. Yoo (Harvard '93), conceived the idea of starting an orchestra, with 18- to... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
example helped Cassell consider becoming a teacher himself. "It was fascinating to observe how Steve's channeling of the children's excitement about their ideas led students to 'discover' things such as drawing to scale and abstract... View Details
Keywords: Eileen McCluskey
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
solutions after every third round. THE GOLDILOCKS POINT Past research led them to expect the group with constant interaction to have the highest average quality in their solutions, but less variety and less success finding the optimal... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
to see if their explanations matched their actions; and traced the performance of the companies they invested in. As she described in a previous paper published in Administrative Science Quarterly, decisions attributed to gut feel were surprisingly effective. While... View Details
- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
process, with implications for the U.S. presidential election this November. Martha Lagace: What led you to think about accounting information as political currency? Karthik Ramanna: There is evidence in the academic literature that firms... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
risks of consumer-driven health care: Overall, relative to the current system, the risk of consumer-driven health care is low. After all, the current system has led to quality problems, double-digit cost increases, little information, and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
Microsoft caused by (2) a defense personally led by Bill Gates and (3) by the failure of the company's board to provide counsel. In the case of a high-tech company where significant ownership rests in the hands of management (e.g... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
How I Sourced My Internship Outside of the US: Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu
and sought out a company and a role that would help her combine her interests and needs. This process led her to a rotational program at American Tower where Nyantekyi-Owusu will be starting with a Boston-based rotation after graduation.... View Details
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
On May 10, 2023, Harvard Business School assembled a group of experts to discuss the path “Toward a Decarbonized Future: Why Pays? Who Profits?” In a discussion led by HBS Professor Peter Tufano, the experts described a series of vexing... View Details
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Classroom and Field Work - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
firms and the program often led to businesses employing women in new areas. 28 The program initially matched students to two full-time job assignments. The first, an unskilled position such as a production line worker, sales clerk, or... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
markets and coordinate the expansions there. Based on my own experience, nothing beats spending in-person time in the new markets. —Matias Recchia (MBA 2007) is the founder and CEO of Unlock, a real estate technology platform with operations across the United States.... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
led him to start his own business selling produce. The next break came after a chance encounter with a clerk at a local library who gave him advice on how to apply for college and get funding. In 1997, Magwegwe completed his undergraduate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
alumni volunteers through the club system. Perry Driggs (MBA '61) skillfully led the Lifelong Learning Committee in discussions on how alumni perceive lifelong learning, what role HBS might play in that arena, and how best to market the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
Higgins: Some organizations create much stronger imprints than others. How the early years on the job make a lasting imprint Associate Professor Monica Higgins’s interest in the relational context in which careers are shaped led to her... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
depended on bank loans instead of equity, creating the illusion that money was in infinite supply. That led Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies to make bad investments. I decided we should do something about them immediately." As a... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
organization's response to a fine degree. So why aren't more companies this customer-centric? We asked professors Shapiro and Rangan to view the changes in order management cycle that have evolved since their findings were first presented in 1992. Sarah Jane Johnston:... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
first-movers in radio were the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a joint venture of the three leading United States producers of electrical and telecommunications equipment, and the German company Telefunken, a joint venture of the two foremost producers in Europe.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
executive education that led to the development of a number of successful programs, including the Smaller Company Management Program (now the Owner/ President Management Program) and joint programs with Harvard's Schools of Education,... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage