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- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
are distributed in the organization. As record numbers of Americans quit their jobs in search of better work and life arrangements, power sharing offers an antidote to power concentration and a pathway to... View Details
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- 25 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal
It's no secret that private equity firms have enjoyed massive profits in recent years. In Private Equity Finance, a course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, students follow the life cycle of a deal in order to learn more about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
recalls. “I said, ‘Absolutely. Sign me up.’ It was the luck of bingo that changed my life trajectory. I wanted to be part of something that took luck out of the equation for others.” That bingo reference harks back to Owusu-Kesse’s... View Details
- 05 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)
available to students living in larger cities and began to consider how to close the education gap not just in Japan, but around the world. This question eventually led Takatsuka to Harvard Business School, Nairobi, Kenya, and then back to Japan to View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
What is it about HBS that has produced such a steady stream of remarkable entrepreneurs whose endeavors have changed American life in the postwar decades? The creative impact of the case method, as noted earlier, should not be... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Development (now known as the World Business Council for Sustainable Development). Their initial work culminated in the publication of the book Changing Course: A Global Business Perspective on Development and the Environment. They also... View Details
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
work and how the parts fit together. We deal with much more complicated games than the game theory usually deals with." In short, Roth has determined that successful marketplaces require three key elements. "They must be thick,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
to a path of citizen awareness and action paved with humility and wisdom. She did all this with care, courage, dedication, and grace. Her life and work are indisputable proof of the enormous positive... View Details
- Profile
Kurt White
With a degree in civil engineering, Kurt White had imagined a post-Army life in which he “designed skyscrapers and stadiums – large civil projects.” But after two tours in Iraq, “I found it amazingly rewarding to lead soldiers every day.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
LA Reid’s Song
his life and his career, from his first gigs as a teenaged drummer in Cincinnati through the rise and fall of influential LaFace Records to his current role as chairman and CEO of Epic Records. Reid has helped launch the careers of... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
financial resources available. In spite of improving conditions, a wage gap has persisted for more than thirty years. Professional women currently earn approximately 73 percent of what their male counterparts are paid for the same work at... View Details
- Profile
Prita Kumar
women seeking a simple, personalized way to stay in shape. For Kumar, the path to Booya was refined at HBS. After being accepted, she made a clear-eyed decision. “I had two years off from my working View Details
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
risky projects or projects related to COVID-19, primarily in the life sciences sector, as the latter might have higher expected returns. As a result, entrepreneurs outside of the life sciences or pursuing... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
65,000 children Outward Bound serves each year. He also works with Outward Bound schools and centers to ensure that their 750 wilderness courses — and scores of programs for corporate clients and kids in urban settings — are administered... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
alternative to get into the construction business. Because I used to see my brothers, they worked so hard day after day. And I had a chance at 12 years old to work on a racehorse farm in New Jersey. I think... View Details
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
balance in work and family life was well made. McGovern, named one of Fortune magazine's fifty most powerful women in corporate America in 2001, smiled and nodded knowingly. "Treat the appointment with a... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
onstage during Spring Reunions, McGinnis and I discuss the broad span of these ideas. Namely, how these forces at work in our social lives can also impact our professional lives—and how we can manage them. READ MORE Dan Morrell: I think... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This research strand has been very active over the past five years, generating important new findings, questioning some long-held beliefs, and creating its own puzzles. Our review outlines... View Details
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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Life by David M. Culver (MBA 1949) with Alan Freeman (McGill-Queen's University Press) Innovation Zeitgeist: Digital Business Transformation in a World of Too Many Competitors by Alistair Davidson (MBA 1976) (Eclicktick Consulting) Denial... View Details