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- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
each of these indices of safety and performance, they were exemplars of the company's efforts to create a new kind of offshore operating environment. Our discussions with senior managers led us to believe that organizational features of... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Business School Case 207-091 Jerzy Peters, Managing Director of Patron Capital Partners, must decide the best investment option on the development of the Odra Polish theater chain and the associated real estate. Capital Field was a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
D’Avella arrived at HBS just a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina had devastated much of the Gulf Coast. In January 2006, he traveled to New Orleans on a student-led trek with 56 other MBAs to apply their HBS skills to projects ranging... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
explain the crisis in Ukraine Q&A with Paul Krobe, director of the Intelligence Project at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. COMMUNITY UPDATES DECEMBER 20 Faculty-founded Company Donates... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
Stranger Things cost about $130,000 a minute by comparison.) Just as Anna Kendrick’s Dummy was originally written as a film, these projects will be serialized in seven- to ten-minute morsels that a viewer could snack on, one at a time, or... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
regulation of new technologies across several centuries. In 1994, when I first started on Ruling the Waves, an MBA student asked me to do a project with him about the emergence of the Internet. Since I'm a political scientist, I said I'd... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
All Smiles: The campus center may bear his family name, but Dick Spangler derives more satisfaction from knowing that students have made it their own. Last year the Spangler Center hosted 829 events and meetings, booked 9,314 student study sessions in View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
include a rich discussion of corporate taxation. Like tax competition, many fundamental issues in taxation are relevant for individuals and businesses, so much of my work ought to be useful to both. Q: What are the most important trends in public finance that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817061-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-067 Basecamp: Pricing A data analyst at Basecamp is evaluating the results of pricing research and its potential implications for the venture’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
the biggest medical insurer in the United States; one of the top-ranked hospitals in the world; and a multiyear research project at HBS that aims to repair the American health-care system. In billing for services, value-based health care... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55597 2019 Academy of Management Annals Turning Lead into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs Mobilize Resources to Exploit Opportunities? By: Clough, David R., Tommy Pan Fang, Balagopal Vissa, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
specifically. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
talks to Dionisio Garza Sada (MBA ’08), program manager for autoparts manufacturer Nemak. Photographs by Selma Fernandez & Marcela Taboada There are no cold calls here. No laptops, or blackboards, or Sky Deck. Thousands of miles from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
firsthand as CFO of Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA). An American citizen, I came here in 2006 to work in a USAID-sponsored project aimed at combating corruption in state-owned enterprises. Here’s one case I encountered: A... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
his day. Free refills, finding $5 in a coat pocket, that sort of thing. The blog, called 1000 Awesome Things started garnering a huge following and turned into a series of successful books. Last year, Neil released The Happiness Equation, which began as a nine-month... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
moment, they would appreciate what we’re trying to do and laud it versus feeling like something was taken from them: They would see their parents managing people and striving to accomplish things. I believe all those things that matter to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
predecessors to modern computers. The computing revolution naturally followed, in part fueled by government projects like ARPANet, the Defense Department initiative that would lay the foundation for the modern internet. But powering all... View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
originated. “We are using data from regulators, writing studies, but seldom going back to the regulators to say, ‘This is what we learned,’” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W. Toffel, whose research examines companies’ environmental and occupational... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
(Reporters later discovered that the signature page had been cribbed from an earlier contract extension.) In September, Pennsylvania’s Attorney General announced multiple felony charges against the district’s former fleet manager and... View Details