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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
noteworthy considering the challenges that confronted HBS and other academic institutions this year, from an economic landscape marked by higher operating costs to an increasingly complex global political climate that created pressure on... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
oil by 2050. Written by energy analyst and physicist Amory Lovins, the book noted the lack of efficiency of modern auto manufacturing. Rogers saw an opportunity. And after seeing firsthand the political and human consequences of the... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
with executives at a multinational corporation and in an executive program at Harvard Business School. Our results suggest that a "novel-based" approach holds considerable promise for use at undergraduate, graduate, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
common cause does not mean that the production line is secure. In fact, the nesting dolls model may be the best way to go wrong while seemingly doing the right thing. Rosabeth M. Kanter The frail, forlorn face of Rupert Murdoch in the news exposes the vulnerability at... View Details
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
microprocessor industry in new directions. However, in 2006 it was not clear whether Opteron's success in the server segment would translate into success in other microprocessor segments, notably corporate desktop and laptop, and whether... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
Abstract—Although documenting everyday activities may seem trivial, four studies reveal that creating records of the present generates unexpected benefits by allowing future rediscoveries. In Study 1, we use a "time capsule"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
have those high days rather than a lot of middle days—that's why I didn't go back to corporate America." . . . One of the most ambitious current experiments in "knowing" and "being known" has taken shape recently... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
built-in frustrations of politics and, all too often, inefficiency and bureaucracy. It’s a fact Mawilmada will reference obliquely but not dwell on, as doing so does no good. “You need to give Nayana full marks for coping with this,” says... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
is now an absolute focal point, meaning that flights typically serving leisure or corporate travelers—the latter accounting for more than 50 percent of current air travel in the country—will be reduced in favor of more site-to-site... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
Deborah L. Soule and Lynda M. Applegate Abstract This paper examines virtual team learning in new product development situations. New product development activities manifest novelty, uncertainty and complexity, presenting an extreme need... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
difficult times. Photos by Thomas J. Fitzsimmons A Week Like No Other The memorial service came at the end of a week like no other in the School's history, as those who work and study at HBS joined the rest of the world in trying to comprehend the events of September... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job by Robert S. Gardella (Harvard Business School Press) As fast as the business world is changing, so too are the techniques for searching for the right job. Yet regardless of the reason for a job change -- the... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
corporate ladder wasn’t for him. He wanted to make a more personal mark in the world. “A principle role model at the time was my uncle, Henry Way Kendall, who was a nuclear physicist, Nobel Laureate, and cofounder of the Union of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
2018, I left my corporate job and decided to explore opportunities with a social impact-driven food organization, particularly one focused on food access and hunger relief. What made the Greater Boston Food Bank stand out among the... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
rebalancing in the financial portfolio of participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half of idiosyncratic passive variations in the risky asset share.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
learning of the entrepreneur and building the business, but it's controversial because some people say Acumen should be measuring outcomes. Ultimately, it does want a sense of those outcomes—but building the organization is the high priority now. The second is the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
crisis to end, a better approach is to embrace this time,” Gino says. “We might find new routines and activities that we appreciate more.” Tap into your inner spark of curiosity. Curiosity is critical to learning, innovation, and even... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
ensemble for, give or take, close to 40 years, but this past summer was their final concert tour as a group. "The Medici String Quartet is one of the very best such ensembles, probably one of the very best ever. One of my favorite research strategies is to find... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
streamlining management and infrastructure at the corporate level. Finally, he held numerous meetings and discussions with small groups of middle managers about Fuji’s future direction, and asked each of the company’s top 1,000 employees... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29
and our empirical observations, we distinguish between influence activities to which toolmaking was not central and those to which toolmaking was important. As for the influence activities that imply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne