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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Chapter in US–China Trade Relations
foreigners were allowed to live and to do business with the Chinese. (Peabody Essex Museum) The old Shanghai customshouse, ca. 1869. It was demolished in 1925 to make way for the current customshouse. (Harvard-Yenching Library) A bill of... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method
team would generate options for implementation and then define what would need to be true for each option to prevail. Through identification of barriers and tests to see how they might be overcome, the team determines which strategy is most likely to succeed. In... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Abstract Existing performance metrics utilized by the PGA TOUR have biases towards specific styles of play, which make relative player comparisons challenging. Our goal is to evaluate golfers in a way that eliminates these biases and to... View Details
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
Do companies with reputations for acting in socially responsible ways receive public goodwill when unpleasant news hits? The question of how much (or even if) corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies benefit companies beyond the... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
laboratories for student and faculty work in areas such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric energy; sustainable production of rice, sugarcane, hay, mangoes, and beef; waste management; and carbon neutrality. An additional commercial growing operation helps fund the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
the region, compared with about 20 percent in Mercosur, the South American trade group. Not only have politics stood in the way of gains from collaboration between Israeli and Arab firms, but cooperation even among Arab companies has been... View Details
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Triston Francis
says. “I always ask myself if the way I spend my time enhances my leadership prospects. It’s hard to argue that a place like HBS doesn’t do that.” As an example, Triston offers the SIP (Short Intensive Program), ”The Life and Role of the... View Details
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Margo Cramer
she could be successful in both sectors—if she had the right skills. "The MBA," says Margo, "is the best way to get traditional business skills that can be applied across sectors." At HBS, Margo continues to advocate... View Details
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Alex Nelson
ones. The beauty of the case method and the Required Curriculum is that they challenge you to rethink the way you make decisions — and even how you look at your career. I'm always questioning my preconceived notions about what I would do... View Details
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
associate professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. And yet, investors take chances over and over often with great success when they hit it big with a game-changing... View Details
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
There are two findings that we find most interesting. First, it is striking that participants failed to punish the speaker when he dodged the question asked. For example, the speaker paid no price for answering a question about the illegal drug use problem in the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
possibly 2070, 40 years after the deadline the United Nations has called for. A member of the Indian Parliament and Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance, Sinha stunned his fellow panelists when he warned that by 2050, economic... View Details
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Meet the Team | Information Technology
Margolis ; James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration Unit Head, Organizational Behavior Chair, Program for Leadership Development Ruth Page Director of Multimedia Development Ruth brings than 35 years of... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
deep learning. “We are excited about emerging markets, where we see high adoption rates of technologies designed for the point-of-care,” she says. “In the United States, we can use deep learning to generate rich information that enables... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
with voters across the United States. What she has learned will surprise you, enlighten you, give you hope, and change the way you think about your fellow Americans. Our inability to hear each other, our... View Details
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Tiffany Niver
technology and pushing forward the envelope and innovation in consumer-facing technology businesses. I also think that HBS makes us think about our broader legacy and the ways we will push forward issues and agendas outside of our... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Committed To HBS’s Success
who participate in them. “The School faces tough competitors,” says Tukman, president of Tukman Grossman Capital Management Inc. “Great as it is, HBS is only as good as its faculty and its students. If one wishes to help ensure the School’s ongoing success, what better... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
A Man without a Pause
locales with his family. So it was jarring to read a third of the way through his recent autobiography, A Global Life (PublicAffairs), that Wolfensohn was in despair on his 40th birthday. “I used my birthdays to reflect on my life, and at... View Details
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Stephanie Tilenius
and Master’s, she received a prestigious Presidential Management Intern Program position that put her to work on trade relations with Japan. “I quickly realized,” says Stephanie, “that there was no way we were going to drive real reform... View Details