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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
in March, the Limiting Factor was submerged in water that was 26 degrees Fahrenheit. (The salt and pressure lower the freezing point.) No one knew how the equipment would function under such harsh conditions. As Vescovo descended to 4,000... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
will continue to be very tricky because revenues will be lower with fewer people dining out and restaurants operating at less than full capacity. There will be fewer restaurant employees. Compensation as a function of what restaurants... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
of uncertainty and where assets are often difficult to value. Second, because the various stages of the venture capital process are related, the entire function is best viewed as a cycle. Finally, unlike most financial markets, the... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
HICKS Illustration by Joe Ciardiello Jeff Hicks (MBA ’97) arrived at HBS with ten years of experience as an advertising executive at Leo Burnett in Chicago. Disillusioned with the trend toward “unbundling” agencies into different View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
order, which shall include the organic and personal, and eventually embrace all the offices and functions of man,” wrote Mumford. “Only if we can project that image shall we be able to find a new form for the city.” View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
and principal owner of the Westmoreland Glass Company, a maker of functional and decorative glassware. Wilson still remembers the day when, as a four-year-old, he was taken by his grandfather to visit the factory. "I can still recall the... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
technologies. NeuroLaunch is also working with startups outside the medical sphere: consumer-facing businesses that are developing products to tap brain waves to facilitate learning, meditation, mood and alertness, and a variety of other View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
attic of [classroom building] Aldrich [Hall] and outfitting them with cardboard furnishings to find dimensions large enough for comfort and function but small enough to discourage [students from staying in their rooms rather than... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
governance regulates the interactions between a family-owned business and the family owning the business, as well as between the members of the owning family. When both are present and functioning well, the prospects of longevity for the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
space they occupy, what they sound like. All these interactions make changes to your brain—specifically in the neocortex, the vast portion (about 70 percent) near the front of the skull that is responsible for giving us logic, reason, memory, and all those other higher... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
HBS in 1984. "My biggest priority has always been to ensure that my career and family life function harmoniously together," says Middlebrooks, who is now a controller for Chrysler's MOPAR Parts Division. "I love what I do at Chrysler and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
can't talk about Internet advertising anymore as one medium. It's not. We need to think of the different formats as serving different functions in marketing." Thus, John Deighton's total marketing environment provides a very... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
Baker: With a strong belief in change within the system, working to reduce corruption so that free markets will function better, to the benefit of rich and poor nations alike. Photos by Katherine Lambert Corruption. Said slowly, even the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Appalachian settlement schools that functioned as both educational institutions and community centers. After serving as an elementary school, a boarding school, and a public school, Pine Mountain transitioned in the 1970s to a center for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
and heat, it spends $30 on rent and $300 on payroll. This realization can make a focus on miserly utility spending, say, for ventilation, look pretty silly if the expensive assets—the humans—are not functioning at their best. This rule of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Thinking and Acting Like an Owner by Robert Steven Kaplan (Harvard Business Review Press) Professor Kaplan explains that leadership is accessible to all of us, and it starts with an ownership mind-set. Acting like a leader is a function... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
functions of the Web and wireless protocols," says Azuela. "That gives you an idea of how far we have to go in educating the market. Further affecting the growth of the Internet are problems of regulation, inadequate infrastructure, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
discussed China's inclusion in the World Trade Organization (WTO). As a member of the WTO, Barshefsky said, China is moving from a protectionist position to a more active, strategic role, an international function it hasn't played for the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Latin America and Europe in future years. The main function of the offices will be to facilitate and expand the faculty's research and course development efforts in distant locations. "At the present time, about 25 percent of HBS cases... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
individual volunteers for a two- or three-year term to keep the whole community functioning smoothly. We also learn that the Zapotec sense of time comes from the sun, not a watch. It’s a difficult adjustment to make from our overscheduled... View Details