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- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
The Power of Business in the Energy Transition
from solar and wind farms. Project development of major transmission lines to handle alternative sources must intently focus on stakeholder alignment across public and private sectors to speed project... View Details
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1.5 Attendance | MBA
reason not expressly noted in this policy (e.g., board meetings). Absence from Exams All MBA students are required to take exams and submit papers or projects as scheduled. All absences, extensions, and makeups must be coordinated in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
imagine a project of similar scale, scope, import, and diversity of stakeholders, whose goal is so ephemeral - a fleeting celebration of human achievement and brotherhood. "There's no blueprint, and every Games is different, " says... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Alumni Changing the World
Abby Falik
Abby Falik, MBA 2008, founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, is rethinking the traditional gap-year experience for high school graduates. In ten years, Global Citizen Year has supported nearly 1,000 fellows in experiential, community-level View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
of financial projections focused on a proposal to build a titanium dioxide plant. But there were no people in the story. “Not even any DuPonts,” Sahlman laughs. “Long dead. Long gone.” Here, Sahlman interrupts his own train of thought.... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 11 Oct 2024
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
Harvard Business School hosted its annual fall Alumni Board Meeting in late September, bringing together its members for a three-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs, a dinner and reception with MBA... View Details
- 22 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
Recently, the venerable organization Coca-Cola publicly announced that a project to hire more Black employees that stemmed from the settlement of a 2000 discrimination lawsuit had failed to achieve its objectives. Along with many others,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
language change can bridge differences and facilitate cross-border collaboration.” —Tsedal Neeley, Professor of Business Administration Private Capital Project Private capital is just that—private. As a result, little information is... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
Whoever coined the adage, "If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it," must have had David Hughes in mind. Cheerful and rock steady, Hughes demonstrates an uncanny ability to continually absorb new projects and activities. As... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
’93), head of the South Florida initiative, notes that the alumni base is smaller and more scattered in that region than in Boston or San Francisco, for instance, but is pleased with the results from their first six–month project cycle.... View Details
- 02 Sep 2016
- Op-Ed
The Twitter Election
unlikely to suffice. Many voters are now looking not just for problem-solving skills but for specific policy solutions that hold up under scrutiny.Third, Trump is under-leveraging Twitter. Though he feeds his followers a continuing diet of controversial tweets that... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
In economic downtimes, businesses are apt to cut R&D projects that don't promise a speedy return on investment. But take a cue from smart science-based businesses, which view the recession as an opportunity to stoke up research and... View Details
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
Tips for Applying to Business School
effectively lead larger and more complex organizations. The MBA struck me as a way to quickly get out of my comfort zone while learning new analytic and management tools. Every applicant’s decision process will be unique, but I’m a big fan of View Details
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Polaroid Films - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE OF INDUSTRY Harvard Business School... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
started World War I, and it all collapsed. As percentages of GDP, we didn’t return to those earlier levels of global capital flows until the 1990s. Global free trade is not the natural order of things. Globalization is a project, and View Details
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
steeped in decades of Marxism and anti-Western dogma. In 1990, the two men coauthored Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and U.S. Enterprises, a book about US-USSR management systems that itself emerged from an unprecedented joint research View Details
- November 1990 (Revised May 1994)
- Case
Microsoft Corp.: Office Business Unit
By: Marco Iansiti
Describes the development of a new word processing software package, Word for Windows. The major focus is how the development process should be improved to reduce schedule slips and cost overruns. Some of the issues raised are: the use of schedules in managing... View Details
Keywords: Communication Strategy; Cost Management; Business or Company Management; Time Management; Product Development; Programs; Projects; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry
Iansiti, Marco. "Microsoft Corp.: Office Business Unit." Harvard Business School Case 691-033, November 1990. (Revised May 1994.)
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The MOC Affiliate Network Impact - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Initiatives 137 Competitiveness Institutes 819 Cluster Initiatives 925 National & Regional Competitiveness Initiatives Knowledge Development 462 Cases 993 Research Projects 157 Cross-Affiliate Collaborations The MOC Affiliate network... View Details
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Statement of Activity & Cash Flows - Annual Report 2016
38 34 33 Other Expenses 73 71 76 total expenses $ 704 m. $ 660 m. $ 645 m. 2016 2015 2014 Cash from Operations $ 57 $ 47 $ 31 Depreciation 38 34 33 Non-Cash Items – – 9 cash for capital activities $ 95 $ 81 $ 73 2016 2015 2014 Capital Expenses $(113) $ (81) $ (92)... View Details
George A. Schaefer
A trained accountant, Schaefer’s first task as CEO was to dramatically cut costs. Caterpillar’s large, earth-moving products were no longer in high demand as in earlier years, so Schaefer decided to invest in making smaller machines for urban construction View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate