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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
large crowd of students in Burden Auditorium and those who watched a simulcast in the overflow area in Spangler. What successful enterprises have done in the past has worked, he noted, using IBM as an... View Details
- 16 Mar 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition
When Ben de Menil (MBA 2006) first heard Dominican bachata music, he knew he was hearing something special. Through his record label iASO Records and the nonprofit iASO Bachata Academy, established in 2013, in Cabarete on the northern shore View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
help those they agree with while the second is the dependence of peoples' self-esteem on the extent to which they perceive that others agree with them. Government spending crowds out the charity that ensues... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Sasha Grinshpun
don't touch the ground as you get swept up in a sea of hedonism. Not for the faint of heart. A crowd was gathering ahead of me. The cause View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Steve Jobs Legacy
News of the death this week of Steve Jobs reverberated around the world. And the Harvard Business School campus was no exception. Everyone felt a keen sense of loss for a man... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The New Venture Competition's Digital Democracy
The annual alumni New Venture Competition (NVC) is giving the power to the people. As in past years, the HBS regional alumni clubs held local qualifying rounds, producing a dozen or more NVC finalists. But instead of traveling to Boston... View Details
Keywords: New Venture Competition
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
live and take root, the home in recent times has been elevated to Investment Opportunity, a place where you stayed for awhile, made a lot of money, then moved on to the next home-investment. Is the definition View Details
- 07 Nov 2019
- News
Scranton Elects First Female Mayor
As an Oregon native running on the Independent ticket, Paige Cognetti (MBA 2014) was not the most likely candidate to claim victory in a special mayoral election that took place Tuesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania. But she won handily, claiming 36 percent View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
Clubs News Clubs News With more than $300,000 in cash and prizes on the line, 12 finalist teams pitched their hearts out at the 21st Annual New Venture Competition on April 18. Before a crowd of 500 HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
It was a Friday afternoon on a weekend when no "WAC" (Written Analysis of Cases) was due in the deposit slot by midnight Saturday, so a number of us were preparing to go skiing. I was with sectionmate Fred... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
Luxury is the new essential. Consumers know it and retailers are reaping the bounty. At a "Growth Strategies in the Luxury Goods Industry" panel on April 3 at the HBS Retail and Luxury Goods Conference, moderator Nancy F. Koehn summed it up well. Koehn, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
On the most basic level, job interviews provide an opportunity for companies and potential employees to exchange essential information. But in today’s crowded job market, applicants who really want to outclass the competition need to go... View Details
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
private sector, but well-intentioned efforts to address global health through the public sector have the unintended consequence of crowding out capital formation in the private sector. PharmaAccess is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Pride Alumni Association is expanding its slate of LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums after the successful launch of two initial forums in 2021 sparked broader interest among its members.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Portrait Project
Bari Schwartz
ascending rhythm pulsed, slowly, repeating. The stadium began to rumble. The action on the diamond stood frozen. Slowly the fans started clapping and whooping. The organ played louder, and louder, and louder. A swell of people emerged... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Building change from the ground up
as the Taliban-influenced south, operating under a firm policy of cultural sensitivity and ethical transparency in a country ranked as one of the most corrupt in the world. When Roshan launched, police were... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39914 Incentives for Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Reputations By: Exley, Christine L. Abstract—Do monetary incentives encourage volunteering? Or, do they introduce a "greedy"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
maintained, the power of self-policing organizations, the question of whether the service is drifting from its core principles, and whether a Wikipedia-like concept can work in a business setting. (See... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
growth of our company." Adds Urquhart, "You don't want the guys in the core part of your business to feel like they're working at the wagon wheel factory after the car has been invented." It's... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- Portrait Project
Israt Tarin
mother was a brilliant student her recitation of William Wordsworth’s “Daffodils” drew crowds of far-flung villagers to the school grounds. Yet, poverty and patriarchy meant... View Details