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- 01 Apr 1998
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Short Takes
Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Community Reaches Out
The School's longtime commitment to public service was once again demonstrated at this year's annual Project Outreach. On Saturday, March 25, more than four hundred HBS students, partners, faculty, and staff volunteered to perform... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
connections, confidence, and cognition that individuals acquire or cultivate by virtue of working at a company during a particular period of time. It’s organization-specific as well as time-specific. Do all organizations leave an imprint?... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
Xerox as manager of multinational projects in 1979. Six years later, fate intervened again. Practically en route to the hospital to deliver her long-awaited first child, she received a telephone call: Rukia... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Schwartz (MBA 1978) MissionPoint Capital Partners Norwalk, Connecticut Clean energy, energy efficiency, and environmental private equity Laura Shenkar (MBA 1992) The Artemis Project San Francisco, California Consulting View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward
surgeries, 40 percent of which were free of charge. The enterprise has been able to reduce the cost of surgery by up to 60 percent, working with support from partners that include Duke University, World Diabetes Foundation, Pfizer... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting
calendar," Moss points out, "we've worked with companies to create offerings for the summer months. We are delighted that 65 companies will visit HBS this summer to attend a recruiters' conference, participate in industry briefings, and... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
Giving millions of students a new path to learning
possible, whether they’re in a classroom or not, but also to empower teachers so that the focal point of the classroom is no longer information delivery and instead it can be used for higher-order things—for conversations, for case discussions. “This whole View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
hosted medical, law, and nonprofit offices. But by 2019, its small suites felt dated, and developers launched a four-year, $58 million project that would bring the building into the 21st century—not as offices, but as luxury apartments... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
the globe. As a leader in management education, Harvard Business School has a strong commitment to improving the practice of management and to advancing a world that is more sustainable and inclusive, healthier, and better educated. As... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
settlement housed European immigrants who worked on the railroads and at the port. Throughout the decades, multiple attempts at forced eviction and resettlement failed, though one late-1970s effort reduced the population to just 1,000. A... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
explains. At GE, students worked on developing a plan for shifting from large-scale energy generation projects to smaller-scale ones to take advantage of solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources. The... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
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From One to Many
awakening I had was that people effectively working together, utilizing simple, elegant, and consistent practice can change the nature of work and its outcomes. At business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
doctors, administrators, and finance folks, all trying to work through the nitty-gritty details of how to implement this patient-care innovation. “What does the transition plan look like to get from where we are now to a new model?” asks... View Details
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
in fall 1994. Coming from an engineering background, he found the School's approach of building broad general management and leadership skills a bit foreign at first but has come to rely on those practices over the years. "I specialize in... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Aldrich Renovations Reach Halfway Point
classrooms provides faculty with three projection zones, audio- and video-conferencing capabilities, an in-room camera for recording classroom sessions, at-seat student polling, and wireless network access,” explains Stahl. “We’re trying... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness
The research is part of the HBS US Competitiveness Project, launched in 2010 to assess structural challenges to the US economy and identify ways that leaders in business, labor, government, and academia can work together to address those... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
investigators, even the most successful ones in the world, spend at least 25 percent of their time trying to get money. If they can’t get money, they lay off people and cancel projects. Now imagine you are a postdoc in a lab and are View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
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Mobilizing Action on Climate Change and Water Quality
restore the Blasket Islands in West Kerry, and that project has been going for 25 years. It’s a nonprofit conservation project; we’ve done great work on that and I think the confidence to do that came from... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
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Social Investing’s Time Has Come
How would you like to invest in a project that simultaneously provides a needed social service and generates a financial return? Nice idea, but not possible? Not exactly. Social impact bonds (SIBs) do just that. The concept is simple and... View Details