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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
and as a member of a small group that helps run its $8 billion endowment. My work at HBS on the Visiting Committee and in other capacities has also been fulfilling. Currently reading Business plans. Biggest disappointment When a company... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
government, and civil society all focus on the poor as producers. The main emphasis must be, he says, on creating employment opportunities for the poor and increasing their productive capacities by ensuring basic public services. What the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
The Far-Reaching Impact of Fellowships
Each year more than 900 MBA students arrive on the Harvard Business School campus eager to begin a two-year experience that promises to transform their lives. They have been selected because of their academic record, work experience, and a demonstrated View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
Transformed by a large, canopied stage and row after row of folding chairs, Baker Beach took on the guise of its more stately alter ego, Baker Lawn, and served as an ideal venue for the Class of 2001's Class Day and graduation ceremonies... View Details
- Profile
Roy Ben-Dor
challenge me. I'd like to make a contribution to a business that has the capacity to grow. In the long run, I'm interested in public service – I want to shape, not just a business, but our country." View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
only been done in rats, at Massachusetts General Hospital.” After HBS, Green worked at Monitor for a time, in which capacity he advised South Africa’s African National Congress, among other assignments. In 1996, he and a new management... View Details
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
Sitaraman, The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) ORIGINAL COLUMN: There is increasing talk about stimulating $1 trillion in spending on the aging United View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
directly to their performance, as it is in business, but rather to policy and politics at the state and local levels. Districts for the most part can't choose their customers; they have a mandate to serve all students (customers) who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
faculty members with observations about and feedback on their teaching. “We’ll have the capacity to create and cut together videotapes of people teaching so that they can see themselves,” notes Garvin. “It’s one thing to hear, ‘You seem... View Details
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
information technology until something breaks. This crisis required rapid and large reallocation of modern information technology, with particular links to communications. Some of it broke. The best organizations have had the ability to expand existing View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
metrics. Unfortunately, the effects of different types of coupling are somewhat hard to distinguish. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52349 Bureaucratic Norms and State View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
own investment portfolios, and whether they should be investing more in the United States or globally,” Viceira says. First things first. Why have markets become increasingly correlated? The paper proposes two possibilities. The first... View Details
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
is factoring into their life situation? Butler: At the core of my work with individuals, and my writing on this topic, is my model of implicit and symbolic intelligence. Each of us, at any given moment, has the capacity to experience the... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
By: Jaeker, Jillian Berry, Anita L. Tucker, and Michael H. Lee Abstract—We exploit an exogenous process change at two emergency departments (EDs) within a health system to test the theory that increasing capacity in a discretionary work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
the United States of America. “The temporariness induces you to take more risks—to share more risqué or uninhibited content” The paper, titled Temporary Sharing Prompts Unrestrained Disclosures That Leave Lasting Negative Impressions, was... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 19 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market
euros. Currently overseeing 4.9 million square meters of real estate, RFH is ambitiously planning the construction of two additional facilities, further expanding its footprint in the global flower market. With the area of its warehouses comparable to that of the... View Details
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
is factoring into their life situation? Butler: At the core of my work with individuals, and my writing on this topic, is my model of implicit and symbolic intelligence. Each of us, at any given moment, has the capacity to experience the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
an individual's operating unit) to emphasize the importance of integration and cooperation. "Many of the strategic changes we made were well known and discussed at IBM before I arrived," he notes. "The capacity to embrace those changes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
about the project. Why did HBS launch the project? Rivkin: Many of us at the School have come to believe that the ability of firms in the United States to be competitive in the world economy and to support living standards in America is... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details