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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
separates the viewer from the tropical images and colorful Caribbean scenes suspended in the background. A moving meditation on belonging and the challenge of reconnecting with one’s roots, this work expresses the artist’s feelings of living between two places. As... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
stories. With the proliferation of books and newspapers in the late eighteenth-century, and then perhaps even more markedly in our own time with the explosion in bytes, stories, which were an essential mode of communication for many... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
has led to overblown valuations. "It's a different world. I'm still seeing prices out there on free money valuations that make me think someone didn't read the newspapers last week," he remarked. Stevenson cited Amazon.com,... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
the front page of newspapers everywhere. We are past the 11th hour and, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report, the impacts are worse than we thought and our window to avert the worst of climate... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
yet donors are paid according to the desirability of their physical and mental qualities—at least $2,500, but sometimes much more. Spar showed an ad that appeared in Ivy League campus newspapers that offered $50,000 to women who were at... View Details
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Scrapbooks & Collectibles- The Art of American Advertising
scrapbooks—whether for stamps, coins, or newspaper clippings—had developed into a favorite nineteenth-century pastime and spawned its own industry. Collectors could refer to how-to books on the art of scrapbook making, use manufactured... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
immediately. Responding to a newspaper article about the bankrupt ABC Learning child-care chain, Traill led to SVA to buy its nearly 700 centers, many in low socioeconomic areas, with an alliance of four nonprofits passionate about early... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
of Boston, she had a half dozen jobs (lawn mowing, farm stand, newspaper delivery) by the time she was 15. “Once I learned I could make money and have freedom, I was all about capitalizing on opportunities,” she observes. She attended... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
McBoatface. Overruling the public’s wishes, NERC named the craft after British naturalist Sir David Attenborough. The public was outraged; newspaper editorials decried the lack of democracy, and citizens protested the unfairness of it all... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
business when I was only 27.” Batten is a visionary entrepreneur and business leader who built Landmark Communications, Inc., based in Norfolk, Virginia, into a multimedia enterprise consisting of dozens of newspapers and specialty... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
of upgrades in freemium companies, and the six questions that new business enterprises should explore when considering the freemium model. The article mentions how four companies including NYTimes.com newspaper and Dropbox cloud storage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
Indian art as a legitimate category of fine art. Newspapers and magazines (both general interest magazines as well as dedicated art publications) in India and abroad began to write not only about the auctions, but also about the art... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
management? While looking over responses to this month's column, I noticed a newspaper article describing a growing number of young managers who are making so much money managing, in many cases other people's money, that they have decided... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Why Many Businesses Are Becoming More Vocal In Support of LGBTQ Rights
can join an existing coalition or, in the absence of such an effort, ask their local chamber of commerce, visitors bureau, or LGBTQ equality organization to lead the way by creating one. Once convened, or on their own, they can place op-eds in local View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
community can also use workstations in this area to access research tools, including Bloomberg, Thomson StreetEvents, and S&P Ratings Direct. For those who would rather read a newspaper than power up a laptop, there are nineteen... View Details
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
is described in a new book by Will Hutton, titled The World We're In (Little, Brown, 2002), from which excerpts (emailed to me by a U.K. manager) were published in England's Guardian newspaper last month. First, work less but work... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
“The question can be better understood as how people learn from qualitative information. If you think about it, it’s not that people communicate by numbers, but by natural language, by stories. A newspaper article is not just numbers.”... View Details
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608138 Tribune Company, 2007 Harvard Business School Case 208-148 This case describes the proposed acquisition of Tribune Company by Sam Zell in 2007. Tribune Company is one of the largest View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
United States and Brazil could do a lot more together. There’s a lot of potential for partnership. Books you’re reading? Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell; The Snowball, about Warren Buffett. What’s the first Web site you look at in the morning? I read my e-mail. I’m a fan... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
Steven Rogers (MBA 1985) Before his 14th birthday, Steven Rogers (MBA '85) was already learning a lot about business. He had delivered newspapers and milk in his Southside Chicago neighborhood, bused tables at a downtown hotel,... View Details