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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
the procedure’s precision: There were a few cells in his brain that were responding in unison—the effect akin to a record skipping, playing the same note over and over again. Bennet and his colleagues needed a way to resume the melody....
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Janelle Nanos
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
The World's Banker
One day in July 1995, shortly after his appointment to head the World Bank, Jim Wolfensohn took time out from a project visit in the African bush for an impromptu chat with a village official. For those present, it was a memorable sight:...
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- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
pharmacy lab who finds young, classically trained musicians; records their work; and distributes the CDs to customers. "He blends the purity of the artist and a sense of discovery with his business," he says. "It speaks to a certain...
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There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS - MBA
internship offer instead. Later that semester I applied to Peek and asked P&G for time off from my internship to fly to Boston and join the program. They happily worked with me. Peek opened my world to new ideas and exposed me to more...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
real-world complication, students sometimes encountered occupations involving multiple tasks that can be performed separately. As an example, Rivkin cites the job of bill collector, which includes the tasks of telephoning the debtor and keeping View Details
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by Julia Hanna
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Introduction - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
photography between the World Wars, extensive photographic records of the United Fruit Company in South and Central America, advertising images from automobile manufacturers in the 1930s and 40s,...
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- 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...
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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
exchanges and influences occurred through many channels—from the Chinese art and antiquities that Americans exported home, the ways in which wealthy traders gave back to their communities, and the archive of records merchants left behind...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
by Dan Morrell Perhaps the biggest free agent target in major league baseball this off-season was 25-year-old Masahiro Tanaka, a pitcher in the Japanese professional league with a devastating split-finger fastball who made international headlines by winning a View Details
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Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship - MBA
Understanding the problem deeply is the hardest part, but once you do, the idea will come naturally. The world is full of problems, so make a list of profound issues or pain points you have either heard or faced directly. Focus on...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
Last year, foreign investors set new records for their acquisition activity in the United States. And 2008 began with nearly daily stories of American financial executives courting foreign direct investors, particularly sovereign wealth...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The start of a new century is certainly a momentous time. When I think about the last century and what it has meant to HBS, I am struck by how much the School has grown in stature and scale. Our alumni play a pivotal role in reinforcing the School's position around the...
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Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
is information technology. We have embarked on a major technology initiative that will help us bring the world into the classroom in even more powerful ways. Through new Web-based electronic cases, we are creating an educational context...
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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
played in our affairs and for the distinction which your fine Army record and vigorous business leadership have brought to our programs over a period of more than forty years. Yours has been an extraordinary View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent
borders? Money is crossing borders... ideas are crossing borders," she said. Unfortunately, she added, there is little evidence that Africa, given its population and size, is benefiting proportionately from the phenomenon. The continent can claim only 2 percent of...
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by Julie Jette
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Working with Professors at HBS - MBA
Rhimes’ stories and her incorporation of multicultural characters in prominent roles or, as she calls it, her “normalization of TV” to reflect more accurately our cultural makeup in the U.S. and the world at large. While I didn’t get to...
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Commencement 2017 Address | About
responsibilities as people trained to lead businesses are more important today than ever. You are graduating into a world in which trust and faith in business has declined significantly. In the U.S., unemployment may be at View Details
- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
capabilities to adapt, making them ideal partners for HBS and Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP). Furthermore, for institutions like HBS and HBSP, one of the major worries about engaging in activities in this part of the world is...
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- 10 May 2019
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Bringing Art to the People It Depicts
Kasseem Dean (OPM 50, 2017), known in the music world as Swizz Beatz, was used to seeing Gordon Parks’ photographs in meetings with business partners and at the homes of friends who were not African American. It was far more unusual to...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Faculty Books
Capital Rules by Rawi Abdelal (Harvard University Press) How and why did the world shift from an orthodoxy of free capital movements in 1914 to capital controls in 1944 and back again by 1994? Contrary to conventional accounts, Associate...
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