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- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
founded by billionaire Branson, wants to sell short, suborbital flights, in which passengers get a taste of zero gravity and see the Earth’s curvature. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo commercial vehicle made its inaugural trip into space... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Furthering the Legacy of Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006)
spending two years at HBS and making lifelong friends, Whitney’s early career at Bain Capital, and the investment business he helped found and build, Gauge Capital. As a young family, we were thrilled to receive fellowship support. It was... View Details
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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
to HR to help improve the workplace for everyone.” AGE 38, SOUTH ASIAN, TECHNOLOGY, UNITED STATES 2 ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS Prior research has found that a set of organizational norms known as “masculinity contest culture” are associated... View Details
- 14 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2022
texts created a foundation for a friendship, and that friendship turned into something more as summer turned into fall and we found ourselves back in Boston. Now here we are some six years later, engaged and getting ready to graduate... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
published in the company’s prospectus. The lessons to be found there are classic examples (and warnings to other IPO companies) of how not to frame a public offering. WeWork took advantage of being deemed an “emerging company” under the... View Details
- Profile
Emily Schlichting
people who share your passion for making a better world through both private and public initiatives." Emily expects her career to oscillate between business and government. "I'm a good example of an atypical student," she says, "but I've View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
TOP 10 MBA VOICES BLOGS OF 2022
did during their deferral years. Read More>>> LEARNING FROM THE ENTREPRENEURS-IN-RESIDENCE AS A HARVARD MS/MBA STUDENT I have found during my first year at Harvard Business School that there are an infinite number of ways to... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
What." Since 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Kind of Blue, it's a good time to ask: How did he do it? One of the answers is "radical simplicity," according to HBS professor Robert D. Austin and Carl Størmer, View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
technical helps with problem solving and synthesizing more complex topics which I have found very valuable in the HBS classroom. Being able to translate highly complex concepts into simple digestible bits is a skill I have honed over time... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
value freedom—they say, people have their own agency,” Rouen says. “Therefore, it’s their responsibility if they get sick or not, so governments have less fear of being blamed.” Healthcare woes linked with higher underreporting The researchers also View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
A Taste of Tradition
beverages, and pharmaceuticals, Kikkoman is a $2-billion global enterprise that still retains its family flavor. Kikkoman's executive managing director is Kenzaburo ("Ken") Mogi (MBA '73). Given that company tradition allows only one member per generation from each of... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
Podcast with: Interviewer: Running Time: Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar whom many credited with founding the discipline of business history, died at age 88 on May 9, 2007. His work is legendary, but so too was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle
compiled by Harris Wittels, author of Humblebrag, The Art of False Modesty, and found more than 1 in 10 were about being too busy or “not having a life.” (A typical example: “Hi, I’m 16 and I’m publishing 3 books and an album this year.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
But when I began to research a broader range of measures including investment, phone calls, tourism, and immigration, I found that, surprisingly, the average extent of globalization is only 10 percent. For example, for every dollar of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
Fellows program . Both ECs also mentioned that the program both found and paid for intern housing, which was an incredible benefit. I decided to apply, while still looking around at different opportunities at health care startups or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
in Norway but settled in Brazil as a young man, made a gift in his honor to establish the Erling Lorentzen Business and Environment Initiative Fund. A pioneer in the field of sustainable development, Lorentzen founded his pulp-making... View Details
- Blog
What Black Executives Really Want
networked and got things done. But no one ever asked him to lunch. Many of the Black executives found their peers standoffish, perhaps because they were not used to being around black people. They concluded that their colleagues were just... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
Founding Chairman, Egon Zehnder International, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Zurich, 1949 A.B., Classics University of Zurich, 1953 Ph.D., Law (including one year at the University of... View Details
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
stakeholders to make both micro- and macro-level decisions today that will have net positive environmental and economic effects now and into the future” At the May 2023 “Accelerating Climate Solutions” conference at HBS, Hilton found... View Details
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
Does Gender Diversity in Management Enhance Performance? Why? A variety of explanations for the positive correlation between gender diversity and better business performance found in a recent McKinsey study were advanced in responses to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett