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- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
starts paying attention to something or someone, it happens in one of two ways: executive control (that person deliberately chooses what to focus on) or attentional capture (the attention is captured by a stimulus in the person's sensory... View Details
- 06 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
photographed by Susan Young; edited by Julia Hanna See full profiles and more photographs here. From a distance, the 2016 recipients of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award give the appearance of unmitigated... View Details
- Profile
Brian T. Bedol
going to start again.” Often you just get sucked into it. And every time I say, “Never again!” Any advice for early stage entrepreneurs? It’s a matter of finding that balance between believing and being... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
with them. Keinan: It's interesting that both of these chefs may have different passions and solutions, but that [they] started not only business ventures, but ventures with larger visions or missions behind it. It's a very interesting... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
abandonment - refusing to repair a broken product. "People feel most satisfied with their purchases when they can put the paradoxes of technology in relative balance in their lives," says Fournier. Fournier... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
of approximately $4.52 billion (five times greater than that of its nearest competitor, Fisher Price), and the company has been hailed as a growth champion. Hear more from company cochairman Jørgen Vig... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann
Every now and again we have some really big news to share with prospective students. This week’s announcement about the new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences joint degree was no exception. In a previous post we outlined some of the program... View Details
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog
create a global utopia by solving intractable problems like climate change, ending the need for humans to work for a living and bringing the cost of energy to zero. Why are normally balanced leaders taking... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
1,500 employees, 93 percent of whom are women, and they operate hundreds of stores and counters in Macy’s. The daughter of an entrepreneur and a teacher, Marla Beck grew up in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Student-Profile
Sarah Wolfolds
When I was a senior in college, I planned to attend a PhD program in Economics to study industrial organization and potentially labor economics. I had always been interested in Economics and was intrigued by the influence of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
will soon move from HTML programming language to XML. Ballmer stated that this shift would alter the current Internet balance of power in which consumers are in a reactive position as they relate to company... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
Summing Up Jobs shape us in many ways, according to respondents to this month's column. For example, Sue Stewart said that " we become our jobs." Charlie Cullinane went further, saying that "Not only do we become our jobs while doing them but we keep... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
the roses are trimmed twice per day, and stems are cut around every seven weeks, aided by cameras installed throughout the facility. The brothers shared the complexity of balancing sustainability and... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
When Dean Nitin Nohria stepped onto the Burden Auditorium stage on the morning of October 1 to welcome a standing-room-only reunion crowd back to Harvard Business School, his audience was as attentive as any he had experienced in his... View Details
- Profile
Adam Kanner
The live entertainment industry is known for glitz, glamour and an aura of unparalleled excitement. But for every sold-out Beyonce’ concert or San Francisco Giants game, there are countless live events plagued by scores View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
a “guilty pleasure” author? Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s books, particularly The Vine of Desire. She’s a great storyteller. What’s one of your favorite books? A Fine Balance by... View Details
- 02 Sep 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Transparent Should Boards Be?
it's clear to me that the notion of 'board transparency' is really quite a balancing act." What are the mitigating factors influencing a board's action? With what degree View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
A seasoned media executive, Sarah Harden (MBA 1999) was serving as interim CEO of the media company Hello Sunshine when she was brought up short by an early conversation with company founder Reese Witherspoon. “Reese told me that before... View Details