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- 29 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Global Change in the Built Environment
class because of its large component of current income and cash flow. The three big trends in the industry are securitization, globalization, and environmentalism. The securitization markets on both the debt and equity sides are being... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
that, how to share information efficiently within a company, new ways to share information with suppliers and customers — those elements of the new economy are unstoppable. How job has changed in last five years Dramatic growth. View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
“Expect the unexpected” could have been the tagline for FIELD 2, the global component of the new required course Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD). In January, first-year student Christina Adams (HBS 2013) traveled to Ho Chi Minh City with... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Q&A with Janet Cahill
option of directing their support to any one of five key priorities: student financial aid, educational innovation, pathbreaking research, global understanding, and HBS-Harvard collaborations. How do smaller gifts make a difference?... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
EMC's Ruettgers Finds Gold in Data Storage
"Strategy counts for only about 10 percent," he said. "We focus on execution." Not surprisingly, therefore, EMC demands topflight performance: some five hundred of its managers are paid according to their attainment of quarterly goals.... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
must be prepared to act when the stakes are much greater than expected. What Signals Should Leaders Send During A Crisis? High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest On May 10, 1996, five mountaineers from two teams perished... View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
- News
Commanding Officers
ammunition was in use. He suddenly realized a hand grenade he was holding was defective and that it was two seconds away from exploding. His team was gathered around him and there was nowhere to safely throw the grenade, so Jefferson squeezed it tightly and held it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
many of them brought up the issue of talent when discussing big decisions. I found that fascinating, and as a management consultant I saw there could be a gulf between a strategy and the human dynamics involved in execution. I felt like I... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Profile
Ann DeWitt
After five years as a research scientist at 3M, Ann DeWitt was ready for managerial responsibilities that would require a new set of skills. "I wondered how I would make the transition," Ann says. "In slow steps or in one... View Details
- Profile
Vivian Scalfi
As a girl growing up in the countryside of Brazil, Vivian Scalfi had parents who were "overly concerned" and a conflicting ambition of her own to "dream big and leave the countryside." At age seventeen, she followed... View Details
Keywords: CPG
- 17 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities
said. As for the issue of human capital, Rajan noted that the majority of the populous is undereducated. "We need more education," he said. "Harvard is of course unique, but we need more institutions that emulate you." Even so, "I would argue... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Aug 2011
- News
A Toast to Macchu Pisco
Asher: Distilling pisco, riding a wave. Courtesy Melanie Asher In America, it’s the new big thing in cocktails and mixology, or so proclaimed the New York Times (June 22, 2011): “Pisco, the clear grape spirit of South America .the... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
Most people have a conventional view of incarceration: People convicted of breaking the law are criminals, and criminals are locked up in big prisons with lots of other criminals. Yet, even as a preteen, Jennifer Porter Anderson (MBA... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Paul’s Sabbatical Story: Hypothesis-Testing by Sabbaticals
Taking extended leave wasn’t a new idea for Paul Luning (MBA 2011), it was more of a family tradition: his parents credit their extended honeymoon as a defining moment in their lives. Paul took time off when he could, by studying abroad, or extending start dates to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
José Royo
civilizations in about five years, writing his dissertation on the works of Nobel Prize-winning Japanese writer Oe Kenzaburo. Simultaneously, he taught several undergraduate courses and supervised a large group of teaching fellows in... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
the Big Idea? Five current research efforts are adding to HBS’s history of game-changing impact on business practice Ideas in Action New ideas from HBS faculty have immediate application in the workplace or... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
Principles Jamal Motlagh Taking Tailoring High Tech Taking Tailoring High Tech Karen Moon Making Big Data Fashionable Making Big Data Fashionable Imran Amed Rethinking the Fashion Beat Rethinking the Fashion... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
facility the company built five years ago that pumps out millions of mustard bottles a year, and a zippy Web site that invites visitors to join the Mustard Lover's Club. His decision to attend HBS, Plochman notes, was "a fairly radical... View Details
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
The experiment went like this: After five minutes of using the assigned device to take an online survey, each participant was given two dollars, along with the choice of keeping it or gambling it in a double-or-nothing gambling game with... View Details