Symbolic - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

Considering the title of the 1996 HBS Global Alumni Conference - The Information Revolution: "Bridging the Gap" - San Francisco was a particularly fitting locale for this forward-looking event. The city's Golden Gate has long been a View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

over time provided technical and symbolic resources needed to feed the resilience of the industry. Such exchanges were facilitated through an eventual recognition of shared superordinate values, as well as mechanisms of tradition... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

being mindful of constraints, focusing on the tangible impact of actions while recognizing their symbolic significance and combining formal power with legitimacy. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54691... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

affiliation, as the country’s first female president. In the context of Greece’s traditional society, the choice was loaded with symbolism and political savvy, BCG’s Antoniades says. The January vote passed with a supermajority of 261 out... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2022
News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Pittsburgh’s business titans, labor strikes and assassination attempts. While reporting on the unions of the era, he is exposed to a very different world, symbolized by his infatuation with a mysterious woman under the sway of an Eastern... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

carefully, and helped broker a mutually satisfactory solution. That moment meant more to me than the resolution of a dispute: It was symbolic of a conclusion I reached, probably shared by most Black students at the time, that although... View Details

Keywords: Dean

06 Dec 2018
News

Source Code

symbolic things to bigger, provocative, intellectual ideas—I just had none of that previously”), she worked as a banker in Philadelphia, funding mom-and-pop cable TV startups in rural Pennsylvania. It cemented her decision to apply to... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

million barrels a day of Canadian heavy oil from Alberta (and shale oil from Montana) to the American Gulf Coast. But the American environmental community had focused all its resources on stopping Keystone XL-to them, a symbol of the... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Mar 2017
News

A Summit Higher Than Everest

deck of the Tai Ping Yang as the freighter sailed out of New York Harbor bound for Shanghai. He was joined in what he would later call an “impractical” and “romantic” adventure by Gene Lamb, a veteran explorer who carried the symbolic... View Details

Keywords: April White; mountain; climb; climbing; adventure

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

a head in May 1970, when hundreds of students and some faculty members assembled on Baker Beach to decide whether or not to join with students across the country and engage in a symbolic strike to protest the shootings at Kent State. Dean... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

the killing of George Floyd and a desire for racial justice, museum president Ellen V. Futter noted that statues can be “powerful and hurtful symbols of systemic racism.” Roosevelt and his family agreed: “The composition of the Equestrian... View Details

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