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01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

to explore this emerging area of research. The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology edited by Michael I. Norton, Derek D. Rucker, and Cait Lamberton (Cambridge University Press) Why do consumers make the purchases they do, and which... View Details

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

knowledge or the entrepreneurial skills necessary for a diversified economy,” says Marietta, who believes his most valuable contribution might be his ability to nurture in others the same entrepreneurial acumen that helped him succeed both in View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Feb 2011
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I. Levine, 241-267. Cambridge University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2708038/?site_locale=en_GB Organizational Sustainability: Organization Design... View Details

25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming No abstract is available at this time. Book link: http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521513869 View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

prescribe remedies vastly reduced the appeal of Business Cycles. None of this was accidental. During the years when Keynes was writing The General Theory, he tried out his ideas again and again within his elite circle of young economists at View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

01 Jun 2022
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What We’re Reading

a coxswain, a sculler, and a high school coach. The truth is that almost everyone who has rowed has their own boys-in-the-boat story. That’s part of the beauty of the sport. —Bill Becklean (MBA 1968) has coached the boys’ crew team at the View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

Radar Networks and Metaweb Technologies. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808147 Publications Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation Editors: Edward Balleisen and David Moss, eds.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good

1953, and he completed his degree in forestry in 1957. At age 23, he and Natty — who had made it clear that she had no intention of spending her life in the Canadian north woods as the wife of a lumberjack — came to Cambridge in pursuit... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

01 Apr 2002
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Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

(AASU) conference was renamed in remembrance of H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33), a leader in industry and a pioneer in business education honored for his role as a mentor to generations of African Americans. Held the last weekend in February at the View Details

Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest

celebrity in mountaineering circles when he moved to Cambridge in the fall of 1929 to attend Harvard Business School. Moore was invited to join the Harvard Mountaineering Club and the American Alpine Club, where he first met Allen Carpé... View Details

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

07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7

Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as it 1) grapples with rapid undergraduate enrollment growth and its smaller scale relative to other top engineering schools and 2) prepares to move two-thirds of its faculty and classes to a new campus in Allston, 1.5... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine

conference room at DART's Cambridge office. After several years in consulting and a few years launching start-ups, Williams spent eight years at Genzyme, managing its rare disease portfolio, leaving in 2006 to take on a number of smaller... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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cash flows work How LPs choose GPs The influence of Cambridge Associates How and why investors structure deals How PE firms add value How investors screen and choose investments Getting a deal through the Investment Committee Role of debt... View Details

March 2016 (Revised February 2017)
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Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Carin-Isabel Knoop

On a mission to "automate the on-demand economy," Harvard Business School classmates Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck launched Hello Alfred in 2013 to provide subscribers with an "Alfred" to complete various chores for a monthly fee. In early 2016, the company has built... View Details

Keywords: On-demand Economy; Sharing Economy; Technology Startup; Technology; Growth Strategy; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Strategic Planning; Service Industry; United States; Boston; Cambridge; New York (city, NY); California

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01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention By Wake Smith (MBA 1986) Cambridge University Press Reaching net-zero emissions will not be the end of the climate struggle, but only the end of the beginning. For centuries... View Details