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22 Mar 2023
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Decarbonization and Sustainable Production: Immersive Field Course in Denmark and the Netherlands

eyes to the realm of possibilities for sustainable consumption of the earth’s resources. It is one thing to study the topic theoretically in the classroom but the opportunity to witness some of the processes in person is priceless. In our 12 days in Denmark and... View Details

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

04 Dec 2023
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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

about the park service, and even more about myself. During the week, I was surrounded by the kindest, most mission-driven coworkers. I spent my weekends exploring Colorado’s stunning mountains, chasing wildflowers, and of course, visiting... View Details

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Jay Bhandari

“wizards and witches'' of business. I wonder how cold Hogwarts gets in the winter What is your most memorable classroom moment? In a Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) class, we debated the influence of choice and circumstance... View Details

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

declared bankruptcy on June 1, 2009. “All stakeholders must work together to make GM's bankruptcy filing a comma rather than a period in the storied history of this American corporate icon." -Daniel Heller Its future appears... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

used by consumers and small businesses to discharge debts; Chapter 11, used for reorganization generally by larger corporations to pay creditors over time; and Chapter 13, which allows the filer to keep property and repay debts over three... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

29 Sep 2023
Blog Post

HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Reyna Pacheco Rios (MBA 2025)

time to be our mother too. When I visit home, she makes my favorite meals that take hours and there is no saying “no” to her to extra servings. Her courage, perseverance, and strength are traits I never take for granted. My brother, a... View Details

21 May 2012
Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

sites in order to evaluate whether the program is effective." Or as Levine puts it: "It's costly to learn, but it's more costly to be ignorant." To Read More: If you'd like to read the researchers' article in Science, "Randomized... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

http://www.people.hbs.edu/jsebenius/articles_scans/12_IS_NuclearDealWithIran.pdf Punctuated Generosity: Events, Communities, and Corporate Philanthropy Authors:Andras Tilcsik and Christopher Marquis Publication:Administrative Science... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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By: Karim R. Lakhani

Can America Invent Its Way Back?

BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008

Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

J. Fine Distinguished Visiting Professor in Healthcare Administration from the University of Minnesota in 2023. Christian Kaps : Awarded Runner-up for the 2023 ENRE Young Researcher Prize from INFORMS for "Privately-Owned Battery Storage... View Details

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Cotting House | About

graduate of Harvard College, Cotting served on the HBS Visiting Committee from 1943 to 1966. In addition to donating the funds to construct Cotting House, he established a permanent charitable trust—one of the largest in the history of... View Details

26 Oct 2018
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Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

steady salary, but I would be gaining the opportunity to live the life I truly wanted powered by an MBA. After visiting for Prospective Student Diversity Day and spending time with one of my best friends from Yale (an HBS first-year at... View Details

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

In this excerpt taken from the chapter entitled "From Trade to Investment," HBS visiting professor Geoffrey Jones traces the transition of the British trading companies from purely trading companies in the 1870s to... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

2014, facing the task of bolstering the Company’s growth and financial performance. Two years earlier she had come up with the controversial insight that a more profitable business model for YouTube should be based not on the number of eyeballs View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

Abstract As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the... View Details

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

in strategic job families to the business unit strategy?1 Of course not. One corporation in a Hackett database might report that it spends 0.2 percent of revenue on employee competency development, whereas your company spends 1.0 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Teaching Award in the Corporate Purpose & Leadership category for the MBA course Reimagining Capitalism: Business and the Big Problems with George Serafeim. Rebecca M. Henderson : Awarded the 2017 Viipuri Prize for outstanding research in... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News

part of what’s driving consolidation across the country,” Hansen Shapiro observes. The National Trust used a leveraged buyout to acquire the titles, which will continue with their mission under a new public benefit corporation that is... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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