School Garden Movement - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2010
News

This Is What I Do

1998 when its symptoms of shaking and uncontrolled movement became visibly apparent. As depicted through Marty McFly, Fox’s desperate desire to get back to normal life seemed to take on new and poignant meaning. A fan of Fox while growing... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Accommodation; Hospitality; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

are the best managed. Firms in developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India, tend to be poorly managed. American retail firms and hospitals are also well managed by international standards, although American schools are more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

Global Citizen Year Abigail Falik, MBA 2008 Global Citizen Year is building a movement of young Americans who engage in a transformative “bridge year” between high school and college. Global Reference Check... View Details

17 Aug 2015
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The Play Alchemist

each day I was able to take what I’d learned from class and apply it to real situations,” she says. “It was beyond the Socratic method---like learning how to fight in the ring with your opponent in there with you.” Running a company in New York while going to View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

The Master's Tools: Exposing Rejecting, and Appropriating The Master's Tools: Exposing Rejecting, and Appropriating MAY 5-6, 2022 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Robin Ely Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business View Details

05 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

A large amusement park. A long line at an airport. A children's summer camp in Italy. What do these places have in common? Surprisingly, all are settings for serious research by Harvard Business School faculty. There's a sea change afoot... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5

for many of us in the Black community. We are roughly 70 years away from the barbarity of white supremacy that led to Jesse Thornton being lynched in 1940 because he forgot to call a police officer “Mister.” Imagine the savagery that leads to John Jackson, a 30-year... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Taylor Gibbs chronicles more than 200 years of her paternal family’s history and highlights their contributions to the civil rights movement in the United States. The Human Element: The... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Successful Harvard Business School Graduate, As Told in the Case Study Method by Fred Kahn (MBA 1963) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform In this memoir, Kahn uses the case-study method to examine the most pivotal moments in his... View Details

24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

experts' ability to combine and balance these two processes, we distinguish analytically among four positions of influence they can occupy-compliance expert, technical champion, trusted advisor, and engaged toolmaker-and trace the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

at varying horizons, and that the short-term nominal interest rate forecasts positively stock return volatility and exchange rate volatility. This paper presents evidence that movements in both the short-term nominal interest rate and the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

01 Sep 2017
News

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

hero or something in school today,” the third-place finisher boasted to his hometown paper. That was the dynamic that would define competitive video gaming for nearly two decades, even as technology changed the pace and complexity of the... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

of the MBA Program before focusing his research on how large institutional investors make decisions about social issues. (He also worked simultaneously at a small church in Somerville, Massachusetts.) With DBA in hand, from 1989 to 1996, he taught ethics and public... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

poor by removing the high cost of everything they need. Chu discussed the benefits and complexities of microfinance with Harvard Business School alumni on June 4, in a session titled "Microfinance: Harnessing the Market for Social... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

of a government procurement policy's stimulating demand or stimulating supply don't stop at the border," Toffel says. In the paper, the researchers chalk up the findings to education; in complying with government policies, builders and architects must View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

24 Aug 2017
News

Unlocking Potential

professor for a father and an enthusiastic community volunteer for a mother, Anderson recalls that talk at the family dinner table often revolved around social problems such as the exploding US prison population, and how to fix them. After graduating from high View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services

15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

It’s also about a movement of people away from jobs where they’re not sure they are innovating to jobs at startups where they can be entrepreneurial.” -Diane Hessan (MBA 1977), CEO, Startup Institute Daughters of employed mothers are more... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-036.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAcademia Barilla Harvard Business School Case 507-001 Barilla, the world's largest pasta company, has introduced a new high-quality, high-priced... View Details