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23 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Leaving an Unhappy Job: How to Look Before You Leap

largely confined to your "off hours" when you are not working. But do the math. When you include your commute, your personal and/or family obligations, and other commitments, do you really have any energy left for a project as... View Details

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

in terms of their R&D investment and financing decisions. We document that these negative shocks lead affected firms to increase R&D expenditures, which they finance with debt. In terms of investment behavior, these shocks increase the likelihood of affected... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

(and when proper oversight makes sure the "rules" are followed), cities can gain a competitive edge since businesses and citizens can benefit from services without their city having to put up the investment capital. The Carlsbad Desalination View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

Expanding Horizons

opportunity to develop my current book project and to establish a longer-term research agenda. Moreover, I have benefited greatly from the opportunity to work with and learn from leading scholars in the field of business history. The... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

An Emphasis on Teamwork

mission impressed me when I applied, and it still does.” Krebs appreciates the School’s emphasis on team problem solving and experiential learning associated with the field method, an increasingly important aspect of MBA pedagogy. “We were beginning to do more View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders

interviews conducted in a variety of languages, more than 3,500 survey results, and thousands of pages of archival material, a project of this scope would have been nearly impossible without the international resources and infrastructure... View Details

10 Aug 2015
News

Seeding a Better Future for Colombia

destination, the pavilion was also the setting for the announcement, in June, of a British Embassy–sponsored satellite project that will enhance data images of crop conditions in remote areas of Colombia, potentially improving both... View Details

17 Apr 2014
News

Striking a Balance

1989. “She saw the tension between being mothers, wives, and professional managers.” It was a passion for Wilson, who had planned a research project on these issues before succumbing to cancer in 2003. Wilson took the HBS field study... View Details

18 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 18

development, fluid teams of individuals with different sets of experience are tasked with projects that are critical to the success of their organizations. Although building teams from individuals with diverse prior experience is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

the initial revenue projection for virtual Executive Education programming in fiscal 2021 was penciled in at what seemed like a realistic expectation: $0. But with the entire School community coming together, HBS adapted. Driven by... View Details

30 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

Education Leadership Project (PELP), a unique partnership between the Harvard Business School, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a network of urban school districts. This rich array of cases explores the managerial challenges... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

more familiar and seem to present less of a risk." Maurer's research on the economic impact of the Panama Canal demonstrates another facet of foreign investment dynamics—in this case, the construction of a $375 million public works View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

with Soraya Chemaly on "Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger" Soraya Chemaly Soraya Chemaly ia an author and Director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project Soraya Chemaly ia an author and Director of the Women’s Media Center... View Details

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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online

learn more about a particular subject area or further develop their career. Corina Cristea Lavoie Corporate Services Manager at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP I got promoted to a senior project coordinator role just weeks after finishing the... View Details

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

unlikely to suffice. Many voters are now looking not just for problem-solving skills but for specific policy solutions that hold up under scrutiny.Third, Trump is under-leveraging Twitter. Though he feeds his followers a continuing diet of controversial tweets that... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

01 Jun 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

In economic downtimes, businesses are apt to cut R&D projects that don't promise a speedy return on investment. But take a cue from smart science-based businesses, which view the recession as an opportunity to stoke up research and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical

15 May 2015
Blog Post

Tips for Applying to Business School

effectively lead larger and more complex organizations. The MBA struck me as a way to quickly get out of my comfort zone while learning new analytic and management tools. Every applicant’s decision process will be unique, but I’m a big fan of View Details

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Polaroid Films - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE OF INDUSTRY Harvard Business School... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Trade Off

started World War I, and it all collapsed. As percentages of GDP, we didn’t return to those earlier levels of global capital flows until the 1990s. Global free trade is not the natural order of things. Globalization is a project, and View Details

27 Mar 2014
News

From Marx to Marketing

steeped in decades of Marxism and anti-Western dogma. In 1990, the two men coauthored Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and U.S. Enterprises, a book about US-USSR management systems that itself emerged from an unprecedented joint research View Details

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