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- 26 Nov 2019
- News
The Ritual Effect
partners. Like a Swiss Army knife, rituals can be used to produce whatever emotional or psychological effect is needed most. He refers to this remarkable versatility as “the ritual effect.” FUTURE SCOPE Professor Norton notes how the... View Details
Keywords: rituals
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
with a schedule and scope of future expenses, can equip the buyer with clearer expectations about a home’s total cost over time, Kennealey observes. “You may want to put down a big down payment, but if you know you have a new roof coming,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
significant demographic implications for the future and the promising scope of emerging markets. “Africa’s evolution is not much talked about—outside the circles that closely watch the continent—but it has massive implications for the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Apr 2023
- News
On the Move: Anand Kini (MBA 1997)
NBCUniversal, where he has been since 2011. How did you prepare for day one? I believe that a priority when taking on any new role is learning how your team best works together and can add the most value. This is especially true for strategy groups, since their View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Larry Murphy
enterprises have grown tremendously over the years in scope and complexity,” Murphy observes. “There is a constant tension, however, between rational management and the forces of ego and creativity.” At Disney, Murphy was especially proud... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
address their Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, create and offer “green” products, and be willing to pay a “green premium” for what they buy. On the plus side of the ledger, I do see green shoots of hope emerging. More businesses, such as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
the globe. As a leader in management education, Harvard Business School has a strong commitment to improving the practice of management and to advancing a world that is more sustainable and inclusive, healthier, and better educated. As the scale and View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Reunited and It Feels So Good
During several days of engaging academic programs and lively social events held in October both on and off campus, more than fifteen hundred alumni and guests from the MBA Classes of 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, and 1973 were reminded of the View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Leveraging the power of yes
low-income customers in India, Pakistan, East and West Africa, and Latin America. “Understanding the full scope of impact that these companies are having is a challenge,” he says, “but we know that if we can truly capture and quantify... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Reducing special-interest influence over government regulation
He and his collaborators focus on the importance of empirical analysis to assess degrees of influence. “The more we understand the nature of special-interest influence over regulation, the more we should be able to devise a spectrum of remedies to reduce the View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Dean’s Conference Call Spotlights HBS Global Initiative
will play an increasingly important role aiding faculty in “creating new intellectual capital that spans the world in scope and impact,” Dean Kim B. Clark told HBS alumni who dialed into his January 11 conference call. Clark used the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
market listing possibly as early as this year. “We have to look for new business beyond Singapore, but we can’t do that as a pure government agency,” Khoo explains. “We’ve had a tremendous change in the scope of our mission and in our... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
Faculty cochair V. Kasturi (Kash) Rangan, a newly tenured professor when he became the SEI's first head, recalls, "We decided on a broad scope of inquiry. For us, understanding managerial challenges within the non-profit sector was a... View Details
Keywords: SEI
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
Mid-Atlantic cities. Redbrick has determined that homes in up-and-coming urban areas offer a better “rental yield” (a more lucrative rent-to-purchase price ratio) than do expensive houses in wealthier areas. After crunching macroeconomic data to View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
Illustration by Patric Sandri Over the last five years, global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress from the pandemic, natural disasters, geopolitical events, and general anti-globalization sentiments. Nowhere is this more evident than in the trade... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Job One: Alumni Engagement
provide ideas on the design and scope of the School’s yearlong centennial celebration planned for 2008 and to recommend a global conference strategy beyond 2008. Next year’s committees will pick up on several of these challenges. As we... View Details
Keywords: Peter Cooper
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
essentially the same—but the scope of my products has increased in size. My first role at Google was working on features on a product for Google Checkout. Now I get to work in health search, which accounts for one in 20 queries on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna