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2022
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Luxury Tourism and Environmentalism

This chapter examines the evolution of luxury tourism and its environmental impact. Whilst mass tourism is widely seen as environmentally damaging, the impact of luxury tourism is nuanced. During the first stage of the growth in the nineteenth century, the numbers of... View Details

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24 Jan 2022
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Building a Globally Diverse Team Is Actually Getting Easier

19 Feb 2021
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3 Steps to Better Virtual Meetings

03 Jun 2014
News

HourlyNerd Inks Deal to Expand Client Base in Middle East, Africa

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

07 May 2008
Research & Ideas

The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School

Leadership and Organizational Behavior. The key developments include the original teaching of scientific management by Frederick W. Taylor; the change in perspective from Taylorism to the Human Relations approach, which resulted from the... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Education

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

On a continent with many challenges to development, no issue is more pressing in Africa than the heavy toll of the AIDS epidemic. In addition to the staggering costs in terms of social upheaval and human suffering, AIDS cuts down workers... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

06 Dec 2017
Blog Post

The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference

highlighted how the trend of decreasing the cost of sequencing a human genome will be even more disruptive than Moore’s law. Right after Deep, Eric Paley spoke about his investment philosophy and how he thinks prorata (a right to invest... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021

cleanup—to both learn and grow as human beings,” he recalls. “But my first concern was how to keep everyone safe from radiation poisoning.” With help from MIT Media Lab researchers, who devised a car-mounted Geiger counter to chart a safe... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Four Promoted to Full Professor

Technology Group. A member of the HBS faculty since 1990, David A. Thomas teaches organizational behavior and human resource management. He is a noted authority on executive development, mentoring, and the challenges of creating and... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock

that don’t exist right now. How confident are you that policymakers will take your warnings seriously? I think it’s just human nature that we’re going to wait till we’re over the edge. But I actually think we’re going to be over the edge... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2011
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Alumni Books

for Kibera (CFK), a pioneer in participatory development showing how with the right kind of support, people in desperate places will take charge of their lives and create change. Later, serving as a human intelligence officer in Iraq and... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; National Security and International Affairs; Government

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

and many responsibilities that aren't from the same person I am at home and in my church on Sunday, and I don't know how to navigate that transition.'" Business is made up of many relationships and actions that represent every human... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Portrait Project

Walter Frye

I will start each day without hitting the snooze button, taking a few moments every morning to think about how I can leave a positive imprint on the world before returning to bed. I will strive for significance in my work as a marketer, a friend, a family man, and... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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Ideas: Faculty Research Online

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior? Surprise! Managers are not always rational decision-makers. In this interview, Assistant Professor Noel Watson and Rogelio Oliva discuss how human behavior affects supply chain coordination. Health Care... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

26 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Business and the Environment

with a portfolio of environmentally focused businesses. An environmental crisis exists, almost certainly due to human action. Temperatures and sea levels are rising; ice is melting. If the causes for these problems are not addressed—and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Forest L. Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities

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Working Knowledge | Harvard Business School

More Human Featuring Shunyuan Zhang and Das Narayandas . By Ben Rand on May 27, 2025 . Strategy and Innovation The Case for Creative Risk-Taking, Even When the Stakes Are High Featuring Goran Calic . By Sean Silverthorne on May 23, 2025 .... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit

mourning the "death of credit," depicted as a human corpse, scold the viewer for destroying the trust on which economic exchange is founded-and suggest that the blanket condemnation of credit was more complicated in practice than in... View Details

21 Nov 2008
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No More Squawking about the Campus Turkey

Turk definitely staked a claim to the HBS campus. But a little aggression wasn’t enough to run afoul of state law that protects wild creatures from relocation just to soothe jangled human nerves. Alas, perhaps the celebrity status Turk... View Details

Keywords: Centennial; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2006
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The Baby Business

for which we don’t have reliable numbers. You say that this market is driven by such deep-seated human feelings that banning it outright would be futile. Yet obviously some rules are needed. We need to look at this area as objectively as... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Health, Social Assistance

April 2008
Case

Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (A)

By: Paul W. Marshall, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Keith Chi-ho Wong

In late November 2000, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., the once-monopolized telecom operator owned by the Taiwanese government, was on its way to privatization. Mr. C.K. Mao, Chairman of the company, who headed the job only three months earlier, after its prior chairman... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Employee Relationship Management; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Privatization; Competition; Telecommunications Industry; Taiwan