Surveys - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It

respondents indicated their class or year or answered all questions. The survey concluded July 15, 1999. Most influential business leader Most significant consumer product Most significant innovation for business Most influential... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

totaling $375 billion. Nine are large enough to be listed in the S&P 500. Wall Street goes shopping. Wall Street surveyed the mountain of defaulted S&L loans taken over by the federal Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) and saw an... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

charisma, negotiate comfortably and creatively, and spot manipulators before it’s too late. HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose By John Coleman (MBA 2009) Harvard Business Review Press We’re living through a crisis of purpose. Surveys... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face

HBS alumni have a complicated relationship with the notion of retirement. The simple vision of leaving one’s career at the age of 65 and moving to a sunny clime to while away the days playing golf may work well for some. But an unscientific View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

03 Jun 2016
News

Again in a Great City

starting with the Fisher. Cummings surveys the lobby of the Fisher, as a rush of well-dressed Detroiters head into a matinee at the 2000-seat Fisher Theatre. “It’s really absolutely extraordinary,” he says of the building. And from here,... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

correspondent and former White House correspondent, and Stewart, VP of Global Partnerships at Google, surveyed 4,000 cross-generational women across four races for the book. Among the contributors to the book are Modupe Akinola (MBA 2001,... View Details

16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed

restaurant Sonic—FirstBuild spent $600 to do a Google survey to gauge interest and then put out a design challenge to the FirstBuild community, collecting 29 ideas. Eventually, they’ll take the winning model to a crowdfunding platform to... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

happier for the rest of your day—and that results in greater creativity, sales, productivity, and sleep quality. Surveys show that people are increasingly experiencing symptoms of burnout at work. How can we improve our mindset? I’ll... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

The short answer is: almost every HBS graduate. In his recent study, "The Other Leadership Arena," HBS professor Jim Austin surveyed nearly 10,000 HBS alumni and discovered that 81 percent of them are involved with nonprofits, with 57... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

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