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- 08 Jan 2016
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Investing in Sustainability
and shareable infographics to illustrate startling statistics: 40 percent of the food produced in the United States is never eaten; and 3.8 million gallons of fuel are wasted every day from unnecessary... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Taiwan Club President Thrives on Region's Entrepreneurial Energy
supplying us with recruiting materials." Last year the club also sponsored a visit from members of the Harvard Krokodiloes singing group, who traveled to Taiwan to raise money for the victims of the region's devastating earthquake. Born in Taiwan, Feng came to the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
process of change in a developing country. His 1970 book, Engines of Change: United States Interests and Revolution in Latin America, inspired the U.S. Congress to establish the Inter-American Foundation, an... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
businesspeople were forcefully reminded, yet again, of the ups and downs of the economy. By World War I, there were only about ten forecasting agencies operating in the United States. Professional economists, like Irving Fisher and Warren... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good
on social and environmental returns, in addition to financial returns." It became a blueprint for her career. Seegull was vice president of business development at Novica, an e-commerce company connecting artisans in developing countries to businesses and consumers in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Connell Family Gift Funds Curriculum Innovation
support the HBS Leadership Initiative, and Connell House was named in William's honor in 2003. A 2001 Alumni Achievement Award recipient, Connell was chairman and CEO of Boston-based Connell Limited Partnership, which he built into one of the largest privately owned... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Gulati states that managers have figured out what consumers want and what their company should offer but are only now appreciating the huge institutional barriers that prevent them from delivering. He offers a practical process by which... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
Crawford. “I’m proud that 50,000 of the President’s supporters voted for me,” Edwards says. Moreover, he’s the only Democrat to survive a 2003 redrawing of Texas congressional districts by state GOP legislators and orchestrated by former... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 17, 2007
films). Similarly, we also predict and find that should DVDs are held longer than want DVDs. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsNone this week PublicationsDoes Employment Protection Reduce Productivity?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
well, a group of scholars has highlighted the importance of partnerships and limited partnerships in promoting entrepreneurship in Europe, the United States, and, more recently, in China and Latin America. Their research is a departure... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
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Linda Li
It was the 2012 presidential campaign season. I had been knocking on doors of apartment units and mobile homes, on metal screens, wooden boards, cracked glass, and picket fences. Women and men, students and the elderly, English-speaking... View Details
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
million. Now with a $1.2 billion rights fee for London, most pundits expected it to lose between $100 and $200 million. Instead, NBC not only broke even on the Games, but it also made it the most viewed television event in United View Details
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
equity shop effectively scooped up Celanese, stripped it of its German identity, and repotted it in the United States nine months later, thereby closing a large valuation gap. And there were other situations... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
includes the following positions held: cochairman (and 38-year veteran) of Goldman Sachs; deputy secretary of state in the Reagan administration; and board president of many prominent nonprofit organizations. Founder of the Committee to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Levitt Brand
A consultant and professor with a Ph.D. in economics from Ohio State University, Ted Levitt had already published two articles in the Harvard Business Review when he joined the HBS faculty in 1959. One year later, observed HBS marketing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
society with bad business decisions is magnified by multipliers that include technology, financial interdependencies, and pressure to react quickly in increasingly competitive environments. The solution can begin with one participant raising a hand to View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
in manufacturing,” says Eckert. A 2015 report by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute found that 2 million of the nearly 3.5 million anticipated open manufacturing jobs in the United States in the next... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
Ronnie and Larry Ackman (MBA 1963) and produced by New York public broadcaster WNET. The three episodes in the series premiered on WNET and are now being offered to some 400 business schools in the United View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
that the Crowley children have is so rare (only eight children in the United States now have it; a ninth died in November), they are not slated to be included in these trials. If The Children's Pompe... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
launched in 2019—and a development he sees as part of the larger trend of homegrown, Asia-founded technology companies expanding into Western markets. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Why was it important to you to do this in India, and what... View Details