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01 Dec 2004
News

Himalayan Journey

Zealand, Switzerland, and the United States). Led by Global Adrenaline cofounder and president Nancy Collins (MBA ’99), Himalayan scholar and guide Jon Miceler, and our two very knowledgeable and attentive Bhutanese guides, Karma Loday... View Details

Keywords: Janet Sanders; Hospitality

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Use and Permissions | Baker Library

plans. We utilize this information to connect users to relevant resources, enhance our knowledge of collections, and review publications that draw upon our resources for potential addition to Special... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Stanford Lets Students Customize

— basic, accelerated, and advanced — allowing students to choose the one that best fits their knowledge and experience. “We wanted to move the program in ways that would pull, not push, students back toward academics,” Dean Robert Joss... View Details

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

20 Jun 2012
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

pedagogy and grounded in quality research. University educators are expected to have a more intricate knowledge base—in both breadth and depth, more fundamental and more strictly criticized and tested—than is available to a layperson.... View Details

Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education

Portrait Project

Margarita Golod

and to cry. Yet I am fully aware that, by their nature, questions signify some sort of weakness in their owner. Thus far, the mystery of the unknown answers has inspired me to disregard the perception of weakness others may have. The View Details

20 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 20

Business: Innovating How We Innovate Author: Gary P. Pisano Publication: Special Issue on Management Innovation-Essays in the Spirit of Alfred D. ChandlerIndustrial and Corporate Change 19, no. 2 (2010): 465-482. Abstract Science has long... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 25

framework for understanding the links between manufacturing and innovation that will enable them to make better outsourcing decisions. They also detail how government must change its support of basic and applied scientific research and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Making Sense of Capitalism

appreciate the opportunity to participate in a wide range of activities at Harvard. I gained valuable knowledge and new ideas through numerous research seminars, workshops, and conferences at Harvard Business School, as well as at other... View Details

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

the next—take their findings with them, providing the wherewithal for startups to hit the ground running. Finally, he said, knowledge in fields such as IT is no longer primarily within the bailiwick of corporate laboratories;... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

15 Sep 2020
Blog Post

One Month into the New MS/MBA Biotech

an afternoon session where we discussed two books, Bad Blood by John Carreyrou and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. We not only discussed scientific and business challenges brought up by the books, but also ethical... View Details

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Introduction

Home | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School × Please sign in You need to log in to use the bookmarking feature. Sign In Baker Library Databases Ask Us Special Collections Fast Answers All Services Hours Plan Your... View Details

11 Aug 2014
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The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)

IMMUNE) and in your role as cofounder of Aromaflage? "The case method at HBS helped me learn to issue-spot, to listen carefully to an argument, and to synthesize and advance the group discussion in a cogent manner. At IMMUNE, I read through vast amounts of View Details

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

assuming superior productivity of one vintage over another, we examine contingency effects on productivity by heterogeneity in prior specialized knowledge bases in complementary human capital and provision... View Details

10 Jan 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can "lean" productions methods improve service industries? How can a... View Details

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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

21 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 21

based upon firm and agglomeration economy traits. We test our framework on the U.S. location choices of new manufacturing entrants between 1985 and 1994 and find that firms are far more attracted to skilled labor and specialized suppliers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

tell,” was how Michael Polanyi described it in his book Personal Knowledge in 1958. Sharing tacit knowledge is obviously harder, and that’s why it is often extremely valuable. View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

13 Feb 2020
News

Honoring a Legend

Steve Kirschner (MBA 1986), Bill Nussey (MBA 1996), & John Yates (event host) Nussey presenting to HBS alumni Nussey and Kirschner The HBS Club of Atlanta’s Entrepreneurship Special Interest Group (eSIG) honored clean-energy entrepreneur... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Black History Month | Baker Library

longer in business. You can download a PDF of their first 10-K report here. Special Collections and Archives Special Collections and Archives collects and makes available the records of business dating from... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech

and AIDS. Those working in the biotech trenches, however, point out that the real work has only just begun. Dr. Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., put it this way in a Business Week interview:... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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