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- 01 Sep 2013
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The New Rules of E-Commerce
site refreshes. Embrace innovative thinking. Rakuten discovered that its Indonesian customers were hesitant to key in credit-card information due to security concerns. The solution: Mikitani heeded the advice of a local partner to create delivery teams on mopeds to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
New Releases
Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence Edited by David B. Yoffie (Harvard Business School Press) In an introduction to this new collection of essays, David Yoffie, the School's Max and Doris Starr Professor of Business... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Deep Reading
Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
(Wiley) Seelert, the chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi, based this collection of powerful stories on his most fundamental management lesson: “To succeed in business and in life, you have to know where you’re going, have the courage to take... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
kicked out of the game?” The first case HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections In 1980, just as he was joining the HBS faculty, Bill Sahlman met an interesting character named Jeff Parker. Parker, then 37... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
work in the community and a collective impact approach. It's using these pillars of joy that we talked about. For the staff, we do an annual staff survey where we ask questions about staff well-being and also looking at these domains of... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
taken up by the population overall. So I think there's a lot we can learn about metaphors and visual language and how we can help people understand a crisis through those tools. That's exactly the same thing that we're trying to do with climate change. The role of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
particular talent that you wish you had? I wish I had an ear for foreign languages. And I’m not a very good dancer. What was your first job? In college I was a warehouseman at Ford. I would push a cart around and collect instrument panels... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
A Growing Array of Engagement Opportunities
success—of global immersions for students and the faculty alike. In addition, graduates share their insights with each other through Skydeck, the alumni podcast series launched in 2016; enhanced reunion programming; webinars; and other activities highlighted on the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni Salute Bill Sahlman
and Andy Paul (MBA 1983) reached out to alumni to inform them of the new fund. “Early support has been extraordinary,” adds Paul. “It’s a true testament to the role that Bill has played in so many lives as well as to the collective... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundswells
Baker Library Historical Collections THE ORIGINAL 13 Speaking at the campus dedication on June 4, 1927, George Fisher Baker, whose $5 million gift funded the construction of the thirteen original riverfront buildings, set the tone for the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Books
collection of Professor Porter’s articles from the Harvard Business Review is arranged by topic. Parts I and II present the well-known frameworks addressing how companies, nations, and regions gain and sustain competitive advantage. Part... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
and superstar scientists on collective evaluations can thus result in substantial bias toward ‘their’ applicants,” the paper states, potentially leaving proposals that could yield significant scientific contributions going unnoticed and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
small, in California, Florida, and Texas, where most HBS Latino alumni live. Dallas was the proving ground for this strategy. “We want to collect and build our networks more regionally,” says Calderon, who sits on the club’s board.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
was created in 2002. Since then, the School has borrowed nearly $1.6 million for over a dozen projects, including: Energy-efficient lighting at Burden, Kresge, Morris, and Teele halls. A recycling program that now collects more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
panelists were collectively bullish on solar energy, electric drive technology that powers hybrid and electric cars, and biofuels (including ethanol). By contrast, they were cautiously optimistic about clean coal, nuclear power, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
A tour of Plochman Inc. in Manteno, Illinois, features many of the sights you might expect to find at a business whose sole purpose is to manufacture mustard. In addition to a loading dock stacked high with pallet after pallet of bright yellow bottles, there's... View Details
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
families, he launched projects collectively worth more than 500 million and helped create Spain's first real estate investment trust. He took over at Metrovacesa in 2016, just as the domestic market was taking off. By the time of its IPO... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
His research focuses on venture capital organizations and their role in transforming scientific discoveries into commercial products. Much of this research is collected in The Venture Capital Cycle, a forthcoming book from the MIT Press.... View Details