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- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Bezos’s Blue Origin was still three years away from launching its first test vehicle. Today, Morgan Stanley estimates that the global space economy is worth $350 billion—and projects that it will grow to $1 trillion by 2040. Garriott de... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
influence in Asia,” says Leonard, “but its trends are subject to a different cultural filter.” The list of HBS research projects in the Asia-Pacific region is long and destined to get longer. “The dividend, of course, is new programs,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
D’Avella arrived at HBS just a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina had devastated much of the Gulf Coast. In January 2006, he traveled to New Orleans on a student-led trek with 56 other MBAs to apply their HBS skills to projects ranging... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
http://hbr.org/product/Transforming-Tommy-Hilfig/an/714451-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-092 Dignity Health: A Portfolio of Improvement Projects No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
different functions, divisions, and cultures. Several project management principles-scoping out the challenge, structuring the boundaries, and sorting tasks for execution-help leaders facilitate effective teaming. Leaders can also foster... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
respectively, for the NASA Tournament Lab, a new online project designed to tackle complex computational problems by setting up competitions among scientists to come up with solutions. But the findings from their study can be broadly... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
The Italian lira? The British pound? The French franc? Or all three? The result could determine the success or failure of the project for a single European currency. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/709026-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
Stranger Things cost about $130,000 a minute by comparison.) Just as Anna Kendrick’s Dummy was originally written as a film, these projects will be serialized in seven- to ten-minute morsels that a viewer could snack on, one at a time, or... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
and IBM tested such a concept in the early 1990s but terminated the project after failing to receive commitments from major record labels and retail franchisees. Perhaps more immediately on the minds of record executives is how to use... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
disturb native forests for firewood and lumber. Aracruz also buys and preserves areas of threatened rain forest and conducts numerous other projects to protect and nurture native flora and fauna. One particularly noteworthy program has... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
comes to Black Friday and this holiday season. Instead of projecting certainty in an uncertain world, I think retailers should double-down on experimentation as a strategy. Test multiple campaigns, messages, and promotions more than you... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
these countries, and credit for large-scale projects is channeled through government-owned banks. In the 1990s, we thought all state-owned enterprises would disappear; research—theoretical and empirical—clearly showed that state-owned... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
engineers—they love to build things, and they are very good at it. Their progress on infrastructure projects in the last couple of decades is remarkable, but in keeping with their natural strength and the will of a one-party government.... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
As executive director of Florida's aquarium project in Tampa from 1987 to 1993, for example, James M. Stuart (MBA '69) used spiritual practices to lead some 150 consultants and employees in the building of the aquarium against almost... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume or number of projects completed by a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
firsthand as CFO of Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA). An American citizen, I came here in 2006 to work in a USAID-sponsored project aimed at combating corruption in state-owned enterprises. Here’s one case I encountered: A... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. Religious Freedom Restoration Act In protest, Angie’s List then-CEO Bill Oesterle cancelled a $40 million project to expand the company’s Indianapolis headquarters. (Oesterle has since... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
psychology," he explained. But the School has matured, and today it has joint degree programs with several Harvard professional schools. Going forward, said Nohria, HBS is well positioned to pursue more cross-disciplinary projects... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
distribution, where new startups fail within the first three years following entry. This churning emphasizes a new mechanism through which financial sector reforms impact product markets. It is not exclusively better ex ante allocation of capital to qualified View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace