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Richard Lou

larger role was to manage the developments themselves. A property in midtown Manhattan became the 20-story Wyndham-branded hotel with 92 rooms; a second property in SoHo became a 120-room Courtyard by Marriott. In between, Richard took on... View Details

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Kathleen Hebert

Driving ahead In her second year at HBS, Kathleen would like to "work independently with a professor to think through my family's business model. Can we effectively roll out a nationwide network of luxury car dealerships? What... View Details

05 Feb 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?

MBA education that has socialization as a pedagogical function." His view is seconded by a respondent who currently is in the last semester of an online graduate program and says that "virtual education is one more way to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

"And so a Web project seemed like a great opportunity for us to explore that process." The researchers decided to join forces in early 2007 while attending the Institutional Foundations for Industry Self-Regulation Conference... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical

06 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

Pablo Picasso's legacy is a curious one in that he composed and left behind some 70,000 works of art, but never did draft a will. Thus, the divvying up of his assets has been a charged and factious exercise in a family already made brittle in various ways by the View Details

20 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 20

http://www.springerlink.com/content/91647u2175267563/ Ownership Structure and Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Structural Estimation Authors: Chen Lin, Yue Ma, and Yuhai Xuan Publication: Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This study examines... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

economic miracle (1920s); cars in the second (post-World War II) Convenience Store Retailing in Two Countries: Southland and Seven-Eleven Japan How Japanese managers learned from their American counterparts, then taught the teachers The... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

19 Jan 2023
News

Forged in Fire

they use their greatest strengths and they learn to play together as a team because they're "Aligned" around common purpose and a set of values. But this is not soft. All great coaches are very challenging. And so the View Details

10 Dec 2015
Blog Post

Working with Professors at HBS

began pitching ideas to Anita. The nature of RC year is one that gives you exposure and access to experts in many fields. My section (Section H - go honeybadgers!) had great professors. They were always very accessible to us and... View Details

03 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

proteins at work in the business of life. "The book of life" that made dramatic headlines last year—and was really a first draft of the human genome sequence—is destined to change and challenge medicine, ethics, and business far into the future. The View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

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Thomas Grenier

like my career to progress in the coming years—even though I do not want to think of that path as set-in-stone. My coursework at HBS and an internship between my first and second years helped me decide that I would like to focus my... View Details

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Special Assistant to the CEO | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

he wants to “gain more satisfaction regarding connections made and knowledge gained in the development landscape of Detroit and cities like it. I was born and raised in Detroit. I see this a great jump-off point for a career in... View Details

20 May 2020
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Keeping Families Connected

through activity and play,” explains Tuchman. “And until Caribu, there really was no great way to do that virtually.” Families can choose from more than 1,000 book titles in eight different languages, as well as games, puzzles, and other... View Details

16 Sep 2019
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Smarter Farming

and what we're now doing is to try to reuse and rethink how that land should be used to both create great products for global consumers, but more importantly to make sure that the environment is protected. “A big part of what has made New... View Details

Keywords: meat; dairy; cattle; Agriculture

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Ann Chao

musicians. Together, they founded a startup, Sonation, and developed its first product: an application that allows practicing musicians to play with an orchestra "wherever and whenever they want." In the second semester of her... View Details

01 Sep 2015
Blog Post

Building a Startup at HBS

certainty for anyone admitted to a hospital, still involved a great deal of guess work and discomfort. We reached out to staff at a number of leading hospitals in Boston and learned that the problem is especially severe in neonatal... View Details

14 Sep 2016
Blog Post

The Alumni Network at HBS

the industry. During my time at HBS, I have learned first-hand the power of the alumni base. They are a remarkable group of people who share a “pay it forward” mentality. I have contacted many alumni during my second year, most of whom I... View Details

09 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unconscious Executive

mentioned. Replaying a cue all night might make the cue less effective. (Imagine putting on cologne in the morning. After about 20 seconds you don't smell it anymore because you've gotten used to it.) We don't know if this replaying... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jul 2014
What Do You Think?

Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?

Summing Up Is There Really a Formula for Great Leadership? The overall sense of responses to our question for the month is that the leadership stars of today—Jobs, Bezos, Gates, etc.,—should not cause us to change our time-honored ideas... View Details