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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
seldom enough to be beyond the living memory of today’s bank executives, fund managers, and traders. The average career of a Wall Street CEO is just over twenty-five years, which means that firsthand View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Looking back; looking forward
continuing through 2008, we will be hosting a series of colloquia focusing on some of the most pressing issues of business practice and business education. For its part, Baker Library is engaged in an ambitious institutional memory... View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
place an undue burden on workers who don't have the interest, time, or expertise to manage their finances. A pioneer in translating finance and mathematics into practical, Wall Street-ready models, Merton was awarded the 1997 Nobel View Details
- 18 Nov 2009
- HBS Case
Customer Feedback Not on elBulli’s Menu
prepared by Adrià and his team of thirty to forty cooks. The meal costs roughly 230 euros and represents hours of laborious research, testing, and preparation. In addition to engaging a diner's five senses, Adrià and his team hope to evoke irony, humor, and even... View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Reflections and learnings
that consumer. Some people do it through focus groups, others make it up as they go along. But there is a fierce legion of people who understand that the best place to know what she wants, needs, is delighted by, is to be right there with her. Some of my favorite and... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- Web
Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Works, Worcester, Massachusetts. Scooping up loose iron ore, Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., Birmingham, Alabama. By-products coke ovens, Geneva Steel Plant, Geneva, Utah. Spinning wire into suspension cables on Delaware Memorial... View Details
- Web
VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Eye and Ear Infirmary Massachusetts General Hospital Mayo Clinic MD Anderson Cancer Center Medical University of South Carolina Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital Mirebelais Hospital, a Partners in Health facility (Haiti) Narayana... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
leading figure in the nonprofit world. The first priority for the site is a memorial, all agree, but after that, there is much disagreement. "The size of the plot is not nearly as important as the nature and quality of what is built there," Whitehead has said. "We want... View Details
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
experiences are mediocre, forgettable, and some are plain awful. But once in a blue moon, an experience is so great that it leaves positive memories for years. Why do some product or service experiences have that undeniable “wow” factor,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
process often sparks ideas that lead to creation of innovative new products, Shih explains. So when American companies allow the production of high-tech products like televisions and memory chips to disappear from the local landscape,... View Details
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
yet the traditions and memories of preeminence remained, and today's educational leaders have used these lessons to fuel the more recent, dramatic growth in scope and excellence of Chinese universities. The early PRC was widely believed... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 06 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
India Needs to Encourage Trade with China
mistake to dismiss such cultural links as being too far back in history to matter, since they inform historical memories in the two countries. Scholars suggest that Buddhism and trade were mutually reinforcing millennia ago, and... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 02 Feb 2002
- What Do You Think?
Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?
hard-to-understand financial accounting, hold the greatest hope for change. But these very investors were generally characterized as having both short memories and a high level of greed, not very promising characteristics for leaders of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Seven Lessons from the Section Experience
Section G hosted trips to Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Pakistan, China, Taiwan, Dominican Republic, Cuba, South Africa, Slovenia, and more. The lesson? Travel with the people you love. Even after the experience is over, the memories will live... View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business
more surprising has been my own journey of self-discovery. It’s rare that you spend three or four months probing what kind of leader you are, thinking about where you want to get, and how you can get there. One of my fondest memories this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
School, where she trained at Vermont’s Sugarbush Resort. “Skiing and snowboarding are more lifestyles than they are sports. It’s everything from the sounds and smells of the snow and the winter weather to the adrenaline rush you get from accelerating out of a turn.”... View Details
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
memories took place in national parks. I spent 80% of the pandemic going up and down parks along the Pacific Coast Highway. Using business skills to give back to an organization that had provided so much joy sounded too good to be true. I... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
featured speakers Clause Jensen, Chief Digital Officer and Head of Technology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and information technology author and thought leader Dan Roberts, CEO and President of Ouellette & Associates... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
to found Numenta, an enterprise developing a new type of computer memory system modeled after the human neocortex. Working part-time, Dubinsky intends to stay with Numenta through the R&D phase and lay the groundwork for commercial... View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
about processing speed. We also have the capacity to store programs in memory without having to access data from the disc. EE: Does a clear-cut strategy exist for achieving success in supply chain management? Raman: To provide a partial... View Details
Keywords: by Staff