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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Offering a breath of life for critically ill patients
A scientist by training, David Green (MBA 1991) is drawing upon his business acumen to lead a science fiction-style breakthrough: the creation of replacement body parts (specifically, the trachea) using a recipient’s stem cells. Green is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
view. Born in England and trained as an economist at Cambridge University, he moved to Brussels to work with the European Commission, the governing body of the newly formed European Union. He later became EU director of Transatlantic... View Details
- March 1993
- Background Note
Note on Information Technology and Strategy
By: Richard L. Nolan and Katherine Seger
Provides a context for the evolution of information technology in business organizations, explains the emergence of information as an important resource to be managed, and provides a framework for assessing the strategic potential of information in the firm. View Details
Keywords: Information; Information Management; Information Technology; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Adoption; Body of Literature; Archives; Annual Reports; Information Technology Industry
Nolan, Richard L., and Katherine Seger. "Note on Information Technology and Strategy." Harvard Business School Background Note 193-137, March 1993.
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
professors Pearson Hunt and Gordon Donaldson), which has been used by more than 300 universities. The faculty was relatively compact and small when I joined HBS; the curriculum and the way courses were organized and taught was quite personalized, too. There wasn’t a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- Web
Harvard Business School Archives | Baker Library
body of his professional correspondence. Wartime Schools Collection During World War II, the U.S. military was facing an increased need for officers trained in statistics and supply chain logistics. The HBS Archives holds records related... View Details
- 09 Nov 2016
- News
The Seeds of Learning
We teach students about nutrition, community, and the environment through hands-on lessons that take place in the garden. That means that we’re teaching students about how to take care of their bodies through both diet and exercise, how... View Details
- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy: Ananya Zutshi (MS/MBA '21)
body to kickstart the natural immune response. “What’s become clearer over the last couple years is that cancer patients have bad dendritic cells,” Zutshi said. “They don’t have as many, and the ones that they have don’t work as well,... View Details
- 2007
- Working Paper
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability
By: Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
This paper proposes a new approach to improve the way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of... View Details
Gray, Dale F., Robert C. Merton, and Zvi Bodie. "New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13607, November 2007.
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
A Smooth Stretch
explained, “Yoga became a great way to work my body and quiet my mind at a time when my life as a full-time mother of two small children was feeling quite chaotic.” And yoga also offered a great business opportunity, Hanna realized, for... View Details
- March 1993
- Background Note
Stages Theory, The: A Framework for IT Adoption and Organizational Learning
By: Richard L. Nolan, David Croson and Katherine Seger
Describes Professor Richard Nolan's Stages Theory of Information Technology adoption by organizations. View Details
Keywords: Information; Body of Literature; Information Management; Information Publishing; Adoption; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Decision Making; Information Technology Industry
Nolan, Richard L., David Croson, and Katherine Seger. "Stages Theory, The: A Framework for IT Adoption and Organizational Learning." Harvard Business School Background Note 193-141, March 1993.
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
of cadavers much less so.) For medical schools in countries with strong societal norms against donating one's body to science, such a supply route can prove quite practical. In those and other instances, medical schools can purchase for a... View Details
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Erwin Wurm Big Disobedience 2016 | About
Erwin Wurm Big Disobedience , 2016 Erwin Wurm (Austrian, born 1954), Big Disobedience , 2016, aluminum/paint. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong . Erwin Wurm’s work anthropomorphizes everyday objects in often unsettling ways and explores the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Shelby Colby
sent his class schedule for the fall, and I eyed Round 1 for my HBS application. By mid-August, Douglas had started a job search instead, and we called his parents’ basement our home. I was on disability, and five new surgical scars testified to my aching View Details
- Portrait Project
Damir Ljuboja
the air. Room by room, I surveyed the wards with my supervisor. Some housed patients like Marko*, whose skin infection would resolve in a few days. He perked up, grinning as we entered. Others were home to patients like Sukrija*, whose limp View Details
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1.6 Degree Requirements | MBA
have acquired a body of knowledge, skills, and techniques appropriate to the practice of business administration. The candidate must have demonstrated—by a commitment to the work, a sense of responsibility to colleagues and others, and a... View Details
- Portrait Project
Wilson Kyi
Filial piety. My deep reverence for my parents is captured in this Confucian philosophy. But I can no longer live for them. I used to stake out with my dad in our auto body shop, fending off armed burglars from stealing car radios and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Fida Tashfia
couldn't stop my teeth chattering. I shook all over and my body felt numb, despite the tropical heat. For years, I was afraid to get on a bus. When I think back to that night, I am filled with shame that only one of us had the courage to... View Details
- 10 Nov 2018
- News
The 71-Year-Old Ultramarathoner
it was a whole other ballgame.” Much of the article details Spector’s extensive workout routine, which includes a focus on balance and ankle strength. There are also some long runs, of course, as well as some swimming and upper body... View Details
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Introduction - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Quick Links HBS Home MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions A Concrete Symbol The Exhibition Introduction Educating Business Administrators Core View Details
- 2007
- Text Book
Teaching the Moral Leader: A Literature-Based Leadership Course
By: Sandra J. Sucher
This book is a comprehensive, practical manual to help instructors integrate moral leadership in their own courses, drawing from the experience and resources of the Harvard Business School course "The Moral Leader," an MBA elective taken by thousands of HBS students... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Curriculum and Courses; Moral Sensibility; Body of Literature; Books; Leadership; Personal Development and Career
Sucher, Sandra J. Teaching the Moral Leader: A Literature-Based Leadership Course. Routledge, 2007.