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15 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS

of 2021 I grew up in Puerto Rico and it was never my plan to leave the island. During my childhood, I spent my weekends with my family and friends. The feeling of community and family was rooted in my upbringing mainly through the frequent fiestas View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11

was made to run emergency numbers for companies affected by the attacks on CNBC’s familiar stock market crawler. “Our mindset was to really focus on what the financial community needed,” she continues. “We talked with NYSE chairman and... View Details

Keywords: terrorism; leadership; television; news; stock market; decision making; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

25 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

principles can be valuable to a welfarist facing this limitation if they act as informational proxies, carrying accumulated knowledge about the effects of policy that otherwise cannot be considered. This argument can be seen both as extending a View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

of society can be better met without these taxes, and though research continues to consider reasons why it may be justified, capital income taxation is generally viewed as inefficient. One concern probably less familiar to nonspecialists... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2000
News

The Entrepreneurial Venture

Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic... View Details

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Research in Black and White | Baker Library

earliest Polaroid film, Type 40, produced sepia-toned prints that had limited tonal range. Morse and her lab would next focus on producing black-and-white images that exhibited greater detail, a wider tonal range, and a color palette more View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

census takers in Watford City, North Dakota—in the far west of the state, 50 miles from the Montana border—counted 1,435 people. Today, that number is estimated to be at least 10,000. A familiar fuel for American boomtowns fed the rapid... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

08 Apr 2015
What Do You Think?

Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

It did it by providing simple and inexpensive solutions to everyday problems. Initially it solved a problem in Scott's family of balancing the checkbook. Intuit is said to have been the 47th software company to address the problem. It did it by using as a metaphor the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

the culture and politics of a new organization. It's so easy to fall into pitfalls in these areas and really damage your credibility. The risks obviously are highest for new leaders coming in from the outside. They often have grown up in another organizational culture... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

priorities this summer were to familiarize myself with the assets and challenges facing our city’s economy, while learning from leaders who are driving change. I enjoyed getting an overview of our “cluster” growth industries (such as... View Details

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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the public.” 53 U.S. Steel commissioned the prominent German graphic artist M. Peter Piening to design the volume. 54 The corporation would have been familiar with the Bauhaus artist’s work with major advertisers, as art director for Life... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

Early — much too early — on a rainy March morning, I find myself once again among a throng of bleary-eyed students trooping toward Aldrich Hall. The ritual of the herd, familiar to me and every HBS alum, certainly brings it all back. It’s... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

comprehensive picture of households' wealth, both inside and outside of tax-deferred accounts. While useful, the dataset is very complicated. It is complicated enough that it is, in my view, a somewhat under-exploited resource for the economics profession. I was pretty... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

Portrait Project

Tony Deifell

reminded, though, of my original intention to work more directly within the media and entertainment industry. I have been afraid to depart from the social-enterprise work which has become so familiar and comfortable over the years. I need... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Starting Off on the Right Foot

Waldroop, the former codirector of MBA Career Development Programs at HBS who is a principal and cofounder of Peregrine Partners of Brookline, Massachusetts. “You need to familiarize yourself with the hierarchy. Who has the power and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

28 Feb 2011
News

Rebooting the Human Condition

At HBS, he says, he learned to “rapidly triage and integrate a lot of information from multiple sources” with “uncertainty being part of the package.” One thing is not uncertain: Sea change is under way, and Juan Enriquez, like the early navigators of terra incognita,... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 1

Sebenius, James K. Abstract—Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the internal conflicts and constituencies on his or her own side. Far less View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

company to increase capacity, despite high consumer demand for its economically priced two-wheeler. For 15 to 20 years, the scooter had a ten-year delivery period, Bajaj recalled in his interview. To those not familiar with India's closed... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

now use familiar and ubiquitous platforms, such as Zoom, to assess and monitor their patients’ health status and their compliance with treatment protocols. Patients will be able to conveniently access clinical services that use... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation