Publications

Portrait Project

Ruby Tamberino

years later, I was a student at my first-choice university, the pride of my hometown, and I was failing. It took a handful of pills and ten days in a mental-health facility for me to realize that impressing my elders and out-achieving my... View Details

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The Case Method Classroom | Baker Library

The Case Method Classroom The very essence of the case method is group discussion. . . .Long experience has shown that special facilities are needed in order that students may hear, see and talk freely with one another. Winthrop W.... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong

best understood at close range - Clark announced that the School is actively investigating the establishment of a small HBS research facility based in Hong Kong. "The global nature of business today has created a remarkable set of... View Details

Keywords: Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden

01 Jun 2006
News

One-on-One with Tom Oreck

headquarters or our Long Beach facility could be taken out by a hurricane. One of the things we didn’t anticipate was a storm that was massive enough to take out both locations simultaneously. Ahead of the storm, we backed up and shut... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2007
News

The Winning Season

outside the luxury boxes. Back at his office, plans for new signage spill across the desk of the younger DeWitt, who joined the Cardinals in 1996 and oversaw construction of Roger Dean Stadium, a 7,000-seat spring training facility built... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2015
News

Harvard’s Next Frontier

facilities to be constructed along Western Avenue, adjacent to HBS and the Harvard Innovation Lab. “John is the epitome of a visionary leader,” said Dean Nitin Nohria. “He understands that this gift will be the cornerstone for a Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Drew Faust

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

physical facilities were prepared for. So the team decided to reconfigure the twenty Atlanta branches into three alternative models: Five branches were redesigned as "express centers," efficient, modernistic buildings where... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services

28 May 2019
News

The Physical Campus in a Virtual World

less transformational. Other manifestations of the physical versus online dichotomy abound on our campus. Eight years ago we launched the Harvard i-lab adjacent to our campus; this facility has become a hub for entrepreneurship, not only... View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

November 2009 (Revised April 2010)
Case

Rose Smart Growth Investment Fund

By: Arthur I Segel and Justin Seth Ginsburgh

The Jonathan Rose Companies must decide how to design and launch an innovative new real estate fund focused on green and transit oriented properties. JRC seeks to show through the fund that smart growth and green buildings provide superior economic returns to sprawl... View Details

Keywords: Property; Buildings and Facilities; Transition; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Investment; Marketing; Energy Conservation; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Finance; Real Estate Industry

February 1999 (Revised March 2001)
Case

Egghead to Egghead.com (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell

Over the course of 12 months in 1997 and 1998, Egghead senior management decided to shut down its 180 brick-and-mortar retail stores and move to an electronic store. The case describes the evolution of that process, and the role of its CEO George Orban, and poses... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Internet and the Web; Transformation; Decisions; Corporate Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Market Transactions; Buildings and Facilities; Retail Industry

23 Oct 2020
News

Educating the Whole Student

Initiative, apart from other models. First, The Primary School enrolls students as close to birth as possible. “We know the majority of brain development happens in the first few years of life,” Liu explains. Second, the school partners with a local health center,... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

10 Oct 2024
Blog Post

High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands

run-of-the-mill structures - they're technological marvels. The trio of Syngenta Tomato Vision, Van den Ende Rozen, and Koppert Cress beckoned us into a world where every leaf and petal is touched by cutting-edge advancements. Syngenta Tomato Vision is a research View Details

01 Jun 2003
News

Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus

gift, Frank Batten has ensured that our very special model of living and learning will continue into the future, as we renew the facilities on this campus and look toward future opportunities with our neighbors.” Harvard University... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank

15 Oct 2024
News

Ratan Tata, Visionary Business Leader, Dies at 86

health and agricultural projects for poorer Indians. In the United States, he and Tata Trusts contributed millions of dollars to several universities—including his alma maters Cornell and the Harvard Business School—for research View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Japanese Connection

presents a whole new set of challenges. “What they do is dictated by visa requirements and language skills,” he explains. “They stay away from things that require a depth of facility with the language, such as law or marketing.” Just as... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

January 2009 (Revised June 2014)
Supplement

CityCenter (B): Economics and Delivery

By: A. Eugene Kohn, John D. Macomber and Ben Creo

Bill Smith is informed by his general contractor that a key component of the Aria Resort is going to be delayed. Aria is the centerpiece of CityCenter: a $9 billion complex and a bet-the-firm decision for MGM Mirage. Smith must make a decision as to whether to force... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Decision Choices and Conditions; Construction; Finance; Organizational Structure; Projects; Complexity

September 2010 (Revised July 2021)
Case

Gone Rural

By: Andre F. Perold

Gone Rural employs 750 women in rural communities across Swaziland to produce handwoven baskets and other hand-crafted items. The women are mostly grandmothers caring for children orphaned as a result of the country's high AIDS-related death rate. The company has a... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Growth and Development; Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Corporate Finance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Swaziland

May 1994 (Revised November 2001)
Case

Concord Center

By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.

A major shopping center developer and an insurance company form a joint venture to develop a 900,000 square foot super-regional shopping center. Describes the nine-year struggle to deal with market, regulatory, and financial issues to get the project ready for... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Joint Ventures; Construction; Partners and Partnerships; Governance Controls; Market Entry and Exit; Projects; Equity; Corporate Finance; Retail Industry