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- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue By: Rashid, Faaiza, Amy C. Edmondson, and Herman B. Leonard Abstract—Three years ago, when a cave-in at the San José mine in Chile trapped 33 men under 700,000... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207059 Texas Gulf Sulphur: The Timmins Ontario Mine Harvard Business School Case 204-114 Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo
referenced for years after the final presentation, and hopefully mine will be too. It might be less important than the work experience I was picking up, but I had always wanted to experience the Silicon Valley-style startup perks and... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
environmental concerns (for example, water treatment and usage) that a company needed to pay more attention to. The goal was to work with portfolio companies to improve their ESG ratings. By doing so we believe they could potentially improve valuations over time.... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
people about where they got their dog,” Exley says. “And a story that kept coming up was that people often found their dog from another family. Not from a shelter, not from a rescue group, not from a pet store or a breeder. Just, you know, ‘A friend of View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
assets as part of a bank's core capital. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111076-PDF-ENG Sherritt Goes to Cuba (A): Political Risk in Unchartered Territory Aldo Musacchio and Jonathan SchleferHarvard Business School Case 711-001 Ian Delaney, CEO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
Paralympics, Golden Age Olympics, Senior Olympics, Junior Olympics, Special Olympics, or HBS Section Olympics. But I did mine the following nuggets about actual HBS Olympic athletes from the HBS Web site and the Harvard College list. The... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
for growth. During the nineteenth century, most multinational investment in developing countries went into natural resources and related services. These were often enclave investments, like mining towns, with few links to the local... View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
appreciation of the role of the chief risk officer, and of leadership in general, in risk management. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110031-PDF-ENG IFP, Indonesia Roy D. ShapiroHarvard Business School Case 610-052 IFP, Ltd. is a Europe-based... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Pamela Woo (MBA 1994): Pamela Woo, MBA 1994. Mine is All There Is by Anderson Cooper. I just lost my mom in December, [after a] 10-year battle with Alzheimer's and it was just so transformative to hear about his journey, his loss, and how... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
buy-outs. To vanquish a problem, we have to understand it. "I thought I was going to live, work, retire, and die in New York City," said Chu. "Then a friend of mine invited me to join the board of a nonprofit, ACCION... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Remote Work Extends to Factories and Farmlands | Working Knowledge
visualizing, and interpreting data. This upside of digital twin technology is particularly relevant for jobs that have traditionally required the presence of human workers in unsafe and faraway places, like mining and on offshore oil... View Details
- Web
Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
sharp, detailed portrayals of mining pits, factory operations, research laboratories, and expansive plants that reveal the human as well as technical aspects of the steel-making process. Fritz Henle. Tin plate inspection, Columbia Steel... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
biotech companies—as a function of cost, time, and failure modes—tend to risk pivot on one program, one clinical trial, one outcome,” he observes. “Our company is the leader in mining muscle biology for drug discoveries that translate... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
passing motorists. Hustead acquired the T. rex, for example, to drive demand for the fossils, rocks, and dinosaur-related products for sale in the Wall Drug Mining Company, one of 21 separate retail departments that generate over $12... View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
full advantage of its growing product portfolio. Students debate the merits of going after new customers by building an enterprise sales force or mining the existing customer base with an inside sales force that already has a lot on its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
on," says Harvard Business School marketing professor Gerald Zaltman. A more strategic approach to data mining can provide the foundation for that decision-making architecture. Below, advice on how to use information about the... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
skills in the house, spent his after-school hours submitting hundreds of job applications on her behalf. But even after following all the advice he could mine from Google and the public library, they didn’t get any call-backs. It was Ng’s... View Details
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
decade has seen the end of apartheid in South Africa, the fall of communism in Russia, the opening of major mines in Canada, and the emergence of a worldwide movement against so-called "blood" or "conflict" diamonds.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
to think through it yourself. When I taught in a management program in Turin in 1953, an Italian assistant of mine commented that lecture courses had the impact of water over marble: very smooth, leaving little trace. The B-School was... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna