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- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
online videos by simply turning away, opening another browser window, or chatting with someone. "It's not at all hard to avoid an ad online even if you can't technically skip it," he says. “It's not at all hard to avoid an ad online even... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
Harsh Bhargava (MBA 1977) was visiting his hometown of Jaipur, India, in 1999 when tragedy struck. In the midst of an unemployment crisis during the Kargil War, the government advertised for 120 open positions in the nearby town of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
spartan, vinyl-floored office in a former communist-run railroad repair yard, and Jeanne Hilsinger insists that is precisely where she wants to be. Now CFO of Mavel a.s., a Czech manufacturer of turbines and turnkey hydroelectric power... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2003) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
Management Committee, O’Neal is one of the firm’s top officers and is frequently mentioned as being on the shortlist to be the next chairman of the 150-year-old firm. “My father told me I wasn’t cut out for farm work,” says O’Neal, whose... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
imbalance. (photo: Webb Chappell) With the federal government's involvement diminishing, nonprofit organizations that specialize in public-private financing for housing and holistic community development have come to the fore. Laurie J. Gould (MBA '96) is manager of... View Details
- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
energy transition, while another session with Lauren Faber O’Connor, Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of LA Mayor’s Office explored urbanization and the future of the grid. In between sessions, the... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
operations. His time in Colombia opened his eyes to widespread poverty. “I took the time to learn about the people, the environment. I found that people worked with the cartels because they didn’t have other opportunities to support their... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Transparency Trap By: Bernstein, Ethan Abstract—To get people to be more creative and productive, managers increase transparency with open workspaces and access to real-time data. But less transparent work environments can yield... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
office products, building products, and paper, had expanded production capacity to meet the strong demand for paper in the late 1980s but bore the brunt when demand began to taper off in 1990. The company — which started up in 1957,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
these ventures is competitive advantage and profit. For Israeli companies, cooperation can open up new markets, provide cost-effective outsourcing opportunities, and significantly lower the costs of production, which is especially... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
until many years later that I came to appreciate the dissenting view of the Vietnam War." Ed Mathias, now a managing director of the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in Washington, D.C., came to HBS after serving as an officer in the Navy... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
together.” In April, Janice opened a Kanin Energy office in Houston. She noted that “Houston is the heart of the energy transition for the country and it’s important for us to be where the industrial... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
openness to technology adoption (e.g., M-KOPA)? I believe that the private sector will generate the majority of capital for our future growth, but how can it work together with the public sector to ensure that growth generates... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program
in an office building on the city’s main thoroughfare, Paseo de la Reforma, to discuss a proposed hotel development. As the developers introduced themselves, I quickly realized we were beginning negotiations not only with their team of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
Last fall, Boston Ballet opened its season with an epic work—an uninterrupted piece choreographed to Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 that ran just under two hours. “It’s close to pure abstraction, so not a story ballet, not a fairy tale,”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
stock of his corporate sponsors dropped, as did sales of Nike golf balls. A college’s well publicized scandal can open the eyes of prospective students. Source: SIphotography But Luca reasoned that many colleges wrestle with drinking and... View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
Fifty years ago, when America was unquestionably a man's world, one small but influential part of it officially opened its doors to women: the MBA program at Harvard Business School. On Thursday, about 800 of the School's roughly 11,000... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
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Judith Prior Lawrie Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
because it was modern. It was a company with probably twelve employees at that point. So working there involved anything from running up to the company that made blueprints up on Church Street for extra blueprints, to going in on Saturday and View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
will soon open the C. Roland Christensen Center, a facility designed for case-method teaching that was the vision of one of his former students. A memorial service was held for Christensen on November 5 at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.... View Details