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- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
has encountered several hiccups in recent years that have put the timing of its implementation in question, leading Rebecca M. Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, to get students thinking during a class last week:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
colors, patterns, swatches of fabric, and garment samples assembled to plan Old Navy’s fall 2005 clothing lines. Ross, casually dressed in a style reflective of Old Navy’s “democratic” approach to fashion, notes that such public displays... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706037 Supplement (B), 707-025: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu /b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707025 Competing Through Business Models (A) Harvard Business School Module Note 708-452... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
practices that it became a necessary dowry item. "You couldn't get married in northern India, in a middle class or lower middle class family, unless the girl's family was ready to give a Bajaj scooter." Yet,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
more focus and intention to the organization’s future state. Over a two-hour strategy session with the McKinsey team and her regional directors in August, McKenna takes notes in a Moleskine notebook. (She prefers the ones lined with graph... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
thriving. Applications are on the rise again after trending downward for several years. Only one out of nine applicants to the Class of 2010 got a coveted acceptance letter. Almost no one passes up the opportunity; 91 percent of those... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
was premised on an allegory about hillbillies, which working class people outside America's cities found valuable at a time when American ideology was all about engineering life and technological progress. Holt describes the geographical... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Research in Black and White | Baker Library
advantage of Polaroid’s support for education, Morse attended courses in chemistry at Harvard and MIT. (6) The Polaroid Research Seminars in the Organic Research Lab also offered classes in organic chemistry and organic chemical theory,... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
(MBA 1985), a senior lecturer at HBS. “I was the oldest, from the Class of 1981, while the youngest one on the panel graduated in 2018,” says Donaher. “Every panelist gave a summary of their experience as an LGBTQ person on campus at HBS.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812033-PDF-ENG Chris and Alison Weston (A) Sandra J. Sucher and Celia MooreHarvard Business School Case 612-019 Chris and Alison Weston describe how they, a well-educated middle class... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
academic sent me the link [to the petition] after I expressed sympathy for her situation I opened my class today echoing the Harvard president and HBS dean that all voices, religions, nationalities and values belong at Harvard and are... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
observe an almost total absence of 20- to 40-year-old men and women around the village, or to experience the hard labor that falls on those left behind when it comes to simple needs like getting and preparing food — a task delegated primarily to women, View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
Oregon, when she was six years old, and her parents’ anxious search for a home in the best possible school district, which led to a full-tuition scholarship at the University of Oregon. Noting that the option to choose one’s neighborhood... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
covered in the designs constructed by each member of the team, five pieces of white paper covered in Post-it notes in every color of the rainbow, and flow charts exhibiting varying degrees of artistic ability and detail. For nearly an... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
as did reports on the expansion of Baker Library's collection, the continuing development of the case method, and, farther afield, the gathering of war clouds over Europe. Early in 1940, new Bulletin editor Boyce F. Martin (MBA '30) announced the expansion of the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
would be mostly men and a few women." She was right. Sherwood was one of eight women out of a class of 668 to be admitted for the first time to the two-year MBA Program, a fact that didn't sink in until the women saw one another amid a... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
the productivity of busy professionals. For workplace settings devoid of perks, small non-cash rewards like access to valuable online classes or fitness programs can also contribute to well-being. Other non-cash rewards, such as View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
an animal shelter near her hometown. “I visited the shelter to earn a Girl Scout badge, but it immediately became a passion,” she says. More than a decade later she was sitting in a behavioral economics class at Stanford University,... View Details
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Last winter, a senior admissions officer at Claremont McKenna College resigned, after admitting to inflating reported SAT scores of the incoming class for six years and sending the falsified reports to U.S. News and World Report. “It's... View Details