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01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy

HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details

Keywords: April White

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

investment in a program but rather the amount that the Just Solutions Collective identified as EJ specific. Additionally, some details will be included from the Senate Democrats’ summary of EJ in the IRA.[18] The Senate Democrats state... View Details

24 May 2017
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Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

then settled in New York and joined the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore for a short stint until a high school friend convinced him to consult on a project in their home country. “Serendipity works in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

21 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

Set Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups Related reading from the Working Knowledge... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

within the broader themes of history, including society, politics, culture, and gender. How, for instance, did the experience of women working for Avon differ from those of men View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

02 Nov 2016
Blog Post

The Benefits of a Residential Campus

for all of the first year and the first semester of the second year before moving off campus to live with my partner in Back Bay (about a 10 minute drive from campus, a 50+ minute public transportation ride door to door). First, if you’re... View Details

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Greenhill House | About

research centers around the world—assist faculty, students, and alumni in their work, encouraging a global outlook in research, study, and practice. It is also home to Executive Education Staff and Research Support staff. About the Name... View Details

25 Apr 2024
News

Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

24 May 2010
Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

Recent research at Harvard Business School began with the premise that as a state's congressional delegation grew in stature and power in Washington, D.C., local businesses would benefit from the increased federal spending sure to come... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

for corporate groups in Latin America from working within protected economies and industries to being completely open to the global economy," he said. "We're going to have to be much more... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

01 Dec 1997
News

Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

jealous, they feel inadequate. But people also love her because she organizes life for the rest of us in very helpful ways from which we can pick and choose what works for us. She offers tools and techniques... View Details

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Brandon Graves

fashion from an early age. I was her first “intern” and was fascinated to see how CADs on line sheets transformed into garments hanging on the racks of contemporary sales floors in NYC department stores. What is the best thing about your... View Details

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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

from family, custom, religion, or law restrained them,” Jacques Downs contends. “They had come to seek a fortune; they would wrest it from China and go home to practice their... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling

purchase that would contribute to income rather than simply depreciate with time. A similar argument justified the purchase of a home sewing machine, which reduced average time for making a shirt from... View Details

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

benefits from Principals Connect; they seemed to feel that something was being imposed on them from outside. Outside? Hallquist was starting in her home community where... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time

1918, half of all cars on the road were Fords, but by 1930, three out of four cars and trucks were bought “on time,” most of them from other manufacturers. 24 A rare surviving collection of papers from a... View Details

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

Love at HBS is a celebration of the diverse expressions of love that exist on our campus and in the world around us. This project showcases stories of love from students at Harvard Business School. Laura Sandoval & Javon Tai, Class of... View Details

25 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Developing the Global Leader

recommendations for would-be global leaders is to live in a country where the language spoken is different from that in one's home country. "When my wife and I lived in Japan we had a two-year-old... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

making an increasing number of people feel “time poor”—stressed from having too many things to do and not enough time to do them. In 2011, 70 percent of working Americans reported that they “never had enough... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

developing. EXPLORE MORE OF THE EXHIBIT EXPLORE x HOME EMERGENCE OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY The Invention of the Polarizer A RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding View Details

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