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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising
“Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “Millions upon millions . . . of the most varied designs were thrown on the market. . . . Hardly a business man in the country has not at one time or another made use of such cards to... View Details
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Burden Park | About
Business School campus, proudly serving as the School’s large-scale gathering space for thousands of classes and lectures, visiting luminaries, alumni reunions, and student events including the HBS Show. Designed by Lincoln Center... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
HBX: Expanding Our Reach
disseminating their ideas to a broader audience. One product HBX plans to launch next year is a suite of pre-MBA courses drawn from HBS's pre-matriculation and Analytics programs. It will be designed for serious and committed learners,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
to make high-stakes decisions that affect a lot of people, and you have to act quickly or you're in trouble," Carpenter explains. "Managing an Internet firm is just like that." Despite the challenge, under Carpenter's expert guidance, her company, iVillage -a network... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
cater properly to larger-footed women. One day a shoe manufacturer finally said to me, 'Why don't you do something about that?'" Intrigued by the challenge, Thornton interviewed shoe retailers and manufacturers and even took a $6-an-hour View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
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Launch Lab/Capstone 1 - Course Catalog
product/service venture, and thereby to demonstrate mastery with respect to three fundamental areas of knowledge: Design Knowledge: The use of human-centered (and other) design methods to understand users,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ink
take a product designer’s approach, determining what job it is that users are trying to “hire” their product to do. From a student’s perspective, education’s job is to make them feel successful and to have... View Details
- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
lessons from 2014. What will 2015 bring? Most Popular Articles 2014 Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance New research by Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano, and colleagues shows that taking time to reflect on our work improves View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
Sternhell and Oakes on the job. Photos by Jared Leeds One lives in a Manhattan studio five blocks from Wall Street, the other on the second floor of a triple-decker in Jamaica Plain, a culturally diverse neighborhood in Boston. Both are graduatesof the MBA Class of... View Details
- April 2025
- Case
Thrivent: From Insurance Agents to Financial Advisors
By: Hubert Joly, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Tom Quinn
Thrivent, a midwestern financial services company with a centuries-long history rooted in Lutheranism, had reached $10 billion in revenue mostly by selling life insurance. In the 2020s, however, CEO Terry Rasmussen began a transformation process centered around the... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Forecasting and Prediction; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Job Design and Levels; Human Capital; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Insurance Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Minneapolis
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
step back and asked, What’s the fundamental relationship between money and happiness? We were interested in answering that question in order to design interventions: What can we change for people? Professor Whillans, your research looks... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
doing some selective hiring, particularly around design engineering and production control. Our hiring is up over last year; we are seeing about ten times as many applicants per job as we did in years past.”... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
School Case 809-063 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are best friends who enjoy pulling pranks together and talking about electronics. After several small collaborations, Jobs pitches Wozniak on starting a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Spreading the Words
When the youngest of his three sons went off to college in 1994, Carey Cook (MBA 1969) finally had time to pursue a lifelong dream: creating word games and puzzles designed to build the vocabulary skills of school-age kids. At the same... View Details
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The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation - Blog: RGE Report
breakthroughs. Yet diversity must be meaningfully integrated into how innovation happens. IBM’s work on building fairer AI shows how inclusive design principles can uncover ethical blind spots early. Their AI ethics board and toolkits,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Digging Deep
solidly built, collapsible shovel tools that won’t break when things get down and dirty. In the past year, Pieper moved manufacturing from China to Portland, Oregon, a difficult logistical shift that nonetheless made it easier to control quality and respond to market... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
on an Emerging Field Authors:Sandeep Purao, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan Hevner, Veda C. Storey, Jan Pries-Heje, Brian Smith, and Ying Zhu Abstract The boundaries and contours of design sciences continue to undergo definition and refinement.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
songs since its April 2003 debut. No wonder then that Steve Jobs was a recent BusinessWeek cover boy. But for longtime Apple watcher David Yoffie, the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2025
- Blog Post
Mentorship in Action: When an HBS Student Proposes a Project
Each year, some HBS students take the initiative to create their own summer internships—often reaching out to alumni for guidance, conversation, or to pitch a potential project. These students may not be responding to a formal job posting... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
and fears. Tantalizing possibilities spur us to innovate and explore. Yet, we also strive to reduce uncertainty. Mountain climbers and deep-sea divers plan carefully. Rules, routines, and research in business, the law, and medicine are View Details