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17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

To The Lab With that supporting data in hand, the team decided to test the weather/productivity connection in the controlled setting of a research lab. The goal was to establish causality for the correlative... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

resumption of on-campus activities in fiscal 2022 and the need for professional services to support the School’s larger revenue base. IT spending represented 11 percent of the... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

high-level world and national policymakers on the need for stronger clean energy and water policies and regulations. In 2015, Lubber helped catalyze the necessary business support to get the historic Paris... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

surface, a green roof, or supporting solar panels or wind turbines when possible,” Carty says. “And building wastewater can be treated and reused for flushing toilets and watering plants, View Details

04 Sep 2019
Blog Post

A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship

process better.” Yet the possibilities for state-of-the-art enterprise B2B software utilizing SaaS business models inspired him to seek more. Going to HBS, with its start-up support system, would give Stan,... View Details

04 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

significantly lower emissions and higher efficiency for maritime shipping, and how Maersk actively supported these requirements. Maersk felt like many of these regulations were... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

commercial and trade activity and agreements, with mountains of up-to-the-minute data available to firms and governments for making sophisticated projections, why do industries and countries continue to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Doug Marsan

understanding of leadership? Leadership is not a noun but an action. Effective leadership requires leaders to actively listen with inquiry, build support systems, and establish trust so that the team can... View Details

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

analytical tools and interpersonal techniques for dealing effectively with different bargaining styles and tactics. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to... View Details

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Faculty and Research - Alumni

Professor Rebecca Henderson’s online course Sustainable Business Strategy draws upon her research focused on energy and the environment. How You can Help The easiest way for donors to foster faculty thought leadership is by giving to the... View Details

10 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Combining an Interest in Music and Business

supposed to not have a day job? Should I actively avoid having a stable income and the safety of working for a large company? Coming from Perú, where the music industry is still in a very incipient stage, I... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

(both MBA 2015) heard from Keith Alaniz, a fellow officer stationed in Afghanistan, about a farmer there who was concerned about having too few markets for the saffron he was growing. The trio, inspired by the man’s determination to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Projects - Business History

Projects Projects Harvard Business School supports a number of multi-faculty projects that focus on historical research. The projects are diverse, but all bring together the shared interest of faculty to explore the long-term evolution of... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Remix

that’s quite different from mainstream festivals. “This has been one of the most intentional and active responses to the #MeToo movement that I’ve seen in the music industry,” Gandhi says. This idea of creating space View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

actively working on expanding our financial aid offerings and programs' reach, we're currently unable to offer grants for CLIMB. For payment options and loan information,... View Details

04 Feb 2022
Book

Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Reunions - Alumni

events or encourage your classmates to invest in the future of HBS by fundraising for your class gift. In alignment with the School’s commitment to advancing racial equity , we are actively seeking planning... View Details

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

new employment, given the need for significant productivity improvement necessary to reverse the outflow of manufacturing activity from a developed economy. Peter Hogan reminded us that "manufacturers' share... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

16 Apr 2019
Blog Post

How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience

respond, and actively avoiding being the center of attention. I list these out because 1) many of them seem to be in direct contradiction with the case method style of learning, and 2) I’ve found that acknowledging these traits is... View Details

14 Sep 2018
Blog Post

10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

After receiving my degree in Mechanical Engineering at Boston University, I lived in Austin, Texas for 2 years while working at Amazon. I held a role as an engineering project manager launching new View Details

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