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21 Dec 2016
Blog Post

The Best Little Secret of the Harvard MBA

It’s 7:45 in the morning on a Friday and I am sitting in Spangler Hall, the center of student activity at Harvard Business School. About a third of the building is a large dining facility that includes a kitchen, serving area, and dining... View Details

08 May 2006
Research & Ideas

The Cost of Cutting in Line

show, for example, that companies must not try to buy local approval if they plan to open a new facility that the local community does not welcome. If Wal-Mart plans to open a new store and the town does not like it, the worst thing the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel

area of the JSW Steel facility (a large campus with many exciting operations). Beyond the steel industry, we had the unique opportunity to learn about various ways that India and Indian businesses ae managing climate change, both from a... View Details

November 1991 (Revised January 1995)
Case

Teradyne Japan

By: Michael Y. Yoshino

Describes a parent-subsidiary relationship in the high technology industry. The subsidiary, located in Japan, has been expanding its activities throughout the 1980s in the face of stiff local competition. Examines the dilemma facing corporate and country management as... View Details

Keywords: Relationships; Mergers and Acquisitions; Expansion; Competition; Business or Company Management; Communication; Buildings and Facilities; Business Subsidiaries; Japan

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01 Apr 2025
Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami

Are you interested in connecting with other alumni leveraging their careers to confront climate change? BEI invites HBS Alumni to join our Alumni in Climate Networking Series for a chance to connect with local alumni to discuss ideas, trends, opportunities, and... View Details

19 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission

there are a range of business analyst jobs that complement coders to deliver quality software and technology-based services. Since state governments run public schools, community colleges, and public universities, they desperately need to evolve their curriculum to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey J. Bussgang; Technology

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2.3.2 Hazing | MBA

public and private institution of post- secondary education shall issue to every student group, student team, or student organization which is part of such institution or is recognized by the institution or permitted by the institution to use its name or View Details

Profile

John Speer

and Wolfgang (1). With the kids’ enrollment at the HBS childcare facility on Soldiers Field Park, “it feels like all three of us attend Harvard,” John says. “They’re in preschool just 200 yards from my classroom. It’s fantastic. We all... View Details

11 Jan 2021
Blog Post

Finding My Place at HBS

world-class facilities at the University of Kansas. I went from a 100-person hometown to a metropolis of 8 million. I went from shoveling mud for my family’s water well drilling business to working in private equity deals. But the day of... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Making Progress on Strategic Priorities

Administration, Chair, Gender Initiative In support of Harvard University President Drew Faust’s vision for “One Harvard,” HBS is helping to foster collaboration across the University. Allston The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is... View Details

19 Aug 2010
News

Classroom Hijinks: Catchphrases, Mottos, Cheers, and Mascots

the section as a socialization substitute for in-dorm dining facilities when they proved to be too costly. And it’s true that the MBA Class of 1949 was the first to assign students to sections. Perhaps having all of a section’s courses in... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Apr 2011
News

Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

existing scaled-up technologies in the mining industry for the novel application of ‘mining’ e-wastes. WikiPay is a proprietary mobile and online commerce platform that facilities money transfer, payment applications and mobile marketing... View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

01 Dec 2011
News

Letters to the Editor

Jr. (MBA 1956) and his tremendous gift to HBS. His daughter, Anna Spangler (MBA 1988), was a classmate of mine. Her family’s legacy to HBS is greatly respected and appreciated. I visited the Spangler Center this past May, and I was so impressed. This is by far the... View Details

Keywords: HBS Show; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

January 2009 (Revised June 2014)
Case

CityCenter (A): Vision and Design

By: A. Eugene Kohn, John D. Macomber and Ben Creo

CityCenter is a $9 billion project for MGM MIRAGE. The project's star architects have a major disagreement about a critical design issue. Bill Smith, head of the MGM MIRAGE Design Group, must resolve this issue to the satisfaction of all the project's stakeholders.... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Cost vs Benefits; Design; Construction; Projects; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Conflict Management; Value Creation

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16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

Lerner: This is an excellent question. It is clear that corporations over the past two decades, and particularly in recent years, have been seeking to transform their central research facilities from "ivory towers" into places... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

02 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Uncovering the Virtual Advantage at Humana

from business partners across the company. “We created a virtual tour experience that allowed interns to see the facilities in a different way in 2020,” said Layfield. “In 2021, the internships will be largely remote as well, but we will... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health-Related Services

16 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

allowed me to appreciate that organizations’ choices across these business domains do not exist in a vacuum. Health facilities are shaped by the systems to which they belong. These systems, in turn, are regulated and funded by... View Details

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Video Management Policy | About

the video policy, cameras procured with audio detection and recording features may not be activated or configured to record audio Cameras are used to support facilities and operations management across campus. Live video may be provided... View Details

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.

alternatives, the world's governments need to act. They must redesign their nuclear regulatory practices and provide physical facilities for prototype evaluation that will let private capital take on the tasks of technical innovation,... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

01 Dec 2017
News

Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

institution and doctor. Less than two years after launching its first marketplace, Nomad Health is working with 20,000 clinicians and 600 health care facilities in 12 states. The Question: Nomad Health’s long-term goal is to work in all... View Details

Keywords: April White

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