Materialism - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Judging Success - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Observation of Case Instructors In-Class Assessment of Discussion-Based Teaching Questions for Class Discussions Teaching Quantitative Material Strategies and Tactics for Sensitive Topics View Details

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Working Groups Update | About

broadening learning, and leadership and policies. The team will host focus groups and one-on-one conversations to hear observations, concerns, and recommendations with the goal of creating and implementing action steps for HBS. Additionally, we will assemble... View Details

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

rural India.” Danielle Colson MBA 2022 | Co-founder & COO, Mantel “Mantel is developing the first liquid phase materials that capture CO2 at high temperatures. Our molten borate technology enables new process designs that reduce costs by... View Details

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

fourth book, Alignment, described principle #3, how to create and capture corporate synergies through vertical and horizontal alignment of business and support units. The fourth book also contained material on principle #4, aligning and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Oct 2010
HBS Case

Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market

makes ideal Harvard Business School case material for teaching everything from multinational strategy to on-the-ground logistics. Marketing professor John A. Quelch recently introduced Tesco PLC: Fresh & Easy in the United States,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

11 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

as companies cannot operate without water or raw materials that require water to be produced.” Leni explained, “Water is key to growing agricultural raw materials, as well as in mining, manufacturing, and even technology. For example,... View Details

21 May 2021
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Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

materiality map. Once I did that, I was able to come to the conclusion that acquiring a leading ESG position would potentially help this company gain market share during an upcoming industry consolidation post the Covid-19 crisis. I... View Details

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

No grades are assigned for Global Business. Participants will either be evaluated as complete or not complete. What materials will I have access to after the course? + – You will have access to the materials... View Details

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Geoffrey Jones A second major influence on the diversification strategies of the trading companies was the boom in commodity prices. Industrialization in Europe and the United States stimulated a worldwide search for new sources of supply of raw View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

HBR Group sales increased 3 percent year-over-year, while paid circulation grew 1 percent to a record 352,000 subscribers. HBP Education sales of course materials for participant-centered learning in business education increased 11... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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On the Radar

Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales,” “a parasitic economic logic,” “a rogue mutation of capitalism marked by concentrations of wealth,” “as significant a threat to human... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

11 Aug 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements

Keywords: by William Schmidt & Ryan W. Buell

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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Colorless: American Photography and Material Culture Between the Wars . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1991, p. 6. See Stein, note 11, p. 119. “Margaret Bourke-White on Color Photography and Photo-Murals,” Commercial Photographer... View Details

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Capturing & Disseminating Video/Photography During Course Activities | About

not allowed. As another example, photographs that include seating cards with student names should not be shared unless individual permission has been explicitly granted. Preserves the integrity of the HBS learning environment by not publishing or distributing case... View Details

15 Feb 2024
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Startup Shepherds

By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

evaluated as complete or not complete. What materials will I have access to after completing Entrepreneurship Essentials? + – You will have access to the materials in every prior module as you progress... View Details

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HBS - Key Metrics

/ Latinx 2% 2% 2% 2% Multi-Race / Non-Hispanic 4% 4% 4% 4% Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander — — — — White 72% 71% 71% 72% Did Not Report / Unknown — — — — Teaching Materials 637 668 676 626 Research Articles on HBR.org 296 307 231... View Details

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

negotiations, we are able to add even more valuable source material to our intellectual and practical treasury. For example, when you asked above about how to get the right parties involved to set up the most promising negotiation, we... View Details