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MBA Class of 1959 Chapel | About

ceremonies, and concerts, the chapel is easily identified by its cylindrical, copper-clad, main building and adjacent glass pyramid. Visitors pass through an enclosed water garden before entering a simply furnished main sanctuary, which... View Details

22 Feb 2024
Blog Post

It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You!

carved out a product manager or adjacent role for me to step into. I ended up joining Starlink at SpaceX, where I had a terrific summer working on the Growth team in LA - and even overlapped with alum and now SpaceX employee Kate Sweeney... View Details

06 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn

agents at adjacent firms, competitive outside options abounded,” the study notes. The exit begins Once pay reductions were announced, “highly productive” workers, or those who took in 20 to 25 percent more revenue per call than average,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

companies and is adjacent to the Harvard i-lab and Launch Lab. The first floor consists of 50 coworking spaces designed to be family friendly with a fully stocked kitchen, office supply center, conference rooms, lockers, filing cabinets,... View Details

2011
Working Paper

How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade

The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details

Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior

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29 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.

Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Mar 2024
News

Case Study: Testing the Waters

Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

29 Jan 2018
Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

most obvious through the ventilation shaft, was quickly rendered impossible. The second strategy, drilling a new mine ramp, also soon proved impossible as the instability of the rock was discovered. The third, tunneling from an adjacent... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining

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Hawes Hall | About

Hawes Hall Rodney (MBA 1969) & Beverly Hawes Hawes Hall is named in honor of, and made possible through support from Beverly and Rodney A. Hawes Jr. (MBA 1969). Dedicated in 2002 and located adjacent to Aldrich Hall, Hawes Hall was built... View Details

01 Sep 2022
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Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

the two countries have managed to alienate each other. It includes everything from blame about COVID-19 to suppression of minorities in China to the US policy toward Taiwan and “One China” to military action in waters adjacent to China to... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

types of companies might be adjacent to that and would benefit from your expertise. Identify the kind of company you want to work with—large, small, public, privately held, early stage, mature, and so on. Think about what matters most to... View Details

10 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

table for you? Maybe you spent the last decade in e-commerce and you’d like to try an adjacent area like marketing technology or retail? What type of people do you prefer to not work with? For example, extroverts or introverts,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

38,000 square feet were added to the 130,000-square-foot building. With 67 faculty offices in Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, all HBS professors are now housed in three adjacent buildings—Baker | Bloomberg, Rock Center, and Morgan... View Details

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2.3.1 Drug & Alcohol Policy - MBA

place in and adjacent to the flat floor classrooms in Batten Hall (the Hives) and the Chao Center. If alcohol is being served, food must also be served. Events with alcohol are limited to four (4) hours in duration. Restaurant Associates... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

adjacent 36-acre Enterprise Research Campus are advancing at a brisk pace. Dupré expects the University’s Allston investment will have a ripple effect. “We hope that it underscores and magnifies all of the amazing things that are... View Details

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

geographically by rolling up other companies in adjacent territories. Usually, the operating unit remains local if the relationship with local customers is important. What the acquiring company brings is some combination of lower... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

01 Sep 2023
News

Case Study: The Home Team

Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

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Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

strength of related clusters in the region and with the strength of similar clusters in adjacent regions. Importantly, we find evidence that new industries emerge where there is a strong cluster environment. Our analysis also suggests... View Details

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

layout to place interdependent groups in adjacent space to encourage trustful bonding. Individuals can be assigned the full-time job of maintaining balanced relationships within and between groups. Of course, these same structural devices... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

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Drug & Alcohol Policy | About

events (e.g., receptions) that take place in and adjacent to the flat floor classrooms in Batten Hall (the Hives) and the Chao Center. If alcohol is being served, food must also be served. Events with alcohol are limited to four (4) hours... View Details

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