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- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
that are going through massive transformations—be it due to crises, or just the result of some really big swings. And the duo started to see some throughlines emerge about what it takes to tackle complex problems quickly and effectively.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Milly Wang
that I remembered most—my second-grade teacher encouraging me to speak up in class despite my poor English, my friend staying by my side overnight in the emergency room after I broke my ankle despite having... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
okay, so you've got me in the room now. You're one of four African American CEOs in the Fortune 500. Does it make any difference to our people that you're in the room? And that's his question. Neeley: all of us have to be present and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
with a focused strategy concentrates its resources on a specific task or intervention—such as the homeless shelter that focuses on providing overnight beds and a warm meal, or an ambulance service that focuses on getting patients to the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
Professor of Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, conducted the research with Katherine Baicker of the University of Chicago and Mark Shepard, associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School. Addressing the high costs of health... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- Web
Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
increasing danger of highlight glare at night. Land entered Harvard College in 1926. After the fall semester, he took a leave of absence to live in New York City. Over the course of the next three years, in the reading room of the New... View Details
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
export-led growth strategies can work, policy makers face the question as to whether it is a feasible approach for all countries at all times. One body of literature, emerging already when Asian economies focused on exports to regain... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
hundred years, all of us sitting in this room today will be gone. Just at different times, some sooner than the others. So then if death is the ultimate truth, what should really matter most in life? I feel the only thing that truly... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Managers Stifle Creativity
you don’t need to be a coding genius in a dorm room to birth a breakthrough, says Harvard Business School Professor Teresa M. Amabile, who has studied the interplay between creativity, productivity, and innovation for more than four... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
have encouraged our clients to take substantial portions of their U.S. equity portfolios and buy international stocks.” Views on investing in emerging markets: “Those markets are enticing but can be unbelievably volatile. We think the... View Details
- 10 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
What I Did Differently Before Reapplying to HBS
myself for the worst, I read out the first few words of the letter. "Dear Arman, The answer is YES!" I will never forget this moment. I was sitting in my living room and was overwhelmed with an immense sense of relief and... View Details
- Web
Drug & Alcohol Policy | About
Harvard’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP). The Harvard University Police Department brochure Playing It Safe contains helpful information as well. Additionally, any member of the University may make use of the Health Services on an View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
steadily solves unique problems, it builds the ability to do whatever is required to succeed in its context. When the incumbent has retreated into the highest tiers of its market and has to fight because there is no room for further... View Details
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
about disruption vis-à-vis public education? Where do you see the most room for innovation? A: The lesson from all industries is that the most promising areas for innovation are pockets of what we call "nonconsumption"—areas... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been near the top of the technology-hype lists for years. In 2018, Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies ranked IoT platforms as cresting the “peak of inflated expectations” stage and ready to... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
emerged and competed with one another in the early decades of university business education. The first was a simple aggregation of courses taught elsewhere in the university and covering such obviously useful (if intellectually... View Details
- Web
John H. McArthur | About
information, he also saw a need for the School to experiment with new technologies and forms of packaging intellectual content, which had emerged as part of the changing competitive landscape for business schools. In typical fashion,... View Details