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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
Reconstruction of Male Identity,” is based on a study she conducted while living among crew members on an offshore oil platform, 130 miles off the coast of southern Louisiana. “I interviewed men involved in all aspects of the platform’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
edited by Ted A. Adams "When you study the tire industry," HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow told a Class Day audience of graduating MBAs last June, "you are confronting the meaning of life." A distinguished authority on business history,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Turning Point: Makeover
confidence collapsed. Disillusioned, I quit the corporate world and started traveling. I am Taiwanese-American but once I arrived in Japan, it felt like home. I began studying with mentors including geisha, scientists, business leaders,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
"because I printed it at my school, where they charged me every time I used their equipment." After graduating from Princeton, Barron won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, where he studied philosophy, politics, and economics. But outside... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis
hospitals treating civilians wounded in the war as well as schools and social service providers supporting the refugees. “Only 9 percent of refugees in Turkey live in refugee camps,” says Fabbe, who has long studied migration in Turkey.... View Details
- 03 Aug 2011
- News
No Ducking the Debt Ceiling
a deal fell through, “the damage to the economy had already been done”. After the vote, he observed, the deal amounted to little more than kicking “the can down the road.” Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter blogged that “for many observers of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
investment research in the right order, starting with least-biased sources. He observes that “the order in which I read the materials matters greatly since whatever I take in first will affect me unduly.” But Spier’s biggest life’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
related to the market. He says that the case studies he and his fellow instructors have written will encourage discussions about topics such as the ways companies determine the pricing of a novel drug to make it both accessible to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
I know you will join me in congratulating the Class of 1972 as they observe this important milestone. This is an exhilarating time to be associated with HBS. The mission of the School - to educate leaders - has never been more important,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
all, say Professor Krishna G. Palepu and Assistant Professor Tarun Khanna, authors of "Corporate Strategies for Business Groups in Emerging Markets," a working paper slated to be published (under a different title) in the July-August issue of the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
replicate the idea in his home country of India, Ghose studied ReFood’s model, spoke to its founder, and took that knowledge home to two friends. One evening in August of 2014, the small team hit the streets of New Delhi with food for 150... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
identities, so there’s a fractured sense of self out there. And the moral bar has lowered. We no longer trust the media to be a fair watchdog, nor our elected officials to act with integrity. Detecting deception is not a parlor trick; it’s a complex, imperfect science.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
attractive outfit walked across the screen carrying a sign that pitched a product. These almost literal translations of billboard and magazine ads did little more than set the previous forms in motion. HBS professor emeritus Alvin J. Silk is a marketing expert who has... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
fourteen years later, Rwanda is looked to as a model for the rest of Africa, not the least for its successes with public health and health-care delivery. The goal of the Global Health Delivery Project is to make the first-ever systematic View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
this before? It turns out that most problems have been solved before by somebody in a different environment. Associating that other experience to what’s going on in my world may make me look brilliant, but in reality my brilliance was in seeing that this had been... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
Illustration by Fabio Consoli Illustration by Fabio Consoli The co-CEOs noticed it right away: Early in the pandemic, staffers at the online children’s clothing company Primary.com were struggling when they logged back into Zoom on Mondays. People were not recharging... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
textile work. A few collections — such as the 2,500-volume R.G. Dun & Co. credit report collection and the detailed productivity studies from Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne, Illinois, plant — were known by library staff and scholars... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
authors propose that a process emphasizing learning and adaptation is the key to successful innovation in this emerging age. To understand the procedures required for product evolution in these new circumstances, the researchers studied... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
a nurse, took him on visits to local hos-pitals, where he sometimes observed surgeries. After leaving the military in 1997 and before coming to HBS, Sanchez worked as a manager of research and development at Stryker Leibinger, a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry