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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Marketing After the Recession... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
investing. Whereas most randomized control trials have long learning cycles of years or more, PAD’s interventions are delivered digitally, “so we know immediately who listens to what messages, and we can conduct surveys by phone in near... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Top Ten Cases: Research from Around The World
Computers and e-commerce, cars and corporate titans — these themes are at the core of Harvard Business School Publishing’s latest compilation of best-selling cases. Written wholly or in part by current or former members of the HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
Education. “While the corporation’s internal practices greatly impact the environment, H&M believes that 26% of the greenhouse gas emissions in a garment’s life cycle [occur] after the product is sold to the end consumer (the disposal and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) spent the first 10 years of his work life as an hourly wage earner, moving from one minimum wage job to the next, often unable to transfer learned skills or training to his new roles. The View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Power of Prayer
region. The Collective Banking Group is a national organization of African-American churches that agrees to conduct its business with partnering banks and encourages parishioners to do the same. The CBG was formed in 1993 by Reverend... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Cast of Characters
Jan Moran’s (MBA 1989) The Winemakers, is set to inherit the family business and the family secrets. Through Rosetta, Moran explores once-taboo topics including illegitimacy, divorce, and female entrepreneurship and ambition. The... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics
doctors often treat patients with powerful, broad-spectrum antibiotics that can have negative side effects. Ironically, this can lead to more antibiotic resistance, requiring the creation of ever more powerful antibiotics. DZD’s diagnostic is designed to help combat... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
School’s US Competitiveness Project from business leader Katherine Gehl and University Professor Michael Porter. Gehl and Porter use the lens of industry competition to analyze the US political system and propose a strategy for reform and... View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Growing and Competing at the Local Level
Buckley Brinkman (MBA 1986) is executive director/CEO of the Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing and Productivity, which provides consulting services and programs to help manufacturers grow their businesses and become more profitable. In... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
be reimagined to build something exponentially better,” Mendhro says. “When we use business to create a positive impact, we create a virtuous cycle where everyone wins.” View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A game-changer for migrant students
whose young lives were spent as migrant farm workers. Although Curiel was able to go to college, a basic education for children who live by the cycle of fruit harvests is often out of reach. The nonprofit helps migrant students prepare... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
politics. The fact that Americans can’t agree on facts right now isn’t a unique experience. What does historical context suggest about breaking the cycle of misinformation or finding a way to move forward? Rawi Abdelal: I think that... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
Further, the voting cycle truncates long-term progress. "Government is an interest-group groupie," she said. "Who speaks for the less fortunate? The homeless, for example, are not a powerful interest group." Businesses, she added, "will... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Derek Bouchard-Hall (MBA 2004)
end of my career: knowing when to stop. I knew that the later in life I pushed embarking on a new career, the more difficult it would be. HBS seemed like an exciting place to make that transition. I didn’t know exactly what I would do after HBS. I was very interested... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Scott Clark
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the wage gap between the United... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
creates an opening for entrepreneurs who can meet the profitability challenge by reexamining the whole business model — a process that might involve customer acquisition or retention, or pricing innovations. It is only fitting for the... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Toy Story
In 2005, a year after the venerable toy retailer FAO Schwartz emerged from bankruptcy, Ed Schmults (MBA ’89) became its CEO. “The company was relying on its glorious past but was without a clear brand direction,” Schmults explained to the New York Times (March 9,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
impact on both students and business leaders,” he says. Examples include conferences, webinars, and more SIPs, which offer access to cutting-edge research on a faster timeline than the traditional academic-publishing View Details
Keywords: April White