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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries (The Free Press) is the fourth major book by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., the School's Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus. It is the heretofore untold... View Details
- 25 Jun 2025
- News
Hitting A High Note
As the Atlanta Opera's general and artistic director, Tomer Zvulun has big ambitions for the organization, imagining a “new model of performing arts." Photo and video credit: Melissa Golden Tomer Zvulun video Tomer Zvulun discusses the Atlanta Opera's contributions to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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 Sep 2012
- News
Markets’ Moral Limits
Economics has lately “wandered” from its traditional study of phenomena such as business cycles and is now about commoditization, incentives, and “principles by which people make decisions,” declared Harvard government professor and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Derek Bouchard-Hall (MBA 2004)
of emails from our membership in my first six months here. I still ride regularly, and it’s great that I don’t have to make an excuse for it. It’s understood why the head of USA Cycling would ride his bike. View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Scott Clark
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Reunion Highlights: A Case in Point
once again. Some 2,800 graduates and guests from five MBA classes took to the campus as though they’d never left, enjoying a busy schedule of social events and academic presentations by HBS and Harvard University faculty. As it happens, View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
the next 15 years, the goal in our schools is to really break through to a situation where we can truly prepare kids for high-level college education and, eventually, livelihoods," says Leschly. "Because then you can break the cycle of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- 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. Reducing Risk with Online Advertising Fraud is fairly easy in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Enjoying the Chance to Reconnect
embracing the responsibility of contributing to the virtuous cycle at HBS.” Chun has designated his 5th Reunion gift for innovation, a passion that currently drives his work with entrepreneurial media and Internet companies at Thrive and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture by Laura Alfaro (World Scientific) This casebook has three main topics: the determinants and effects of international capital flows; policies and strategies for... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
to several common organizational problems. For example, they examine how a majority group's perception that a minority group or individual is performing poorly can mushroom into a self-fulfilling cycle of negativity. Discouraged at being... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
mortgage-backed securities were greatly overvalued, giving investors and bank CEOs a false sense of security. “The cycles of optimism and pessimism in financial markets will always exist, but we can help people make better informed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
It’s no secret that private equity firms have enjoyed massive profits in recent years. In Private Equity Finance, a course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, students follow the life cycle of a deal in order to learn more about... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
fact," says Davis, "more than two-thirds of all business enterprises worldwide are owned or managed by families, and 30 percent of the Fortune 500 companies are family owned or controlled." In Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
soil-depleting cycle of pesticides and fertilization. Sacred Seed started with a simple question one of Keen's mentors asked him over 15 years ago: "What are you doing to protect your corn?" But another part of the story is more personal,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
decade, however, influential manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble and Campbell Soup initiated such partnerships to help smooth production cycles and improve profits. Retailers were wooed by the potential efficiencies of better inventory... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 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
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Growing and Competing at the Local Level
consultant in the state. We’ve had over $3.5 billion worth of impact for our manufacturers and also saved—or created—more than 16,000 jobs. “We generally work with manufacturers that are less than $100 million in sales. When we go into work with them, say on a project... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
the building manager project on a tablet what your apartment would look like furnished by Mobley. The furniture ultimately becomes a line item added to your monthly bill. That kind of B2B2C play is easily scaled, Ramírez says, but it’s a much longer selling View Details