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- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark
extreme weather conditions without interruption, stressing each component at 3x the expected load. Vestas discussed their unique partnership structures with their customers and suppliers to ensure the safety and quality of all of its... View Details
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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog
from economics and psychology to understand human decision making. In order to establish a baseline from which the rest of the course builds, Module 1 explores the classical economic approach to analyzing both personal productivity and organizational incentive systems.... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
information, they usually understand that statistics tend to be more informative than stories,” Graeber says. “But after a day, stories are simply more memorable.” Beware extreme stories Still, the gap between storytelling and statistics... View Details
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Aline Camargo
professors. It all helped me to plan various professional activities that will allow me to achieve that goal. Moreover, my CPD coaches were extremely helpful throughout those two years when I reflected about my career. They helped me to... View Details
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
agribusiness entrepreneur. “There is a huge benefit in doing a trip like this through HBS,” says Barry, citing access to high-level thinkers and the additional perspectives of faculty and staff like Thomas and Moon. “That makes it an View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
the United States; a majority of respondents say race relations are generally bad, while 38 percent say they are generally good. Since May 2016, the share of Americans who say race relations are getting worse increased from 38 percent to 44 percent. The Center for the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
in the country. (Note, this has nothing to do with the discussion around whether the debt level is sustainable; I actually agree with Syriza that the debt level is not sustainable and that the implemented extreme austerity measures are... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
different perspectives, questions, and insights were extremely enriching. After every company visit we would continue back on the bus to discuss and debate what we saw and how we interpreted it. And I think we formed stronger bonds among... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
For his part, Clinkscales remembers frequently hearing the word "no" when the question of money was raised with potential investors—publishing seemed hopelessly outdated during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. "Get View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
including financial services, steel production, automobile manufacturing, and retailing. "What we find," Christensen explains, "is upstart companies with extremely low overhead introducing new ways to meet the market's... View Details
- 12 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Electric Mobility in India
shared details about their groundbreaking work with graphene, leading to the development of their ultra-fast charging battery technology. Witnessing a deep-tech company passionately addressing a challenging and relevant problem was inspiring and infectious. We are... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
which means that all employees are “really focused on efficiency,” Wallace says. They developed a multilayered interview process to match the right person for each job, as the wrong hire can be extremely costly. It culminates with a two-... View Details
- 04 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets
and international technology. Rushing to dismantle the business groups that now fill these institutional voids could do more harm than good. It would simply reinforce the inefficiency of the private sector and may intensify social distress, which emerging economies are... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
was 'the book is not working, so don't use the book—try something different, then write a new book.'" While the objectives were admirable, the way NASA went about implementing FBC was somewhat surprising. The approach appeared to be based upon an assumption that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Alex Furleigh
years. Being part of the HBS community is like... ...a constant adrenaline rush! Discussions inside and outside of class are extremely stimulating. I spend several hours a day putting myself in the shoes of a company’s CEO, plant manager,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Peek Weekend: The Family Business Cohort
we’ve continued to email back and forth and they’ve been extremely supportive in helping me navigate after graduation options. Participating in Peek Weekend connected me to inspiring professors, peers, and current HBS students. If you’re... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
parking lot. As many as one hundred workers have been laboring on the site each day, pouring the concrete foundation and positioning the structural steel beams and columns. While the summer's extreme heat occasionally halted work early -... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Porter Course Goes Abroad
stimulating for him personally as well. “We're a relatively small school and tend to teach courses individually,” he notes. “The supporting material available for faculty and the interaction with the Harvard team was extremely rich and... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
affairs, could create national wealth based on manufacturing. This production would be fueled by an imperialistic British Empire, which through its expansion would provide the needed raw materials. The book proved extremely persuasive at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast
from looking at one sector and finding something analogous that's applicable to another sector. The more I work in different places and with different people, the more I see that cross-pollinating between industries ends up being View Details