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- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
rudimentary auction technology that would work across the network. What was difficult was getting the right information at the marketplace. It became clear that there needed to be a whole market infrastructure to create these new kinds of... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
business of publishing technical papers. “I didn’t want to spend the next 5 to 10 years doing these little increments and never knowing whether, with the right effort, we could solve a big challenge,” Ferrucci told HBS Professor of... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
actual human being wrote it? Do it! Want to build an intuitive web form (easy to fill out, simple to save, easy to submit) to replace a clunky paper form (hard to write, easy to lose, annoying to submit)? Do it! Want to build an app that... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
Interbrew and today the largest brewer in the world. He has served as chairman there since 2006. Peter Harf was born in 1946 in Cologne, Germany. He grew up an only child living right after the Second World War in the completely destroyed... View Details
- 16 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Delivering Solutions During a Crisis with Hans Kristian Furuseth (MBA 2019)
at Zalando would both come into play in a major way for Furuseth later in this career. The HBS Advantage As Furuseth made plans to continue building his career, HBS was the right choice for many reasons including his desire to focus on... View Details
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IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog
students (due to the nature of IFCs, auditing is not permitted) Course Overview The global race to eliminate greenhouse gases from the atmosphere has started in full earnest. The stakes are high; emissions released by human activities are... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
formats, digital rights management systems, wireless network infrastructure, and handset capacity), and the key dynamics—music delivery method, pricing, mobile-PC integration—that characterize mobile music business models. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
professional French-horn player, Brooks came to the subject of happiness by way of art. His early research focused on why people produce and consume art and beauty as well as the motives behind human generosity. He discovered that... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
PublicationsBlind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It Authors:Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel Publication:Princeton University Press, in press Abstract When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
Boston has always been fueled by an Enlightenment belief in scientific progress and human perfectibility. It is home to America's first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and college, Harvard College (1636). After the American... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Illustration by Mercedes McDonald. Orchard Gardens photo by Ed Quinn/Saba In many parts of the country, housing costs and shortages have begun to show signs of adversely affecting corporations, workers, and local economies. Affordable housing - such as Boston's Orchard... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
sector, and the influence of networks and social capital on accessing human and financial capital. It also provides an in-depth analysis of the venture capital industry and raises questions about why women have so much difficulty getting... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
a way for managers to balance the analytical side of their work with the human side and find a sound way forward when analysis falls short. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50601 forthcoming Patent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics
the Chinese government's role in Tibet, Sudan, and other alleged human rights abuses threaten to derail its plans to stage the Olympics as China's coming out party. Tight security in Beijing may take some of... View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
graduates, to address climate change?” Ratnika Prasad (MBA 2020), Associate Director at The Nature Conservancy "There has been a seismic shift in the last few years, whereby concern about the climate and sustainability has finally begun to take a View Details
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Women on Boards: How Lara Druyan and Ann Lucena Are Shaping the Future of Corporate Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
she drove a successful digital transformation at the Royal Bank of Canada, board service felt like the right next step. She joined her first large company board, CIBC Bancorp USA, in 2022. Having multiple domains of expertise has been... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
Does it work? And for firms in countries that pursue that route: How do they make it work? "My research questions include: Were Latin American countries right to avoid share privatizations? What accounts for the apparent success of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
aren’t real purple dogs.” That is what Numenta is after, says Dubinsky: recreating human intelligence by first understanding the complex way that humans learn—literally, the biological principles that guide... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
request from the CEO of a major company asking for consulting help from me on the basis of Walt’s recommendation. He will be missed greatly both as a major influencer of his many students as a teacher and, more importantly, because of his kindness and generosity as a... View Details
- 18 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
A Peek Inside Peek Weekend
case in 2017. Anne Dickinson Meltz (Wellesley College) When I first decided to apply to Harvard Business School’s Peek program, I had certain thoughts on my mind. I was thinking about whether or not an MBA program was right for me. I was... View Details