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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
MORE Polli matches characteristics to career paths on the Skydeck podcast Polli launched Pymetrics in 2013 to fill this gap. A PhD in neuropsychology who spent a decade as a researcher at Harvard and MIT, Polli started working on the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
children by 2030. They want to ensure that every child, regardless of income or background, achieves full brain and body development by age six. The digital platform offers content that is curated by a team of teachers, vetted by the National Council for Educational... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Late last summer Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) got a call from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Hessan's an entrepreneur and executive. And she previously founded the market View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
Harvard's School of Public Health since 1976 and has spent much of her professional career applying corporate and industrial models to the health-care field. Her research activity at HBS focuses on the current trend of hospital mergers... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
Rohit Deshpandé, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, often asks his students a show-stopping question: Is everything brandable? And next: Should everything be brandable? In “Branding Yoga,” cowritten with HBS Global Research... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
New York Times Company are all family enterprises. Yet until recently, the phenomenon of family businesses has attracted little formal attention in academia. Building on a long tradition of research on family companies, HBS has started... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
leadership and entrepreneurship, this guide covers basic concepts and pertinent issues for leaders at all levels. Two easy-to-follow models are applicable to all types of organizations. The Opportunity Model shows exactly how to identify... View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
help solve this environmental conundrum. A chemical engineer, Brix had spent his career at Chevron in research and technology and then at Microsoft in IoT and automation. Then, in 2017, he turned his attention toward creating a renewable... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
of the School’s California Research Center. “Arthur Rock epitomizes the mission of Harvard Business School,” said Dean Clark, who stressed the importance of Rock’s professional example as well as his achievements. “We are dedicated to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
we have for conducting research and addressing a topic are not well-suited for the dynamic, multidisciplinary nature of leadership. Leaders change as they lead. Nonetheless, we did reach some basic insights... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
women colleagues from other universities — all noted authorities on entrepreneurial growth — began a collaborative research project in 1998 to tease out the underlying reasons for the disparity in enterprise size and growth rate. Clearing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
something that will take years.” Home Ownership: Back to Basics HBS lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, who before arriving at Harvard served as assistant secretary for housing in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, offered a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
The first charter school law was passed in Minnesota in 1991; by 2011, there were 5,275 charters nationwide, making up more than 5 percent of all public schools. In June 2009, however, the movement hit a bump. Stanford University's Center for View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
managerial demands of the war had prompted new courses in, and research emphasis on, human relations and control. Commensurately, the School began to boost its faculty (it had 98 members in 1946). By 1950, HBS was a commanding presence in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
faculty. Just two years into his HBS career, Light won the 1972 Excellence in Teaching award for his work in the first-year MBA course on Managerial Economics, which, he points out, drew on the faculty’s research in decision theory. In... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
to being a full-time HBS student. I told him that was impossible, and we parted hoping never to see each other again. But I did choose HBS, and stayed on for sixteen years, as a research assistant and later as an assistant dean and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
had to undertake a complete transformation of how Merck operates," he said, outlining strategies that included stepping up resources devoted to scientific research and marketing, integrating divisions of the company, and heading off... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
remarks, Porter noted two potential threats to America in its current role as the standard bearer of global commerce: U.S. capital markets could get too near-term oriented, and basic research might not... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun (left) and Professor Leemore Dafny (right); image by John Ritter Professors Raffaella Sadun and Leemore Dafny are both economists who have studied hospitals extensively—Sadun’s research has looked at... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Smith’s plan included developing an Explore Your Family History Center, which would help people explore their family history and learn the View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli