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- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
more than fivefold over 2021 and 2022. Graph showing forty-foot equivalent (FEU) container prices on various routes increasing in 2021 and falling in late 2022. Source: Freightos Maersk’s decarbonization strategy While many consumers and... View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
measured by the maximum Sharpe ratio achievable. We propose a model in which menu setters differ in their ability to preselect the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the menu size is sufficiently small, a lower-ability menu... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
head of the chemical engineering department at MIT, and Jerome C. Hunsaker, head of the aeronautical engineering department at MIT, served as technical consultants. With Doriot's support, Dorothy Rowe, who started as Doriot's administrative assistant at ARD, eventually... View Details
- Blog
Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season
Street to people-watch on a warm summer evening. Spend an afternoon on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Take advantage of food trucks, fountains, beer and wine gardens, and an oasis of organically maintained plantings—running right through the... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50923 May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Invention and Agglomeration in the Bay Area: Not Just ICT By: Forman, Chris, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein Abstract—We document that the Bay Area View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
bottle of Veuve Clicquot Rose Champagne, courtesy of Kay.) The winning teams distinguished themselves, Brown explained, not only by considering the aesthetic tastes and aspirations of their customer base, but also by coming up with truly... View Details
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
percentage points. For some consumers, the bulbous bellies, protruding needles, and nasty teeth changed their habits; as soda sales dropped, bottled water sales rose from 24.9 percent to 28.1 percent. Graphic warnings worked by grabbing... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- News
Spreading the Love
Photos courtesy of Lovepop Photos courtesy of Lovepop When Lovepop cofounders Wombi Rose and John Wise (both MBA 2015) heard Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s entreaty for businesses to assist with... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
charged to developers and to hold passive expectations. We show that platforms with more market power (monopoly) prefer facing more informed users. In contrast, platforms with less market power (i.e., facing more intense competition) have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
with Neeru Paharia, Jill Avery, and Juliet B. Schor. Says Keinan, "Through a series of experiments, we show that underdog brand biographies are effective in the marketplace because consumers identify with the disadvantaged position... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
located in a largely Black section of Miami-Dade County. After teaching at a public school in Harlem for two years, Rebecca Fishman Lipsey rose through the ranks at Teach for America, moving to Miami as the organization’s regional... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
and we want to find resources to help you continue to serve your communities in even stronger ways. We felt like it was flipping the script of the traditional, sad scene in so many newsrooms over the last couple of decades, in which the new owners View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
Wombi Rose (left) and John Wise Wombi Rose (left) and John Wise Former i-lab resident LovePop—founded by Wombi Rose (MBA 2015) and John Wise (MBA 2015)—had an atypical... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
Dolphin Comport: To Wilson, the bowl of this piece (c. 1929) "suggests a body in an endless pirouette." Photo Courtesy of Charlie Wilson When Charlie Wilson (MBA 1967) was a small boy, he lived for a time in... View Details
- Web
Harvard Business School
assistant buyer and rose to overseeing buying in Europe and Asia. He was one of the first Black executives at Macy's. Wilkinson later moved to the New York City Transit Authority, becoming executive officer for surface transit with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
A Man of Influence
native would have relished every whistle-stop appearance of his book tour. Ambitious, inquisitive, and brimming with gusto for life’s adventures, it’s easy to imagine Valenti sitting down with Charlie Rose... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
(HBS 2015) lamb and habanero mix. The HBS Show celebrated its 40th year with a take on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: In this version, golden tickets are round 3 admits, and the... View Details
- Profile
Ruzwana Bashir
interviewed by Charlie Rose and was named by Fortune as one of the 10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs and by Forbes as one of their “30 Under 30” in Technology Bashir credits HBS as the source... View Details
- 03 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of their Immersive Field Course... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
bootstrapped the funds to launch a vocational training program for dental assistants. Revenue from the new business pushed them out of poverty and into the middle class. Olds, a budding economist, was intrigued. “The rate of new business births View Details