Materiality - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2001
News

Donella Rapier to Head External Relations

an audit senior manager in Boston. In that position, Rapier developed materials and conducted courses on a variety of accounting and auditing topics. This interest led in 1995 to a part-time faculty appointment, teaching accounting at... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Oct 2001
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Porter Directs New Institute at HBS

and a number of other areas, the ISC seeks to develop new theory, assemble bodies of data to test and apply theory, and share its ideas broadly with business, government, academia, and nongovernmental organizations. The institute also intends to produce curricular... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Feb 2002
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Church on Sunday, Work on Monday

managers and with clergy and laypeople from a variety of Christian denominations; case studies of relevant programs for businesspeople; a survey of seminarians; a review of existing literature on executive spiritual development; and View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

15 Dec 2024
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Kelp Is on the Way

then we transform it into a series of different outputs,” Perkins explains. “For every package, we know exactly what farm the product came from, how it was processed, and how it got to the customer. That’s the value proposition: an ultrasustainable View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustration by Melinda Beck; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

01 Sep 2005
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Art purchased on this year's trip

Courtesy Michael Steinberg Fine Art "Tea Time with Daisy, 2003" by Martabel Wasserman "SMP-28" by Darrell Nettles, Courtesy Gracie Mansion Gallery "Study for: Perception Changing Materiality (Water Lily)" by Brad Melamed, Courtesy Gracie... View Details

17 Apr 2014
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A Family Investment

Reunion. “I wanted to help HBS continue to have an impact on people,” says Özyeg in of his gift, which will support the School’s new research center in Istanbul. “Turkey is a region ripe for study,” he observes. “I have no doubt that incredible case View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together

In the fall of 1996, HBS professor David A. Garvin was searching for teaching materials for his elective course General Management: Processes and Action. He wanted to help his students understand the pitfalls and opportunities that... View Details

Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine

01 Oct 2001
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David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High

Monsanto, moving up the ranks to president of its Performance Materials division, a $400 million enterprise. In 1997, he left the company to become president and COO of the Performance Materials unit at... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Sep 2004
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Survey Spotlights HBS Experience

“favorable.” Case method of teaching 86 % Case materials 84 % Faculty 84 % Elective courses 81 % Other class members 78 % Section experience 78 % Required courses 75 % Grading system 67 % Study groups 57 % Extracurricular activities 56 % View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2005
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Christensen Center: Open for Business

Technology at work: Willis Emmons and Assistant Professor Li Jin review a video of Jin teaching. Every day at HBS, several professors bring their unique teaching skills to the same material in the required MBA curriculum. So Willis... View Details

Keywords: Chris Christensen; Christensen Center; case teaching; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2018
News

Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

directly with smelters, eliminating the need for a middleman. Think of it like eBay but for million-dollar shipments of raw minerals. Intermediaries have long played a key role in these deals because the market for metal concentrates—the raw View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres

01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

but much too dense, and ludicrously unsuccessful." Even rewriting the case and dividing it into two sections, one a broad look at German capitalism and the other an examination of Thyssen Steel, did not make the material much more... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2012
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The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding

business and other sectors so that we continue to produce and disseminate research and teaching materials with power in practice. To fulfill the School's enormous potential, a larger portion of the HBS annual budget will be invested in... View Details

Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan

01 Sep 2012
News

Start It Up

MOOREHEAD: A green start-up designed to reduce the human and monetary costs of war. While serving in different parts of the world as a Navy SEAL, Doug Moorehead (MBA 2007) observed firsthand the human and material cost of energy... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Sep 2004
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Faculty Research

How to Avoid a Price Increase Manufacturers usually pass on any cost increases in their materials to consumers. The result is often a price increase (gasoline) or, less often, a smaller amount of product at the same price (potato chips).... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

07 May 2020
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Ensuring Student Equity

learning programs, food and other basic resources, and health services for more than 1,200 children each week in this underserved community. “We had to rethink the operation of our food pantry. We had to develop learning materials that... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2013
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A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash

Africa, and India, where workers, frequently children—with no safety equipment—tear the electronics apart, exposing themselves to lethal doses of toxins. Then the raw materials are shipped back to where they are needed. Prior to founding... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; recycling; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2007
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Where Are They Now?

he notes, “I’ve learned that day-to-day interpersonal dynamics are just as material when you’re responsible for 10,000 people as when you’re in charge of only 10.” As for what drives his business-academia pas de deux, Schlesinger, who... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2007
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Letters to the Editor

Everest tragedy, to our collaborative work on the multimedia case on NASA’s 2003 Columbia tragedy, and to his recent book, Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer. The course I teach today, General Management: Processes & Action, draws heavily on the View Details