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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Climate Change Optimist
Verizon’s move to shift its energy use to 50 percent renewables by 2025, and supply chain programs to increase carbon sequestration through soil health initiatives with companies like Danone and Cargill: “Through photosynthesis, we can sequester enough carbon in the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Assets: Memory Full
When Dante Roscini (MBA 1988) arrived on campus in 1986, he and members of his class each became the de-facto owner of an IBM PC Convertible (purchase was mandatory for all incoming students). As conceived by German industrial designer Richard Sapper, the laptop-style... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jonathan Mariner
might not be the word everyone would use to describe the daunting tasks of reversing the league’s widespread reliance on deficit spending and leveling the lopsided financial playing field that exists for baseball’s haves and have-nots.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities
at the Harvard Institute for International Development, gave the keynote address. He noted that between 1986 and 1990 alone, some sixty thousand middle and high-level African managers left their countries of origin. To remedy this... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Advancing Racial Equity
of our community to be their best self,” notes Dean Srikant Datar. The School has earmarked $25 million over the next decade to advance racial equity and diversity at HBS and in the world. As always, the HBS Fund will play an important... View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- News
The Beauty Guide
Courtesy Michelle Freyre When Michelle Freyre (MBA 1997) was a brand manager at Neutrogena, Michael McNamara, global president of the beauty brand at the time, asked what she wanted to do with her career. She answered, “I want to be you. I want to run Neutrogena.”... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
available—even before the pandemic. That got even tighter this year and when you add the holiday season and the vaccine, it’s a three-layer cake of nasty. The one silver lining is that air passenger travel is way down and some of those planes were View Details
- 11 Feb 2017
- News
Harvard Business School Makes a Case for Diversity
last week, Rogers said that less than 1 percent of the roughly 10,000 HBS cases focus on a black executive, even though 9 percent of American companies are black-owned. Rogers, who has been teaching at HBS for five years, has set out to View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
geographic: Japanese stars who come to US cities with a large Japanese population—Los Angeles and New York, for example—can convert those populations into increased ticket and merchandise sales. (All major league teams share national TV... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
(initial cost $100, with a $75 annual subscription update fee), plugs it into a computer, and enters basic personal information. The patient then completes a form authorizing his doctors to send records to HRC, which converts them into... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
become “the guide on the side.” Leaders of the future must admit what they don’t know and seek reverse mentors—more “junior” people who have fresher or just different knowledge. Protection from criticism is another disappearing perk of... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
success made the question of how to balance the priorities of growth and the preservation of the culture that had made everything possible all the more important. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608114 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
with only thirty-four firms that announced stock splits between 1995 and 1998! My research shows that on average, firms that executed stock splits during this time went up by over 30 percent more than the market. About half of these returns were View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
jolting of norms to be rule compliant. Finally, we use these principles combined with historical precedent to describe the potential consequences of some recent proposals for governance innovation. Download the paper: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c12045.pdf View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
increased immigration would help reverse current trends. As he put it, “Those folks tend to be younger, with growing families which require furniture, food, clothing. Our ‘native’ population is aging and doesn’t earn or spend as much.”... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
them from stealing I must go to the lawyers,” he said. By 2011, there were some 5,000 Bikram Yoga studios worldwide. Deshpandé notes that Bikram succeeded through the strategic use of branding and legal protections, and that he also... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
a large-scale transformation of the iconic department store. Having previously converted the many department stores owned by Macy's to the Macy's names (except Bloomingdale's), Lundgren and his team set out to create a more efficient,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
recovered, and Americans have started dining out again. Day also has to combat long-ingrained American stereotypes about frozen food. “People think ‘healthy’ is eating tofu and salad, but they don’t realize that you can get great nutrition from basic food,” she says,... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
The pandemic has served as a wake-up call on many fronts, but to Anne Ackerley (MBA 1988), managing director and head of the Retirement Group at BlackRock, it has focused a particular spotlight on the retirement crisis in the United States and in many other countries.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem
of important areas, such as university education, innovation, and entrepreneurship, which means that we have the resources to reverse this trend.” Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration, View Details