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- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved from the interior to new factories on the coast, leaving behind their families for 48 weeks a year. At the same time, they were building the massive transportation... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
eager to finally read Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown. Brown chronicles how nine boys from working-class families won improbable gold in the 1936 Olympics, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
Fenn, Jr., Edward L. Anthony (MBA '52), and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (51st PMD). Volume I, number 1 of the Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin appeared on January 3, 1925, after a three-year trial as a special section of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. The tentative... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
physically together during periods of temporary colocation and encourage asynchronous communication and knowledge codification. It is also important to plan for virtual watercoolers to foster informal social interactions in remote... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
a timber farm. Many of my family members also worked in industries tied to food and agriculture. This background led me to study food and resource economics as an undergraduate, a field of study with a very high likelihood of landing... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51383 Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage, and Fertility By: Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
functional specialists, not general managers responsible for cross-functional integration. Three decades ago, COOs outnumbered CFOs in Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies, but the proportions have flipped. Many CFOs are now charged with driving strategic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
with Monster, to which he had sold Military.com. Within its first year of operations, Affinity Labs launched eight vertical portals including PoliceLink, NursingLink, TechCommunity, and IndiaOn. While the company was well ahead of its original View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
all the involved constituencies, with victims' families first and foremost, Whitehead says. "We will try to meld all those views together into a plan for the memorial site," he explains. "Some of the 25... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
in Iraq. Local Motors currently has three working microfactories, with plans to build a network of 50. But the pressures of military service weighed on him. He loved the Marines, but he missed his wife and three-year-old son. Two of his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
would be easier if he had the full support of the CEO, Alain Deronde. But since that isn't forthcoming, he advises Jianguo to work with Alain to develop targets for growth in emerging and traditional markets and a plan for building an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
in subterfuge. No one of them knew the full plan for producing and distributing the posters, and each took a circuitous path to the central Warsaw basement where they would be printed. But as Maj and his friend Janek walked away from the... View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
Poppy, which matched families that required occasional childcare with thoroughly vetted caregivers, was formulating plans for the Seattle-based seed-stage startup’s next phase of expansion. One option was to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
ideas, 1983. Seated in his office decades later in HBS’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, Howard Stevenson is reflecting on the start-up version of himself. Born in 1941, he moved frequently as a child to follow the military postings of his father, a Navy... View Details
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
attainment outcomes (measured primarily by students' completion rates at various grade levels). Deals with outcome trends within the general U.S. school-aged population and covers educational outcomes in various subpopulations of students, including ones defined by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
people’s lives, not only job performance but family matters, health issues, disappointments. The most difficult issues often involve life outside the School. What accomplishments are you proudest of? When we started out ten years ago,... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Skydeck contributing host Chitra Nawbatt (GMP 6, 2009). “A really capable team who's got real authority and stature inside the company, who's putting together a real plan with real goals that are going to be held accountable based on... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Harvard Business School Case 614-052 SAP 2014: Reaching for the Cloud In May 2014, Bill McDermott will become the sole CEO of SAP AG, the world leader in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) field. The case occurs in January 2014 at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Commencement 2013 Address | About
Commencement 2013 Address Remarks as prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, 30 May 2013. The HBS Class of 2013, family and friends, and members of the HBS community. Good afternoon and welcome. Every graduating class has something that... View Details