Informal Institutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

forces, differentiation—Professor Porter’s conceptual frameworks are the foundation for understanding how companies achieve and sustain competitive success. A senior associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at HBS,... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo

trucks and working in a machine shop at a U.S. early-warning ballistic missile detection site. There he discovered that nothing whiled away the cold, dark, and tedium like a good book. By the time he was ready to attend Drexel Institute... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Mar 2006
News

Academic Cross-Pollination

desperate need to publish. And we start with the classic norms of science. We actually discuss this in terms of the discovery of DNA. Watson and Crick arguably violated scientific norms by relying on information that had been gathered by... View Details

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

04 Aug 2015
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Brazil Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

educational institutions [because] they educate other people, they create businesses, they give opportunities, jobs. So, not only giving the money, but seeing it well invested, has motivated us to be very involved with Harvard Business... View Details

25 Jun 2018
News

A Philanthropic Eye Reframes Abstract African Art

trustee for the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. Alongside a successful financial career, Joyner has collected objects ranging from abstract to figurative to 3-D sculpture made from 1945 to the present. Some 100... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources

business leaders think about and manage resources," notes Henderson. "I don't think any institution other than HBS could do this." For more on the Business and Environment Initiative, visit www.hbs.edu/environment/. Business and the... View Details

Keywords: Dalai Lama

05 Apr 2018
News

A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art

permanent collections. Institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chicago Institute of Art, the Tate Modern, and the Museum of Modern Art have showcased these artists in the last half dozen... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Apr 2000
News

Books

of their goals, write the authors, is to correct the mistaken belief among some entrepreneurs, corporations, and academic institutions that "venture capitalists can add little value to young firms aside from money." After a historical... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

importance of an informed and rigorous historical understanding for practitioners. He visited my office later to say that he felt Chilean policymakers and business leaders lacked such an understanding, and he would like to do something... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2016
News

Ink

will get you 80 percent of the results, and forget the rest.” —Laurie Stach (MBA 2011), founder and executive director of MIT Launch, an entrepreneurship program for high-school students, discussing startup time management during a TEDx event at View Details

28 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 28

from CEOs to frontline workers commits preventable mistakes-for example, underestimating how long it will take to finish a project or focusing too much on information that supports their current view. It is extraordinarily difficult to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 May 2008
News

Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot

it also aims at Amherst College, Boston College, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Smith College, Tufts University, Wellesley College, and Williams College. Across the country, 67 other colleges and universities... View Details

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

26 Feb 2020
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Alumni-Led Biotech Developing Vaccine to Combat Coronavirus

As reported in the Boston Globe, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170) and his firm Moderna Therapeutics are working with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a vaccine for coronavirus. Vials of its vaccine, the company told... View Details

08 Sep 2022
News

Learning Curve

established a board about five years after its founding, she served as chair. While Melcher couldn’t see the future of the Joy School clearly, she knew she wanted to build something that would outlast its founders: “It didn’t matter how big the school was; it needed to... View Details

11 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

issues facing financial institutions in the Internet age. "Banks have often been slow to adopt technology and to change what they do," she observes. "But the competition that the online banks are sparking is forcing traditional banks to... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

06 Mar 2019
News

Making Sabbaticals Mainstream

experiences also sent him on a quest to find academics who were studying sabbaticals so he could better understand how the implementation of sabbatical policies impact employee behavior. Informally called the Sabbatical Project, DiDonna’s... View Details

31 Mar 2017
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Turning Teachers into Leaders

achievement gap, to improve outcomes for students, particularly those of low-income neighborhoods and families, so they have a better chance of life and career success. We work towards that mission by helping state agencies of education, public school districts, View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Letters to the Editor

’59; OPM 13, 1988) Potomac, MD Levitt’s Personal Touch Changed Lives and Institutions I just read Julia Hanna’s piece on Professor Ted Levitt in the September 2008 Bulletin and belatedly hasten to add the story of how Ted Levitt changed... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit

Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism, an exhibit in the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, confirms there is still much to learn about railroads, whose scale and complexity spawned modern business’s management model. Recent scholarship compares the rise of... View Details

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24 Apr 2014
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Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India

children. “We need to ensure that India’s children have access to quality education to help them realize their true potential,” says Mittal. The foundation has also set up specialized centers for higher education and research, such as the Bharti School of... View Details

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