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Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design

By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal

In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details

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01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

force it through the organization from the senior management level." Unlike Harad, who rose through the ranks of one corporation following his graduation from HBS, Paul Charron, who came to HBS after five years of active duty in the Navy,... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

based on our financial thresholds. The bulk of the business leaders on our list were culled from an extensive review of historical biographical references and business rankings. The rankings included historical lists by Fortune, Forbes,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 9

part-time or taking a career break to care for children doesn't explain the gender gap in senior management; and 4) the vast majority of women anticipated that their careers would rank equally with those of their partners. Many of them... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2009
News

Read All About It!

drove — without speed limit or license — wherever the dusty, rugged roads would allow. Within ten years, however, the ranks of automobile owners had increased to the hundreds of thousands, and scores of (mostly small) manufacturers had... View Details

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

01 Dec 2006
News

MBA vs. MBA

from Fort Worth’s southern suburbs to Crawford, Waco, and east to College Station, home of Texas A&M University and the presidential library of Bush’s father, George H.W. Bush. Political analysts rank Texas 17 as the nation’s most... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

costs, transforming the country over the past decade into the world’s workshop. In 2003, China ranked as the world’s major recipient of foreign investment — nearly $53 billion. It is on pace this year to attract even more. Long-term... View Details

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

28 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

uses an IT-driven strategy to introduce an "all-in-one" card, which integrates a suite of financial products to drive its personal banking business enabling CMB to be ranked 6th among China's commercial banks and 2nd among the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2012
News

Around the World

and has transformed itself from a poverty-plagued backwater to an economic powerhouse now ranked second only to the United States in GDP. The Cold War abruptly ended when the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR fractured into 15 sovereign... View Details

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

18 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 18

School Case 814-060 Andreessen Horowitz Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a venture capital firm launched in 2009, has quickly broken into the VC industry's top ranks in terms of its ability to invest in Silicon Valley's most promising... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Professor of Business Administration Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press American institutions dominate nearly every major ranking of global universities today. Yet, in historical terms, America’s preeminence is... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

more than 2 billion are malnourished, even though we produce enough food today to feed everyone. The carbon footprint of food waste totals 3.3 billion metric tons, enough to rank as the third-largest country in the world in greenhouse gas... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

Inside Intel

for Integrated Electronics), Grove started as director of operations before rising through the ranks to COO in 1979. For the next two years he presided over an all-out crusade with the fearsome name of Operation CRUSH. Powered by Intel’s... View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

usual domain. A couple of months earlier, in February 2014, Viana had read an article in the newspaper Le Parisien about Biscuiterie Jeannette, a company founded in Caen in 1850 and known across France for its madeleines—the shell-shaped little cakes that View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

01 Mar 2004
News

New Horizons for Iraq

thousand hours in the F/A-18 Hornet. Flying from the USS Harry S. Truman during the Iraq campaign, he was in charge of fifteen to twenty other pilots and was awarded the Air Medal and two Navy Commendations for combat valor. Lloyd’s of London View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

16 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

to partnership structured in the best interests of the firm? What could and should be done to address the non-equity partners' concerns? What were the ultimate effects of discontent within the NEP ranks upon the firm's functioning... View Details

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

that, as a priority, reputational risk ranked first and distinctly ahead of regulatory risk and human capital risks, which tied for second. It also found that the key reasons cited for difficulties in managing reputational risk were the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

of the six existing channels in Costa Rica, and by 1996, ranked second in the Costa Rican television industry, trailing only Teletica, a long-standing, locally-owned network. Rene Barboza, REPRETEL reporter, elaborates, We needed a more... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

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2025 President & Fellows of Harvard College. All Rights Reserved. Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA Course Number 2077 Professor Leslie Perlow Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Paper Enrollment in this course, as of June 6, is now by standard lottery utilizing EC... View Details

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