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- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
As a boy, Soichiro Honda, the eventual founder of Honda Motor Co., was infatuated with airplanes. At age 10 he biked 20 kilometers to see American pilots performing aerobatics near his home in Japan, climbing a tree to watch the show. It... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?
novel” To gauge the impact of receiving what economists call a “cashflow shock,” researchers looked at the introduction of Medicare Part D, which expanded coverage for patients over the age of 65. That would result in more drug sales,... View Details
- 07 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club
Myself.” Stephanie Myles (she/her/hers), Class of 2021 “I read fanfiction that involved women being together. I watched the L-Word online. I was a huge TiBette fan. I perused online forums for queer POC. By age 14, I was in a... View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Olivia S. Kim : Recipient of a 2022 NBER Post-Doctoral Fellowship on The Economics of an Aging Workforce. Scott Duke Kominers : Winner of the 2022 Best Paper Award on Finance in Management Science from the Finance Section of the Institute... View Details
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
(Danielle); “Winning in this age requires more cross-disciplinary thinking... Women, in my experience, are better thought integrators.” (Allison S. A. Graves); “Many studies suggest that women tend to score higher on tests of social... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
– Less Info This article explores the impact of social media and smartphones on youth, highlighting parental concerns about increasing anxiety and depression. Data shows high engagement rates among children and adolescents: 90% of infants use screen devices before... View Details
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Emily Schlichting
At age 19, in the spring of 2009, Emily Schlichting was diagnosed with Behcet's, a rare autoimmune disease that introduced her "to the realities of U.S. health care firsthand." Although the disease has proven manageable, her... View Details
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Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Wind Sculpture (SG) V 2019 | About
Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection, Harvard Business School , 2021.1 . © Yinka Shonibare CBE RA. All Rights Reserved, DACS/ARS, NY 2023 . Born in London in 1962, Yinka Shonibare moved to Lagos, Nigeria, at age three. He returned to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
awareness and figuring out how the NBA could drive real economic growth. The continent offers a unique opportunity for impact, notes Tatum, with 70 percent of sub-Saharan Africa under the age of 30, according to the United Nations, which... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
A Taste of Tradition
have a Kikkoman successor," explains Mogi, "so Shichizaemon asked my father for permission to adopt me to fill that role." At the age of 24, the newly adopted Kenzaburo, who had officially become a thirteenth-generation member of the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet a host of consumer... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
Podcast with: Interviewer: Running Time: Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar whom many credited with founding the discipline of business history, died at age 88 on May 9, 2007. His work is legendary, but so too was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Diversity: Repugnant Market Concerns Associated with Transactional Approaches to Diversity Recruitment” (September 2023). Tsedal Neeley : Winner of the 2024 Axiom Business Book Award Gold Medal in the Emerging Trends/AI category for The Digital Mindset: What It Really... View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
illness in June 2006 at the age of 81, the Bulletin's Class Notes were flooded with dozens of tributes from alumni who recalled his passion and commitment in the classroom and his lasting influence on their careers. "I was clueless... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
only two short sessions in 1959. At the age of 32, Davis coaxed innovative ideas out of his players—among them greats including John Coltrane and Bill Evans—that took everyone by surprise. He also remade the industry, introducing longer,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Brookline with their five children, who range in age from one to nine. When asked about outside interests, Wasserman smiles and gives a one-word response: "Kids." Arriving on campus at 8 a.m. and returning home for dinner at 5:30, his... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
family-run Indian conglomerate. Kahn, who worked for agrichemical giant Syngenta AG and knew the industry well, agreed to have a look. The subsidiary, Godrej Agrovet, had expanded beyond its core business of animal feed in recent years,... View Details