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30 Apr 2021
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Revealing the Rules

driven people as quickly as it’s hiring them. The diversity discussion has so far mostly been centered on how to get diverse talent in the door. This is a start, but we also... View Details

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HBS Alumni Research Tips: Target list of companies

Description. 5. Click Industry to choose an industry. 6. Click “View Results” to see the list of companies built. 8. To export results to Excel, click “Download.” Note that... View Details

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

of 2000. A customer entering the new center was immediately greeted at the door by a host—an idea borrowed from Wal-Mart and other retail stores.... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services

01 Jun 2012
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Around the World

students to be effective in a global world. So that’s where we had to start.” PUMPED: Members of an Istanbul, Turkey, FIELD 2 team show their enthusiasm for working with Koctas, View Details

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

01 Mar 2006
News

and pack it for shipment. But Mountz has a better idea. As founder and CEO of Kiva Systems based in Woburn, Massachusetts, he has developed a fulfillment system that relies on robotic vehicles to locate and... View Details

Keywords: robotics; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Aug 2001
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

undertaken in recent years. The committee suggested that the School think about both dedicating space on campus to support this initiative and identifying a full-time coordinator View Details

Keywords: John Hoffman

01 Dec 2003
News

The Next Big Thing

center recently established in Cambridge to advance genetics-based medicine. Summers, Vest, and Lander all remarked on the promise the genomic revolution holds View Details

Keywords: life sciences; Scientific Research and Development Services

16 Aug 2022
News

HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship

included the opening of the Japanese Research Center in 2002 and the annual Independent Field Course that launched... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

05 Jul 2004
What Do You Think?

Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

of practices, "Ask team members what would work for them, their service area, customers, and work colleagues." Stacy Krauss suggests that "Employers who give employees flexibility win in View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 1998
News

Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development

Global Initiative and the establishment of research centers in California and overseas have also heightened the need View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

08 Mar 2021
In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

Jim Langford waits for no squirrel. On a clear January morning in Atlanta, driving with considerable speed and purpose, he barrels up the hill of View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

18 Aug 2014
News

Closing the Education Gap

gaps.” The mother of three has been using her business acumen in a dynamic partnership with economics professors John List and Steven Levitt at the University View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

22 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

Assistant Professor William R. Kerr teaches the required first-year MBA course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, in addition to Executive Education courses at Harvard Business School. One View Details

Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer

25 Feb 2020
News

Beyond the Plastisphere

Above: illustration by Brian Stauffer In 2008, Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) attended a presentation on climate change and the global water crisis at her five-year HBS reunion. Harvard Professor Daniel Schrag, who directs View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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McKim, Mead & White - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

selection, George F. Baker, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, HBS Dean Wallace B. Donham, and several architects unanimously voted for the plan created by the New... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Letters to the Editor

Benjamin (MBA 1969) Kansas City, MO Cities and Climate Change Thank you for the article “The City Solution” in the September Bulletin. Work like this gets people thinking more... View Details

Keywords: HBS Show; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

2015
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Advanced Leadership Pathways: Paul Lee and Asian Americans Advancing Justice

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Frank Jerome LaNasa and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

Paul Lee and Asian Americans Advancing Justice 2013 AL Fellow, 2014 Senior AL Fellow
Two years after the formation of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ), a national affiliation of four independent Asian American civil rights groups, Paul Lee, who... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Skills; Asian; Asian Americans; Asian Americans Advancing Justice; Civil Rights; Asian Law Caucus; Asian Pacific American Legal Center; Asian American Institute; Asian American Justice Center; Immigration Issues; Immigration Reform; Affirmative Action; Coalition; Asian American Activism; Japanese; Chinese; Korean; Indian; Pakistani; Hmong; Cambodian; Laotians; Filipino; Vietnamese; Pacific Islanders; Ethnic Group; Model Minority; Anti-asian Prejudice; Pan-asian; Discrimination; Immigrants; Immigration Acts; Alien Land Laws; Sei Fujii; Naturalize; Interracial; Immigration And Nationality Act Of 1965; Refugees; War; Warfare; Vincent Chin; Bigotry; Chinatown; Boston; Social Impact; Asian American Lawyers Association; National Asian Pacific Bar Association; Asian Community Development Corporation; Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence; Southeast Asia; Mee Moua; Change Management; Demographics; Prejudice and Bias; Rights; Immigration; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Society; North and Central America

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15 Dec 2015
News

Lovepop Woos The Sharks

Between two matching bids, the Boston-based company—which creates cards that open to reveal intricately designed 3D structures—chose Shark Kevin O’Leary’s $300,000 offer for 15% View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

The system won the first annualHBS Association of Nigeria New Venture Competition for the West Africa region last... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

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