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Peter Park

mechanics over at the garage next door were even worse, whispering words about her HIV status as she passed by each morning on her way to work. Even some docs at the HIV clinic had written her off as a 'hopeless case.' In the simple act... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Harbus Foundation Supports Community Projects

Square Task Force, and in-class libraries for early readers at the Winship Elementary School in Brighton. The Harbus Foundation was formed in 1997, using surplus funds generated from the HBS student newspaper, the Harbus, as a mechanism... View Details

22 Sep 2009
News

The Case for Regulatory Reform

and create a mechanism for dismantling failing financial institutions. In short, the administration is staking future financial stability on a much larger regulatory role for government, an approach advocated by Moss. “Government is a... View Details

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

03 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Homeland Security: A Ready-made Market

weren't connected before 9-11; there was no mechanism to do so." Creating change in the government sector, however, requires grappling with a deeply entrenched culture. "Democracy is the worst form of government, apart from all... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Service

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Rob Humble

Rob Humble's degree in mechanical engineering gave him entrée to Raytheon's Operations Leadership Development Program. In the course of two years and three rotations, Rob managed a 45-person team that manufactured aircraft, directed a... View Details

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Olujimi Williams

science with a growing interest in business through a joint degree that combined mechanical engineering with business and finance. “To really understand how business works,” Olujimi explains, “I wouldn’t get that in an exclusively... View Details

06 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

works, whose prices will likely be lower without the floor-setting mechanisms and associated costs of intermediaries. Khaire explained that in the western world, there is a clear understanding of what is considered "good art" (a... View Details

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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog

in the justice system and the industrialization of misinformation and hacking of elections. How can business leaders create great companies that enhance the value to society while earning a return for shareholders? Blockchain – Changing View Details

23 Oct 2019
News

Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program

product manager and mechanical engineer, thought that the MS/MBA program would suit her wide-ranging interests. “I didn’t want to abandon the technical rigor and science that I love, but I wanted the big-picture perspective and the... View Details

Keywords: University Collaborations; MS/MBA

01 Apr 2000
News

Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key

Almost everyone has dialed a simple phone number -- be it to order a pair of socks or reserve a flight to New York -- only to end up navigating through a seemingly endless labyrinth of options, all because a mechanical voice continually... View Details

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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

include faculty from U.S. and international institutions, HBS faculty, alumni, and practitioners from a range of industries. The symposium will feature panel presentations and interactive sessions exploring the relationship between research and practice and addressing... View Details

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Pranav Kothari

interests. "I was amazed by the infrastructure, how smoothly things functioned here." Impressed both by mechanics and America, Pranav pursued an engineering degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology. There, his curiosity... View Details

06 Aug 2018
Blog Post

Parks Management is People Management

opportunities versus, say, a user-friendly software service) the mechanism to achieve it is quite similar. Particularly, the effectiveness of managers in setting a vision, establishing norms for communication and teamwork, and aligning... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Aug 1998
News

Year-End Roundup: Dean's Award, Other Honors Conferred as Class of '98 Graduates

mechanism for helping local communities and an educational experience for the HBS students who will run it and manage its funds. This year, the Harbus Foundation announced nine grants totaling $73,000 in the areas of journalism, literacy,... View Details

21 Nov 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

stock indexes can be a mechanism for transforming long-standing corporate behavior. After decades of low corporate profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 Index was introduced in 2014. Each year the index selected 400 large and liquid... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

conditions under which a dominant design may be achieved, the underlying architecture of the era of incremental change and the dynamics associated with discontinuities. Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Apr 2020
Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

Regular Checkup if you want to be sure your mechanical system is operating in a way that protects your health, the single best recommendation we can give you is to commission your mechanical system. Our... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health

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Rachel Honeth

program. "I loved it," she says. "It was two weeks with training wheels but without grades. By the time classes began, I already felt like an old pro. I didn't fear being cold-called in class. Case study is a forcing View Details

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

borrowers in the London market, we challenge the traditional view that gold-standard adherence worked as a credible commitment mechanism that was rewarded by financial markets with lower borrowing costs. We demonstrate that in the poor... View Details