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01 Dec 1999
News

New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information

format. Users will find timely articles and essays on diverse management topics, interviews with HBS professors and industry leaders, excerpts from new HBS Publishing releases and current books recommended... View Details

07 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

engineering development and construction projects. In what ways are the challenges of managing large, complex projects different from the challenges of managing other large industrial activities? How is it possible to evaluate the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

Business School professors Kyle R. Myers, Karim R. Lakhani, and eight colleagues from institutions including Yale and Northwestern, published in the journal Nature Human Behavior in July. There’s already a “well-documented, persistent... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health

03 Jun 2022
Blog Post

HiHome Sweet HiHome

in that industry enabled him to eventually go to Harvard. “I saw how meaningful it was for my mother to buy and own her own home,” Shu said. “It wasn’t just that she had a place to live. It was more that she belonged here in the U.S., she... View Details

02 Nov 2020
Blog Post

WE RISE

personal relationships and pattern matching. “We’re already seeing the current economic changes impacting women disproportionately as some women have to drop out of the labor force to look after children. It’s important that we not only keep bringing more women into... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity

01 Oct 1996
News

"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit

and Heskett are working on a book, tentatively titled Out in Front: Building High Capability Service Organizations, to be published later this year. Professor W. Earl Sasser, Jr., joined them in writing Service-Profit Chain Management,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

November 2002 (Revised May 2003)
Case

AOL Time Warner Foundation

Focuses on B. Keith Fulton, vice president of the AOL Time Warner Foundation, who is analyzing the results of a new partnership between the foundation and the National Council on Aging. Fulton is considering ways to build upon the partnership's initial success. View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Partners and Partnerships; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; Communications Industry

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01 Apr 2000
News

Books

and professor Josh Lerner draw on their extensive research on venture capital organizations to illuminate the workings of this important industry. In a series of interpretative essays, the book expands on common themes in research they have previously View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

30 May 2024
News

Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears

Alumnae to Celebrate Official Launch of HBS Women’s Association The Harvard Business School Women’s Association (HBSWA) will host a Virtual Launch Celebration on Wednesday, June 12, to mark its official expansion as a nationwide HBS alumnae Shared Interest Group (SIG).... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who recently published a paper on the topic of technology commoditization in MIT Sloan Management Review. According to Shih, manufacturers are able to duplicate... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

Episcopalian or Presbyterian) men from the industrialized centers of the Northeast had the greatest advantages and opportunities for reaching the pinnacle of success in business in the early decades of the twentieth century. Being the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 17

individuals' publications. Using a unique electronic mail dataset, we find that researchers within the firm who author publications are much better connected to external (to the company) members of the scientific community. This result directly links View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

Working PapersThe Seer of Wellesley Hills: Roger Babson and the Babson Statistical Organization Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract Roger Babson was a pioneer of the business-forecasting industry in the United States in the early... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2021
Blog Post

An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs

this really untapped resource,” she said. “That was something I felt like I wanted to plant my feet in, an industry that had so much room for innovation.” So Shodiya chose to major in aerospace engineering as an undergraduate at Georgia... View Details

02 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

trade with a high degree of market mediated objectivity—as the model for a future where managers struggle hopelessly to keep up with investor-perceived value shifts. They seem to directly challenge the precepts of Built to Last, a widely read study of thirty-six U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Student Conferences at HBS: The 2021 Climate Symposium

think about ways they can make an impact on climate in their own paths. What other events is your club working on this year? The Sustainability Club is planning on doing more social events to foster a sense of community, help students get connected to the right View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

History’s Lessons

Carson and the New Yorker magazine, which had published the work in its entirety over three issues. During the summer of 1962, Carson’s critics initiated a series of counterattacks, with the chemical View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

March 2008 (Revised November 2008)
Case

Sony Digital Entertainment, Japan

By: Anita Elberse

It is late 2007. So-called cell phone ("keitai") novels have turned into an extremely popular form of entertainment-on-the- go in Japan, in particular among young, female readers. In fact, consisting mostly of love stories written by amateurs in short sentences and... View Details

Keywords: Books; Marketing Strategy; Open Source Distribution; Competition; Mobile Technology; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Japan