Place Making - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2008
News

Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

reasonable view of home ownership will return, Retsinas predicts, but if the pendulum swings too far, he is concerned that worthy borrowers with modest incomes could be shut out of the market. Could you place the U.S. mortgage crisis in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Management; Real Estate

Portrait Project

Mark Plunkett

making trade-offs, but making trade-offs with your eyes open, that is what makes the difference. Do I hope the world is a better place for my... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine

communicating appropriately to maximize the therapeutic effects. The electrodes are placed inside the brain at the precise spot where the issue originates and communicate to a wireless monitor that tracks the neurotransmitter changes to... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

Portrait Project

M. Monique McCloud-Manley

Leave a lasting impression on someone that has doubted the capabilities of people that look like me. Make it so that he will never doubt another black woman again without first thinking about the bigotry he had towards me... and how I... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets

places such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore factor Feng shui into the design and construction of buildings, because its principles are widely known to make work less tedious and human... View Details

Portrait Project

Cyril Abel Vergis

As a first-generation, first-born American, I grew up believing that my motivation was derived from the self-imposed pressure to take advantage of the opportunities my parents did not have. I strove to make the right choices, to take... View Details

Portrait Project

David Malinas

making this world an even better and safer place. My aspirations are bold and maybe one day I will be blessed to run for the Presidency of our great nation, a job made infinitely more difficult by the tragedy which took View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

3-Minute Briefing: Derek Bouchard-Hall (MBA 2004)

end of my career: knowing when to stop. I knew that the later in life I pushed embarking on a new career, the more difficult it would be. HBS seemed like an exciting place to make that transition. I didn’t... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Scott Clark

Portrait Project

Cindy Kellogg

that makes yoga seem like a scam. I will embrace the growing closeness and admiration I feel for my family as I age, mature, and move farther away. When I have teenagers someday, I'll try to remember that I didn't consciously appreciate... View Details

07 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

The ideal solution, which requires ingenuity, involves emptying the box, tacking the box to the wall as a candleholder, placing the candle inside, and lighting the candle with the match. The researchers found that 47.3 percent of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

31 Jan 2016
News

Studios Back App, Hoping to Fill Cinema Seats

making group sales easier, the new company will allow for dynamic pricing for movie tickets: Theaters set ticket prices, though studios typically set the minimum revenue they will accept per ticket sold, which can View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Feedback

Friendly Follow Re: Tweets HBS has fantastic social media. It really makes me feel connected to the community and the School—like little reminders on a daily basis of a special place and experience. —Patrick... View Details

Profile

Ann Lucena

turn, they learned from us about marketing and business practices across the globe." This summer, Ann will take on investment banking with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York. After graduation? "I'm open to many possibilities," she says. "I'm... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

Faculty Q&A: The Working World

make the product a reality. That made an impression—that an immigrant living in the United States was turning back to his home country to help realize the products of his invention. So my first work in this area was about the outbound... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Luciana Baigun

says. She had thought she would get a PhD in economics, but she instantly changed her plans. “I didn’t want to be an academic anymore,” she says. “From that point forward, I wanted to be involved in disruptive technologies in emerging markets.” Best View Details

05 Jun 2018
News

Fueling the Future

to make the world a better place and how I can exercise all of my skills and passions to solve problems that make businesses more sustainable, and to help women and girls be... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

Web

Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

graduation, returning to her hometown of Lagos, Nigeria, to make good on the organization’s mission to combat youth unemployment by identifying, training, and placing graduates of the program’s 3-week... View Details

06 Oct 2011
What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

designed to prepare millennials particularly for future leadership. Should applicants be winnowed out with the use of "deep indicator" analytics like the puzzles used by Facebook? Should curricula place greater emphasis on the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2009
News

Sounds Like a Plan

notepad and we started drinking wine, and we switched to Scotch, and we just started to endeavor to write down everything that was brain-dead about the airline.” The result was the one-page Go Forward Plan, with easy-to-understand guidelines, such as “The fastest way... View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation

Portrait Project

Joshua Jarrett

I want to always remember the number 6.65 million. That's the number of people in the world who will make less than each of the Harvard Business School graduates this year. $25,000 a year is enough to put you in the top 1% of incomes... View Details

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