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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
and national, intertwined with racial or ethnic identities and loyalties. Certainly not the “universal civilization,” united by a sense of the sacred, it once was. Why did this come to be? Allawi points to a lack of political, religious,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
gathered from interviews with senior executives at about five hundred major companies in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Deshpandé and his team discovered that many of the "strategic levers" essential to high performance in Asian firms were View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness
and map those across organizations and interests. Venture outside your tribe. Giving time or money in service of those who share a common trait or identity with us—whether religion, ethnicity, nationality, or even alumni status—can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)
girl. Maybe this was due to a language difference. “Kitty” doesn’t necessarily mean “cat” in Japanese. It’s a name like Katy or John. Lost in translation. A character needs to be a different creation from the animal that inspires it—when it’s separate, it creates real... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
challenges then are first, to screen and prioritize the multitude of possible new applications, and second, to shift the mindset of an organization that has held the identity of an ‘imaging’ company for decades.” The case details how... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Turning Point: Into the Wild
relationships. Alexandra Morehouse is the CMO at Banner Health. On a recent trip to see Japan’s famous snow monkeys, she noticed they had facial expressions identical to those she sometimes sees in board meetings. View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Turning Point: In Good Company
MBA program, I found many allies in my classmates, especially Louise Willington, Samhita Jayanti and Hema Nealon. HBS was the crucible for my journey to date. When I felt most like a misfit, it forced me to examine my sense of identity... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
When it opens next year, Los Angeles' new state-of-the-art sports complex will bear the name of a $7-billion international retail giant, a newcomer that will join heavyweights such as United Airlines, Anheuser-Busch, and MCI in seeing its View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Estonia, Incorporated
he needs to travel to Estonia or attend a session of the UN General Assembly across town. The payoff? A chance to chart the digital future of an entire country. In April, Estonia became the first country in the world to offer e-Residency, a transnational digital View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
wildebeests on the doorstep. At night it’s very loud. We had some guests ask, ‘What can you do about the noise?’ No, no, enjoy the noise!” Leaving the family business: “It was more than just leaving a family business. It was like breaking an umbilical cord with an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
schools were the norm. They offered yearlong programs where you could learn bookkeeping or accounting. Our ambition was higher than that: we wanted to immerse students in understanding business and developing a professional identity as... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
experiences: identity groups (i.e., race, cultural background, gender, age) and organization groups (defined by shared task roles and hierarchical position). From psychoana-lytic theory, the authors draw on elements that particularly help... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
pro-consumerism a good thing? The answer, at least in relation to Wal-Mart, depends on the identity of these “consumers” — the ones getting most of the benefits from the company’s low prices. Wal-Mart operates two-and-a-half times as much... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
the questions posed by the case is the classic conundrum of where and how Magazine Luiza should expand while preserving its identity and culture. The case describes a large acquisition of another Brazilian retailer with a very different... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Catchphrases, Mottos, Cheers, and Mascots
memorable phrases uttered by a professor or sectionmate that are taken up and repeated throughout the course or year. Some of them become cheers or migrate to T-shirts, as in this composite T-shirt for a Class of 1984 reunion. Cheers assert section View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
demonstrating how and why violence was the most salient factor underwriting Britain’s empire and the nation’s imperial identity at home, Elkins upends long-held myths and sheds new light on empire’s role in shaping the world today. Time... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
opposing spiritual identities and ethical codes. Ethics and spirit are all too often overlooked and underestimated in our digital-driven, metrics-defined, “quant” world—yet they are at the heart of it all. When regimes turn to being more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
20th century at best, if not the first half of the 20th century,” Eykher says. To address the issue of trust, the Open Mineral team verifies the identity of every member and only accepts companies with a good history; they require... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Aether Diamonds makes its precious gems out of thin air—literally. The three-year-old company uses carbon dioxide drawn from the atmosphere to synthesize stones that are chemically View Details