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- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
harsh desert conditions for a week, including all their food and water. There's no money. There's no electricity. But there are 70,000 people willing to share and have an amazing experience with you. Hanna: And can you tell me, what is it... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
conditions and we know that it’s going to work incredibly well. And so that has allowed us to continue to have a pace of innovation that matches consumer internet companies, while we are primarily a business... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Books
given predictable, reliable, low-cost care) and iterative (the patient’s condition is unknown; tremendous resources may be required for diagnosis and treatment, often with uncertain outcomes). To reduce costs and manage care effectively,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
data, “to see what he can tell us about what we’ve found out.” Over time at Hawthorne, Mayo and his protégé, HBS professor Fritz J. Roethlisberger, discovered that physical working conditions and financial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
scenario carries a caveat, though, according to research by HBS assistant professor Susan Kulp. Her work suggests that the profit gains of VMI depend on both the retailer's willingness to provide detailed demand information and the... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash In his pre-HBS life, Ross Lerner (MBA 2020) worked alongside Paul Holder at a software company that served some of the largest owners of commercial real estate in the world. While many... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
parking lot. As many as one hundred workers have been laboring on the site each day, pouring the concrete foundation and positioning the structural steel beams and columns. While the summer's extreme heat occasionally halted work early -... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
work there before launching Bantay—raising funds for education and rural health care. “It’s good, but not very scalable,” he says. “And also, I’m not a great fundraiser. So it would be a lot of work just to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
paperwork. An all-time high of 10,382 applications arrived for the Class of 2004. Dewey characterizes that number as a spike influenced by poor economic conditions that unleashed pentup demand. The Admissions Office received 8,526... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Realizing a Dream
a liberal arts degree at night while working in the family heating and cooling business. Initially the idea of a Harvard education seemed both unnecessary and far-fetched to Ferrara, but the more he learned about HBS, the more intrigued... View Details
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
Within a month, Waldron’s far-reaching predictions proved accurate. And Curriculum Associates was ready, not just for the new world of remote work but also with respect to the increased demand for remote learning. The company committed to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
be brought in.” Her advice: “Sometimes leading is creating and communicating the vision, inspiring people, and then getting out of the way.” What I’m Reading Leader: Insights from Indian Mythology by Devdutt Pattanaik “This book helped me realize that at View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
environmental issues, a stance that had sparked protests at its annual meetings. This led the U.S. Congress to use its influence by demanding that the World Bank set environmental standards as a condition of the nation’s capital... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Driven
world and of ourselves; and the drive to defend ourselves, our loved ones, our beliefs, and our resources from harm. The authors' findings are based on their collective seventy years of research on human behavior in the workplace and their synthesis of scholarly View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
working with leadership teams from nine urban school districts over the course of three annual sessions to coordinate research and create coherent, scalable systems for education reform. Two cases written for PELP and taught by HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
conditions favor imprinting. Consider companies that have the following characteristics: distinctive corporate cultures, strategies, and structures, with large cohorts of young managers who are hired at roughly the same time and who... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
headquarters in Washington. You chose to become head of one of America's least popular institutions. Why? A number of factors had coalesced -- public discontent, mounting congressional criticism, technological advances, to name a few. They created a unique situation in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
attention to mental health, it was data that shaped the Goodness Web itself: One in five adults in the United States suffers from a mental health illness each year, and 46 percent will have a mental health condition during their lifetime.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
of the French pointillist painter, and it’s easy to imagine Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey humming the same tune. But if creativity is integral to business, and to entrepreneurship in particular, how exactly does it occur? Where does this unicorn-like creature come from,... View Details