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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
goals for Arctic research is to put in place an environmental observing system that helps us understand changes in the Arctic, a critical component of the global system. We can’t get a fix on climate change... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
individual who has "positively changed the lives of millions of children" and who is an inspiring example "of how leadership transcends business and politics." The club's Business Statesman Award was presented to Chuck Lee by Rajat K.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
our curriculum. Was HBS alone in not offering a consumer finance course? No. I surveyed the top twenty MBA programs in America and the top five in Europe. While some offer banking courses, and others offer behavioral courses, none had a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
Authored by Assistant Professors Boris Groysberg and Chris Marquis, the case is taught in the first-year course Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD). After just a few days on the job, Keller (MBA ’05) is taken off one project and... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
identified four different approaches people used to perform necessary evils effectively, so that the task got done and the victims were treated with decency and respect.” Margolis, an associate professor of business administration in the Organizational View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
entertainment more often than phone conversations. News on innovations and revolutions in far-flung regions is available instantaneously. These changes, and hundreds more resulting from an explosion of info tech, have changed the nature... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
successful capital campaign, as the dean who has steered HBS Publishing through a challenging digital transition, and as a committed and engaging teacher — that it’s easy to forget that Howard is first and foremost a brilliant scholar. He’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
The Personal Touch
Timken Investing in HBS What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do! Donor Spotlight Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices FAQ Monica Dodi and Jacob Navon (both MBA ’84) Wanting to maintain and leverage the momentum of the Class of... View Details
Keywords: reunion
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
surprising difference in the way rewards programs changed the buying behavior of a retailer's best customers versus lower-spending customers. How does this shift conventional wisdom? A: Conventional wisdom... View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
unobserved program attributes. Our focus is on the network television industry, in which the products are television shows. We estimate a model that allows us to distinguish between the direct effect of advertising on utility and its effect through the information set.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
Airline Industry Program at MIT, an initiative examining how major commercial airline carriers are facing the challenges of their rapidly changing industry. Staying on top of an industry facing more regulation (including the Airline... View Details
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
very excited about this because, even though the attention-grabbing result here is that women get price discriminated, we can fix it with a relatively low cost,” she says. “But the other aspect is that consumers actually are able to View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
firms to large capital-intensive enterprises, such as banking, telecommunications, mining, and transportation. By the late 1980s, many had developed a good deal of autonomy. Twenty-five years of economic reform have changed the structure... View Details
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
(Editor's note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.) Recent news coverage of the cosmetic name change... View Details
- 07 Mar 2014
- News
Ann Moore's Next Act
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
inappropriate behavior and misconduct with Noble alumni, and the board appointed Jones as his replacement. Now a year into the role, Jones talks to Associate Editor Jen Flint about how she faced the challenge of taking over an... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
not a nice-to-have. It's a necessity. AS: There's an idea that if we know enough about climate change and people get scared enough, we're going to change our behavior and we're... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
first stated mission was to educate leaders who “make a decent profit—decently.” By the early 1990s, the mission was articulated as “educating leaders who make a difference in the world.” What it means to educate leaders has evolved over the decades to reflect View Details
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
devices, such as smart phones and tablets. Another question to be answered: Where are people visiting when they are not on the top sites that most everyone looks at? With some 4 million URLs in the dataset, Greenstein wants to explore consumer View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Musing of Gilmore Tostengard by Gilmore Tostengard (MBA 1953) (Outskirts Press) This book tracks Tostengard's lifelong journey from small-town Minnesota to Arizona with a couple of oceans and numerous stops on the way. Great Inventions That View Details