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Commencement 2018 Address | About
capitalist system, and we should cherish it. At a time when people are losing trust in the role of business enterprise in society, it is your job to restore their confidence in this engine of human... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
words of HBS professor emeritus Theodore Levitt. "He said, ŒBe unique, don't compete. If you can get yourself into a dominant position where you have price flexibility, do it, because you'll be a lot happier... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
messages across these audiences, that's where our true value is." “Rating systems should take into consideration a company's political contributions, advocacy work, and engagement with nongovernmental organizations” And yet, in the View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
“I’m often asked about work-life balance, but the word ‘balance’ doesn’t click with me. Balance implies stasis—that there’s no volatility and everything is under control. We all know that’s not the case.” Data-driven: “When I came to... View Details
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
more favorable coverage when spills were reported—the researchers performed a textual analysis of the newspaper stories, mining the text with software that ranks the tone of the View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
Freedom. Democracy. For five days, as Chai Ling lay in the suffocating darkness of a nailed-shut crate, these words sustained her more than her meager ration of bread and water... View Details
- 01 Nov 2013
- News
Selling Crafts with a Story
turned into Brika.com, an online marketplace featuring everything from handmade tea towels and dishes to tote bags and "Mr. T" onesies for baby. Brika, which takes its name from the Spanish word for factory, fabricá (they just loved the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
of countries around the world. Writing from Athens, Greece, Charalambos A. Vlachoutsicos (MBA '54) expressed condolences and added words of encouragement: "We are confident... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
they'd never hired a Harvard MBA before." Initially denied an on-campus interview with Apple due to her lack of experience, Dubinsky persevered and succeeded in meeting informally with the company's recruiter. Soon afterward, she became... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
For his part, Clinkscales remembers frequently hearing the word "no" when the question of money was raised with potential investors—publishing seemed hopelessly outdated during the dot-com boom... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Profile
Darrin Rahn
Many people do not think of being a young agriculture entrepreneur as their first business venture. But for Darrin Rahn, making hay was in fact his first foray into business. He was born and raised on a family farm in northwestern... View Details
Keywords: CPG
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
maid in Olympia, and I used a lot of formal and social analysis to suggest that the name of that painting, which is Portrait d’une négresse, négresse bring the French word for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
stretch. A comic script is really an exercise in strategy because you have to make a lot of very difficult decisions based on economy. An American comic is typically 20 pages, and you don’t want to go above 15 View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
cannot be a credible champion for world trade. “Xi Jinping’s words are more of a PR stunt,” he wrote. Wildebeest added, “[A]ttempting to do meaningful work in China is basically a hassle from day one, top to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
At age 26, Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69) planted the seed of a great idea in inhospitable British soil. With three HBS classmates, he cofounded a consulting firm to advise entrepreneurial businesses. Admittedly, it was a risk. Entrepreneurship... View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
What did people do before ATMs? That's a question that causes most twentysomethings to draw a blank. They don't remember the days when people conducted their banking—face-to-face with a teller—between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays. The idea View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
"What did people do before ATMs?" That's a question that causes most twentysomethings to draw a blank. They don't remember the days when people conducted their banking - face-to-face with a teller - between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays. The idea View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
technology for assistance, using natural language processing to analyze word patterns and common themes. This approach helped complement the impressions I carried of these conversations with data—and ensured... View Details
- 04 May 2023
- Blog Post
Sustainability: Career Advice from HBS Career Coach Hillary Mann
last word of advice may be more obvious, but I encourage students to join clubs like Sustainability, Energy and Environment, and Food and Agriculture. This article was first featured on the HBS Business... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
cognitive problem. The PCs simply did not make sense to DEC, given their customer context and their cost structure/business model. “Disruptive Tech 101” When Clay Christensen speaks of disruptive and sustaining technologies, he uses the... View Details