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01 Mar 2024
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Case Study: Testing the Waters

triathlon in Miami and immediately got to work, with a mix of weekday workouts and longer weekend sessions. But training through a New York City winter can go only so far in preparing a person for exertion in the Miami heat. “I really... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

16 Oct 2015
Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

public school students from all over New York City would meet to discuss one or two works of art from the collection in depth. The conversation was moderated by a wonderful museum educator named Rika Burnham, who had a talent for allowing... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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History Matters

The stunning collapse of three high-profile banks in recent months—Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank—churned up a host of headlines and fears: Are these signs of major instability? The first dominos to fall? In the second edition of their... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

28 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

rates, says Fuller, who suggests more targeted guidance and outreach to shrink the gap. In recent years, CareerWise has begun to expand, with new programs in cities including New York and Washington, DC, as well as rural locations in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 May 2024
Blog Post

Get to Know Class Day Student Speaker Erik Roberts

to do long term, the type of impact I want to have, and what I need to do to convince people to join me in the fight.” Roberts’ chosen fight is climate change, and he’s aiming to do it via taste buds. After a summer internship at Gramercy Tavern in New York View Details

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Jiaojun Wang

Chinese city with over three thousand years of history, I was gripped by ancient civilizations and all their untold stories. What is your favorite childhood memory? My dad could not hide his excitement when he took me and my mom to the... View Details

14 Feb 2019
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LOVE At HBS

we are there to support and challenge each other. Even though we aren’t in the same city right now, I’m grateful to be able to share this journey with Tom and know that in the end we’ll end up in the same place. Ariel Yang, Class of 2020... View Details

09 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

authors write. Jobs based in San Francisco, Boston, and New York continue to offer a high-level of job postings with one or more days a week of remote work. Miami, among other cities in the southern US, is almost back to its pre-pandemic... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

June 2012
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Buro Happold (Abridged)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Ryan Johnson

In 1996, Ted Happold, the founder of the engineering services firm Buro Happold, passed away, and Padraic Kelly became the firm's new managing director (MD). One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current... View Details

Keywords: Learning And Development; Managing Growth; Organizational Design; Diversification; Client Management; Leadership Skills; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Leadership Development; Management Skills; Training; Programs; Customer Relationship Management

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01 Dec 2019
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Remix

was the dream all along: doing A&R for an iconic rap label and reporting to its legendary executive. Dixon was all of 24, and she had fought tooth and nail to get there. After finishing her degree from Stanford in 1992, she moved to New York View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

30 Nov 2018
Blog Post

8 Reasons the Section Experience is the Best Part About HBS

C classmates visit Mexico City together Earlier this month, a section mate took us to Mexico City, his hometown. While it's always fun to travel, there is something special about going to someone’s home country and seeing it through their... View Details

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

https://formenergy.com/form-energy-breaks-ground-on-form-factory-1-in-weirton-wv/. “Future-Proof Your City or Town with BlocPower.” BlocPower. Accessed August 10, 2023. https://www.blocpower.io/municipalities. “GE Vernova announces $50... View Details

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Additional Outdoor Sculpture | About

by artists Adriana Varella and Nilton Maltz. Originally commissioned by the city of Palo Alto in the early 2000’s, it is now on loan to Harvard Business School through the generosity of an anonymous donor through 2023. Adriana Varella and... View Details

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McArthur Hall | About

chaired the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada from 2006 to 2015. Attendees at the April 1999 dedication of McArthur Hall included the former Dean’s friends, colleagues, and family, as well as Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who spoke about the close relationship... View Details

December 2023
Article

Advances in Power-to-Gas Technologies: Cost and Conversion Efficiency

By: Gunther Glenk, Philip Holler and Stefan Reichelstein

Widespread adoption of hydrogen as an energy carrier is widely believed to require continued advances in Power-to-Gas (PtG) technologies. Here we provide a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics of system prices and conversion efficiency for three currently prevalent... View Details

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17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

applications—a process comprising about 600,000 individual data-entry tasks. The research team matched that data to meteorological data in Tokyo during that period. (Tokyo is a city that sees its share of sunny weather and torrential... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 May 2021
Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

example, a 2017 study found that across 72 predominantly Black New York City neighborhoods, Airbnb hosts were five times more likely to be white. And the same study found that white Airbnb hosts in Black neighborhoods earned an estimated... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

purpose-built full-electric 16-ton truck designed for urban logistics, reducing the environmental impact of freight deliveries in cities by an estimated 1.2M tons of CO2 by 2025. Dallin's role prior to HBS was an Engagement Manager at... View Details

04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life

City in the late 1970s. At the time, there was no shortage of upstart brands competing for the dollars of young, health-conscious New Yorkers, but Snapple stood out from the rest by virtue of an endearing artlessness. The labels on its... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton; Food & Beverage

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

rising college seniors. At SVMP, we developed a friendship, which turned into a relationship a year later during Laura’s work trip to the New York City Wine and Food Festival. We started off long-distance—flights between New York View Details

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