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Rye Barcott
If there is a theme to Rye Barcott's career to date, it has been his willingness to confront painful situations many of us would prefer to ignore. "I've always been interested in understanding ethnic violence View Details
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
Respondents to this month's column appeared to be about equally divided on these issues. John Inman commented, "I sometimes feel that we are racing to the bottom to provide products and services at ever... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
Microsystems, is a futurist who had it right: ‘Privacy? Get over it!” Did Scott McNeely have a point? Has the issue been rendered moot by the very nature of information technology itself and the possibility that developers of security... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
produces continual improvement and allows them to rapidly adapt to change without succumbing to complexity. Dorade: The History of an Ocean Racing Yacht by Douglas D. Adkins (MBA 1975) (David R. Godine) This... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
to studying athletes of different ages, genders, and ethnicities to better understand the potential of the healthy human body and to improve knowledge of injury prevention... View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
the global automobile industry. After 15 years of building a leading technology for autonomous driving systems, Mobileye emerged in 2014 as one of the most exciting companies in the race for the driverless car. After going public in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has... View Details
- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
In this excerpt, Nohria and Leestma outline the challenges and rewards awaiting businesses that target the mobile-commerce customer. The best place to start? Develop a thorough knowledge of consumer... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
- 17 Apr 2016
- News
Driving Digital Expansion
diversity, where the company’s 4,700 employees (almost evenly divided between men and women) reflect the ethnic make-up of Malaysia, with nearly half the workers being Malay, 25 percent Chinese, View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
alongside global brands. Retailing and distribution remain largely local. And American consumers show a desire for increasing cultural variety in their life experiences, eating more often at View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
lynchings that extended into the 1960s, as well as white riots such as the Tulsa Race Massacre that destroyed one of the most prosperous Black communities in America and do not be fooled as the KKK, View Details
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
Working PapersAccounting Information as Political Currency Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We test whether accounting can be used as political currency. Our setting is the US congressional election of 2004,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
3 Myths About HBS
winning the wheelbarrow race at field day. 2. “I am not going to have time to pursue any of my interests outside of business” I can’t even get through this sentence without laughing a bit, and I am... View Details
- November 2007
- Case
Differences at Work: Sam (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
In Differences at Work: Sam (A) HBS Case No. 9-408-021 Sam is one of the few minorities working at his company at the analyst level. He refuses a request from Human Resources to fill the “Asian spot” in his firm's diversity video. View Details
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Sam (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-021, November 2007.
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Gordon Celebrates a Century
Gordon family organized a 100-mile relay race that began at 4:30 a.m. and finished at 8:30 p.m. Twenty family and community members participated, each running four to eight... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
where our voices can be heard regardless of our gender, race or sexuality. We must believe that we are as good as, as qualified as, as worthy as the person next to us because... We. Are. We know this. When society acknowledges the... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
disproportionately affected by international financial integration. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-012.pdf Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race Authors:Laura Alfaro View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2016
- News
What Does the American Dream Mean in Today’s America?
boundless compassion, unique talents and selfless generosity; all while maintaining the traditions of their ethnic heritage as they uphold the ideals and spirit of America.”... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
director Tommy Kail, and producer Jeffrey Seller met to discuss how to launch Hamilton, a new musical based on the life of the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, Alexander Hamilton. With a hip-hop score View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Just Doing His Job
industry in a varied portfolio of investments (Thoroughbred horse racing and breeding are a special interest) for a man who has made a reputation based on “his philanthropy, a keen intellect, View Details