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20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

on users, communities, and open innovation approaches to tackle important technological and business problems. Lakhani points to innovation contests that have solved a wide variety of major challenges from technology for civilian space View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

Harvard business and public health students called Consumers, Corporations and Public Health, says food safety is more challenging than ever for three reasons: The globalization of the food business: Food products and ingredients travel... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

buses can travel in dedicated high-speed lanes, making the trip much quicker than driving when the roads are congested. The system is not just relegating those who can’t afford cars to buses. More significantly, this is an all-electric... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

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2.15 Field Based Learning/ Independent Projects | MBA

the sponsoring company for expenses directly related to the completion of a field-based learning project (for example, travel to a company site, photocopying of materials, long-distance telephone charges for interviews). These expenses... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations

will be assigned to work with companies in roughly a dozen different countries on the introduction of a new product or service. They’ll do a fair amount of advance preparation in Allston, and then during the January Term, they’ll travel... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Apr 2018
News

A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art

Solitary,” a traveling exhibition of African-American abstract art that opened at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans in fall 2017. Now on view at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the exhibit has expanded to more... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

09 Feb 2017
News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

headphones provided, and different chairs procured,” Fieldhouse said. Training sessions were developed to assist the autistic employees with life skills, such as travel planning, financial awareness and nutrition, as well as professional... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

03 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The State of Customer Service Leadership

Good and bad service experiences die hard. Who can forget the hotel receptionist who went above and beyond the call of duty to accommodate a last-minute change in travel plans in contrast to the sulky server at an expensive restaurant who... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Women at Work

scale back on travel and her hectic work schedule after coming back from parental leave. They responded by changing her job to one that did not require travel. "It was the worst job of my career," she said. "I hated that... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

campaigns and popular traveling medicine shows that hired both Native and non-Native performers to peddle their products. They even had plans to build a store, which never materialized, where a performer would stir a large kettle of... View Details

February 2014 (Revised August 2014)
Case

The Michelin Restaurant Guide: Charting a New Course

By: Mukti Khaire, Elena Corsi and Jerome Lenhardt

Created in 1900 by the tire manufacturer Michelin, the Michelin Restaurant Guide was widely considered the international benchmark of food rating, and, by 2013, boasted paper editions in 23 countries, and had recently expanded to the United States and Asia. Paper sales... View Details

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06 Dec 2017
Blog Post

The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference

the time to travel to Boston and share valuable insights from their past and current experiences. Partner with the Tech Club directly or connect with over 50 career-related student clubs. View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Breaking Down the Barriers - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

in Paris in 1925 showcased Art Deco styles in contemporary design; the following year the Metropolitan Museum of Art sponsored a traveling show of pieces it had included in the Paris exposition. Bonnie Yochelson, “Clarence H. White:... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia

musician to get her first-ever passport for travel outside of Cambodia. In a traditionally hierarchical culture, I showed younger managers how to speak up—and I encouraged their bosses to listen. And what did I learn? I learned humility... View Details

Keywords: mentorship; nonprofit management; retirement; leadership

10 Mar 2021
News

Next Normal

I isolated and didn’t see anyone in person for 37 days. I never imagined I would experience that, and it was one of my happiest times. I’ve traveled a lot for years as a distraction to not feel things, and the pandemic was a... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

A few years after he retired as Dean we hosted a breakfast for him in New York City. It was probably 1997. He told a story about supporting a friend in need by traveling via car nearly eight hours on a Friday night to see him. The story... View Details

Keywords: Dean

02 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and Spotify, and View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

most during your research for this book? A: What was most interesting when I traveled to Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine and talked to these people in the government and in these political parties was to find out what exactly they took... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

exhibition then traveled to Chicago, another metropolis where the worlds of executives, advertisers, designers, photographers, and patrons of high culture merged. The NAAI show opened in the public gallery spaces at the Lakeside Press... View Details

01 Feb 2018
News

HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86

wrote. “If quality of life is a critical determinant, it is important to make a long list of the kinds of activities that one treasures or that people want to be able to perform by themselves.” Throughout his life, Uyterhoeven continued to enjoy good food and wine,... View Details

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