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13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann

Every now and again we have some really big news to share with prospective students. This week’s announcement about the new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences joint degree was no exception. In a previous post we... View Details

March 2021 (Revised August 2021)
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Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc. (B): Valor Glass and the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Aldo Sesia

The (B) case offers a detailed account of Wendell Weeks’s innovation strategy at Corning, and how his approach played a critical role in the COVID-19 pandemic. It illustrates the company’s philosophy of making long-term investments in promising new technologies and... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Information Technology; Leadership; Health Pandemics; Technology Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

Henry Bloomberg, the late father of New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966). The architectural and intellectual centerpiece of the HBS campus, Baker Library was... View Details

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Bulletin Submit Class Notes Faculty In The News Mapping the Salt Tax That Helped Shatter a Monarchy Re: Marco Tabellini 17 JUL 2025 | HBS Working Knowledge The Economy Seems Healthy. Were the Warnings About Tariffs Overblown? Re: Alberto... View Details

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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Clean Energy Cluster (2017) Ohio Automotive Cluster (2017) Chicago Biotech Cluster (2016) San Diego Craft Beer Cluster (2016) Kentucky Bourbon Cluster (2015) New York City... View Details

19 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech

bias in Goldman Sachs’s underwriting model. (Goldman developed and issued the card.) Adding fuel to the fire, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak shared that the same thing had happened to him and his wife. Officials from the New View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

01 Sep 2020
Blog Post

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

reliance on evidence to inform their decision-making, and their openness to revisiting decisions when needed, business leaders should certainly be doing the same. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, for example,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

enterprise became Lehman Brothers. Henry Lehman died five years later of yellow fever in New Orleans, and Emanuel and Mayer ran the company over the next four decades. New York... View Details

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

India's economic growth is an exciting new playing field for the retail industry and for entrepreneurs looking to get in on the ground level, a panel of that country's businessmen agreed. Rising incomes, increased advertising, and a jump... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail

23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

for young people to start smoking tobacco cigarettes, or even lure ex-smokers back to the habit. This has created a dilemma for health regulators, says Quelch, interviewed before the FDA's action. Do they regulate e-cigarettes in order to decrease the number of View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

16 Nov 2021
HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

In 2009, a 51-year-old man killed himself in Marseille, a city in southern France, leaving behind a suicide note that blamed his employer for “overwork” and “management by terror.” “I am committing suicide because of my work at France... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

hired. The reason: He said the headscarf she wore as a symbol of modesty in her Muslim faith clashed with the store’s dress code. “No one had ever told me that I could not wear a headscarf and sell clothing,” Elauf is quoted as saying in a 2015 View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories

20 May 2013
Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

At an event at Harvard Business School that was three parts analysis and one part rally, participants tried to chart a new path forward for the sluggish US economy—a move that may require a new definition of... View Details

Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette

30 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

Hernandez of New York University, dive into the topic in their working paper Political Identity and Trust. “Our biggest headline finding is that it seems that it’s beliefs that drive trust, not taste"... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Banking; Financial Services

02 Mar 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

government's role in U.S. healthcare? What do you think? To Read More: Robert H. Frank, "A Health Care Plan So Simple, Even Stephen Colbert Couldn't Simplify It," The New York Times, February 18, 2007, p.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

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HBS - The year in Review

Scholarships Press Release New Faculty Welcomed Thirteen faculty members, including new tenure-track professors, visitors, and practitioners, participated in START, a deep-dive orientation to the School,... View Details

09 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

members. In contrast, The New York Times has 2.2 million digital-only subscribers, and the cable news networks are doing well when their prime-time viewership hits a million.... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting

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Your Alumni Community - Alumni

Reagan! A rising EC & HKS jointee spending the summer at J.Crew in NYC. Follow along today for a peek behind the scenes of the New York fashion world and my ongoing attempt to channel Big View Details

December 2018 (Revised March 2019)
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R/GA: Corporate Venture Studio vs. Accelerator

By: Andy Wu, Grant Son and Aastha Thakkar

New approach to accelerating the development of innovation through corporate venturing by creating partnerships between startup venture and established corporations through the launch of the Global Sports Venture Studios created by R/GA Ventures and the Los Angeles... View Details