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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About
awe-inspiring sight and I am honored to be sharing in this celebration with you. So, let’s begin. To our graduating students: Now would be the perfect time to thank the many people who have supported you and made you who you are today.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
dorms. “Mikrus” would become synonymous with “protest” when its residents strung a sign across the building to mark the occasion of Pope John Paul II’s arrival in Warsaw in June 1979. The sign, believed to be the only one in the censored city to View Details
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
work with leaders who are committed to driving change and creating impact that spans all three. In its 25th anniversary year, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative celebrated its pioneering role as the first business school to have a... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
August afternoon marks their first meeting in real life. They celebrate with elbow bumps and a hurried hug or two before everyone squeezes into the elevator for the trip to the sixth floor. The doors open to the welcoming scene of the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America Globalizing Latin American Beauty By: Jones, G. Abstract—This article discusses the growth over time of the beauty industry in Latin America and its bias towards celebrating whiter rather than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
explained by their role. Risks and Rewards of Celebrity Endorsements Author:Anita Elberse Publication:CNN, December 16, 2009 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the Article:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
New Year's Eve 1999 gave revelers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for celebration - the exhilarating thrill of ringing in a year that's always had an aura of science fiction mystery. When the champagne corks popped at midnight, however,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
on January 1, 2020. You—and your colleagues and employees—can now add “ during a global pandemic” to the list of current job duties and accomplishments on your resume. It’s a badge of honor none of us asked for and all of us would have declined, but a badge of honor,... View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
Magicians will stand in front of the mirror to test, revise, retest and further revise illusions until they get them just right. Thomke says that celebrated escape artist and magician Harry Houdini owned a very large collection of locks... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
ability to celebrate their differences and learn from people whose life experiences differ from yours. This dynamic gives you the capacity for sharing yourself in intimate ways and for being more open with others. Your True North Group... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
Photo by Mary Ellen Mark At first glance, perhaps, the writer John Irving might not seem to have a lot to teach the corporate world. As the author of such celebrated bestsellers as The Cider House Rules and The World According to Garp,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Facebook celebrated its ten-year anniversary in February 2014. Over the past decade it has grown into the largest social network in the world with one billion users. After filing an IPO in 2012 at a $104 billion valuation (the third... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
son a section wide birthday party. It was Moana-themed, complete with cupcakes, a pinata, and outdoor games. Half of my section came and a ton of people brought gifts. Emmett loved it so much and he said at the end of the day that the party was a "dream come true."... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
Paine: The book had its origins in the preparations for celebrating the Centennial of HBS in 2008. The School was founded because important Harvard alumni discussed with President Eliot their observation that a new class of executives who... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
harming my ability to get to something I’m going to celebrate at the end and it’s going to spark a lesser regret, whereas taking the right fork might be able to go and enable something a lot better for me, given my motivations and my... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
. Todd Krasnow, MBA '83, typified the historic Harvard Business School mid-career entrepreneur when he celebrated the opening of the first Zoots store in October 1998. But how had he—self-described as "not a clothes person"—come... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
Two Great Men of Goldman Sachs In his book The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs (Penguin Press, 2008), Charles D. Ellis (MBA ’63) explores the growth of Wall Street’s most celebrated firm, from its humble origins in 1869 as a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
why consumers desire unusual and novel consumption experiences and voluntarily choose leisure activities, vacations, and celebrations that are predicted to be less pleasurable. For example, consumers sometimes choose to stay at freezing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
Disney Studios In December 2015, Alan Horn, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, celebrates the world premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens—only the latest in a string of big bets that he has overseen. Disney pursues a “tentpole... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
the latter are paragons of process virtue. For example, it is quite possible that as many mistakes were made in the celebrated 1997 Pathfinder mission as were made in the failed 1999 Polar Lander mission. But we will never know. By not... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne