Filter Results:
(2,429)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,429)
- People (9)
- News (736)
- Research (1,290)
- Events (10)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (617)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,429)
- People (9)
- News (736)
- Research (1,290)
- Events (10)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (617)
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
neighborhoods across Baltimore, with competitive admissions) is annually ranked among the best public schools in the United States. This year, 96 percent of the school's graduates are college bound, many to elite institutions in the View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
difficult decisions over what investments to keep and what investments to cut. How they made those choices and what effect they had on business and national recovery in the long run hasn’t been well understood, however. Harvard Business... View Details
- Profile
Carolin Oldenbuettel
for more than three years with Simon-Kucher & Partners. “I did projects across Europe: food, telecommunications, manufacturing, a fashion project in France, a banking project in Switzerland.” Next stop? The United States. “My uncle... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
extraordinarily effective industrial policy, and then, beginning in 2001, as head of the National Science and Technology Board-now known as the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Comprising one main island and thirty... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
emphasized the need to enlist broad community involvement, a process, he noted, that "has taught me more about the strength of diversity than anything else." United Airlines' Gerald Greenwald is chairman of the Welfare to Work... View Details
- Web
The Significance and Consequences of Financial Models - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Prize, Robert Merton's contributions to financial economics have been celebrated frequently over the past quarter century in both the academic and finance communities. He has received honorary degrees from several universities, both in the View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Growing and Competing at the Local Level
on average reduce that by 44 percent. “I think what’s critical right now is understanding that 98 percent of the manufacturers in the United States are really small and medium sized. It’s that metal bender down the street, that plastic... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
to the people who came to the United States illegally and learn how they escaped unimaginable conditions and couldn’t wait to enter the country legally. To do this, we don’t need to be professional psychologists. We can try it with our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
five-year stint managing the multibillion dollar United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds, Cohen was tapped by National Trust for Historic Preservation head Michael Ainslie (MBA ’68) to be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
conferences, weddings, and other income-generating events. Also in the center’s favor were a growing push in the United States to make science education more experiential as well as a series of studies by the View Details
- 24 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on the Public Sector
pursuing an MBA at HBS will provide a global residential experience to become a successful public entrepreneur and city developer. The United Nations projects that by 2050 more than 68 percent of the world's... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
perspective - like that of his 5,000 McKinsey colleagues - extends far beyond the immediate horizon. One of the world's premier management consulting firms, McKinsey conducts business from 80 offices in 37 countries, with almost half of its 220 senior partners based... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
We are at the dawn of a new epoch in the world of science, one that will cast strong light on a unique corner of the biotechnology field known as genomics. The designation refers to the study of genes, those chemical building blocks of all living organisms. A decade... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
There’s something curious about the labor force in the United States. Identical jobs and industries have become unionized in some states while remaining nonunionized in others. Unionization levels vary greatly from state to state. As of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
wound ointment for thousands of years. The United States Patent and Trademark Office revoked the patent in 1997. The case illustrates the issue of "bio-piracy," wherein patentees charge rents for the use of herbal remedies that... View Details
- Fast Answer
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools
United States through the use of interactive maps and reports. Currently provides access to data from 1940 to 2000 at census tract, county, state and national level. The Harvard View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
crops that otherwise would have gone to waste. The organization distributed a total of 76 million pounds of food in 2012 (26 million of which was perishable), both directly and through a network of nearly 1,000 food pantries and homeless shelters. As a member of... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
student, a third-year law student, and a Kennedy School student with experience working in the United Nations. "It was the perfect blend of backgrounds," says Schrader. In 2012, the fledging company won both the HBS Business Plan... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
Victor Navasky of The Nation magazine has spent his life taking on the Establishment. So what did he hope to accomplish at Harvard Business School? Call it what you will — the conventional wisdom, the status quo, the official line — and... View Details