Materiality - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2011
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Green Day

low-emissivity insulated glass, dynamic glass changes tint on demand — so you can “instruct” it to block or allow solar heat and light based on outside conditions. Mulpuri’s delight in this technology makes perfect sense. He’s a materials... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

25 Aug 2022
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A New Platform for Alumni Engagement

to disrupt the financial sector to materially improve financial services, including expanding access to financial products to underserved communities through the use of new technologies. Salas, who studied with Lakhani while he was a... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Mar 2021
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Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

the barriers facing Black businesses. The research conducted by HBS faculty members, including the course materials they develop, has a wide reach and significant impact. Cases are taught to hundreds of MBA students and thousands of... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Case Study: On the Record

the payback period short enough to recoup investment before consumer sentiment shifts away? Does being in the space provide an entrée into other uses of the material and technology? —Howard Sands (MBA 1993) Focus on growing the existing... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Jun 2020
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Covering All Corners

affected by the significant disruptions in global supply chains. Unfortunately, being on the developing side of the world means your shipments get deprioritized first. Your supply chain gets disrupted first. Thankfully, we managed to secure View Details

01 Dec 1999
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South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency

engage with others and to cross-pollinate." Since returning to the job, Meyer says she has referred to her course materials many times and has even conducted a workshop based on some of the cases. The SEP experience also offered Meyer a... View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

01 Dec 2001
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Q&A: John Quelch

throughout its history, but the fundamental purpose of the Global Initiative is to ensure our intellectual leadership through the development of research and course materials that are truly international in scope and impact. We're... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2006
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Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978

services and information. In 1978, Time Inc. produced only six magazines, but soon the number of print materials available to Americans began to explode. Driven by consumer habits and technology, the landscape continues to change even... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested

Charles and taking in the sights.” Happy accident: “I’m a more quantitative person, and my management consulting experience—which focused on materials and metals—was very analytical, so I wanted a business profession that fit that. But I... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; trucking; leadership; fintech; career

13 Nov 2020
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Countdown To Remote Learning

(HBAP), a certificate for executives launched in 2018. Ten HBAP faculty members served as trainers and mentors to their colleagues, with support from HBS’s Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning. “The School ran numerous training sessions and some 50 practice... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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New Releases

to present this material in a way that not only proves stimulating and convincing to scholars interested in innovation, the management of knowledge, and organizational learning," Pisano writes, "but that is also accessible to... View Details

25 Aug 2014
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Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987

moment launched Weeks’s career, and it also had a deep impact on Corning’s future as a successful innovator in materials science. The first in his family to go to college, Weeks thrived at HBS. The case method—“pretend doing,” as he calls... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2012
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Taking Time to Make Time

not schedule meetings that last more than an hour, or 90 minutes at the most. There are tremendous diminishing returns in lengthier meetings. When you only have an hour, you don't waste time on nonproductive tangents. You also need to think about how you structure the... View Details

Keywords: Time management

01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS

course material - to date, fourteen cases have been developed in the context of the program, several of which have already been used in both the MBA and Executive Education Programs." HBS Dean Kim B. Clark cites the heightened... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Oct 2000
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Books

War II, tracing the decentralizing effects of the draft, rationing, and Ferdinand Eberstadt's Controlled Materials Plan. Also included are overview chapters on the impact of women and African Americans on business, as well as... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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A Conversation with Dean Clark

materials, and so on. Within those course materials are embedded links to sites on the Internet, supplied by the professor, which are intended to help them think through the case. They can input responses to assignment questions, which... View Details

01 Mar 2007
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The Plight of the Global Poor

multinational corporations (MNCs) and local businesses are serving the previously invisible BOP market: Nestlé, with its “milk-district model” that encourages supporting businesses to spring up around its dairies in rural India; CEMEX’s program of affordable payments... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; bottom of the pyramid (BOP); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2000
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Q & A: Gustavo Herrero

that we want to collaborate with local academics will gain us a lot of goodwill. The payoff for HBS faculty will be a better understanding of developments in the region and an increase in the amount and quality of teaching materials about... View Details