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- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
organizations can be built on remote work and remote workers, even those working in a hybrid manner with some time spent in the office. Greg Carmichael, CEO and chairman of Fifth Third Bancorp, quoted in a previous column, put it most... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
programs in an effective manner with a focus on adaptation. Finally, Bank of America committed to a goal of $1.5 trillion in sustainable financing by 2030,[88] a big part of which is helping its employees afford electric vehicles and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
Morgan Stanley fit in the universe - and he could syndicate anything. Gordon Richardson, former governor of the Bank of England, remains a man of impeccable manners and morals and is endowed with a superb mind. At its core, the investment... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
recognizable brands in today's competitive market. The building of brands has played out in an interesting manner on the Internet. While one of the draws of advertising on the Net is that it provides measurability, the science of building... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
year is 2017, providing evidence that while Bradley’s manner may be from a bygone age, he’s firmly planted in the 21st century. When Bradley was just 26, he founded a legislative and regulatory research business. “I’d done nothing but... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
purchasing power of the endowment by spending only a small fraction of its value each year. Spending more than that over time, for whatever reason, would privilege the present over the future in a manner inconsistent with an endowment’s... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
they eschew efforts—even bold, cutting-edge proposals—that are unlikely to generate value for customers, employees, or suppliers. “Companies that raise customer willingness to pay in a distinctive manner attract the very customers that... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 04 Apr 2022
- What Do You Think?
As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?
or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.” Under the bill, parents were given the right to sue school districts over violations. Chapek had ample warning... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
negotiations. Of course, real people do not typically act in the ultra-rational manner assumed by such "symmetrically prescriptive" models. Howard Raiffa's intellectual innovation, since furthered by others such as HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
of highly specialized knowledge, laypersons may not be in a position to pass accurate and fair judgment on the conduct of specialists. Most normative codes, like the ancient Hippocratic Oath for doctors, clearly articulate a profession's higher aims and social purposes... View Details
- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
participants read about perfumes as becoming daily necessities. Both groups tested the same perfumes. We found that luxury-primed participants behaved in a more self-interested manner in that they were less likely to make contributions... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
on specific problems. "Yet at the same time, compared to the average MBA class, the PLD class has richness. There are decades of experience in each class. People share contexts; they live many of the problems. It's exciting in that View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
precisely timed manner that would not cause damage to the camera and also result in a dry print. The amount required, 1/20th of a cubic centimeter, would spread in a layer only a few thousandths of an inch in thickness. Experimenting with... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
tradable digital currencies that can be used to purchase future goods or services offered by the startup, possibly on more favorable terms than in the real market. According to one report, 140 startups have raised over $2 billion in this View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students
How do you think learning through the case method will help you in your future endeavors?The case method was one of the main reasons why I wanted to attend HBS. I knew the case method would help sharpen my ability to think fast while still being able to think in a... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
Unfortunately, superior decision making is distressingly difficult to assess in real time. Successful outcomes—decisions of high quality, made in a timely manner and implemented effectively—can be evaluated only after the fact. But by the... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
figuring out what to do at an intersection if a traffic light fails. In testing new AVs, De Freitas and his colleagues propose that companies should adopt a standard they refer to as SPRUCE—teaching AVs to drive in a manner that is:... View Details