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- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
sanitation station in order to avoid bringing any unwanted diseases into the greenhouse. It is an active greenhouse, meaning the team has full control over the climate and light conditions. Inside, there are dozens of rows of tomato... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
And the day that we had that case, I think I had not properly prepared because I did something foolish the previous evening. I was rowing crew, and maybe it worked out and like just didn’t really read the case, and I thought it’ll be... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
row house, the Steinbridge properties can provide a foothold for 500 families who might otherwise be displaced by rising prices, Davis says. Philadelphia is just the start. Over the next three to five years, Steinbridge plans to replicate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
about competition, regulation, economics. You worry about the controllables. And you get everyone rowing at the same pace, with excellence and passion." —Mike Ferrara (PMD 39, 1980), CEO of variable-focus eyewear maker Adlens, discussing... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
headquarters. Theoretically, it's the job of the executives upstairs to coordinate the activities of the various arms of a company to row in the same direction. "What corporate-level strategy is about is creating a portfolio that is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
and Budget, 1977-80, 1985-87 Northern Air Freight and Danzas Corporation, 1987-90 Why HBS? "I took a year off from college to work at Boeing. There were rows of engineers sitting at desks. After about six months, I decided I'd rather... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Rowe (MBA 1993) Templeton Press Every child in America deserves to know that a path to a successful life exists and that they have the power to follow it. But many never set foot on that path because they grow up hearing the message that... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
face, Merton faced rows of reporters, banks of TV cameras, and flurries of firing strobe lights and calmly strove to put his complicated and abstract theory into accessible terms. Merton's research focuses on evaluating the financial risk... View Details
- Profile
Jason A. Kilar
bit before you do your own thing?” When Rayport’s class convened in Aldrich Hall to discuss the Amazon case, Bezos sat in the first row and listened as most of Kilar’s classmates predicted the likelihood that Amazon would fail.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
Historically, public equities have been the anchor to growth in most of my clients' portfolios. After three years in a row of negative public-equity returns, which hasn't happened since 1939, I have seen growing frustration and a movement... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
forecasting, consumer spending habits, and effective store layout. HBS Cases: When Good Teams Go Bad Know when teamwork doesn't work—and how to fix it. Professors Jeff Polzer and Scott Snook teach "The Army Crew Team" case and the dilemma faced by a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Motherhood and the MBA
advance of day 1-- whether it’s a stay-at-home-partner, daycare center, nanny, or family member. While HBS might offer you admission into the MBA program, they won’t set up every aspect of your life for you. You need to be proactive and get your ducks in a View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
computers loaded with out-of-date information sat amid rows of overflowing filing cabinets. "Our most fundamental problem was that we didn't have accurate, up-to-date taxpayer records," he says. "We were like a bank that couldn't tell you... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
front of an old cathode ray tube, and it would say, please load tape number 746 onto tape drive number B63, which we, like, had eight rows of A-M and, like, 70 down. So I'd have to go on the tape, find the right number, stick it on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
nomads, the students had assembled to perform a welcoming ceremony for Van Gerpen and other guests. Among the school’s four grades and seventy children were only a handful of girls, most of them very young. “For Class 3, behind a line of about ten boys,” Van Gerpen... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
operating system and application software. At the same time, the producers of minicomputers used the microprocessor to develop the workstation for its engineering and scientific customers. The new array of product sectors that existed in the 1990s is shown as the... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
that. The fourth piece was executive education. Two years ago we launched an executive education program specifically for future leaders in pharma and biotech. And we've run it for the second year in a row this year. It's a very... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
gatherings), and the intoxication of the senses." Reading the Class Notes would also suggest to a fair-minded observer that the women in our class have had a tougher row to hoe than most of the men, and maybe as a result have arrived at... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
that the most important issue facing the world at this time is whether our two countries will connect as friends or as adversaries. I'm thrilled to have a chance to influence that effort." After more than two decades with T. Rowe Price... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
transit drivers assembled to block one of Jakarta’s busiest thoroughfares. Convoys of taxis and microbuses—a cross between a bus and a taxi—parked as many as seven rows deep on normally bustling boulevards. Aerial footage showed... View Details