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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Received the 2016 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. 2015 Sunil Gupta : Received the 2015 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. 2014 Eva Ascarza : Winner of the 2014 Frank M. Bass Dissertation Paper Award for “A Joint Model of... View Details

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A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni

neighborhood of Boston—the future site of the Graduate School of Business Administration—to Harvard University. 1924 George F. Baker donates $5 million to build a new campus for HBS. Later Baker, shown above with his son, George F. Baker Jr., contributes an View Details

02 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 2

Publications 2006 Nature Reviews Beyond Magic Bullets: True Innovation in Health Care By: Narayan, Vaibhav A., Marco Mohwinckel, Gary Pisano, Michael Yang, and Husseini Manji Abstract—The molecular medicine revolution-based on advances in fields such as genomics and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?

a percentage of the revenue they generate by platforms, as J. K. Rowling was with the Harry Potter series, which made her a multimillionaire. In China, some authors have become wealthy under revenue-sharing View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

reams of immediate feedback from site readers, and continued to incorporate feedback into several successive product launches-each of which added only a couple of new features. While the feature additions were gradual, they were rapid, as... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info Generative AI (GenAI) stands at the forefront of a technological revolution, poised to redefine how businesses operate and deliver value.... View Details

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

programs has gone far beyond the marketing department to infuse everything the museum does, making it unique among its peers, says Jill Avery, senior lecturer in the General Management unit at Harvard Business School. The Magic Tate Ball... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

14 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Veteran Financial Aid Outlook

are paid very generously. I probably should have put mine towards tuition, but I decided to travel over winter break and chose to put much of it toward travel. Now for some tough love. Harvard’s Financial Aid model is need-based and... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

enrolled in the course Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry. In it, Izquierdo began sketching the outline of a tech-enabled business model that would eliminate everything she disliked about restaurants; namely, that... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

Beans, and Mandan Squash—the “Three Sisters” of Native American lore that thrive when planted together—Sacred Seed is modeling a different approach based on agricultural practices that are thousands of years old. Cornstalks provide a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

13 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01

generations to feel that we kicked the problem down to them, I’d rather solve it now. One of the other unique things about 44.01, aside from the technology, is that we are working in a part of the world that has been known for oil and... View Details

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

product, or service against the best-known similar activity, so that challenging but attainable goals can be set and a realistic course of action implemented to efficiently become and remain best of the best. In one dramatic benchmarking example, View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

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Electricity - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Electricity Renewables, nuclear, and carbon capture offer massive market potential The combustion of fossil fuels to generate electricity is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and the largest... View Details

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Connell House | About

required all employees to adhere to a strict code of conduct. Connell’s business achievements were matched by his generous support of a broad array of civic and educational institutions in the Boston area. In View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

generated record revenue in fiscal 2021. Revenue (in millions) 800 FY17 856 FY18 925 FY19 861 FY20 805 FY21 Revenue Components 34% Publishing 30% Endowment Distribution & Current 14% MBA Tuition & Fees 10% Executive Education Tuition 9%... View Details

01 Jan 2004
News

D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

graduated from HBS and was finishing a three-and-a-half-year stint as an officer in the U.S. Navy Supply Corps, in charge of a select group that used early models of giant IBM computers to manage inventory for the Navy's airplanes. About... View Details

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

layout that would optimize product flow and plant capacity — critical to reducing process time — and made extensive use of simulations to generate insights. They created Cardboard City, a three dimensional View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

preached about it.” In addition to questions about the data, there is the moral issue of whether diversity and inclusion should be promoted with or without supporting data regarding performance. David Wittenberg posed the issue this way:... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2007
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

sociologist Talcott Parsons. Chandler was also influenced by his participation in the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History at Baker Library. Chandler taught at MIT from 1950 to 1963, where in addition to writing Strategy and... View Details

16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

because luck prevails. Piketty (1995) had shown that a similar pattern could arise from standard preferences if initial beliefs about the relative importance of effort and luck in generating income differed across the two societies, while... View Details