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The Human Relations Movement: Harvard Business School and the Hawthorne Experiments, 1924-1933

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby & Rakesh Khurana The Online Exhibit Research Links Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact Email: histcollref@hbs.edu © View Details

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Planned Giving - Alumni

legal name is President and Fellows of Harvard College. How can I let HBS know that I’ve included the School in my will? Contact the HBS Development Office at pg@hbs.edu or 877.448.3864. We would be pleased to learn more about your... View Details

26 May 2023
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Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

into engineering in the first place. While taking a technology and engineering class at her Massachusetts high school, she worked on a search-and-rescue vehicle that could help divers search for people who’d fallen into frozen lakes. Her team presented the project at... View Details

25 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

India, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, and dozens of other countries. Typically, drug manufacturers perceive countries such as these as too difficult to be profitable, said Samuel, former senior vice president of the company’s Access... View Details

Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health

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Photography and Print Advertising - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

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About the Project - Creating Emerging Markets

able to reflect back over three or four decades in business. “As President of the Africa Business Club, I felt privileged to help make the connections which enabled African business leaders to be participants in the Creating Emerging... View Details

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

President George W. Bush expanded the FBI’s mission with a single question for Mueller: What was the FBI doing to prevent the next terrorist attack? And just like that, the brand-new director of the FBI had to figure out how to transform... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Mammon: The Money Devil - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves Next – Biblical and Mythological Scenes © President and Fellows of Harvard College Baker Library Historical Collections Kress Collection Credits Digital Accessibility View Details

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

my life,” said RJ Melman, president of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises and creator and developer of more than 13 restaurant concepts. “I know a good chunk of those people, this is a family business.” In 2012, the World Economic Forum... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

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Team - Case Method Project

in Business History. At Harvard Business School, Walter is co-editor of Business History Review and directs the school's Business History Initiative. He is a past president of the Business History Conference. Dean Grodzins Dean Grodzins... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

National Grid and as founder and president of National Grid Partners, directing $400 million in startups and internal innovations that offer unique approaches to managing supply and demand, increasing ef ciency, improving response during... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

In The Strategy-Focused Organization, HBS professor Robert Kaplan and David Norton, president of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, share the results of ten years of research into companies that have implemented the Balanced Scorecard.... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

life into the shipping industry. Though McLean had resigned from the presidency of McLean Trucking and placed his ownership in trust, seven railroads accused him of violating the Interstate Commerce Act. The accusers attempted to block... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

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MOC Network reaches 20 year milestone - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University. Kiril's Keynote Presentation (video) Elisabeth Reynolds Former Special Assistant to President Biden for Manufacturing... View Details

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

from making unnecessary new investments in capacity. For example, the vice president of operations at Lewis-Goetz, a hose and belt fabricator based in Pittsburgh, saw from his time-driven ABC model that one of his plants was operating at... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

December 1998
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Pioneer Hi-Bred: Turning Seeds Into Factories

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey

The agricultural sector is among the preeminent information technology users in our economy," exclaimed an August 1998 Forbes ASAP survey of the U.S. economy's best and worst users of information technology (IT). The survey designated Pioneer Hi-Bred International,... View Details

Keywords: Agribusiness; Multinational Firms and Management; Information Management; Infrastructure; Business Strategy; Information Technology; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Iowa

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Find at Harvard

Successful leaders – at any level and in any arena – are inevitably presented with moral and ethical choices. This unique and innovative textbook is designed to encourage students and managers to confront those fundamental moral challenges, to develop skills in... View Details

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Tata Hall | About

1975), Dean Nitin Nohria & Harvard University President Drew Faust Tata Hall is named in honor of Ratan N. Tata (AMP 71, 1975), who served as chairman of the Tata Sons Ltd., one of India’s largest business conglomerates, from 1991 until... View Details

05 Jul 2023
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GCC Alumni Celebrate Grand Opening of New Club Center

Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council recently marked the grand opening of "The House"—a new permanent club headquarters and collaborative space located in Dubai and open to all HBS alumni living in or visiting the Gulf region. According to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Apr 2007
Working Paper Summaries

From Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark

Keywords: by Sylvain Lenfle & Carliss Y. Baldwin; Manufacturing

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