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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

February 2019 (Revised September 2019)
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Amazon in Fashion

By: John R. Wells, Benjamin Weinstock and Gabriel Ellsworth

According to many analysts and industry observers, in 2018 Amazon became the largest retailer of apparel in the United States and the second largest in the world, behind Alibaba. Much of Amazon’s apparel was made by third-party retailers on its platform, but Amazon had... View Details

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April 2018
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Happy UAE

By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Brian J. Hall, Tiffany Y. Chang, Karim Sameh and Alpana Thapar

This case centers on the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) national goal of raising the happiness of its residents and visitors through ambitious government initiatives. They combined this bold national goal with an accountability structure (incentive plan) built on Key... View Details

Keywords: Happiness; Welfare; Governance; Motivation and Incentives; United Arab Emirates

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01 Oct 1997
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J. Hughes Norton III

Norton is seated in Congressional's main dining room, his cell phone close at hand. As senior vice president in charge of golf operations at Cleveland-based International Management Group (IMG), the world's oldest and largest sports... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

enterprise and foster its growth. [3] Through a partnership with John Wesley Durr in 1862, the brothers expanded their storage capacity and trading business, and Lehman, Durr & Co. soon ranked among the top cotton firms in the area. When the Civil War broke out, View Details

20 Oct 2023
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Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

Members provide input, expertise, and feedback to the leadership of External Relations and the School. After an introduction by current Board President Andreas Stavropoulos (MBA 1997), HBS leadership shared updates on the MBA program, the... View Details

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Spreading the Word – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

ultimately securing national stability at a time of economic and social unrest. 11 Elton Mayo, The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization . New York: MacMillan, 1933, p. 159. The "Hawthorne Effect" Research Links Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site... View Details

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

become a life sciences cluster and their understanding of the need for lab space to support Boston as a hub for biotechnology ventures,” said Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. Harvard President Drew Faust added, “The Life Lab is... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

Power of WE, cultivating campus cultures that harness diversity as a tool for individual and collective success. Currently a student at Harvard Medical School, she serves as national president for Future Doctors in Politics, to motivate,... View Details

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Guides to Archival Collections – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Documentation on the employee interview program is extensive and includes interview transcripts, summaries, and analyses. Selected Digital Historical Resources Bibliography Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact Email:... View Details

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Dean Srikant Datar Statements & Speeches | About

groups and conversations, or by providing opportunities for education; and to think about timelines for their efforts that may vary within and across groups based on considerations like our calendar, complexity, and a range of other factors. Published February 8, 2024... View Details

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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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

and Reconstruction PA Candy Boyer Conestoga Valley High School Lancaster, PA Subjects: U.S. History MD Brendan Brace Southern High School Harwood, MD Subjects: AP US History, Historical Inquiry MA Vin Bradley Catholic Memorial School West Roxbury, MA Subjects: U.S.... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) , President & CEO, World Wildlife Fund Debora L. Spar (PMD 62, 1991) , Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society; Board Director,... View Details

24 Jan 2005
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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

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Request the Data - Leadership

only one copy of the Excel spreadsheet for non-commercial use. I will only provide portions of the information in print or by secure electronic means to a limited number of individuals within my organization. I agree to include the copyright notice of the View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Drop Everything, Read This

The Bookshelf Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all time. His book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, is about the creative process and is based on his experiences with era-defining musicians. He encourages the reader to be open to clues and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

money to Senator Mark Hanna [R-OH] and the leaders of a Panamanian independence movement. Hanna, in turn, convinced President Roosevelt to support the independentistas. American warships prevented Colombia from responding to Panama's... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

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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

05 Mar 2009
What Do You Think?

How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?

we might ask whether, when President Franklin Roosevelt said at a particularly dark point during the Great Depression that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself," did he really believe that or was he trying to exercise... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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