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- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
science and health services from Harvard’s School of Public Health, even she couldn’t successfully navigate the health care system for her mom. It set her on a path of discovery that led to not only a better understanding of the... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
PublicationsInnovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse Author:Malcolm S. Salter Publication:Harvard University Press, 2008 Publisher's Abstract Although much has already been written about the rise and fall of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
schools and universities are closed this week. Shutting down to help stop community spread Across the country, at least 21 million kids, now home from school. Students are often not at high risk, but their parents, grandparents and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
high quality to think about. What does that do to the mix of students on our campus? What makes American universities great, and what makes American businesses great, relative to any other institutions in the world historically, has been... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009
from 3% to 15% as a fraction of government budget without negatively affecting publication quality and quantity. This follows incentive policy change and leadership change at labs, an event whose timing is plausibly exogenous being... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
Business History at HBS traces its roots back to 1927 when it was part of a course in business policy. But the golden age for this area of study at the School began with the arrival of Professor Alfred Chandler in 1970. Universally... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
http://media.swissre.com/documents/pub_risk_dialogue_Integrative_Risk_Management.pdf Organising Response to Extreme Emergencies: The Victorian Bushfires of 2009 Authors:Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt Publication:The Victorian Bushfires of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
PublicationsThe Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup Authors:Noam Wasserman Publication:The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Princeton University Press, in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
market leadership position? "We believe that there is still a great deal of confusion and puzzlement on how this competitive battle will develop," say the authors of the academic paper Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows, which has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
The idea of attacking core memory in mainframe computers with the 1103 DRAM proved a winner because, despite this product’s problems, it was far more economical to use than the existing alternative. When Intel turned a profit and went View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
Harvard Business School professors often travel into the field to conduct business research, but it's a safe bet none have had the experience of Professor Robin Ely. She and coauthor Debra Meyerson of Stanford University took helicopter... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the VC community to see itself as a real industry.” The venture capital industry began to take shape after World War II on the northeastern seaboard when in 1946 Doriot became president of the first public venture capital firm:... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
Public Authorities Control Board rejects a $1.4 billion plan to build the New York Sports and Convention Center (NYSCC) on the West Side of Manhattan. If built, the NYSCC would have served as the home for the Jets and possibly the opening... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
alternative rock bands such as R.E.M., the English Beat, and the Fine Young Cannibals. Boberg signed on as president of MCA Music Publishing in 1994 and in 1995 was named president of MCA Records, a division of Universal Music Group.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Shanoff also wondered what the MBA Class of '42 might have been thinking about "right around first-term exams in December 1941, when the attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the country into World War." As students struggled with a new sense of vulnerability, a number of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
Publications Individuals' Decision to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in Hawaii Authors: Michel Anteby, Filiz Garip, Paul V. Martorana, and Scott Lozanoff Publication: PLoS ONE 7, no. 8: e42673... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
Fellows The Leadership Fellows program provides graduating HBS MBA students a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations for one year after graduation. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
anywhere, and to any industry. That kind of infrastructure can look very different from place to place. In Boston, it took the shape of District Hall, a public venue in the city’s Seaport District that functions as a communal gathering... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
while I was making the decisions. Let’s just say,” he notes, “I’m a big believer in serendipity.” Murphy went to Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer after graduating from Georgetown University with a degree in business and working briefly... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
an honest, collective, and public conversation about their organization's alignment with espoused strategy and values. The research has identified a syndrome of six silent barriers to effectiveness and a dynamic theory of organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne