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Site Credits - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Eleanor Bradshaw, EB Fine Design Exhibition Design: Chris Danemayer, proun Design Website Design/Production: Aaron Carmisciano, Subluxed Cliff Moreland, Knowledge and Library Services, Harvard Business... View Details

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Campus Vehicular Access | About

generally one-way, entering campus at Kresge Way Gate and exiting through Harvard Way Gate. DELIVERIES Service vendors may access campus to drop off tools and materials that cannot be reasonably carried from the parking lot and are... View Details

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Shad Membership Eligibility | About

membership entitles you to full use of Shad facilities and amenities including special programming and group fitness classes. Please call 617-495-6060 or visit the member services desk for current domestic... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Generation Next

November, the School offered a new Executive Education program, Families in Business: From Generation to Generation. The five-day program, designed for teams of two to eight members of a family business, examines pivotal issues and... View Details

01 Dec 2003
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Books

Back to the Drawing Board by Colin B. Carter and Jay W. Lorsch (Harvard Business School Press) Corporate boards are frequent targets of criticism in the wake of recent corporate scandals. But in their new book, Back to the Drawing Board: View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2019
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Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup

Service with a Smile: Classmates Nick Alexander (left) and Bryan Frist with one of Yoshi’s service-on-demand vehicles. (photo by Cayce Clifford) The first purpose-built, drive-in gas station opened in Pittsburgh in December 1913. The... View Details

Keywords: April White; startups; on-demand economy; entrepreneurship; Personal Services

29 Oct 2024
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A Fearless Fighter Honored

On September 5, 2024, a plaque was unveiled in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, memorializing a mission led by James Holt Green (MBA 1935) on its 80th anniversary. As recalled in a 2019 Bulletin article, Green and his team of six Office of Strategic Services (OSS) officers... View Details

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Finding & Using | Baker Library

Finding & Using Our manuscript, archival, and print collections make up one of the largest repositories of business-related special collections in the world. Students, scholars, and researchers from around the globe use our resources to... View Details

Arjun Chopra

(including production systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for 10 of the top 20 Global financial institutions), managed over 200M hours of uptime in the public cloud and was recognized as one of AWS' top 22 partners world-wide. Arjun... View Details

18 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

is to suggest a (preliminary) taxonomy and research agenda for the topic of “firms, crowds, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd-related phenomena and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

wasn't the issue—the division still had the superior technology overall. Nor was talent a problem—Becton Dickinson continued to retain the skilled engineers that had made it the leader in its field. The organization's design didn't seem... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

February 9, 2024
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The Rise of Consumer Crypto

By: Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers

Although non-fungible tokens are often misunderstood and even derided, they remain a general and flexible solution for establishing and tracking ownership in the digital domain. As a superior solution to existing technology in many areas of the consumer economy, their... View Details

Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Crypto Economy; NFTs; Non-fungible Tokens; Internet Of Everything; Market Design; Technological Innovation; Demand and Consumers; Web Services Industry

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14 Jul 2010
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The Concerts in the Chapel

One of the cultural amenities of life on the HBS campus is the availability of free music concerts in the Class of 1959 Chapel. Designed by Moshe Safdie in 1992, the chapel and its adjoining clock tower were funded by members of the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

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Gabriel Handel | About

Gabriel Handel Bio In addition to focusing on a broad range of School-wide planning and policy matters, Gabe works closely with leaders throughout HBS and Harvard University to advance special projects and explore new opportunities that... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Make or Break

BLOOM: Build it and good things will come. Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) has been an investment banker, a special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers, and cochairman of President Obama’s task force over-seeing the Chrysler and GM... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

work in market design are interested in how the rules by which markets are organized influence the behavior of participants. So, when I noticed, back in the early days of eBay, that a lot of auctions received bids right near the end of... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Web Services

20 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?

need to turn back to the users, like Wikipedia, and say "we need your help." You might be somewhere between an NPR model, where the service you're providing is good for the user and for society so people donate to keep it going,... View Details

Keywords: Re: John A. Deighton & Sunil Gupta; Financial Services; Financial Services

01 Sep 2011
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Spring Reunions

a special case-method class. Somehow, time was left over for what may be the principal work of reunions: socializing, networking, and reconnecting at various parties and gatherings. Of the nine returning MBA classes, 1956 and 1961 (top... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

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Site Credits - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Collections Site Credits Site Credits Content : Melissa Banta, Rachel Wise Editing : Julia Collins, Katherine Fox Web Design and Production : Alex Taylor, Big Ring Design Web Project Team : Katherine Fox,... View Details

19 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 19

network of bilateral relations that are more or less hospitable for IGOs. Read the paper: http://www.torfason.net/site/wp-content/uploads/Ingram-and-Torfason-2010-Organizing-the-In-Between.pdf Working PapersBroadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and View Details