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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717498-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-034 Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past Over the past several decades,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
really confront gender and justice at work. But I think in order to solve the problem, we've got to break these respect wreckers down and just take each one in turn because all of these problems demand different responses. Dan: Now, you... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
Morrell: Now, the interest that you've had in living a sort of quantified life, your first year out of HBS, can you talk about what prompted it? Grana: I think, as a lot of people probably have, HBS is sort of a break from the real world.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
does the company stop losing money, and when does the company break even? A pretty easy quiz. Then Professor Pratt said that we would go over it in class. He revealed the correct answers to questions 1, 2, and 3 and I got all three... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
Cranium states its purpose as being “to lighten and enlighten people’s lives.” While Furlong believes that much of Cranium’s success centers on its founders’ due diligence, the high quality of Cranium products, and the company’s ability to View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
theorists differ as to whether exploitation undermines or enhances exploration. The debate reflects a gap—the missing theoretical mechanism by which organizations break free of old routines and discover new ones. We propose that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
nearly fifty former executives--many of whom have never spoken about their crimes—Professor Soltes shows that white-collar criminals are not merely driven by excessive greed or hubris, nor do they usually carefully calculate the costs and benefits before View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
people have heard the word, bitcoin than blockchain. And bitcoin-- I think-- most people will recognize as a digital currency. And let me take a break here, to say, it's like being able to email someone money and if you look at the... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
recall two instances when he went out of his way to help me in my career. Toward the end of my first year at the school, I had a summer job offer which was cancelled about a month before the summer break would occur because of some... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
than 100 volunteers from across the US, Europe, and Asia. The nonprofit matches those who need PPE with verified suppliers who can provide vetted products. The demand shock to the supply chain in March left many without any access to quality PPE. Project N95 works to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
to break down silos and provide a unified body of knowledge to inform public policy. Two proposed legislative agenda items from an earlier version of the group’s white paper were voted into state law last year: making the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
hit," notes Joe O'Donnell, a former varsity catcher at Harvard College and now chairman and CEO of Boston Concessions Group, Inc. "At the time, the ball just barely cleared the fence, but 25 years later you remember it sailing out of the schoolyard and View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
bankruptcy, they are allowed to break leases and shut down their unprofitable stores. The newly reorganized chain generally has not solved the basic underlying issues created by the online threat. However, it now has a smaller, healthier... View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
banking sectors with Dodd-Frank, we have failed to execute the new regulations, due largely to a dysfunctional Congress refusing to appropriate the funds needed to write the new rules and have them enforced. We may have missed the once-in-a-70-year-Kondratiev-cycle... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
LEED is government policy, government tenants might expect LEED certification from their landlords. "The characteristics of a government tenant can break down important contractual and business barriers to LEED adoption," says John D.... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
transformation--in less than a decade--into a system committed to breaking the links between race and class and academic achievement. In chapters organized around six core themes, the authors lay out the essential elements of MCPS's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
As the technology wave breaks over us, some think the Internet looks to many about to wash out the established order of everything from vacation booking to the nation-state itself. But hold on a minute, Debora Spar cautions. We've seen... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
her well at Catalyst, the 75-person nonprofit global research and advisory firm she joined as president in 2003 (Lang was named CEO in 2008). Committed to breaking the proverbial glass ceiling once and for all, Catalyst, founded in 1962,... View Details
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
than 300 minority students in gaining admission to top 10 deferred MBA programs and securing highly competitive full-time career positions. Devon intends to continue this work by investing in underrepresented entrepreneurs through venture capital and View Details