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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Charting the Year Ahead
Committee in Washington, chaired by Charles Rossotti (MBA 1964) and coordinated by Julie Wolinsky (MBA 1998). Congratulations to Senior Associate Dean Mal Salter (now retired!), who served as faculty chair; to the many faculty members who took the HBS View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
Three stories in this issue will introduce you to remarkable individuals who work in strikingly different fields but who share a common passion — the pursuit of ideas that are changing the way others think and act. Gayle Lemmon (MBA ’06),... View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12
organizational networks, and new avenues of sustainable business growth. Providing comprehensive coverage of the field of management, the encyclopedia spans fourteen subject volumes providing a landmark work of reference for scholars,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
finance-related issues and the experiences they go through. Saad Hashmi Associate Corporate Relationship Mangaer at HSBC Bank Middle East Limited Forecast financial success in the near and long term and recognize how companies’ accounting... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
LISH team: LISH has longstanding interest in and experience with solving problems in computer vision, image analysis, and advanced analytics through crowdsourcing. We have extended our work and research into the View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
approached in a fragmentary manner. It might be considered from a decision-analysis perspective, or a more sociological approach, or around the question of leading a small team. So even though it’s part of many schools’ missions, it’s not a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
only have tens of dollars a year to spend, that disposable income, multiplied several billion times over, represents significant purchasing power. With this realization have come some dramatic shifts in business thinking, sparking innovative View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
individuals might experience in organizations. Whereas craftsmen in the aeronautics plant I studied dealt with these tensions in a very peculiar manner—by creating artifacts—other populations react differently. Contingent workers by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
Vasella Illustration by Dennis Balogh Twenty years ago a young doctor with a hankering for business experience gave up his clinical practice in Bern, Switzerland, and moved to East Hanover, New Jersey, to try his hand at drug sales with... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
emphasis toward xerography characterized the Haloid Company in the 1950s. In 1961, in recognition of the spectacular growth of sales engendered by the first plain-paper copier, the firm was renamed the Xerox Corporation. In response to IBM's entrance into the copier... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
same time, American families flocked to locations such as Walt Disney’s Disneyland to experience new forms of leisure. Shopping itself became another form of entertainment, as the number of shopping malls skyrocketed: In 1945, there were... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24
to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
A daily apartment cleaning service (Fresh Maid). An organizer of one-day extreme endurance events for men (Tough Mudder). A market-based solution to increase the milk production of cattle in rural India (Doodh Bhandar). These are just a few of the semifinalists... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
rediscovering experiences from the past will be curiosity provoking and interesting in the future. In Studies 2 and 3, we find that people are particularly likely to underestimate the pleasure of rediscovering ordinary, mundane View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
think you can have a great, fun experience without some of those incredibly edgy and, some would say, inappropriate for a younger audience, themes and executions. And so we wanted it to stay “clean teen.” The actual execution ended up... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
experience undoubtedly include late nights as you prepared cases, polished presentations, wrote papers, or completed team projects. Although some people may be born with a solid work ethic, most of us learn it, and we do so by striving to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
fundraising, IP, patent law, and the ins and outs of FDA and HIPAA regulations. Tecco and Gross refined their vision for Rock Health in a field study with HBS senior lecturer Bob Higgins. But first, Tecco had the View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22
physical experience of weight is associated with the emotional experience of guilt and thus that weight intensifies the experience of guilt. Across four studies, we found that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
field studies after. We have a strong commitment to ideas as the place where the educational experience begins. In executive education, we might think about increasing the number of programs we offer... View Details
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
over a little screen. (Usage varies according to the type of smartphone: iPhone users spend an average of one hour and 15 minutes with their phones each day, with only 22 percent of that time devoted to talking.) The Lab Experiment Bos... View Details