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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

So many facets of design work require that we anticipate need, weigh multiple parameters, and make necessary changes to safeguard public resources. Some of the design world’s most compelling questions stem from ideas of exclusion,... View Details

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

would expect that the temptation would be to continue to play your strong suit and try and express your own taste and your ideas because it’s worked for you for 50 years. The second issue you’d expect of anybody in this situation would be... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

horseback, such representations have shaped the public’s perception of Native peoples and reinforced harmful stereotypes. Many of these objects also portray Indigenous people as a “vanishing race” or as belonging to the past, and participate in the formation of myths... View Details

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

workers and laid out an expansion of the private sector that granted operating licenses for 201 jobs—everything from the highly specific “flower wreath arranger” and “Benny Moré Dance Team” to the more general “artisan” and... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

on the enormous success of the event, last summer the Dean's Office invited Dobron to work full-time to refine and implement suggestions for improving campus life that were generated during the case discussions. "Our efforts were mainly... View Details

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

approach thus runs counter to the idea that globalization is a homogeneity-producing process and the view that society is moving from particularism to universalism. With globalization, not only has the local remained important, but in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

Readers also benefitted when, in 2008, we began to publish HBS faculty working papers—often the first expressions of emerging ideas on the cutting edge of management research. The most popular paper looks at the dark side of goal-setting,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

that customers have developed based on their experience and emotional connection with a product or brand. Without capturing what is going on inside customers' minds and hearts, ... the picture is incomplete.—Doug Grisaffe, Walker Information A consensus map that... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

serious problem facing humanity in the 21st century. If we want a future for our kids and grandkids, it’s imperative that our generation does something effective to address it." Smriti Mishra MBA 2012 | From HBS to a Career in Clean... View Details

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

reading in a trade publication about Benihana's innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl Sasser produced the Benihana case in 1972 with research associate John Klug (HBS MBA '72). Recalls... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call

associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Nov 2016
First Look

November 15, 2016

thin representation at senior levels remains in place. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51896 Are 'Better' Ideas More Likely to Succeed? An Empirical Analysis of Startup Evaluation By: Scott, Erin L.,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

about the up-and-coming general manager of Nickelodeon Latin America. “I was interested in the entertainment industry and globalization,” Hill recalls. “The article was about the business, not how she led.” So how did “Taran Swan at... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good

this was about managing an institution. McArthur saw HBS as essentially a small community — one that a leader could easily get his or her arms around. But equally, it was about McArthur himself: a warm and generous man who makes friends... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

05 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

inductively generate a consumer (patient)-centric marketing model. The focal organizations are unique in that they all identify patient needs first, then work backwards to develop economically viable solutions. These solutions are not... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

capital costs, have very low operating (marginal) costs, and have few investment opportunities. As a result, projects generate large amounts of "free cash flow" (cash flow in excess of what is needed to finance all positive NPV... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

Capital Management, had just finished listening to the hour-long earnings call for Twitter’s Q4 2017 results. Was Twitter doing well? That depended on which numbers she chose to believe. According to Generally Accepted Accounting... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Nov 2016
First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream innovation for a particular technology class to build on, then that technology class innovates more. Publisher's link:... View Details